Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse - Thin & Crispy Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are basically what they say they'll be - thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. They taste exactly like the Mrs Thinster's chocolate chip cookies, super buttery flavor and crispy. I liked those a lot, but I was less excited by these even though they tasted exactly the same - not sure why. I might prefer the thicker PepFarm cookies, like Nantucket or something, because then you get actual chocolate chunks and it seems more like a fresh cookie, if that makes sense. These are more like a packaged cookie, which they are, and they taste good and are better for portion control, but maybe I'm not in a super cookie mood right now. Anyway, buttery and thin, tastes good.



Overall
Cost: 5/10 [3.00$]
Taste: 7/10

enjoy life soft baked mini cookies - double chocolate brownie

Ah, Enjoy Life. So classic. You can really tell these cookies are gluten free, not just from the taste (kind of grainy, with that spicy konjac background) but from the texture as well. These are small dense orbs, almost like raw dough, and not really a conventional cookie at all. They do have a slight similarity to those Little Bites packs of mini brownies, though. There's a strong chocolatey flavor, which is pleasant, and even though the choco chips don't really stand out from the overall choco ball, you definitely get the sense you're eating a dessert. Which is nice, and if I were gluten free maybe I'd appreciate it more. As it is, these are pleasant but I'd never seek them out (basically the Enjoy Life party line for me).

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Bertolli Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce

To be honest, this reminds me of a pasta sauce you'd get at Olive Garden or some lower tier Italian chain. But that doesn't mean I don't like it - it's pretty solid. You can definitely taste the romano cheese in there. The sausage comes in little soft orbs, which sounds gross but is ultimately fine. There are some tomato pieces too, but the overall flavor is probably spicy sausage and cheese. I guess I haven't tried many Bertolli sauces on their own (maybe in a frozen meal?) but the base seems fairly standard, maybe a little sweet for my taste but with the extra sausage flavor in there it's less noticeable. I'd get this again if it were on sale again!


Overall
Cost: 6/10 [2.50]
Taste: 6/10

Newman's Own - Harvest Vegetable Thin & Crispy Pizza

Doesn't this guy make salad dressings? But whatever, I was in a pizza mood and I wanted one with veg on it. I'm not totally sure if mushroom and pepper really counts as veg, but it's the best I could do in the frozen pizza aisle. Plus, only 270 * 3 calories, which is decent for a pizza of this size. You know the crust will be thin, but I don't have any problem with that, since most frozen pizza crust is terrible. Anyway, this was solid! The mushrooms were a little watery, and it wasn't like, amazing, but I enjoyed it plenty and would definitely pick it up again. No weird meat feelings, sauce was minimal and unobtrusive, and cheese seemed decent. Nice.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

The Better Chip - Jalepeño & Cilantro

These are tortilla chips! Or corn chips, in any case. They're square, which is very cool, but they're still corn chips, which is an inferior chip. Anyway, they are good for corn chips. The squares are nice and dense/thick, so they don't break easily. They also have a nice spicy jalepeno flavor, and the aftertaste is pleasant too. The seasoning would be good in any taco-like environment. I also realized that I've had chips from this brand before (and liked them), they've changed their packaging so I didn't notice! A tasty and spicy snack, probably good for dipping, but not as tasty as a potato chip, perhaps. I can't speak to the health factor - they don't seem that healthful, but they say "the better chip", so maybe they are and I'm just dumb.


Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Simply Orange Juice

I'm not a huge juice drinker, more of a drink-mixer, but sometimes I get a small craving for OJ (usually when I'm scared of the cold/flu). These pulp-free Simply juices are some of my favorites. They're still a lot of sugar for me, but the consistency is good - not too thick or thin, and the flavor is a nice solid orange juice flavor.  I got the small size and I still really only wanted half of it, because it's so much in a little package! 170 calories! Gosh! I enjoyed it, though, and I also like the revised orange logo on the package, I think it looks much more stylish than the old one. Don't really care for the "non GMO" label, but I guess it sells.


Overall
Cost: 4/10
Taste: 6/10

Hungry-Man Roasted Carved White Meat Turkey

I can't believe I haven't reviewed this before! It's the quintessential Hungry Man dinner. Other shocks: they changed the corn to mixed veggies, there's a hyphen in Hungry-man?!, and this is only 410 calories. Maybe they should change the name to Healthy Man. Except definitely not, because this is full of sodium, soy protein, and not much ~real food~. I will say that it was quite filling for 410 calos, and also that it's changed a LOT since I remember it last (mostly for the worse, sadly).

So: the veggies are a small portion of carrot/corn/green bean. Just like 2 spoons full. They taste decent, a little buttery, but not as good as corn. The potatoes are very "from a powder that I put too much water in" tasting, but potatoes in gravy are ultimately potatoes in gravy. The stuffing is only a few pieces, it seemed OK. The turkey is 3 decent sized circles, but they're kind of like warm lunchable turkey. Highly processed, a little itchy, but not terrible. The dessert has no crumble, only 2 spoons of a sweet red juice with a few cranberry/apple mini chunks. It was fine. Honestly this was all OK and easy and filling and low-cal for a dinner, so if it's on sale it's not the worst thing. But I can't in good conscience recommend it, either, since no part of it was what I'd call "good". C'est la vie.

Overall
Cost: 6/10 [2.50$]
Taste: 5/10