Marie Callender's Chicken Pot Pie White Meat Chicken Review

Per serving: 520 calories, 29 g fat, 880 mg sodium, 47 g carbohydrates   

The bad news... please notice that is says per serving. That's for the full 16 oz pies...which have shrunk in the past few years to 14 oz pies.  Still most people will eat most if not all of the 1 lb chicken pot pie when they eat a chicken pot pie and that meant you double the counts up above.    The means the one pot pie will deliver about 90 percent of the fat and 95 percent of the sodium your supposed to have on a daily basis.

Yikes.

So  once every few weeks perhaps, but it is not something you should be eating daily or even a few times per week.  It's just got too much fat and sodium in it.

I'm done with the nutritional lecture.

It tastes great.  Oh so very very good.   These are the best tasting pies out there with flaky crusts and huge chunks of white chicken meat and nice size wedges of veggies.  Oh the sauce is so buttery and rich and yes, salty.  Mmmmmmm.

I grew up eating Banquet Pot Pies and let me tell you those things are worse than dog food if you try to eat one of them after a Marie Callender brand.   No one else offers quite the same degree of tastiness for the price.    What price?  I buy M.C. products on sale when they are 4 for $10 or $2.50 per item.

If you don't catch the sale (which seem to happen once a month), you'll pay 2.99 to a little bit over $3.00 for entrees and pot pies.

These one pound-plus pies are housed in new microwave containers with properties that cook the pies up to the same golden perfection as a conventional oven.

The newer additions include Creamy Chicken Parmesan made with Parmesan and Romano cheese sauce, chunks of white meat chicken, diced red peppers, broccoli spears and round slices of carrot all packed into a top- and bottom-layer crust that bakes up golden brown. It's a nice extra rich very cheesy addition to the original.  But it adds even more fat and sodium to the tallies.

The Honey Roasted Chicken pie has a golden sauce of thickened broth with a dribble of real honey, chunks of honey-roasted chicken, potatoes, green beans, golden kernels of corn, onions and carrots. I don't like the extra sweetness this one has as compared to the conventional Chicken pot pie  but some people really like it.   

The Creamy Mushroom Chicken Pot Pie is an extra rich version on the std. Chicken pot pie with a slightly thicker creamy mushroom sauce with portobello mushrooms, carrots, white-meat chicken and broccoli. Very tasty if you want a slightly different flavor.  Quite frankly when I crave a chicken pot pie, I really do prefer the old fashioned plain chicken pot pie.  Still I have to tell you this is one of the best tasting variations I've enjoyed.  You're almost moving toward a beef pot pie (which I don't crave) with this kind of sauce however.  

What I have started to do is pick up the bargain pack of Marie Callender's Chicken Pot Pies  at Costco.  They wind up cosing about 1.50 a piece for the smaller 10 oz size pie which makes for a good lunch. I've only seen the regular chicken pot pie-- but that remains my favorite anyway.

So what's the news on the ingredients?

640 calories, 350 of them from fat.  11 grams or 55 % of your daily dose of saturated fat. 15. mg. Of cholestrol , 1000 mg of sodium or 42% of your daily dose.  56 gs of Carbs which is 19% of your daily... Hey it's got 3 g of dietry fiber 12 percent of your recommended daily dose.  

Inside you'll find celery, carrots, peas, onions, thick creamy white sauce, flaky crust.

Prepares well in the microwave, and you can get a golden brown crust in just under 5 minutes if you do it right.

It's a great convenient pot-pie.  Too bad it's not something you should be eating more than once or twice a week and then if you are doing things in moderation around the pot pie and watching sodium and fat at other meals.

Enjoy.