Sharwood's Spicy Szechuan Chicken with Rice Meal

I popped into the local supermarket and saw this Sharwood's product, amongst others, on offer for £1. I picked up a mix of about 10 different meals, and had this one for tea today. The packaging is quite appealing, giving the impression of a big meal inside it. It tells you the different levels of spiciness and gives you a brief calorific content and other nutritional elements on the front. The picture shows a mound of chicken in a sauce on a bed of rice. The reality isn't too far removed from this, but it's not quite as visually appealing as the picture on the front would have you believe. The meal comes frozen, and takes 8 minutes to cook in the ...  Read the complete review

I'm not usually a fan of chinese ready meals as they never usually taste anything like the chinese dishes which you might have from a chinese restaurant or a take-away. However, it was lunch time at work, i was very hungry and these ready meals were on offer at my local tesco, priced at £1, so I thought I would give one a try. The packaging is very attractively decorated with the incorporation of traditional eastern colours and designs, and the nutritional information clearly displayed on the front. There is also an illustration to show how the food will when cooked, which is actually quite accurate. The meal was cooked using a microwave, which ...  Read the complete review

Sharwoods Spicy Szechuan Chicken with Rice Meal is part of a new range of frozen ready meals produced by the popular brand Sharwoods who are probably best known for producing noodles, stir fry sauces and chutneys. The new range is called Taste of China and also includes a Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice Meal and a Chicken in Black Bean Sauce with Rice Meal. The meal comes in a plastic tray with cellophane over the top, packaged in a cardboard box. The box describes the meal as 'Tender pieces of chicken breast in a spicy Szechuan sauce, with red peppers, water chestnuts and onion'. The box has a scrummy looking picture of the finished meal on the front, along ...  Read the complete review