Changing your diet doesn’t always mean cutting back on fat, calories, or carbs. For some people it means making the switch to being vegetarian or vegan. If you’re making the switch, please check out our Vegetarian Meal Reviews and Vegan Meal Reviews.

Price: $3.50
Serving: 1 tray, 10 oz.
Calories: 340
Fat: 16%, 10g
Sodium: 31%, 750mg
Protein: 20g
Carbs: 13%, 40g
Fiber: 15%, 4g
WW Points: 7 Points

Seeds of Change says: For this heavenly cheesy Italian dish, we begin by rolling out each lasagna noodle from freshly made dough. Next, we layer ricotta and Parmesan cheese with spinach and a medley of carrots, onions, garlic and thyme. Then we top it all off with a layer of mozzarella cheese. Lactose lovers, rejoice.

Jess says: So I live in a group house, like a mental patient or a frat boy, except I don’t think any of us are on the heavy meds (just the normal everyday stuff, like Zoloft and Ritalin) and there are no kegs in our bathrooms (sadly). One of my roommates is leaving, so we have to fill his spot. On Wednesday, Craig’s List vomited up a bunch of eager “easy going” and “clean” prospectives to come and knock on my door.

This one girl who came by was awesome. I didn’t want to live with her. I wanted to be her. She was a grad student in a program on sustainable living or something just back from a long stint in Central America. Obviously we can’t live with her though. We all said that right away she’d be all Green and follow the 3Rs by the book, and then I’d have to feel guilty every time I took a long shower or used a plastic fork or ate animals. Shudder. Who needs all that heavy, global warming talk after a long day at the office? You know?

But man, Seeds of Change meals are like an instant environmental halo. As you can see from my picture, the design on the box is modest. There is a crap load of organic spinach in this thing. Also, they do not skimp on the cheese. It’s the kind of cheesiness that leaves cheesy trails en route to mouth and then even stains the (mental) fork with cheesy residue. This thing is really pretty good, filling, and it’s all organic so you feel so fresh and so clean, free from the pesticides that otherwise alter the genetics of your potential offspring. It’s a little high on the sodium and calorie side, but that is a small price to pay once you read the back of the box. It states: “May contain traces of: Abundance, Random Kindness, A Slightly Expanded World-view”. Hell yeah. You got a deal!

Price: $3.99
Serving: 1 tray, 10 oz.
Calories: 200
Fat: 5%, 3.5g
Sodium: 32%, 770mg
Protein: 19g
Carbs: 16%, 47g
Fiber: 16%, 4g

Seeds of Change says: Our friends in the islands, devoted organic gardeners all, tell us the secret to great teriyaki is pineapple juice. Organic pineapples lend their sweet juice to this teriyaki sauce of brown sugar, ginger, garlic and tamari. Chunks of soy chick’n join a medley of green beans, bell pepper, carrots and onion, liberally bathed in teriyaki and laid on a bed of flat noodles. Onolicious.

Abi says: If not for the random dried milk in here, this meal could be consumed by vegans. Too bad for you vegans, because this is a pretty good frozen meal. Sure, it is lacking zip and zing, but I added some myself in the form of crushed red pepper flakes and a sprinkling of garlic salt.

I was going to write something funny, but then Kate and I started having a discussion about ranking the best meat-free frozen meals. I think this meal would go on my top ten list. It would look something like this:

1. Amy’s Kitchen Pesto Tortellini Bowl
2. Morningstar Mini Corndogs
3. Trader Joe’s Jaipur Vegetables and Garlic Naan
   note: must have toaster oven for full awesomeness
4. Green Guru Paneer Tikka Masala
5. Amy’s Kitchen Cheese Enchilada Meal
6. Seeds of Change Vegetarian Chicken Teriyaki
7. Green Guru Vegetable Pad Thai (with tofu)

Yes, there are only seven items in that list. I guess I will have to try more items so that I can add to my list of the best of the best.

Does the organic pineapple juice make a difference? Maybe, maybe not. Upon reading the ingredient label, I noticed that there is more apple juice than pineapple juice in this product. Man, apple juice is being slighted by Seeds of Change. They’re all about pineapple promotion, from the pull quote to the huge picture of a pineapple on the back of the box. Fortunately, I adore teriyaki sauce regardless of which fruit carries the load. Problems? I wish that they made this meal with real chicken. Soy chick’n is ok, but I don’t enjoy apostrophes quite as much as I enjoy real meat. Yes, I like to eat animals. There, I’ve said it. Er, wrote it.

What I mean to say is that the fake meat in this meal isn’t doing the job texture-wise. It was alternately hard or really mushy. I don’t accept that level of randomness in the texture of an actual animal, so why should I accept it in the form of a soy product made by humans. Hmmmm?

Overall, this was a good choice. The Seeds of Change brand is a little spendy, but it is also Organic, (plus 5 points) so I feel good about eating the meal. Also, the box and tray are made of biodegradable paper (plus 5 more points!). My karma points are pretty high. Except that I like eating animals. Minus 10 points. I think that puts me at even.