Hot Pockets Panini Steak & Cheddar Review

There is very little truth in advertising, and this is ever so glaring in food advertising. For example, when was the last time you got a sandwich from Subway that actually looked anything like the ones on the television and print advertisements?  Me; never!  And so it is too with pictures on the box of any frozen food product.  The picture promises so much, but the actual food product more-often-than-not fails to deliver. 

Such is the case with the new (Nestle) Hot Pockets Panini Steak & Cheddar product, which is supposed to be a tasty amalgam of "Seasoned cooked beef steak, cheese & roasted onions with sauce in an onion Focaccia bread."  Funny how the product failed to taste anything like the forgoing; in fact there was hardly any taste at all.

Like most, if not all Hot Pocket products the new Panini Steak & Cheddar sandwich can be found in the frozen food aisle.  The product boasts that it is an "Excellent Source of Calcium and serves up a scant 0 grams of Trans Fat per serving.

The instructions indicate that one should microwave the Panini Steak & Cheddar on high for 3:15.  When it comes out, the bread is soggy, and innards hot, slimy, and ill-tasting.  But then I really didn't expect a taste explosion from a frozen food, and truth be told the only reason I brought the product was because I had a coupon that made it practically free.  

Needless to say, I do not recommend the Hot Pockets Panini Steak & Cheddar.  And I am glad I limited myself to just one variety!             

Nutritional Information

Ingredients: Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Seasoned Cooked Beef Steal Strips, Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Cultured Part-Skim Milk, Salt, Enzymes),  Contains Less Than 2% of: Roasted Onions, Modified Food Starch,  Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil (with Soy Lecithin, Citric Acid as Preservative), Sugar, Seasoning, Baking Powder, Salt, Dough Conditioner, Methylcellulose, Yeast, Monocalcium Phosphate, Dried Basil, Dried Whey, Soy Flour, Toasted Chopped Onions, Dried Egg Whites.

Servicing information: One serving (1/2 Slice) of Hot Pockets Panini Steak & Cheddar contains 230 Calories, 8.0 grams of fat (including 4.5 gram of saturated fat), <300mg of Cholesterol, <2400mg of Sodium, 27 grams of carbohydrates, 1 grams of dietary fiber, 3 grams of sugar, and 11 grams of protein.