Budget Gourmet Reviews

Michelina’s Budget Gourmet Stir Fry Rice

February 15, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Michelina's Budget Gourmet Stir Fry Rice and Vegetables

Price: $1.00
Serving: 1 meal, 8 oz.
Calories: 450
Fat: 31%, 20g
Cholesterol: 3%, 10mg
Sodium: 29%, 700mg
Protein: 7g
Carbs: 15%, 45g
Fiber: 8%, 2g

Budget Gourmet says: Nothing. I can’t find a promotional blurb for this meal anywhere.

Abi says: First, the bad news. This meal (side dish?) contains chicken fat (ingredient #6), margarine (ingredient #7) and beef extract (ingredient #12). Yes, it actually contains chicken fat and beef extract twice.

The good news: this was some deliciously schmaltzy stir fry rice. Dang, if I just needed to add chicken fat, margarine, and beef extract to stuff to get it to taste so buttery and fatty, then I would have been doing that a long time ago.

The bad news: it is twenty minutes later and I have been hit with an extraordinarily serious and uncomfortable case of heartburn.

Oh my God. It is burning my insides.

This rice is not good for people who are vegetarians (it is trick rice!), those taking Orlistat (immense amounts of fat), or those with acid reflux disease.

Oh, my insides…

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