Healthy Choice Creamy Garlic Shrimp

April 18, 2007 | Reviewer: Adina

Price: $2.14 (on sale)
Serving: 1 meal, 11.5 oz.
Calories: 280
Fat: 8%, 5g
Cholesterol: 8%, 25mg
Sodium: 25%, 600mg
Protein: 13g
Carbs: 15%, 44g
Fiber: 20%, 5g
WW Points: 5 Points

Healthy Choice says: Delicious shrimp tossed with bow-tie pasta in a creamy garlic basil sauce, complemented with a side of green beans and carrots and tart cherry crisp to offer a complete, satisfying meal.

Adina says: I have to say off the bat, for 5 points and a giant tray of food, this meal is not a bad deal. I was amazed at how non-mushy the shrimp were and how crisp the vegetables were. Texture wise, this meal was two thumbs up (in microwave meal land of course, not in the real food world).

Taste wise, the sauce is like every other Healthy Choice meal - BLAND. By any other name, it would still taste bland. I swear, HC must have a giant vat of tasteless sauce and just dump it on every one of their meals. "Oh Beef Tips Portobello? I think you need a little kick in the beef butt by our special BLAND sauce! And how about you, my little Herb Baked Fish? Would you like to take a swim in our BLAND sauce lake? Oh, and who could forget the Chicken Carbonara! BLANDissimo!" Seriously, it is the only word I can think of that truly encompasses every one of their meals.

If you can get past the fact that you are eating tasteless food, this is not a bad option. I am full (which is a rare, rare thing after a 5 point meal) and I can totally splurge on a skinny cow for dessert tonight. Since everyone who is going to eat this meal knows from the get go that the sauce is bad, I am going to tilt the scales a bit and give it a 3, for trying.

Tanya at Iateapie.net gave this meal 4.5 kisses for nutrition [Read her review]

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8 Responses to “Healthy Choice Creamy Garlic Shrimp”

Abi Jones on April 18th, 2007

This is perhaps the most genius brand-wide description ever. I cracked up over ‘BLANDissimo!’
Colleen on April 19th, 2007

Tanya gave this some aspects of this meal meal an opposite review.

Tanya: “I enjoyed this meal and my only complaint is that I wish there was a little more of it…I was still hungry….”

Adina: “If you can get past the fact that you are eating tasteless food, this is not a bad option. I am full (which is a rare, rare thing after a 5 point meal)…”
Adina on April 19th, 2007

Colleen, I too noticed that we had pretty different views on this meal. I really did feel like it was enough food but I was also eating it for lunch, not dinner. And maybe I was eating very slowly (though I highly doubt that)?

All I can say is…I consider NOT wanting to go and eat the local chinese restaurant out of house and home a job well done on Healthy Choice’s part.
MaryAnne on April 19th, 2007

I’m anti-Healthy Choice. Their commercials are very misleading- all about how they’re watching out for our hearts and eliminating the fat without the taste while adding lots of spices. That’s bull. All of their sauces seem to be created solely to cover up the blandness of their food, yet their sauces are just as bland if not more so. With all that salt they, and most frozen food companies, pump into their meals, you would think something would come alive. Did it taste garlicky like the name implies? Probably not. Anyhow, I have found that shrimp in frozen meals is just asking for a not so good meal.

Suggestion: An entire week on frozen treats. Like ice cream. And ice cream bars. And fruit bars. And popsicles. And fudgesicles. Yum.
Abi Jones on April 19th, 2007

There are a bunch of Skinny Cow fans in my office (I’m among them), but I don’t think I’ll go anywhere near frozen treats for a week or two. It is just way to cold here in DC to eat anything that’s below freezing. I guess I could do pies right now. Those are warm.
kelly on April 19th, 2007

if you like skinny cow, please try no pudge if you haven’t already.
carol on April 25th, 2007

do they just have the cherry crisp all by itself? i really like the dessert
Mary Dane on May 6th, 2007

People,
add salt or some herbs into the sauce and it’s great. and yah, this fills you up and tastes way better than a lot of lean cuisine that makes me son hungry i have to eat 3 of them!