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		<title>Healthy Choice Turkey Medallions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: Well, the squash and cranberries look right. Maybe they forget to put the turkey in this one&#8230; 1.5 out of 5 Taste: The highlight of this meal was the cranberries that were mixed in with the squash. The turkey was so hard to find in the potatoes that I&#8217;m not sure it was there, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><b>Looks:</b> Well, the squash and cranberries look right. Maybe they forget to put the turkey in this one&#8230; <i>1.5 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> The highlight of this meal was the cranberries that were mixed in with the squash. The turkey was so hard to find in the potatoes that I&#8217;m not sure it was there, and the potatoes (or possibly turkey covered in potatoes) were alternately mushy and lumpy, without hardly any flavor at all. <i>1.5 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>Healthy Choice Bacon &#038; Smokey Cheddar Chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: You&#8217;d be forgiven for wondering why I took a picture of this meal after I chewed it and spit it back out, but hold onto your butts: that&#8217;s what it actually looks like immediately after cooking. The vegetables still look frozen, and the chicken and rice mixture is pale, mushy, and completely unappetizing. 1 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/4271839747_10020f68a0.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/4271839747_10020f68a0.jpg" class="attachment-500x333" alt="Healthy Choice Bacon &amp; Smokey Cheddar Chicken" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> You&#8217;d be forgiven for wondering why I took a picture of this meal after I chewed it and spit it back out, but hold onto your butts: that&#8217;s what it actually looks like immediately after cooking. The vegetables still look frozen, and the chicken and rice mixture is pale, mushy, and completely unappetizing. <i>1 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> Worse than it looks. The vegetables were flavorless, and while the chicken and rice had a flavor, it wasn&#8217;t one I&#8217;d like to taste again anytime soon &#8211; bitter, oily, gritty, disgusting: much like my last foray into <a href="//foodirl.com/post/marie-callenders-cheesy-chicken-and-rice/">microwave chicken and rice</a>. <i>0 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>Banquet Beef Pot Pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: I struggled mightily to free this pot pie from its cardboard baking pan so as to have it resemble the boxpie as much as possible, but I was not successful. Then, I tried to cut out a wedge from the top of the crust like on the package, but the roof caved in, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4129375939_eab349d002.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="489" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4129375939_eab349d002.jpg" class="attachment-500x489" alt="Banquet Beef Pot Pie - Ad" /></a></p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4130143630_2e1869a8a3.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="346" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4130143630_2e1869a8a3.jpg" class="attachment-500x346" alt="Banquet Beef Pot Pie" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> I struggled mightily to free this pot pie from its cardboard baking pan so as to have it resemble the boxpie as much as possible, but I was not successful.  Then, I tried to cut out a wedge from the top of the crust like on the package, but the roof caved in, and I was not successful.  Finally, I tried to show the contents spilling out as on the box, but I couldn&#8217;t find any pieces big enough, and thus, I was not successful.  The majority of the filling was gravy, as contrasted with the meaty chunks shown on the packaging. The color of the crust is about the only thing they got right. <i>1 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> This pot pie was really more of a gravy sandwich, and that&#8217;s what it tasted like &#8211; crust, gravy, crust, with a few bits of meat and vegetable that got in the way. I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised &#8211; according to the box, the main ingredient in the filling is gravy, while containing &#8220;2% or less&#8221; beef, carrots, and potatoes.  Can you really call it a &#8220;Beef Pot Pie&#8221; when &#8220;beef&#8221; is an also-ran in the ingredients list? <i>1.5 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>Healthy Choice Sweet Asian Potstickers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reader Dena Struchtemeyer sent in this review of Healthy Choice&#8217;s Sweet Asian Potstickers: &#8220;I recently tried Healthy Choice&#8217;s &#8216;Sweet Asian Potstickers&#8217; meal. That was a mistake. Notice how the &#8216;sauce&#8217; looks like sewage? Not a coincidence. By the time the meal was cooked, the rice, carrots and potstickers had become thoroughly soaked in the sauce. [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reader Dena Struchtemeyer sent in this review of Healthy Choice&#8217;s Sweet Asian Potstickers:</p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4451773002_3a836dd866.