Lean Cuisine Dinnertime Selects Chicken Fettuccini

February 5, 2007 | Reviewer: Nicole

Price: $2.00 on sale
Serving: 1 meal, 12 oz.
Calories: 260
Fat: 12%, 8g
Cholesterol: 15%, 45mg
Sodium: 32%, 770mg
Protein: 27g
Carbs: 18%, 53g
Fiber: 16%, 4g
Diet Exchanges: 2 Lean Meat, 2 Starch, 1 Vegetable, 1/2 Fruit, 1/2 Skim Milk
WW Points: 8 Points

Lean Cuisine says: Roasted chicken tenderloins, freshly made fettuccini and hand-picked broccoli tossed in a creamy Alfredo sauce with parmesan and romano cheeses, served with apples in caramel sauce.

Nicole says: Twelve ounces of food. That’s pretty exciting. Of course, I have a couple Hungry-Man meals at home that could bench press ten Lean Cuisine meals anytime (or sit on them and squash them to death,) but it’s nice to stay on the reasonable portions side of things and still have some expectation of satiety.

This meal require some babysitting - partway through cooking, you must pull back the plastic film, stir main meal section, re-cover, and continue heating. While I appreciate fully cooked food, I think that the spinning motion of the microwave plate should suffice for stirring.

The alfredo sauce was not bad - sure, it had the texture and appearance of a sauce that separates and doesn’t re-mix so well upon reheating, but it tasted A-OK. The noodles were just a touch on the soft side, but served in a hearty quantity. The chicken portion included three large (staple remover) chicken peices and four smaller ones (the hole in the center of a roll of Scotch tape). The flavor of the chicken was chicken-y and texture is appropriately meat-like. The broccoli is bright green, firm, and scrumptious.

And there’s dessert! Apples in caramel sauce! I really think we need to advocate for a law requiring frozen meals to include a meal-appropriate dessert. This one is quick and delightful with a nice mix of pie-quality spiced apples and sweet thin caramel sauce. And I’m spent. It is the size that matters, and this one is a happy medium.

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6 Responses to “Lean Cuisine Dinnertime Selects Chicken Fettuccini”

Jessica on February 5th, 2007

I must say I hated this meal. Not for the chicken/alfredo combination. That tasted as expcted. I hated the dessert portion. This was not a hungry man meal so the inclusion of sweet apples in a sweeter sauce was unexpected and quite unwelcome. Now, I’ll admit, I hate sweets, so I may be biased. But I would have preferred two more ounces of chicken of three more broccoli spears rather than a sweet side.
MaryAnne on February 6th, 2007

I wish I hated sweets. Give me an entire container of caramel apples!
Catherine on February 7th, 2007

Oh no, this was bad. Bad bad bad.
Meredith on February 24th, 2007

WOW! Kudos to Lean Cuisine for breaking into the “dessert included” category. I wish I could say I’d eat this, but I’m vegetarian…perhaps they’ll have vegetarian meals with desserts someday. I did appreciate your size comparisons, though - “staple remover” gave me exactly the right idea of the size.
Nicole on May 3rd, 2007

I just had this meal again, also in a dinnertime portion. However, this time it did NOT include desert and had a much larger portion of broccoli - two to three times the amount. Sauce was still quite yummy, chicken amount/quality same. Yum. So check it out, Jessica.
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