Healthy Choice Slow Roasted Turkey Medallions Review

I was excited about trying the new Healthy Choice Slow Roasted Turkey Medallions which are served with red skinned mashed potatoes and a mixture of butternut squash/apples/cranberries. These are all foods that I really love, and I generally like Healthy Choice meals.

Whew boy. This is one skimpy meal. How it checks in at even 220 calories, I just do not know. It must be the gravy, because there are not many bites of turkey, and the mashed potatoes might be a tablespoon.

This frozen meal is heated for 3 minutes with a **** over the vegetables. Then, it says to spoon the gravy over the potatoes. That is quite a trick given they only have a little blob of potatoes in there. When the gravy is spooned over the potatoes, then it's like the potatoes disappear - thinned totally out by the gravy.

The turkey was pretty good, but it would take someone with a really tiny appetite to be full off the 5 or so quarter sized pieces of meat. Also, the meat ran just a tad rubbery - not really bad but not great either.

The vegetables were the best part of the meal and mostly due to the cranberries. They provided a sour contrast to the sweet squash and also to the heavier taste of that savory gravy (which was not very good).

This meal is low fat and no wonder with the servings so skimpy. You're not likely to get fat eating like this. But, you may want to watch the salt. They pack in 21% of what's allowed per day on that. How they managed to put that much salt in this little amount of food, I don't know. The meal doesn't taste salty.

All in all, I must say that this was a disappointment for dinner tonight. I'm sure I'll need to cook or round up something else to eat, because I'm still famished. They might as well forget the mashed potatoes if they are not going to put any more in there than they do. Just bulk up the cranberry mixture. That was pretty good but would be a bit much with the tart flavor for a whole meal.