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Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast

The specimen today is Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Meal). 

These Healthy Choice meals tend to be pretty good.  This one isn’t any different.  Cook-ability and the burning of the desert remains an issue with these meals.  Other than that, they are good to go.

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Healthy Choice – Beef Pot Roast

Category Rating
(1-10) with 10 being the best.		 Notes
Portion Size 8 Overall a decent portion size.  But could be a little better.
Portability 9 Fits fairly well in a small soft sided thermal lunch box.  You still have room for snacks and what-not.  Nice and compact.
Cookability 8 The time indicated on the box is spot on.  2 Minutes to soup.
Preparation 8 Peel cover over this, slice over that…  Pfft, again the desert was cooked to a burnt rubbery crisp.
Food Quality
*Taste*		 8 I realize taste is subjective, but these meals are generally pretty good.
Over ALL Score 41 out of a possible 50 isn’t too bad.
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Progresso Minestrone soup.

Microwavable, in the container soup.  The specimen today is Progresso Minestrone.  Which is a Betty Crocker product.

Serving size is 15.x ounces, of which 14.x ounces is broth/water, so it’s not all that filling.    This isn’t a Chunky soup, so maybe my view is a little skewed.  If this is all you have you’ll still be hungry.

Would I eat this again?  If I had too, it’s not my favorite.  But I’d certainly eat it before I’d skip it.  I would willingly try other flavors in the future though.   This small thing of soup contains 930mg of Sodium, which seems like a lot to me.

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Progresso Minestrone Soup

Category Rating
(1-10) with 10 being the best.		 Notes
Portion Size 6 Overall a decent portion size.  But could be a little better.
Portability 9 Fits fairly well in a small soft sided thermal lunch box.  You still have room for snacks and what-not.  Nice and compact.
Cookability 9 The time indicated on the box is spot on.  2 Minutes to soup.
Preparation 9 Drop dead simple, pull the lid off, open the can, replace lid.  Zap.  Lid keeps the stuff from blowing up in the Microwave.
Food Quality
*Taste*		 6 I realize taste is subjective, and if you didn’t like Minestrone you wouldn’t buy this.  For me the taste was simply OK.
Over ALL Score 42 out of a possible 50 isn’t just barely tolerable.
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Selling Stuff On the Internet.

We’re going to try something new.   No we’re not getting in the e-commerce business per see, but we have some stuff to get rid of.  I’ve spent the last two weekends cleaning out our big barn and I’m only about 20% done.   There’s stuff in there that we’ve had for a long time and is no longer used or needed.

Some of this will go on eBay, some on CraigsList, but for now, we’re going to try and cut out the middleman and see how it goes.

It also looks like I’ll be helping Kyle Jr. part out his dads bike.  Which got me thinking, there has to be a simple and easy way to throw together a simple e-commerce site.  One to publish items for sale, and manage inventory.   When we part out this bike (and other stuff), there’s pretty much only going to be one of everything.  Once it’s sold I want it to just disappear without a lot of head aches or management.

I’m going to give this WordPress plug-in a go (wp-eccommerce).   

The first item is posted on the products page now, it’s a big spool of electrical cable that we purchased for the barn but didn’t use.  (Long story but the bottom line is it’s left over, and I’m tired of looking at it).

I suspect Claudine will want to post some of our used Home Schooling Curriculum that she no longer uses.

There’s simply no sense in paying eBay fees for stuff like that.    So without further adieu…   Our online store is here:  The Product Listing Page.

Make sure to get in touch with the best satellite internet providers when the time will come.

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Healthy Choice: This aint your mothers meat loaf.

These all-in-one meals are tough.   Remove the covering from the ‘desert’, slitting the covering over the meal and/or veggies as required.

They never cook right.  With Healthy Choice meals the desert is always cooked to death to get the main portion cooked right.  Cooking inconsistencies aside, this isn’t too bad.  Would I eat it again?  Sure.

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Healthy Choice – Meatloaf

Category Rating
(1-10) with 10 being the best.		 Notes
Portion Size 7 Overall a decent portion size.  But could be a little better.
Portability 7 Fits fairly well in a small soft sided thermal lunch box.  You still have room for snacks and what-not.
Cookability 7 The time indicated on the box is spot on for the main course and veggies.  Ruins the desert though.
Preparation 7 Remove covering from desert, slit over meal and veggies.   Removing the covering from the desert whilst not breaking the seal on the other compartments is easier said than done.
Food Quality
*Taste*		 7 I realize taste is subjective, the meatloaf is better than some cafeteria meatloaf I’ve had in the past.  There is certainly cause for speculation that this might not actually be meat.  It’s still edible though and that’s a plus.  Veggies are usually good with these meals.  Desert, is burnt apple mush.
Over ALL Score 35 out of a possible 50 isn’t just barely tolerable.