Sainsbury's Are Good To Me (Sainsburys)

Member Name: ray1952

Product:	Sainsburys
Date:	15/09/05 (542 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Plenty of Chicken . Tasty Roast Potatoes . Great Sauce .

Disadvantages: None for me.

As I am trying to keep on a healthy eating option, I recently bought Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes.

I found this meal for one person in the chilled section of my local Sainsbury’s store. It weighs 450 grams and costs £2.99 GBP (normal price), but at the time of writing this review, Sainsbury’s are selling two of this type of meal with £1.00 GBP off two.

**Packaging**

As with some of the other meals I have written about, Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes comes in a plastic tray covered with a clear plastic film. All this comes in an outer cardboard sleeve. I find the way the meal is presented is ideal, as I looked inside the inner tray by sliding it from the outer sleeve, enabling me to look at the food before buying.

On the front of this outer sleeve there is a picture of the chicken breast and roast potatoes covered in the tomato and basil sauce. Also on the front there are some of the nutritional values and display until/use-by dates.

As you may aware by now, I suffer from slightly high cholesterol, so I found the fat content of Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes to be fairly low. Only 6.8 grams of fat are in this meal, of which only 0.8 grams are saturated. The whole meal itself has less than 3% fat.

On the reverse of the outer packaging there are the full nutritional values, along with ingredients, storage, and cooking details. The meal is suitable for home freezing, but you must remember to defrost thoroughly before cooking.

**Ingredients**

I will not list all the ingredients here, but only the main ones. These are: baby roast potatoes (36%), chicken breast fillet (22%), and tomatoes (20%).

**Cooking**

There are two ways of cooking Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes. Firstly, you can cook this meal from chilled in 25 minutes in the oven at gas mark 5 or 190C/375F. Secondly, you can cook it from chilled in the microwave oven for about 6 minutes, depending on the power output of the microwave.

I find these two ways of cooking Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes very handy indeed. If I don’t have a lot of time, then I cook the meal in the microwave, otherwise I cook it in the oven. To cook in the oven all I have to do is remember to remove the potatoes from the tray and place directly onto a baking tray.

**The Meal Itself**

Now for the important part of the review. As with other Sainsbury’s products I have bought, I find Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes extremely tasty and filling. The chicken breast is tender and succulent. I have had chicken breasts from Sainsbury’s before and have not yet had a tough or grisly piece. Therefore, quality control must be of a high standard at Sainsbury’s food-processing plants.

In my opinion, the roast potatoes taste heavenly. Some potatoes that you get in this type of meal can be mushy or powdery to the taste, but not these. I find the texture of the potatoes to be great and the skin is not too crisp or too soft.

The tomato and basil sauce that accompanies Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes is very tasty, in my opinion, and I find there is plenty enough to smother both the chicken and the potatoes. Sometimes I have garden peas or carrots with this meal, or a mixture of both. On occasions, depending on how hungry I am, I just have the meal as it comes.

All in all, I can definitely recommend buying Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself – Tomato and Basil Chicken with Roasted Baby Potatoes for the taste alone, as well as the quantity and quality.

Summary: This meal is for me very tasty and quick and easy to cook. It is low in fat, for healthy people.