Michael Angelo's Lasagna With Meat Sauce

I ate this extremely resentfully, because it was labelled as 3$ at my store and that's the only reason I bought it, but it rang up as 7$ and even though I said "this should be three dollars" they said "nope, too bad". Darn you, local Acme with only self-checkout that I am too honest to ever rip off and it only ever rips me off. But if I ignore my rage, this is a solid lasagna (for 3$, not for 7$). It's decently filling, there's a lot of tomato sauce, but it's good sauce, spicy and not too watery. Just a little meat and just a little cheese on top, and a decent amount of watery ricott and noodle. It doesn't look like the picture, but it tastes like a quality frozen lasagna. Maybe a bit better than Stauffer's.

Overall
Cost: 3/10
Taste: 7/10

Stouffer's Meat Lovers Lasagna

There sure are a lot of variations of Stouffer's lasagnas! I'm not complaining though, they're all decent. This one seems like it'd be bottom of the barrel for me since frozen meat is never great, but there's no soy filler in this, and even though I do wish there were more cheese, it's still pretty good. Tastes basically the same as all the other varieties.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Stouffer's Cheese Lovers Lasagna

I am 99% sure this is just a renaming of their 5-cheese lasagna, but just in case it isn't, here is a review. This is fine. It is good for 350 calories, but a little bit wet and heartburny. The ricotta is apparently from Ohio, which made me laugh. No soy and no fish, just 2 big noodles, a lot of wet ricotta, and a teeny bit of mozz that sticks to the plastic top wrap. Sadly, the veggie lasagna is no longer at my store (hopefully they still make it?!) so this is what we're working with.

Overall
Cost: 5/10 [3.50]
Taste: 6/10

Stouffer's Lasagna with Meat & Sauce

Surprised I haven't reviewed this yet -- I must have had it before since it's noodle and allergy-friendly for me. I think I avoid this one because I think it will give me heartburn or something, but I found it to be a nice little package of noodle and the cheese and sauce is really nice. It's kind of mild, flavor-wise, but I like that. Quick and easy, tastes good, makes you wish you had more of it but that's probably for the best. Honestly didn't even notice meat, it's mostly sauce and cheese goo. And noodle.


Overall
Cost: 6/10 [2$]
Taste: 7/10

Marie Callender's Italiano Lasagna

Huh. OK, so, unlike many frozen sausage bits, this meal contains 0 soy. Which means it didn't make me itchy at all! But the sausage ball bits still tasted fake to me, so I feel really confused. It was safe yet still not great. But not bad! I bought this on sale and I'd do it again; the noodles are fine and the mozz on top is good. The sauce I don't recall, and the ricotta was actively not good, but overall it was "eh".  Better than the PF Changs meal I just saw that had oyster sauce in it but only labelled "milk, soy" as allergens....




Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Lean Cuisine Tuscan-Style Vegetable Lasagna

I was excited for this because I love lasagna and also veggies. But this was quite bad. It wasn't an offensive taste, per se, it was just no taste. Tasted like wet nothing. There were no distinctive flavors, from the sauce to the veg to the cheese. Just food product. At least it was low-calorie nothing with veg in it, so things could be worse, but I'd rather have a salad.




Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 4/10

Stouffer's Vegetable Lasagna

Mmm. OK, so, like Elaine in Seinfeld, I don't think of Vegetable Lasagna as being very exciting. But this is way better than any other frozen lasagna I've had, vegetable or no. I do like regular lasagna, but it's not as delicious. This sucker is a dense rectangle of maybe 3 lasagna noodles, cheesy creamy sauce, a few carrots (but they don't even taste like carrots, they taste like the good sauce), possibly bits of brocco or squash or spinach but really all you can taste is noodle and sauce. And a little crispy breadcrumb topping. It's pretty great. It's probably not great for you, but hey, there must be some veg in there! It's about 400 calories and takes an unfortunately long time to cook (maybe 12 minutes) even in the microwave. On the plus side it always comes out well, good texture, a lil crispy but not burnt, and very moist. I try not to buy frozen meals too often (ha ha) but if this is on sale I'll always pick it up, it's a classic!

Overall
Cost: 7/10
Taste: 8/10