Healthy Choice 100% Natural: Portabella Marsala Pasta

9 grain pasta with baby portabella mushrooms and marsala wine sauce, topped with fontina cheese
250 calories, 6g fat, 500mg sodium, cook at 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 minutes

I took this one out of the freeze and I wondered why I bought it in the first place. It doesn't have any meat. I'm from South Dakota so if a meal doesn't contain meat, it's not a meal.Oh well, I'll take one for my vegetarian friends.

Since this one has pasta, I wanted to be careful to overcook it. I've done that before and the pasta gets really chewing. I put it in for 4 1/2 minutes, checked it, and heated for another 30 seconds. The pasta turned out perfect...for a frozen meal. It looked pretty good out the the microwave.

It smelled pretty good too. You could really smell the mushrooms. The problem I ran into first was with the cheese. It stayed in one clump and was a little rubbery. As I already said, the pasta turned out perfect. The sauce was spicy and tasty. I was enjoying this! Then it happened. All of the sudden, it wasn't tasting so good anymore. I was about half way through when my tummy started feeling not so hot. I ended up throwing the rest of it away. Initially, I thought I was going to give this one a 3 (knocked down a point for lack of meat). But in the end, I have to give it a 1. I will never get this one again and I can't recommend that you try it.

After lunch, I was reading the ingredients on the side of the box. I was curious because it said 100% natural so I wanted to double check. I found two trademarked ingredients: Ultragrain and Sustagrain. I'm not sure but I think natural things can't be trademarked. It also contains Maltodextrin which is man-made. Now it is made out of natural things but still, I think "Natural" and I think occurring in natural like on it's own. Maybe it's just me.

I felt better by the evening and enjoyed a little treat at Sweet Frog's (frozen yogurt), It was yummy!!!