Healthy Choice Breaded Chicken Breast Strips and Macaroni and Cheese

May 22, 2007 | Reviewer: Adina

Healthy Choice Breaded Chicken Breast Strips and Macaroni and Cheese
Price: $2.14 (sale at Pathmark)
Serving: 1 meal, 8 oz.
Calories: 270
Fat: 8%, 5g
Cholesterol: 13%, 40mg
Sodium: 25%, 600mg
Protein: 20g
Carbs: 12%, 35g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
WW Points: 5 Points

Healthy Choice says: Crispy, herbed chicken breast strips and macaroni and cheese that is low in fat because we use real aged cheddar cheese combined with skim milk and fat-free cream cheese.

Adina says: As I look at my empty food container, I wonder Where did my food go? It is ten minutes after I warmed up this 2 star meal and already it is gone, I have the Healthy Choice Hunger, and I am nibbling on reduced fat Cheez-Its.

I have eaten this meal before and have disliked it, and yet I continue to buy it, thinking "This time the macaroni will not taste like soggy stale bread floating around in cheesy water." WRONG. This is the first and only frozen meal that I've actually had to add salt to the mac and cheese. Usually just the smell of a microwave meal pushes my blood pressure to 190 over 100.

I actually don't mind the breaded chicken strips. Dare I say it? They are sort of tasty! Of course, I definitely pull out my ketchup reserve for this meal, and am very generous in my dipping, but I have never met a chicken strip that didn't taste better smothered in ketchup.

Overall, if you don't mind salting ~~stale bread soup~~ mac and cheese and you have some ketchup on hand, this is not a totally horrible meal. Of course, you will be hungry three bites before you are even done and you will end up eating a slice of pizza or a pretzel afterwards, which defeats the purchase of eating this meal in the first place. So I take it back, don't buy this meal. It's not worth it.

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3 Responses to “Healthy Choice Breaded Chicken Breast Strips and Macaroni and Cheese”

Susan on May 22nd, 2007

Sincere thanks for the warning. Nobody wants to eat stale bread soup mac and still end up hungry.
tifffany on May 22nd, 2007

Ew I hate healthy choice mac n cheese. I will eat it but I much prefer lean cuisine. As it is, I tend to salt all these diet mac n cheeses, but I use seasoned salt instead of regular for a bit of (extra… or any) flavor. I also like to add it to the fettucini alfredo.
Ace N. on May 23rd, 2007

Healthy Choice is the worst brand of frozen food widely available today. Almost everything they make is pretty awful. Now excuse me as I hide in the corner and wait to be killed by a Healthy Choice representative.

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