Lean Cuisine Pork with Cherry Sauce

January 26, 2007 | Reviewer: Nicole

Price: $2.00
Serving: 1 meal, 8.25 oz.
Calories: 260
Fat: 6%, 4g
Cholesterol: 9%, 30mg
Sodium: 23%, 570mg
Protein: 15g
Carbs: 14%, 41g
Fiber: 14%, 4g
WW Points: 5 Points

Lean Cuisine says: Honey roasted pork in a dried cherry and red wine sauce with a side of wild and brown rice with French cut green beans and yellow carrots

Nicole says: For a meal with a great amount of color and textural variety, it’s amazing that this Lean Cuisine’s Pork with Cherry Sauce still manages to look unappetizing. Chunks of pork buried under a slop of cherries and cherry sauce. Icky icky eww. I want salty, savory food. Not dessert on top of my meat. Oh, well.

I really didn’t enjoy the first few bites of cherry-sauce-soaked pork. The pork is a bit chewy. The grains are too dry and bland, even with the pretty green beans and yellow carrots decorating the side dish. If you are starving to death, you might appreciate the side; while picking through it I found some unsauced pork and was surprised by the actual Good Flavor present therein. I guess the blandness of the side was a positive thing. While eating, I slowly adjusted to the sweetness of the sauce and cherries, and started to enjoy it a bit. Sizewise, you get three large-ish pieces (silver dollar) and four small (marbles or peas) chunks of pork. If you like sweet and you like pork, you will probably really dig the meat part of this meal.

The National Pork Board gave this the “Esteemed Trendsetter” award in 2005. Maybe because you’d get really thin if this is all you had in your house to eat, and thin is trendy. This meal is small and not very filling. Not to mention I didn’t actually finish it even though I was very hungry. Bring a snack if you have the misfortune of having this for lunch. However, if you are jonesing for cherries and sauciness and want some satisfaction, get a cherry pie.

And no, I’m not thinking about a group of guys with long frizzy hair wearing tight black pants and black tops (or no tops and fringed denim jackets) and wondering why “swingin’” is a good euphemism for sexual intercourse.

Warrant:

Tanya over at IateaPie.net thought this meal was delicious. [Read her review]