Healthy Choice's Rosemary Chicken and Sweet Potatoes is one of their new steaming entrées. In addition to chicken and sweet potatoes, there's also yellow julienned carrots and pearl onions for a fancier take on frozen food that's really light on calories (180).
A 9-ounce package will run you a retail of about
$2.99 or about $2 on sale.
The steaming function also makes it really convenient to cook one of these meals. There are no holes to poke nor slits to cut. The plastic wrap has a sealed slit that's made to open as the heat and steam inside the meal reaches a certain level. It also means you should be really careful opening the plastic even after letting it cool for a couple of minutes.
I didn't look at the package too carefully when I bought it from the supermarket and actually thought it was rosemary chicken with red potatoes and cheese by the picture; partially because I'd never heard of a frozen meal with sweet potatoes and yellow carrots. In fact, before this meal, I'd never even eaten a yellow carrot before.
Yellow carrots taste the same as normal carrots as far as I can tell though. The vegetables were very tender but retained their flavor. I didn't know how sweet potatoes would go with rosemary chicken but it's actually pretty good if a little different. Most of the flavor of the meal came from the potatoes and the chicken which tasted fine as well. I especially liked that the use of salt wasn't as liberal as normal.
The sauce was a slightly tangy, garlic rosemary sauce with just a subtle amount of salt.
Overall, I enjoyed this meal quite a bit. It offered a different take on the more conventional flavors of frozen food and is healthier to boot. The only negative was that despite containing 9 ounces of food, I was hungry again maybe 2 hours later.
Nutritional Info - Healthy Choice Rosemary Chicken and Sweet Potatoes - 9 oz (255g)
Calories - 180 (from Fat - 25)
Fat - 2.5g (Saturated Fat - 1g)
Sodium - 500mg
Carbs - 26g (Sugar - 10g)
Protein - 12g
