Ore-Ida Extra Crispy Fast Food Fries

Despite my heritage(??) I'm not that into potatoes. Or at least non-liquid potatoes. But I have so many sauces that I don't know what to put on, so to the fry aisle we go. These seem appealing because they're skinny, which is less potato per square mile and more salt/oil/sauce/air. In the end, they projected more cardboardy potato than their size warranted. Not impressed. But, the smell when cooking reminded me of East Mall Arby's, which reminded me of my grandma, so that was nice. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 5/10 

Just Crack an Egg - Southwest Style Scramble Kit

Aw, it'd been a while since I had one of these! This is a new flavor to me, but really, they're all pretty similar. As always, it was filling and easy. This one did have weirdly chewy meat bits, though. The taste was definitely "breakfast burrito filling", which I liked, but the texture was pretty weird. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Bagel Bites - Cheese, Sausage & Pepperoni

Bagel bites! What could be greater, than playing a game of golf with a baaagel? I haven't seen any bagel bites at my grocery store in forever -- I hope they're OK (and still a thing)! Miraculously, the meats in these have no soy, although the flavor doesn't add much over the cheese, in all honesty. I made this pack in the oven for once, and I will say, they were slightly better. But only just.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Bagel Bites - Cheese & Pepperoni

When pizza's on a bagel? That's good. I had been avoiding this flavor for I while 'cause I thought it had soy in the roni, but it actually doesn't! And these aren't bad tasting at all - I guess they're roughly equal to cheese in my taste rating, but guess these have more protein? Still a mild flavor, mostly "bread" notes, and they always cook unevenly, but I like 'em for a snackmeal. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Ore-Ida Golden Crinkles French Fries

These are "America's Favorite Fries", but I always hated them as a kid. Too mushy, not as good as fast food, that's for sure. But in these Quar Times, I'm excited to have anything frozen, so it was a special treat when I made these. They got cold weirdly fast and they weren't as good cold, so you should eat 'em quick. But they were still better than I remembered as a kid, and straightforward to cook. Good with salt added but better with tons of ketchup. A fun snack and it's always nice to have Warm Food in the wintertime, especially these days.

Overall
Cost: 7/10
Taste: 6/10

Just Crack an Egg - Rustic Scramble

This was decent, I guess it's part of the new 4-flavor expansion of the "Just Crack an Egg" line! I did a crazy thing and added two eggs instead of one to this, because I was hungry, and it worked out fine (i.e. I didn't vom or die). This had a fairly mild light cheese and sausage flavor, perhaps because of the two egg thing, but I enjoyed it.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Bagel Bites - Three Cheese

Bagel bites! What could be greater, than playing a game of golf with a bagel?

These are truly classic, although they really aren't that good, they are certainly better than pizza rolls. I think one flaw in my process is that I make them in the microwave, so they are chewy and sometimes cold, which obviously is not great. Otherwise, they have a nice mild flavor and are cutely bite sized, so you can eat 9 whole pizzas if you want to (I usually do). The ones with meat are really bad because the meat tastes weird, but the plain cheese is alright. A crowd pleaser for picky eaters.

Overall
Cost: 5/10 [4$]
Taste: 7/10

Just Crack an Egg - Denver Scramble

This is it, squad. My prototypical scramble. Ham, egg, cheesers, pepper, potato, I guess onion. So classic. I wonder if the new Dunkin Bowls will be better or worse than this? Certainly more unhealthy. This clocks in at under 200 calos, which is pretty great. As always, this is super fast/fun/easy to make, and fairly filling considering it's only one egg. This one seemed cheesier than the others, which I enjoy! The cheese and pepperato mix are good, but sadly the ham cubes aren't doing it for me. They aren't offensive, just very processed/a little bit chewy; I'd rather have lil deli ham slices in there or something. Ultimately I don't know that this is worth buying on a regular basis, it's kind of pricy and breakfast food is pretty cheap and easy to make on your own. I'm just so lazy...and it's so fun.... Thank goodness there's still one flavor I haven't tried, though I've never seen it at the store! The holy grail! Stay tuned?

Overall
Cost: 5/10 [2.99 + an egg]
Taste: 7/10

Just Crack An Egg - All American Scramble

This is OK, but I'm not wild about the bacon bits, so I like it less than the other flavors. Again, the cooking/"prep" process is super quick and fun, and even though it looked a little wet after cooking, I'm pretty sure that was just the cheese. I like the potato and egg, but the bacon is, well, bacon bits, so it's salty and chewy but not in a fresh and delicious way. The cheese is pretty sharp, which I don't particularly love either. How about American cheese, ham, potatoes, and peppers? Huh? Huh? Maybe a veg too??? n.b. I recently saw a mysterious facebook ad about egg bowls at Dunkin donuts with spinach in them, which would basically be the best thing in the whole world, so I might never get around to trying the other JCAE flavors, but we'll see. Anyway, this is still a quick and protein-rich snackem.

Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 6/10

Just Crack an Egg - Ultimate Scramble

I remember when I first saw an ad for these a few months ago, I was intrigued and watched a few video reviews, but I didn't end up buying one because (a) microwave eggs are gross and (b) I could make the same thing myself way cheaper if I wanted to, or just go to Dunkin! But eventually they lured me in to buying one, it's like easy mac for eggs, how fun! Plus, the worst part of all premade/frozen breakfast stuff is always the egg, which is gross and watery and chewy. So even in the microwave, surely a real fresh egg would taste better. And it did! I followed the directions exactly, and the egg firmed up, much to my surprise. It seemed like one egg made a decent amount of egg, which was cool. The cheese/potatoes/peppers/sausage was all good-ish, kind of like you'd expect them to taste (but no worse)! I like the potatoes best and I wish there were more potato, less onion/pepper. Maybe more cheese, less sausage, too, but that's just personal preference. Anyway those are minor ratio quibbles, but this was really quick and easy and fairly fun to make too. It's a lot of packaging, so probably not great for earth, but for a quick breakfast at home (or on the go!) I enjoyed it and I'll probably quick out the other flavors eventually.

Overall
Cost: 5/10 (Like 2-3$, plus you need eggs)
Taste: 7/10