Price: $3.00 (on sale)
Serving: 1 package, 16oz.
Calories: 630 per serving
Fat: 55%, 36g
Cholesterol: 40%, 120mg
Sodium: 74%, 1780mg
Protein: 35g
Carbs: 14%, 43g
Fiber: 24%, 6g
Sugar: 7g
Weight Watchers Points: 16 points

Claim Jumper says: A giant ground beef steak grilled with a smokey flavor and brown gravy. Served along with it’s favorite side dishes, broccoli and macaroni and cheese.

Nicole says: I felt like Indiana Jones when I found this last night at the grocery store - a new brand of frozen food! More Claim Jumper reviews will be forthcoming. This meal is produced by a company running a chain of restaurant by the same name on the West Coast and into the Mid-West a bit. They are apparently known at the restaurant for their large portions. Yay, what a great way to get ready for a Winter of hibernating! All the meals I selected from this line last night are 16 ounces - that’s One LB., but unlike some sexist Swanson lines, Claim Jumper doesn’t feel the need to yell about size from the mountain tops or emblazon it in large letters across their packaging.

The preparation of this meal was on the caliber of a Marie Callender meal - the gravy packet was heated separately in a bowl (first time I’ve seen this in a Salisbury Steak dish), the broccoli had one tablespoon of water added before cooking, and both the meat/cheese/pasta plate section and the frozen bag of gravy had to be stabbed 2-4 times with a fork before cooking - when they say “to vent”, do they know I’m having a bad day at work? The cooking time is too ambiguous at “five to nine minutes”, so I chose the safe route - seven is central. Then I added ten seconds since I had a lasagna recently with a cool center. Bad decision. My macaroni burned on one edge :(.

Did I MENTION that the meal comes with Macaroni & Cheese? Large, thick, ribbed macaroni noodles make it feel homestyle and bright yellow cheese with a hint of Velveeta-ish flavor provide a devilishly tasty in the “I’m being a bad girl” way (versus the “Do you have any Grey Poupon” way). The broccoli steams pretty well - it could be a bit firmer, but it is far from mush and tastes as fresh and green as it looks.

And this thing they call “Salisbury Steak”. As if it’s not strange enough that the gravy is packaged separately, is not remotely gelatinous, and is offered in such a large portion that I, of all people, chose to discard a third - this meat has a tenderized but hearty, dense texture. You know how most Salisbury steak is a bit spongy? Which isn’t terrible, I mean, if it is manually tenderized, that can result. But this is just such an unusual, tasty, cut-of-meat versus reconstituted meat type texture. Not to say it’s not reconstituted (I’ll report back on that after I sneak into the Claim Jumper plant to do some research), but it doesn’t necessarily taste or feel reconstituted.

I am full, but I am not stuffed. And I feel like I had what could be described as a balance of healthy and tasty and super-fattening in my meal. Buy Claim Jumper food!