Kashi Chicken Florentine

January 4, 2007 | Reviewer: Jess

Price: Free to us, $5,00
Serving: 1 package, 10oz.
Calories: 300
Fat: 14%, 9g
Cholesterol: 15%, 45mg
Sodium: 26%, 620mg
Protein: 19g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 29g
Fiber: 20%, 5g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 Points

for taste
for chastity

Kashi says: Grilled chicken breast with spinach, sweet red peppers and baby portobello mushrooms. Kashi 7 whole grains and sesame with orzo pilaf. Garlic Wine sauce topped with shredded parmesan cheese.

Jess says: Do you sense the oncoming trouble of a budding office romance? Does someone get a little too close in the Xerox line? Is this someone being a little too generous with emoticons in email exchanges? Does this someone tell you when the coffee has been brewed so you get a fresh cup? Abort! Abort! This spells nothing but trouble. Animals don’t masticate where they defecate, you shouldn’t grind at the grind. So get thee this meal (once it’s for sale, which I don’t think it is yet). Essentially this is an oral chastity belt. Eating this meal is like drinking a garlic milkshake with garlic powder garnish. No one is making out with you after you’ve eaten this. It is three days later and I’m still not sure I’m fit for the bars. Abi claimed, upon receiving a taste, that it burned her mouth.

This is not to say that the meal is bad. Au contrare mon frere! Garlic adds a punch of taste to any food concoction. And as other Kashi meals have proven, that mix of fiberrific grains is recipe for microwave magic. The cream sauce is kind of nasty pre-microwave, sitting all globularly condensed in the center. But once you mix it in mid-heating cycle, it looks more than edible and that’s when you get the first whiff and start to realize, crapola!, I’m about to set off a garlic firecracker in the office kitchen! The portion is smaller in this meal than the other meals, but the spinach abounds. We all know spinach=power (or E. coli). Most also know that spinach and cream sauce are a great pair (like Popeye and Olive Oyl). Also, Kashi gives you some quality chicken strips in their meals. No fatty cubes here. Thanks, Kashi. That extra effort is almost worth the $3 extra I’ll have to spend on your meals (except not really – for $6 I can get a chicken sandwich, from, like, a real grill). In conclusion, this is great treat if your goal is to stop office temptations and it’s surely tasty, but this is not Kashi’s best production.

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10 Responses to “Kashi Chicken Florentine”

Mia Jones on December 26th, 2007

With every Kashi meal or Lean Cuisine or whatever I put the meal on a bed of cooked frozen spinach or chard or whatever. It boosts the veggies and if you spritz with olive oil and pepper it helps the taste. Plus it fills you up a teensy bit more.
Kate Mack on March 11th, 2008

I amlost peed reading this. I have been eating these on and off for a few weeks, and yes they are pretty tasty, but my husband recently said what the hell have you been eating – you reek of garlic.

They are 3.99 at my local store.
Debra on May 20th, 2008

Enough with the red peppers!
Denise on August 22nd, 2008

I thought this was bland tasting and the brown kashi nugget things tasted disgusting. I barely choked down most of it and ended up hungry in about an hour.
Jeff on May 4th, 2009

i ate this dinner the first time tonight. within 10 minutes it went right threw me. more effective than the medication i took prior to my colonoscopy. what is in that food?????? i threw the other 2 forzen dinners out.

that is the truth…. what is in that food?
Ashley B on May 30th, 2009

I just finished eating this and I find it tasty. I agree it is not their best product and the garlic is very strong. It is around $3.50 at my local Walmart so I buy it every now and then. And it has a considerable amount of fiber,that might be why it seems to go “right through” certain people. I also eat the Kashi Heart to Heart cereals and I do find I am in the bathroom more than usual from that.
Ashley on October 24th, 2009

I wanted to marry this frozen dinner. I savored every bite.
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Dorota on January 14th, 2010

We bought 2 pizzas yesterday. They were by far the worst pizzas we have ever had! Not thin crust but PAPER THIN, HARDLY ANY TOPINGS (ONE MUSHROOM PER PIZZA?! ONE BROCCOLI HEAD?!), HARD, DRY AND HEAVILY OVERPRISED – over $7 for a TINY (9inch?) pizza! Very disappointing. Never again!
Barbara on March 19th, 2010

Absolutely love this!!!! nuff said