Price: $2.50 for two (on sale)
Serving: 1 dessert, 2.64oz
Calories: 170 per cake
 Calories from Fat: 30
Fat: 5%, 3g
 Saturated Fat: 7%, 1.5g
 Trans Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 2%, 5mg
Sodium: 4%, 100mg
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrates: 11%, 32g
Fiber: 5%, 1g
Sugar: 15g
Weight Watchers: 3 POINTS

Smart Ones says: Low-fat cookie-flavored ice cream over a crumbly cookie crust topped with fudge sauce with cookie dough crumbles

Abi says: I’m not sure I can ever again convince myself to purchase a Smart Ones frozen dessert. Sure, the cookie dough was the same as every other mass-produced ’safe’ cookie dough, but the ice cream was a glutinous goo that stuck to my gums.

Accidents aside, I think I’m getting a little better at making short videos. Advice appreciated!

Hello fellow Heat Eat Reviewers! Today continues the giveaways for Heat Eat Review readers! Exclamation point! Sorry, I can’t help myself, I’m having a lot of fun giving things away, including pizzas, Indian food, and a $50 Amazon gift certificate.

Pizza Winners!

The first two pizza winners were Twitter folks Matt Ventre (@mventre) Luofei (@luofeid). How did they win? By following @HeatEatReview on Twitter and telling me their favorite pizza toppings. Yum. There are still 3 drawings left, so you have time to win!

Facebook Photos!

So far we have 11 entrants in the running for the $50 Amazon gift card. Okay, it isn’t really a gift card. It is a code that I will email to you if you win. $50! How do you win? Just become a fan of Heat Eat Review on Facebook and post a photo of yourself holding your favorite frozen meal. You have until 12pm Pacific on Tuesday, August 25th to enter.

I would like to point out that so far only one entrant is a guy. Why is that? Do guys not have cameras? Because I know y’all eat frozen food.

Indian Food for a Week

Yes, you can still enter to win a week’s worth of Indian meals (that’s 14 entrees, does not include rice, naan, or mango lassis). As of right now there are 88 entries for the free food. You have until next Tuesday to enter! How to win: Head on over to the Giveaways Galore post and leave a comment with your favorite Indian food.

I will just say this once: comments on this post are not entries in the Indian food giveaway… you must comment on the Giveaways Galore post. However, you may feel free to ask me questions about the contests here and I will do my darnedest to answer them.

Cheers!
Abi Jones
Editrix, Heat Eat Review

Price: $1.99 (on sale)
Serving: 9.0 oz.
Calories: 260 per serving
Fat: 7%, 4.5g
Cholesterol: 14%, 40mg
Sodium: 31%, 740mg
Protein: 18g
Carbohydrates: 13%, 38g
Fiber: 0%, 0g
Sugar: 15g
Weight Watchers: 6 POINTS

Smart Ones says: Tender beef strips and juicy pineapple in a sweet teriyaki sauce with rice.

Tara says: I’m not going to make excuses. I was at my local grocery store and I saw that for the first time in weeks there was a sale on frozen entrees. Since I work full time (and am lazy), I eat these puppies every day for lunch. That’s right, I have no pride.

Anyway, I was standing in the frozen section, knowing full well that my freezer was getting bare. This, combined with the rare mood that I was in (possibly alcohol-induced) caused me to start grabbing Smart Ones off the shelf like I was competing on that corny show “Supermarket Sweep” and each of these little red boxes represented a 15lb Christmas ham that would really rack up my score.

Of course, I end up paying for these crazy splurges later. Like at 7am this morning when I was rummaging through my freezer, trying to find something yummy to take to work to eat, and instead I say to myself, “What the bleep were you thinking? Why frozen beef!?!?”

I am not a big beef fan. I like carbs covered in cheese and I also wouldn’t complain if there was some bacon in there. But yeah, not really a fan of beef, so I would especially not be a fan of things like Arby’s eerily shiny roast beef or beef that is frozen and resembles dog food. Or poop. I know, some of you are probably wondering what kind of weird poop I must have if it looks like strips of beef but I don’t care!! I still think it looks like crap.

