Eating Right Beef Portobello

July 13, 2007 | Reviewer: Guest Reviewers

Eating Right Beef Portobello Price: $2.50 (sale)
Serving: 1 entreé, 9 oz.
Calories: 260
Fat: 9%, 6g
Cholesterol: 8%, 25mg
Sodium: 23%, 550mg
Protein: 16g
Carbohydrates: 12%, 36g
Fiber: 10%, 3g
Weight Watchers Points: 5 Weight Watchers Points

Eating Right says: Tender beef with mushrooms served with roasted potatoes and broccoli

Lindsy says: Now, I’m not your typical meat and potatoes girl. That’s my dad’s schtick and I had enough of it while I was growing up. However while I was perusing the freezer aisle of my local Safeway the word ‘portobello’ spoke to me when I scanned past this box and into my cart it leaped.

As I stood in the kitchen, I couldn’t say that these meal gave off any definable smells and I wondered if I had gone astray in my food choice. Once I removed the tray from the microwave, I was disappointed to see a paltry three broccoli florets inhabiting that section of my tray. Instead of devouring the broccoli immediately, I decided I would begin by tasting the beef. I was pleased when it turned out rather delicious and beef-like. It was not too chewy, not to hard, but instead had a nice medium-well (what more can you expect from the microwave?) flavor. Goldilocks would have enjoyed the beef. The gravy was also pretty delicious, a little on the salty side but good nonetheless. HOWEVER, there were no portobellos in sight! By the end of my meal I think I had discovered one tiny (read: the size of a pencil eraser) morsel of mushroomy goodness.

As for the potatoes, I don’t know if roasted is the appropriate definition for them. To me a roasted potato is deliciously crispy on the outside with limited inside soft potato texture. These potatoes were neither crispy nor roasted. They were more like mysteriously golden potato chunks. They had the grainy microwaved potato texture to them and were pretty mushy. In retrospect, I should have turned them into mashed potatoes using the left over gravy from my beef. Hindsight, alas.

Overall, this was a pretty decent meal, with lots of different flavors and a good amount of food. I got 30 percent of the recommended daily value of iron and 50 percent on the vitamin C. Not too shabby

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7 Responses to “Eating Right Beef Portobello”

Julie on July 13th, 2007

I’m glad someone Abi found someone to review these. I haven’t tried this one yet but the other 2 I have were really quite good. My only beef with them is they’re so dang small. (bad pun intended)
Abi Jones on July 13th, 2007

I admit that I’ve had a couple of these too. Not that I’m going to tell you how they taste. You’ll have to come back to the site for that.

The problem is that they’re easy to find at Safeway, but I usually shop at Giant.
D on July 13th, 2007

THIS is what I call a real food review. Thank you.
Jeri on July 14th, 2007

Abi…I’m pretty sure that Eating Right is a Safeway house brand.
Anna on July 16th, 2007

Yes, it’s by Safeway. Randall’s (part of Safeway) carries it as well. Glad to hear the meals are good.

BTW. Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but Healthy Choice has jumped aboard the panini train and are selling a barbecued chicken paninin as well as a tomato, basil, roast pepper panini. I bought the barbecued chicken one, but haven’t tried it.
Tracy on July 26th, 2007

I’ve tried a few of the Eating Right frozen dishes including this one, and I have to say, they’re pretty good compared to lean cuisine and healthy choice entrees. The lemongrass chicken and noodles with peanut sauce are pretty tasty
Julie on July 28th, 2007

Update: they’ve had these on sale at my Safeway for half of July now for $2.00 a piece & I still have yet to taste a bad one.