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="375" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4451773002_3a836dd866.jpg" class="attachment-500x375" alt="Healthy Choice Sweet Asian Potstickers - Ad" /></a></p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4062740072_f922464cfa.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="375" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4062740072_f922464cfa.jpg" class="attachment-500x375" alt="Healthy Choice Sweet Asian Potstickers" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I recently tried Healthy Choice&#8217;s &#8216;Sweet Asian Potstickers&#8217; meal.  That was a mistake.  Notice how the &#8216;sauce&#8217; looks like sewage?  Not a coincidence.  By the time the meal was cooked, the rice, carrots and potstickers had become thoroughly soaked in the sauce.  As a result, the entire thing tasted like a sickly-sweet soy sauce.  Except that is, for the stuffing inside the potstickers.  The concoction was so dry that it seemed almost shocking compared to the other soaked parts of the meal.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The potstickers aren&#8217;t even the same shape or color as on the box and the potsticker casing is so chewy that I almost flung half the meal across the room trying to eat it.  That nice creamy on sauce on the box?  It&#8217;s nonexistent.  The nicely chopped green onions?  They&#8217;re nonexistent too.  The large chopped pieces of bell pepper?  You guessed it, nonexistent.  The whole thing was awful.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Healthy Choice Grilled Chicken Marinara Cafe Steamer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: Are those even the same meals? The chicken pieces are deformed, the broccoli looks weak, the cheese is missing, and the sauce (which got mixed into the meal, by direction) was not the right color. 1 out of 5 Taste: It tastes about how it looks. Weak, without any standout flavors. The chicken tasted [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4045108872_95373d1cf9.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4045108872_95373d1cf9.jpg" class="attachment-500x333" alt="Healthy Choice Grilled Chicken Marinara Cafe Steamer" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> Are those even the same meals?  The chicken pieces are deformed, the broccoli looks weak, the cheese is missing, and the sauce (which got mixed into the meal, by direction) was not the right color. <i>1 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> It tastes about how it looks. Weak, without any standout flavors.  The chicken tasted strange, like it was really ground chicken formed back into nuggets &#8211; not at all like &#8220;Grilled Chicken Marinara.&#8221; Very disappointing for what I&#8217;ve always seen as an upper-level brand.  <i>2 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>T.G.I. Friday&#8217;s Turkey &#038; Bacon Melt Quesadillas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: I would love to see how they were able to take the picture for the packaging. It&#8217;s not possible that they even used the same quesadillas that they put in the box, because they don&#8217;t come out looking anything like the ad. There isn&#8217;t as much filling, the tortillas are much flimsier, and I&#8217;m [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4045110692_3220518431.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4045110692_3220518431.jpg" class="attachment-500x333" alt="TGI Friday&#039;s Turkey &amp; Bacon Melt Quesadillas" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> I would love to see how they were able to take the picture for the packaging.  It&#8217;s not possible that they even used the same quesadillas that they put in the box, because they don&#8217;t come out looking anything like the ad.   There isn&#8217;t as much filling, the tortillas are much flimsier, and I&#8217;m not certain that all of the ingredients shown coming out of the quesadilla are even in there. <i>1.5 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> Even though they don&#8217;t look like the quesadillas on the box, I think you&#8217;ll agree with me that they still look tasty, in an &#8220;it&#8217;s-really-late-and-i&#8217;m-starving-oh-don&#8217;t-these-look-good&#8221; kind of way.  They were pretty good: cheesy filling, meaty pieces of chicken, and soft tortillas. I couldn&#8217;t taste any bacon, and the cheese was slightly greasy (which might have been from the MIA bacon), but not too bad overall. <i>3.5 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>Hormel Compleats Roast Beef with Gravy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: Nothing about the way this looks makes me want to eat it. The gravy is translucent (not thick like on the cover), yet there&#8217;s so much of it that you can&#8217;t see through it to the potatoes below. The potatoes appear to be a single solid mass, rather than fluffy mounds, and the roast [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4041340230_509075ec4e.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/4041340230_509075ec4e.jpg" class="attachment-500x333" alt="Hormel Compleats Roast Beef &amp; Gravy" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> Nothing about the way this looks makes me want to eat it. The gravy is translucent (not thick like on the cover), yet there&#8217;s so much of it that you can&#8217;t see through it to the potatoes below.  