I was met by quite a glorious surprise when I opened the Smart Ones box and pulled out the plastic tray – there was a coupon on top!! “Save $1.00 on any FIVE Weight Watchers Smart Ones Frozen Entrees”. Holy mother I did indeed hit the jackpot today! A whole dollar! I can use the savings to buy antacids.

I was also invited to enter to win a prize by providing my own personal “FRUITastic” recipe (their capitalization, not mine). FRUITastic? Reading that made me die a little on the inside. Does their marketing personnel actually get paid to come up with this junk??!?

The process of heating up this meal is actually identical to pretty much every other Smart Ones meal I have eaten (and I admit I have eaten a lot – remember, no pride). Pull back film cover to vent. Microwave on high 3 minutes. Stir. Microwave on high 1 minute. Enjoy. I like these types of instructions. I don’t have time to screw around with venting only the vegetable compartment, reducing the power level to 50%, messing around with a separate sauce packet, blah blah blah blah, just give me my food.

I sat down to my lunch very hungry, and decided to take this demon head on and go straight for the beef. I was actually quite surprised by the fact that the beef was tender and did not have weird chewy parts like I will often find with chicken in frozen entrees. I will also admit that the beef was covered in a thick, dark sauce (more on that later), so I couldn’t really see what I was eating. This was a plus. There was definitely plenty of beef provided, although the pieces were a lot smaller than what was shown on the box.

The sauce, on the other hand, was not very pleasant. Smart Ones describes it as a “sweet teriyaki sauce”. There was definitely a sweet flavor, but no teriyaki flavor could be found, just an overpowering taste of corn syrup, which I’m sure sent my blood sugar skyrocketing. The strangest part about the sauce was that it was pretty spicy. Now, I do not have a huge spice tolerance, but I do enjoy spicy food. This…I did not enjoy. I think it was a combination of the fact that the spicy feeling in my mouth was an uncomfortable burning sensation paired with the fact that no where is this sauce described as being spicy. I couldn’t even find an ingredient on the label that would cause this sauce to be spicy, but then again, they do have “flavors” listed as an ingredient. Maybe these mystical “flavors” are actually spices, which in turn would cause the sauce to have a bit of a kick. That would make sense, but why would I expect Smart Ones to do something crazy like make sense? That would just be silly, so I’ll keep thinking that they are secretly trying to kill me with their spicy poisons.

The pineapple “chunks” were more like teeny bits of pineapple that you would get out of a can. I had 6 measly pieces in my entree, 54% less than what was shown on the box. A better name for this product would have been, “Beef swimming in corn syrup and ‘flavors.’” Again, I blame the marketing team for dropping the ball.

The rice was fluffy and cooked well, and the veggies mixed in were very bland, with a hint of freezer taste. What is freezer taste, you ask? I don’t know how to describe it, but if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you should be happy. I found that the rice/veggies were much tastier if you mixed them in with the sauce (contrary to the picture on the front of the package). Yes, the chemical spice flavor was better than the freezer flavor.

I checked out the ingredients panel, and noticed that it contained alcohol, so that alone warrants an extra star!

All in all this really wasn’t too bad, and the biggest shocker to me was that the beef was the best part. If you like chemically tasting sauce that kinda burns, I would recommend that you try this meal out.

We interrupt this fantastic day of giveaway announcements to bring you some unfortunate news: Kraft Foods is recalling 8,000 pounds of frozen pepperoni and sausage pizza products due to an undeclared allergen – soy protein concentrate.

The following items are currently under recall:

17.2 oz. packages of “KRAFT, JACK’s Original, Sausage & Pepperoni PIZZA, made with pork, chicken & beef which may bear a “TOMBSTONE ORIGINAL 12″ Pepperoni pizza” label on the back of the product.

Products bearing a “JACKS” back label are not subject to the recall.

The frozen pepperoni and sausage pizza products are packaged on a cardboard disc and wrapped in clear plastic. These packages bear the product “7192100519″, a Julian lot code number “09320″, and the USDA mark of inspection, with a sprayed establishment number on a white paper label on the back of the product.

The products were produced on July 19, 2009, and distributed to retail establishments in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin.

Further information is available on the USDA website.