Healthy Choice Café Steamers: General Tso's Spicy Chicken

Chicken Tenderloins with Rice and Vegetables in Authentic Spicy Brown Sauce
300 calories, 3g of fat, 500mg of Sodium, total microwave time: 5 minutes

My first thought on opening this one was: "Oh CRAP! It has red peppers! YUCK! Well, this is going to get a '1' rating for sure!". I cooked it for the highest time on the box (4.5 minutes) then took a look.

While I was picking out the red peppers, I noticed that some pieces were still cold so I zapped it for another 30 seconds. That did the trick.

This is one of those steamer type meals were the sauce is below and the food is in a steamer basket. This allows the food to be cooked by steam instead of boiling in it own juice. It's suppose to taste better. Who knows. Here it is after the stuff in the top was dumped into the bottom sans red peppers.

Well, it was AWESOME! A little sweet and a lot spicy, very good flavor overall. Is it the General Tso's from Wong's down the street? No, but for being mass produced, frozen, 300 calories, less than $3, AND with red peppers, it's a winner! It was so good, I forgot to take a picture of it all mixed up.

I'm giving this a 3 (since I had to pick out the red peppers) but leaning heavily towards a 4. If I liked red peppers, it would have been a 5. If you like red peppers and spicy food, you'll like this one a lot!

Side note: Low Sodium V8 juice...not so good. I'll be getting the hard stuff from now on.