tasty, though quite small (Weight Watchers Chicken Curry)

Member Name: dogleggedhat

Product:	Weight Watchers Chicken Curry
Date:	04/03/09 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to cook, tasty, low points

Disadvantages: chicken can go hard, quite small

Having followed Weight Watchers for a few years, I'd never actually tried any of the meals, because I'm really not a fan of ready meals at all, they tend to be bland and very unappetising. However, now that I'm on 19 points per day, I was starting to struggle with getting decent low point meals, and with my local Iceland selling a variety of these meals for £1 I thought I may as well give it a go.

I personally thoroughly enjoyed the chicken curry meal. The box states that it is tender slices of chicken breast in a mild curry sauce, with white rice, and this is pretty much what you get. However, I wouldn't recomend buying this meal on the basis of the picture on the box-it definitely isn't as chicken filled as that meal! I'd say you get around 6 pieces of chicken in the meal, but for me thats enough, as the rice and sauce fills me up anyway. The rice tastes good, and the sauce is very mild, with a nice sweet taste to it, so I definitely don't have any complaints about the taste as I think its delicious.

However, the meal is very small (you should probably expect this since it only has 4.5 points in it). The meal fills me fine, but my boyfriend laughs when he sees it, as it looks pretty pathetic in my little bowl. For people with a bigger appetite, it would maybe be better to have this on the side of something else to make it a bit more substantial. Like I said though, it's enough for me and I find it pretty filling.

A problem I find with this meal though, is that if bits of the chicken are exposed before cooking, then when its finished, these bits of chicken can taste really dry and hard, which really put me off the rest of it, though could be avoided by perhaps pushing the meat down during cooking, or leaving them out before serving(although that would lead to there being even less chicken than before!)

the meal can be cooked in the microwave (5 and a half to six and a half minutes on full power [depending on your microwave] and then 4 minutes on defrost) or it can cooked for 40-45 minutes in the oven. I cook mine in the microwave and I know a lot of people prefer cooking things in the oven, but I feel that microwaving it is much more convenient and doesn't take away from the taste at all.

So, if you're currently following Weight Watchers, or even if you just want something quick, tasty and pretty satisfying, I'd recomend giving this one a go. There are definitely worse ready meals out there

Summary: handy meal for points counters, though you may want to bulk up with veg