Lean Cuisine Flatbread Melts Chicken Ranch Club

March 7, 2008 | Reviewer: Nicole

Lean Cuisine Flatbread Melts Chicken Ranch Club Price: Free from Lean Cuisine
Servings Per Container: 1
Calories: 330
Total Fat: 14%, 8g
Saturated Fat: 16%, 3g
Cholesterol: 8%, 20g
Sodium: 26%, 640g
Protein: 21g
Carbs: 14%, 41g
Dietary Fiber: 17%, 4g
Sugars: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 7 Points

Lean Cuisine says: White meat chicken, tomato, bacon & a ranch sauce in a soft flatbread.

Nicole says: I love bacon. I love it so much that I’ll even use those imitation bacon bits at the salad bar. They still taste “of” bacon, right? The essence of bacon. This flatbread melt has that same essence. And much more.

This must be the most colorful frozen meal I’ve had in weeks. Bright reds, yellows, greens, a light yellow “ranch sauce”. And as with my previous flatbread experience, this thing is herbed. As in, it contains some herbs and spices, and some flavor survived the freezing process. The flavor is the thing here- you can actually tell the ingredients apart by taste - the chicken tastes like chicken, the tomato tastes like tomato.

And the cheese? Well, there are two kinds, (reduced fat) mozzarella and (light pasteurized process) cheddar. The diet cheese is by no means a highlight of this meal, but you can taste it from time to time. I just hate the way it cooks up - light cheese is a very bad, highly uneven melter. Boo.

The flatbread aspect of the meal does three things. It holds the ingredients - you know, it’d be tough to eat a mess of chicken, tomatoes, yellow peppers, spring onions, and cheese without a conduit. It also makes the meal remotely filling, so you cold actually get away with eating this on its own for lunch (I, however, will supplement). Unfortunately, the chewiness of the bread and the juxtaposition of its flavorlessness next to the nicely seasoned filling takes away from the meal. I think they need to herb the flatbread, too.

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6 Responses to “Lean Cuisine Flatbread Melts Chicken Ranch Club”

rob on March 8th, 2008

I bought some microwaveable cheesburgers from these folks today

http://www.fastfixin.com/products.php?section=1

but after reading the list of ingredients I am scared to eat them.
Jeri on March 8th, 2008

Come on Rob! You’ve spent the money…HEAT, EAT and REVIEW! Oh, and don’t forget to add the “fixin’s”.
amanda on March 8th, 2008

this really sounds yummy! making me hungry reading it
Renee' on March 8th, 2008

I love these. Easy to fix and taste great!
rob on March 9th, 2008

I ate the “Fast Fixins” “On The Go Cheeseburgers” for dinner. Three of them, they aren’t terribly big. A package of 6 burgers cost me $5.99 at Publix supermarket. The prices is relatively reasonable imo.

They are only 230 calories each so it wasn’t an enormous meal fat-wise. As far as the taste of the cheeseburgers, they are on a par with the breakfast sandwiches that jimmy dean and aunt jemima sell, except not nearly as good. The aunt jemima croissant sandwiches are tastier, but it is basically the same deal, very soft bread, meat that tastes like sausage patty. The real problem is I found it impossible to microwave them so that the meat part was hot without melting the rest of the sandwich down, so I got stuck with soft bread, melted cheese and still partially frozen meat-like patty. Maybe a more masterful microwaver could have gotten them to turn out better.

The nutritional label says each burger provides 23% percent of your daily sodium. All I know is after eating them I drank half of a two-liter bottle of soda, and still had to get up three times during the night to drink some water. There is a lot of sodium in these things.

I can’t list the ingredients cause it would take all day but the total amount of ingredients for bread, cheese and meat are: 78 It would have been higher but a lot of the chemicals that are in the meat are also in the cheese and bread, and I didn’t want to double or triple count them. I think this is the kind of meat they make from the left over bits and pieces of cows.

I prefer the aunt jemima breakfast croissant sandwiches to these by a long shot, and I also wish I had bought the White Castle sliders yesterday, as I intended to do, but the package of the Fast Fixin caught my eye. There are three cheeseburgers left in the freezer, maybe I will eat them someday.
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