They are $5.94 each at my local Walmart store. They weren't on the shelf yet, but a VERY nice employee (thanks, Vicky!) went and found them in the back and brought me one of each. So I spent $48 and bought one each of the 8 varieties.
Most frozen food entrees for a single person, in my area, clock in around $4-$5, sometimes a tad less. So this is a pricier option than the rest. Similar to the price of a RAOS brand frozen entree. But you're paying for the name on the box, right? Hopefully the quality matches. BUT DID IT?...
The fish & chips can be cooked in either the oven, or an air fryer...but not a microwave.
The chicken pot pie can be cooked in a microwave or an oven.
Every other item is required to be microwaved.
Note that NONE of the microwave directions tell you what the expected wattage of the microwave oven should be. I have a 1200 Watt microwave, but most frozen foods I buy are expecting an 1100 Watt unit. So I cooked today's items at 1100 Watts, lacking any instructions to the contrary.
My wife wanted to try the Four Cheese Macaroni for her lunch, and I decided to try the Lemon Caper Chicken today. I have IBS and can't eat broccoli, so I separated it into a styrofoam bowl and gave that to my wife.
She liked her mac & cheese well enough, but she said it's no better than the less expensive "Bowl-Full/Mac-Full" version she gets from Stouffer. At the end, she left a couple of bites, saying "it's crunchy and hard and congealed."
She ate the broccoli I gave her, but it was clear that she could taste the lemon sauce on it. She's not a fan of strong lemon flavor. In this case she said the lemon and broccoli combined to taste like mustard, somehow. She made a very bad face while describing it.
I could certainly taste the lemon sauce on my chicken, and also on my roasted potatoes. The potatoes were tasty enough, but there were far fewer of them in the meal than on the box cover! The chicken wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. It was difficult to cut! Which means it was "overdone," even though I had cooked it for the least amount of recommended time in the instructions. In a couple of places it tasted on the cold side, but in another place it seemed to be on the burnt side. Very uneven.
In the end, not worth the extra money for Gordon's name on the box. And having eaten at 3 of his places in the past, including a Hell's Kitchen, it certainly didn't represent his restaurant food!
DO NOT buy these frozen food entrees and think you are getting a taste of what Ramsay's cooking is actually like. You will be as disappointed as we were.
NOT RECOMMENDED: the Lemon Caper Chicken and the Four Cheese Macaroni. We won't be rebuying those two items.
The other six are in the freezer and we will try them in the days to come. If people are interested, I'll follow up with more reviews.
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u/DaveLambert Aug 25 '23
OKAY, I found them!!!
Here's my review:
They are $5.94 each at my local Walmart store. They weren't on the shelf yet, but a VERY nice employee (thanks, Vicky!) went and found them in the back and brought me one of each. So I spent $48 and bought one each of the 8 varieties.
Most frozen food entrees for a single person, in my area, clock in around $4-$5, sometimes a tad less. So this is a pricier option than the rest. Similar to the price of a RAOS brand frozen entree. But you're paying for the name on the box, right? Hopefully the quality matches. BUT DID IT?...
The fish & chips can be cooked in either the oven, or an air fryer...but not a microwave.
The chicken pot pie can be cooked in a microwave or an oven.
Every other item is required to be microwaved.
Note that NONE of the microwave directions tell you what the expected wattage of the microwave oven should be. I have a 1200 Watt microwave, but most frozen foods I buy are expecting an 1100 Watt unit. So I cooked today's items at 1100 Watts, lacking any instructions to the contrary.
My wife wanted to try the Four Cheese Macaroni for her lunch, and I decided to try the Lemon Caper Chicken today. I have IBS and can't eat broccoli, so I separated it into a styrofoam bowl and gave that to my wife.
She liked her mac & cheese well enough, but she said it's no better than the less expensive "Bowl-Full/Mac-Full" version she gets from Stouffer. At the end, she left a couple of bites, saying "it's crunchy and hard and congealed."
She ate the broccoli I gave her, but it was clear that she could taste the lemon sauce on it. She's not a fan of strong lemon flavor. In this case she said the lemon and broccoli combined to taste like mustard, somehow. She made a very bad face while describing it.
I could certainly taste the lemon sauce on my chicken, and also on my roasted potatoes. The potatoes were tasty enough, but there were far fewer of them in the meal than on the box cover! The chicken wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. It was difficult to cut! Which means it was "overdone," even though I had cooked it for the least amount of recommended time in the instructions. In a couple of places it tasted on the cold side, but in another place it seemed to be on the burnt side. Very uneven.
In the end, not worth the extra money for Gordon's name on the box. And having eaten at 3 of his places in the past, including a Hell's Kitchen, it certainly didn't represent his restaurant food!
DO NOT buy these frozen food entrees and think you are getting a taste of what Ramsay's cooking is actually like. You will be as disappointed as we were.
NOT RECOMMENDED: the Lemon Caper Chicken and the Four Cheese Macaroni. We won't be rebuying those two items.
The other six are in the freezer and we will try them in the days to come. If people are interested, I'll follow up with more reviews.