Stouffer’s Turkey and Stuffing

November 25, 2008 | Reviewer: Guest Reviewers

Stouffer’s Turkey and Stuffing Price: $2.00 CAD on sale
Serving: 1 tray, 248 g
Calories: 250
Fat: 14%, 9 g
Cholesterol: 20 mg
Sodium: 38%, 920 mg
Protein: 12 g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 31 g
Fiber: 8%, 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Weight Watchers Points: 5 Points

Stouffer’s says: This Stouffer’s entree is made with oven-roasted turkey and real mashed potatoes and contains no artificial colours.

Katie L. says: “Croutons,” I remarked out loud the moment I pulled off the film on the tray of Stouffer’s Turkey & Stuffing dinner. What I mistook for croutons was actually stuffing, surrounded by gelatinous unidentifiable brown sludge with a side of mashed potatoes that actually, did in fact, look like mashed potatoes.

But let me back up a moment. I missed Canadian Thanksgiving this year in mid-October because I was traveling and no, I do not understand why we have different Thanksgiving dates. Pretty sure it has something to do with the harvest, but it could be because we’re weird.

I digress. I was in the grocery store the other day, lurking about looking for something to crush my hankering for turkey, stuffing and some potatoes and picked up this dinner. I had high hopes.

I stabbed my plastic film on the tray a few times with a fork, popped it in and 5 minutes later checked. Still a bit cold, so in it went for another minute, and then I had to let it sit for two minutes. By that time I was ready to start gnawing off my own arm, was increasingly grouchy and though to myself “this had better be amazing.”

Too bad it wasn’t. The mashed potatoes has developed some strange sort of skin over-top of them and had been sprinkled with paprika. The texture was gummy and gross but the flavour wasn’t bad. The turkey side of the tray held better results. The turkey, cooked in the gravy, was actually really tender and the sauce was pretty tasty. But I kept eating strange brown sludge things that I knew were neither turkey nor gravy and it started to scare me a bit.

The croutons, ahem, stuffing, actually was the best part. The part that was under the gravy was kinda gross, all gloopy and such but the stuffing that hadn’t been touched by gravy tasted exactly like… well… croutons. And I love croutons. The crunch was a nice contrast to the rest of the meal, which bordered more on the sloppy, soggy side. Yay croutons!

There were no veggies either, which I thought was poor form. But it filled me up better than a lot of meals and despite some questionable textures, the flavours in this meal were all pretty darn good. This was no earth-shattering turkey dinner but it did curb my hankering (for about 20 minutes, mind you) and is good in a pinch.

That being said, I would only buy it on sale.

[Even though this is a product of the United States, it is sold it Canada (as evidenced by the bilingual packaging and the review by Katie L., the Canadian Katie at Heat Eat Review. Also, she spells if 'flavours'. The most similar (but not identical) product on the US side of the border is Stouffer's Roast Turkey. The Stouffer's Roast Turkey Breast is a different beast featuring cornbread stuffing. - Editrix]

comments

3 Responses to “Stouffer’s Turkey and Stuffing”

Rose on November 29th, 2008

A year or so ago, actually, maybe a year and a half ago. I gave into one of these that had been sitting in my freezer for well over three months, quite possibly more.
there wasn’t hardly anything else in the house to eat, and I was desperate.

that being said, I am in the united states so it must’ve been a slightly different product. but I did think the same thing “wow this looks a lot like croutons, I bet this will be disgusting.”

and it wasn’t good.
Eat, Heat and Review! « Ogling Uganda on December 1st, 2008

[...] about frozen turkey meals, may I present to you, the mediocre 3 star Stouffer’s Turkey Dinner here. Filed under: 1 [...]
Heat Eat Review! « Ogling Uganda on December 1st, 2008

[...] about frozen turkey meals, may I present to you, the mediocre 3 star Stouffer’s Turkey Dinner here. Filed under: 1 [...]