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Price: $3.49
Serving: 4 pastries, 2.83oz
Calories:260 per serving
 Calories from Fat: 150
Fat: 26%, 17g
 Saturated Fat: 41%, 8g
 Trans Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 9%, 25mg
Sodium: 19%, 460mg
Protein: 6g
Carbohydrates: 7%, 20g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 Points

Pillsbury says: Bite-sized pastries stuffed with cream cheese, mozzarella cheese and spinach. Pillsbury Savorings brings together the quality and comfort of warm, flaky Pillsbury dough and delicious fillings, that are sure to satisfy adult tastes.

Abi says: My puff pastry obsession of late started with an episode of Barefoot Contessa where Ina Garten made some simple, easy tarts. From there I made little pockets of puff pastry filled with chevre, chocolate, and jam. Not all at once, separate pockets. But I don’t always think about my puff pastry needs desires in advance of actually wanting to eat puff pastry. For this reason, I am glad for these Pillsbury snacks.

First, these have a perfectly reasonable serving size. I ate half a box (6) as the major part of a meal (Pastry bites and carrots = awesome dinner). They would also pair nicely with salad. Or you could eat these with pizza. The possibilities are endless.

Second, the instructions are great (emphasis and capital letters theirs, not mine):

1. Preheat oven and put pastry bites on a tray
2. Bake for slightly less than 20 minutes
3. COOL 5 minutes before serving. CAUTION! Filling will be very hot. Be cautious on first bite.

As the wife of a person who is often injured by the boiling-hot innards of puff pastry pockets, I understand the importance of such specific instructions. I also read the instructions out loud to my husband in a dramatic voice to really get the point across.

Third, these taste exactly the way you’d expect them to taste. Sure you have to be in the mood for store-bought dough and the friendly blandness of cream cheese mozzarella and spinach. But there’s something nice about popping a bunch of hard, green-filled rocks into the oven and being rewarded with a tray full of golden spinach puffs. Mmmm, spinach puffs.

Also, they’re cute and I lack the willpower to resist food I can eat sans utensils.

Price: $2.00
Serving: 1 meal, 9.8 oz.
Calories: 240
Fat: 9%, 6g
Cholesterol: 5%, 15mg
Sodium: 25%, 600mg
Protein: 19g
Carbs: 9%, 26g
Fiber: 20%, 5g
WW Points: 5 Points

Healthy Choice says: Wild Salmon Fillet Slices Over Penne Pasta & Broccoli Florets with Creamy Dill Sauce

Adina says: So it has been about 15 minutes since I’ve eaten this meal, and I am still alive. Amazing, since I just ate three full salmon fillets cooked in the microwave. There is something so unholy and seemingly unsafe about cooking raw fish to fruition in the microwave that I half expected to drop dead right there after the first bite. But I didn’t and haven’t and so I guess that means it is time for me to review this meal versus just sitting here, contemplating my sorry sack of a life.

I am having a hard time deciding which way to go with this review. On one hand, I didn’t die! (Plus!) On the other hand, I just ate microwaved salmon. (Minus.) I’m sort of full! (Plus!) But with microwaved salmon. (Again, minus.)

It wasn’t bad. It was the way cooked salmon usually tastes, maybe even a bit more tender than most salmon. And the overall meal wasn’t bad tasting. The sauce would have definitely been the poster child of Healthy Choice sauces if it weren’t for the dill. The dill actually pushed the taste a little beyond “well accented” into “I can’t feel my tongue and I am now having nightmares about a dill plant eating my face.” At first, I wasn’t that fond of the face eating dill plant feeling, but then I was like…well, it is dill. That is the way dill can be. And every now and then, it can be exciting and kind of delicious, even if it is in a Little Shop of Horrors kind of way.

My final word on this meal - if you don’t have a problem with eating microwaved fish, then this is the meal for you. It is fairly tasty and filling and yes, it makes your life flash before your eyes, but it flashes slowly, so it is not that bad. If you do have a problem with eating microwaved fish, like I apparently do, then don’t eat this meal. You will spend the next three hours thinking about all the things in your life that you are grateful for.

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