McCain Healthy Choice

Taste

I don’t know what drove me to buy this stuff from McCains, maybe it’s the amount of time since I last had a ready-made meal from a cardboard box, because I’d forgotten how terrible they taste.Tender Beef in Seeded Light Mustard was pretty terrible. The potatoes were floury and the carrots and peas were tasteless and soggy. The beef didn’t taste like beef at all. The only thing going for it was the excellent mustard sauce, it had real bite, and you could use it to disguise the taste of the best of the vegetables I suppose?

The Honey Mustard Chicken was better, but not by much. The chicken was soggy, the rice was gross, at least the mustard sauce was passable…

Rating - 3

Look

The vegetables certainly looked very colourful and inviting, the beef was covered by a mess of sauce so you can’t really see anything. The chicken got pretty much the same treatment too.

Rating - 0.5

C-factor

310g beef for $6.19. It's not worth the convenience, buy some ingredients and cook!

Rating - 0

Swiss Points - 3.5

Ingredients

Tender Beef in Seeded Light Mustard

potato, carrot, mustard sauce (20%) [water, mushroom, mustard, flavour, thickeners], beef (15%) [beef, water, potato starch, soy protein, dried glucose syrup, acidity regulators, salt, hydrolysed vegetable protein, sugar, yeast extracts, soy sauce powder, vegetable fat, maize starch, beef fat, flavours, colour, flavour enhancer, onion powder, spices, herb], peas, corn vegetable sauce [water, milk solids, whey powder, thickener, flavour, herbs, spice, acidity regulator]

honey mustard chicken

sauce (water, cream (milk solids, gelatine, thickener), onion, white wine (milk solids, egg) mustard (1.7%) (mustard seed, acidity regulator), thickener, parmesan cheese (milk solids, emulsifier, acidity regulator, flavour (milk solids)), flavour (salt ,sugar, maltodextrin, hydrolysed vegetable protein, herb & spices), vegetable oil honey (0.4%), garlic, emulsifier, cooked rice (water, rice) chicken (15%) (chicken salt, acidity regulator, gelling agent, potato starch, soy protein, sugar, hydrolysed vegetable protein, dried glucose syrup, whey powder, wheat flour, flavours, water, dextrose, vegetable powder, yeast extract, vegetable oil) carrot beans

Available At

Supermarkets everywhere