Lean Cuisine Asian-Style Pot Stickers

Megan loves pot stickers. She said these are pretty good tasting considering they were probably made by the whitest white people on the planet.

The green beans were dried out pretty badly, and some of the pot stickers were dried out on the edges, closest to the sides of the tray. The skins were gummy and soft, and it's doubtful they were ever actually precooked like pot stickers are supposed to be, but rather boiled only. I guess these would be more closely called tray stickers.

From the photo, it looks as though they gently mixed in lightly steamed, still-crisp vegetables into the rice. The pot stickers look crisp. It would be impossible to achieve the same results with the microwave cooking instructions provided.

We understand that microwaving creates hot spots. We just think the food shown on the box should have been prepared the same way the consumer has to prepare it.

GRAVY RATING (1-5 gravy ladle scale, with 1 being bad.)

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Lean Cuisine Sesame Chicken

This is one of Megan's personal favorites from Lean Cuisine taste-wise, but as you see, it is lacking in the truth-in-advertising department.

There are very small, soggy pieces of chicken, compared to the hunks you see in the photo. The green peppers shown in the photo aren't as perky, either. The noodles aren't fluffy, but are mush consistency. Clearly, the photographed food wasn't cooked as a consumer was instructed to cook this tray, rendering the photo...um...a total lie.

Megan still likes it because it tastes like sesame chicken from a Chinese restaurant. It's a small portion of course, but you'd never get away with 330 calories at a real Chinese restaurant for the same amount of lo mein and chicken.

It's not the worst we've ever seen, which is sad, but none the less, not what we paid for according to the box.

GRAVY RATING (1-5 gravy ladle scale, with 1 being bad.)
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Lean Cuisine Lemon Chicken

This was Chris' first time eating this for lunch. We were both pretty surprised at the appearance of this meal, compared to the photo. The chicken slices are much thinner than they appear, and the broccoli are just sad, small, wilted pieces compared to the photo. We would call these just occoli, the little bro of big broccoli.

Chris said it didn't taste too bad, and he would eat it again. It wasn't Asian style lemon chicken, by the way. At just 300 little calories, this was a pretty tasty meal, but Lean Cuisine should be ashamed of that photo.

GRAVY RATING (1-5 gravy ladle scale, with 1 being bad.)
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