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Tesco Light Choices Sweet Chilli Chicken & Noodles |
| Date: |
18/01/08 (65 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Nothing Nutrional At All
Trying to get back on the straight and narrow again with my eating habits after over indulging throughout the festive season, I thought I would take Tesco up on their offer of 5 for £4 on their new Healthy Choices Ready Meals Range. I don't normally buy ready-made meals as I never find them very satisfying and usually feel they are a bit overpriced, but at the normal price of 99p each or 5 for £4 I thought I would give them a try.
The first one I tried was the Tesco Healthy Choices Sweet Chilli Chicken. Sounds good, so let's see what I found.
==Packaging==
Packaged in the usual black plastic carton with film lid and cardboard sleeve outer. The cardboard sleeve has all the information required printed on the outside with quite a tasty looking photo of the product on the top.
==Ingredients==
Water, Cooked Noodles 32%, Tomato Puree, Cooked Chicken Breast 10%, Red Pepper, Sugar, Cornflour, Red Wine Vinegar, Vegetable Oil, Honey, Chicken Stock, Garlic Puree, Salt, Ginger Puree, Chilli Flakes and White Pepper.
==Nutritional Values==
Calories - 455 (23% of guideline daily amount)
Sugar - 19.0g (21% of guideline daily amount)
Fat - 6.2g (9% of guideline daily amount)
Saturates - 0.9g (5% of guideline daily amount)
Salt - 2g (33% of guideline daily amount)
==My Experience==
This product can either be cooked in the oven, which takes approximately 40 - 45 minutes or in the microwave, which takes between 10 ½ - 12 ½ minutes depending on the wattage of your microwave. I chose the microwave method as I was starving! When I took the meal from the cardboard sleeve to pierce the film lid I wasn't very impressed with what I saw in the carton, but hey, it was still frozen so surely it would look better once cooked. Into the microwave it went, half way through I stopped the microwave to give the meal a little stir but I still wasn't very impressed. After the full time, out came my meal and straight on to my plate. There was lots and lots of sauce and a fair bit of noodles, but where's the chicken? And where's the veg? I counted 6 tiny pieces of chicken and there were tiny little red square things, which I take it were the red peppers! The sauce was quite nice, slightly spicy, but the noodles were soggy and there was so little chicken and veg I didn't really taste them at all. On finishing my "healthy" meal, I felt bloated and hungry. I would definitely not recommend this to anyone. I don't understand how Tesco can call this a Healthy Choice, the calories were high for what you got, the sugar content was high and so was the salt content and I even feel the fat content was fairly high. I didn't feel there was anything nutritious in this meal at all.
==My Overall Opinion==
I will be sticking to my old ways of cooking a meal from scratch, filled with plenty veg and other nutritional ingredients. I will definitely not be buying these again, although I do still have 4 more in my freezer to eat!! ARGHH!!
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© lel1969 January 2008
Summary: Unsatisfying and certainly not a healthy choice!
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