Stouffer’s Corner Bistro Chicken Italian Panini

August 22, 2007 | Reviewer: Nicole

Stouffer's Chicken Italian Panini
Price: $2.50 (on sale)
Serving: 1 sandwich, 6 oz.
Calories: 350
Fat: 26%, 17g
Cholesterol: 12%, 35mg
Sodium: 25%, 610mg
Protein: 20g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 31g
Fiber: 13%, 3g

Stouffer’s says: Strips of grilled white meat chicken topped with provolone cheese, grilled onions and peppers on Italian white bread

Nicole says: Stouffer’s new Corner Bistro offerings are rocking my world. I had the Turkey Club Panini recently and was mucho impressed (I will review sometime soon). The serving size is too small, no doubt, but just bring a small bag of chips, goldfish or carrot sticks and you’ve got a lunch.

The amazing “REVOLUTIONARY GRILLING(tm) TECHNOLOGY” really works in crisping up the sandwich bread. The contents are mostly tasty herbed chicken and melted provolone with a few peppers and onions for a spark of spice, and are generously proportioned enough to the sandwich size so as to make each bite a happy, well-mixed mouthful. And more than a mouthful is a waste, right? I would just about swear that this has more chicken than a standard-sized Lean Cuisine entreé - and it’s a freaking sandwich!

Immediately after eating the sandwich, you will feel satiated. I think it’s due to the bread. However, if you don’t take my advice and add a small bag of chips, apples, or apple chips, you’ll be hungry again in just a couple hours. If this meal were 1.5 times it’s actual size, then the moon would be in the seventh house and Jupiter would align with Mars. You know, harmony and understanding, blah, blah, blah.

Thanks, Stouffer’s!

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12 Responses to “Stouffer’s Corner Bistro Chicken Italian Panini”

Julie on August 23rd, 2007

Once AGAIN my Safeway has had these on sale for varying amounts of money for quite a few months. I think when they drop to $2.00 that’s the best bang for my buck but I like a couple of these well enough to have dropped $2.50 a piece for a couple.

The best ones imo are any of those with chicken because they have these actual chucks of pretty decent breast meat on them. The beef one’s didn’t dazzle me and the turkey one tasted like something made with regular lunch meat like a Deli Thin Oscar Meyer.

I usually slice up a small vine ripe tomato and eat some baked Lays Potato Crisps with one of these. It actually feels very satisfying and not like I’ve made any effort to be healthy because I love tomatoes and I’m horribly addicted to Baked Lays. I also LIKE nutrasweet and drink a diet coke as well.

I really don’t like regular coke anymore and haven’t for years. I am an ongoing nutrasweet test project. Seriously. I drink about one 2 liter bottle a day. It’s my substitute for coffee. Blame a few years living in Florida on that. I couldn’t STAND a hot coffee driving to work in 97 degree humid weather. They uh didn’t do iced coffee back then either.
Abi Jones on August 23rd, 2007

@Julie - You have plenty of fellow Diet Coke lovers at HeatEatReview.com. It is the first thing we run out of at the office. And now that it is crazy-hot in DC coffee consumption has dropped and people dip into the refrigerator at 9am.
Jessica on August 23rd, 2007

I’ll eat a lot of things, but a frozen — sandwich. It seems like a weird, and overpriced concept. A sandwich is one of the easiest things to make and take to work — the complications of transporting and storing a frozen sandwich seem monumental — like the equivalent of drinking water from Fiji which uses a barrel of oil to get to your desk vs. opening the tap and pouring a glass of water.
Julie on August 23rd, 2007

Whatever. I know I’m not going to cook a chicken breast, chop it up with peppers, cook it up in a pan and then grill it on a piece of pretty good tasting bread like these have.

Plus I live in San Francisco and everyone is ranting so madly about green green green that I’m sick of it. I do throw the box in the recycling bin. There’s my good deed for the day.
Julie on August 24th, 2007

Also note the top of this blog “When Your Too Lazy To Make A Sandwich”. So try not to take everything here too seriously.

I do drink water out of the tap and will until Southern Cali sucks us dry…oi
lauren on August 24th, 2007

bleh i never really liked chicken so i guess this is a biased review but it was okay the cheese isnt exactly my cup of tea i recommend the philly cheesesteak one instead
jc on August 26th, 2007

The italian bistro panini’s are definately the best of the bunch. I’ve had them almost a dozen time and still love em. However they have disappeared from my grocery store. All thats left is the turkey panini and the southwest. The southwest is an acceptable alternative, but its bacon flavor overload thats not particularly well done.

Hopefully I’ll find this one somewhere soon.
Rob on August 26th, 2007

This is a very tasty sandwich but too small. It is really one-half of a sandwich. I buy them up to $2.20 or so but only the filthy rich can afford a steady diet of these delicacies.
Rose on September 3rd, 2007

I’ve had these on several occasions, this flavor and one with steak, and maybe onions and mushrooms and cheese? I’m not sure. but they were both pretty good, but, generally, if I were to want something frozen I’d rather go for something like mac and cheese.
Sara on September 20th, 2007

I’ve had this sandwich before, it was on sale and the only other sandwich available was a turkey one. This was OK, but for some reason it was really watery when I took a bite. Like, little pockets of water in between the fillings. I did like the bread a lot though. I would like to try some of the others if I can find them.
Melissa on December 30th, 2007

these are yummy, i bring them to work for lunch!
Dan on April 17th, 2008

These NEVER cook up right for me. Always turn out soggy no matter how long I nuke them on their “Revolutionary Grilling Tray.” My microwave is brand new too.

Bread sticks to the tray too which have cause it to tear as I’m trying to remove it.

Be better just to get the bread and fixings myself and just use my toaster oven.