The potatoes appear to be a single solid mass, rather than fluffy mounds, and the roast beef slab lurks near the surface like the carcass of a dead Loch Ness monster.  None of these things are depicted on the box. <i>1.5 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> Craptacular. Even with all that gravy, the beef is so dry that I needed to continually drink bottles of water while I chewed it to avoid dehydration.  The potatoes are nasty (closer to modeling clay than vegetable), and the gravy wouldn&#8217;t stick to them.  I managed three bites of this &#8220;Compleat&#8221; meal before throwing it away &#8211; I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable feeding it to my dog.  I suppose I should have known it would be terrible; it&#8217;s roast beef that you store in your pantry&#8230;  That&#8217;s just not right. <i>0 out of 5</i></p>
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		<title>Newtons Fruit Crisps (Apple)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s reader submission from Eric B was submitted with just two words of commentary: &#8220;so gross&#8221; They say brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s reader submission from Eric B was submitted with just two words of commentary:</p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3980499358_a5b7cc1a31_o.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="453" height="604" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3980499358_a5b7cc1a31_o.jpg" class="attachment-453x604" alt="Fig Newtons Fruit Crisps (Apple)" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;so gross&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>They say brevity is the soul of wit.</p>
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		<title>Marie Callender&#8217;s Cheesy Chicken &#038; Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks: Like someone had already chewed it and spit it back into the bowl. Where are the nice big strips of chicken? Where are the fresh broccoli florets? Where is the creamy cheese sauce? Nowhere to be found. The biggest piece of chicken was perhaps a third the size of the pieces pictured on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3945422438_ddc3dc74ca.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3945422438_ddc3dc74ca.jpg" class="attachment-500x333" alt="Marie Callender&#039;s Cheesy Chicken &amp; Rice" /></a></p>
<p><b>Looks:</b> Like someone had already chewed it and spit it back into the bowl. Where are the nice big strips of chicken? Where are the fresh broccoli florets?  Where is the creamy cheese sauce?  Nowhere to be found. The biggest piece of chicken was perhaps a third the size of the pieces pictured on the box, and even before cooking, the cheese sauce was mixed into the rice.  I almost didn&#8217;t eat it because of how it looked.  <i>1 out of 5</i></p>
<p><b>Taste:</b> Even worse than it looks.  I was able to stomach four bites before I threw the rest out; because of the way that the cheese sauce gums up the rice and traps the chicken and vegetables in a web of disgusting cheeserice, the entire dish tastes and feels the same &#8211; like crap. <i>0 out of 5</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Because I am not a machine, here is another reader submission, this time from Razor512: &#8220;For $1.69 I picked up a box of Jeno’s pizza (total waste of money). This pizza if probably one of the blandest pizzas I have ever tasted. The crust is very thin, it looks thick due to it mostly being [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because I am not a machine, here is another reader submission, this time from Razor512:</p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3942574981_c19351cd03.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="455" height="455" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3942574981_c19351cd03.jpg" class="attachment-455x455" alt="Jeno&#039;s Pizza - Ad" /></a></p>
<p><a href='//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3943352036_e86937cea1.jpg'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="375" src="//foodirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3943352036_e86937cea1.jpg" class="attachment-500x375" alt="Jeno&#039;s Pizza" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;For $1.69 I picked up a box of Jeno’s pizza (total waste of money). This pizza if probably one of the blandest pizzas I have ever tasted. The crust is very thin, it looks thick due to it mostly being hollow on the inside. There is very little cheese and the sauce has very little taste and there is very little sauce (it the sauce it pretty much a part of the crust it is like the factory spilled sauce on the pizza and then tried to clean it all off leaving behind only the stain of sauce that used to be there). Overall for taste, I give it a 1 out of 5 and for look, I give it a 1 out of 5 also.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks, Razor512.  (I especially enjoyed the phrase &#8220;stain of sauce.&#8221;)</p>
<p>If you’d like to submit your own Food IRL, head on over to the <a href="//foodirl.com/submit">Reader Submission Form</a>. Include a photo, and optionally (but ideally), a description of how the food tasted.</p>
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