Jimmy Dean Sausage and Cheese on a Croissant Breakfast Entree

February 23, 2009 | Reviewer: Abi

Jimmy Dean Sausage and Cheese Croissant Entree Price: $3.49
Serving: 1 Entree, 7.6oz
Calories: 560 per serving
Calories from Fat: 270
Fat: 46%, 30g
Saturated Fat: 50%, 10g
Trans Fat: 3g
Cholesterol: 12%, 35mg
Sodium: 44%, 1050mg
Protein: 11g
Carbohydrates: 21%, 62g
Fiber: 16%, 4g
Sugar: 21g
Weight Watchers Points: 13 Points

Jimmy Dean says: This new Breakfast Entrée is packed with protein and plenty of flavor. It features sausage and melted cheese on a fresh-baked, flaky croissant. Not to mention, it includes two tasty sides: warm, diced apples and specially-seasoned hash browns. Delicious, nutritious and ready in just 3 minutes.

Abi says: I prefer my breakfast sandwiches without cheese. We should get that out of the way right now. Frankly, I believe that American Cheese should a) not exist and b) not be allowed to be called cheese. I find it disturbing, greasy, gooey stuff that can ruin a sandwich. Thus, I removed the cheese from this sandwich prior to heading and was left with an adorably small sausage patty nestled inside an adorably small croissant. And while a fan of tiny, cute things (specifically, tiny, cute things balancing carbohydrates on their heads), I also want a breakfast that will leave me full.

I bought this breakfast one morning because I wanted something in the morning that was not oatmeal or deep-fried or yogurt. For some reason I didn’t connect this meal with the commercials about the Sun that goes to work. I got this meal because it wasn’t a box of breakfast sandwiches. It is a meal. Which is strange because I quite enjoy this commercial:

Get it? The moon is full! And he is full! Full of delicious breakfast. Alas, this breakfast is hefty when it comes to calories (and 13 Weight Watchers points, yow!), but left a lot to be desired in terms of actual largeness. The mini sandwich is limp, the apples are mere specks of fruit swimming in a watery sugar-sauce, and the potatoes…oh, the potatoes.

It seems that there should be some general consensus on hash brown types. My preferred style is the shredded potato, fried to a golden crisp on the outside and almost (almost) mushy inside. After that I like breakfast potatoes (cubed, non-deep-fried, seasoned, often accompanied by onion and peppers) and lastly home fries (cubes, often deep-fried), in reality these are a French fry made for breakfast.

These breakfast potatoes are none of those things. They are mealy and flavorless and generally the opposite of everything I want in potatoes. Overall, this breakfast should not be considered a reasonable breakfast by any person. If I am going to eat sausage for breakfast, I want it to be worth the unhealthiness. I should have just gone to McDonald’s and got a sausage biscuit and a hash brown. It would have been 2/3 of the price of this meal, the same weight, just 20 more calories, and a gazillion times more satisfying.

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12 Responses to “Jimmy Dean Sausage and Cheese on a Croissant Breakfast Entree”

Christine on February 23rd, 2009

I got the ham and cheese ones when they were clearanced out at about $1. My son enjoyed them.
Chavi on February 23rd, 2009

Thirteen points? Criminey. That’s depressing. And it looks depressing. I’d be down if they had egg-cheese ones. At Wal-Mart they’ve started selling frozen sausage, frozen pre-made eggs, and muffins next to eachother in the frozen foods section … make your own!
Hunterkate on February 23rd, 2009

11 grams of protein hardly qualifies as “packed full of” in my book. 15 would be fair, and around 19-22 would be “packed”.
MaryAnne on February 24th, 2009

It looks like airline food… That is some awful nutritional info. How is it remotely “packed” with protein or nutritious? They even tell you that half the meal’s calories is straight fat… And they wonder why Americans have such an obesity problem!
Julie A on February 24th, 2009

I haven’t have breakfast sausage in years. I’d rather eat a pork chop. Which isn’t surprising since I really don’t like traditional breakfast food anyway (e.g. eggs, toast, fatty meats).
Jens-Halvar Antonsen on February 24th, 2009

I picked up about 60 of these for $1 each on sale – two a day for breakfast is MUCH cheaper than a $15 sandwich here in Manhattan.

They REALLY aren’t *that* bad, rather unhealthy, but equivalnent to dropping by BK’s more or less..
Jens-Halvar Antonsen on February 24th, 2009

Out of curiosity, are there any single HER reviewers that would like to get a 17 year old college student as a boyfriend? I like to cook.
Julie A on February 25th, 2009

@ Jens-Halvar Antonsen

Only 17 years and in college already.

and likes to cook. sigh. I need a young male slave.
Jens-Halvar Antonsen on February 25th, 2009

-runs-
GrubGrade on February 25th, 2009

WOW…44% daily sodium.
Schmutzli on February 26th, 2009

If I buy something I regret I usually finish it, partly as punishment for being duped, partly because of a pathological fear of waste…

However, I just threw this junk away.

If you like gristle and bone in your sausage, have at it. I tried two packages and had the same result with both. Bland, and possibly dangerous to your teeth.
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