Stouffer's White Meat Chicken Pot Pie

September 4, 2007 | Reviewer: Nicole

Stouffer’s White Meat Chicken Pot Pie Price: $2.50
Serving: 1/2 Pie, 8oz.
Calories: 600
Fat: 54%, 35g
Cholesterol: 18%, 55mg
Sodium: 41%, 980mg
Protein: 16g
Carbs: 18%, 55g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Weight Watchers Points: 14 in 1/2 pie

Stouffer’s says: A golden crust surrounding pieces of all white meat chicken, peas, carrots, celery & onions, in a gravy made with real cream

Nicole says: In my youth chicken pot pie was a dinner staple. I'm pretty sure we were eating Banquet brand, but I consider just about any chicken pot pie a childhood friend who never wronged me. They are crunchy, flaky, creamy, meaty… what else could you want? In addition to being child-friendly, they were also certainly mother-friendly due to the ease of preparation. I do, however, imagine that my mother set them aside for at least ten minutes before allowing us to eat them, as I don't recall burning my tongue on chicken pot pie until I was at least 15 and preparing one on my own.

Stouffer's chicken pot pie is microwaved in the opened box with the weird metallic-cardboard crisper thingy attached to the inside of the box. The crust certainly appears almost oven-baked. I ignored the direction to spin the box multiple 1/4 turns during heating since our office microwave has a carousel tray, and as payment I had to scour off bits of Stouffer-box that stuck to that glass tray during the cooking - maybe the turn would have helped.

So, crust: crispy, flaky, evidence of butter-taste. 100% yummy. I'm not a big fan of sweets, but savory dishes with pie crusts such as this entree and quiche are among my great comforts in life, just like the breading on country-~~friend~~ fried steak.

The creamy, chicken stock-rich base in this pie is thick enough not to run away as you slice into each bite of the pie. The chicken chunks it contains are indeed all white meat and has a lovely natural texture and density not always found in the frozen food world. I'm not a fan of peas or cooked carrots, but they just seem so right in a chicken pot pie. This pie is slightly larger than Banquet's pie in depth and weight.

Stouffer's chicken pot pie is very filling, and I mean it - you might be like, "Wow, I'm just about stuffed," and still have four bites left. In fact, this package contains "2" servings. Who splits a pot pie? I didn't when I was eight and I'm not about to start now. However, maybe you want to split, especially if you want to stay near a 2,000 calorie diet and plan on eating another meal in the same day. Or save it for dinner, usually the largest meal of the day.

But seriously, show me something else that's this tasty and 1200 calories for $2.50! Personally, I feel like I've really accomplished something when I've managed to swallow 1200 calories of delectable meat pie for lunch. If you like (or think you may like) chicken pot pie, Stouffer's offers a product to fulfill your wildest fantasies.

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14 Responses to “Stouffer's White Meat Chicken Pot Pie”

Jessica on September 4th, 2007

1200 calories. Aargh. Recently, someone brought Cheesecake Factory carrot cake for a birthday - and I marveled at each 1520 calorie slice. I thought there couldn’t possible be another food that almost has a day’s worth of calories in ‘one’ serving; but here it is.
Crow on September 4th, 2007

I’ve found home made turkey pot pie to be better than anything frozen.

“…Stouffer’s offers a product to fulfill your wildest fantasies.”

You really don’t want to know mine…
Abi Jones on September 4th, 2007

@Jessica - Those cakes are twice the height of regular cakes.

@Crow - You’re right, we don’t want to know.

@Everyone else - Are you still on vacation? I expected more disgust regarding this meal. Oh, and I finally found a Kid Cuisine Fish Stick meal. So now I just have to find a roommate-free time to review it on video.
Ace on September 5th, 2007

On the contrary, Abi, I find Nicole’s love for this meal to be positively endearing. But of course, you’ve seen what I like to eat so this shouldn’t be a surprise.

I also have a Kid Cuisine meal in my freezer to review. Good luck to us both, I’m looking forward to seeing you try to apply blue frosting to a corn-filled brownie(or whatever crazy thing the meal has you do).
Jill on September 5th, 2007

I adored chicken pot pies when I was eight as well, and I remember my personal favorite being the marie callender’s ones. Now, sadly, I don’t think I could eat 1200 in one meal, it’s really too bad what age does to us!

We don’t have a Cheesecake Factory near and I’ve never gone to one anywhere else… sounds astounding.
MaryAnne on September 5th, 2007

I think chicken pot pies bring back childhood memories for a lot of people. For me it just makes me want my childhood metabolism and nutritional ignorance back. However, I have learned to make a large pot pie from scratch that has about half the calories and fat for the entire thing AND feeds at least 4 people. I am surprised that this pot pie has 1200 calories- what are they putting in there that makes it that way???
Julie on September 5th, 2007

I agree about the childhood thing. My mom made the most fantastic mac & cheese and I’m sure it had a zillion calories. This was a woman who kept bacon grease in a jar in the fridge because she just LIKED the taste of it to cook with. This is what poor people used circa WWII era and with my mom and grandma it just stuck.

Sometimes I think I’m the oldest person that posts on here when I tell these tales. My dad still refuses to even go near the internet and types up stuff on an ancient typewriter that isn’t even electric.
Julie on September 5th, 2007

“We don’t have a Cheesecake Factory near and I’ve never gone to one anywhere else… sounds astounding”

personally I hate the CCF. They don’t take reservations so you have to wait in line for 5 years to get a table and they serve 5 million things BESIDES cheesecake; all of which are exorbitantly overpriced items that basically suck.

Don’t waste your time or money IMO.
Megan on September 5th, 2007

My husband ate this for dinner last night…it smelled soooo yummy!
Ginia on September 6th, 2007

I looooooove the Stouffer’s Chicken Pot Pie, and of course I always finish it in one go — really, nobody shares a chicken pot pie. Just eat lightly the rest of the day and you’ll be just fine! I’m not sure which are better, the Marie Callendar CPP or this — can we get a head-to-head taste showdown?
ahughes798 on January 3rd, 2008

maryanne…

I, too, keep a container of bacon grease in my fridge. I use it VERY sparingly, and bacon grease does add a nice flavour to some things.
Lisa Richardson on March 10th, 2008

Aaaah bacongrease!! Scrub those bakers and grease them liberally with bacon grease and wrap them in foil, and bake them. You’ll never have a baked potato that tastes better than that. Yes, my mama and my gramma taught me that.

How do you fry eggs, lol, if you don’t make bacon too?

Ohh, back to pot pies. I used to work at the chicken plant in Arkansas that Banquet owned, and we could buy the pot pies for 10 cents each, right after they were made and frozen. Nothing better, but they tasted way different than after you bought them from the store. Wow, that was 25 years ago, yikes!
Nicole on March 17th, 2008

After eating a Marie Callendar pie today (my third in the last couple of week - they come in four packs! Extra value!), I’ve decided that the Stouffer’s is definitely superior.The Stouffer’s filling is tastier and creamier, and the crust flakier (and buttery!). Marie Callendar still really rocks, though.
Willow on March 27th, 2008

OK - I tried this for dinner tonight. It was tasty and cooked up nicely in the microwave - a lot nicer than I expected. However, there wasn’t one single piece of chicken in the entire 16oz pie. Publix has them on sale this week for $2.50. And yes, I ate the whole thing myself, but did leave some crust behind.