Michelina's Pop'N Buffalo-Style Chicken Snacks

 Michelina's Pop'N Buffalo-Style Chicken Snacks are about what one would expect from Michelina's having enough flavor to be buffalo-style but not enough to hit you with flavor like the real deal. 

I love snacking on these things but I'm a big fat dude and shouldn't eat them. They are bad for you, short on chicken, short on taste, but not bad at all.

Michelina's Teriyaki Chicken

 Michelina's Teriyaki Chicken is rice with sauce, a little chicken, and almost no vegetables. It tastes okay but it's bad for you. The best way to cook this is to get a frying pan and toss in vegetables with a little oil. Fry them up and toss this in on top. It will flavor and salt the vegetables. 

Eating this on its own is just sad and unhealthy. 

Michelina's Penne with White Chicken

 Michelina's Penne with White Chicken is another bland small offering from Michelina's that I got on sale which made them the price I used to get them at before the pandemic. 

I always thought of Michelina's as snacks for poor people and these provide about half a meal for a normal human. Add vegetables and water and you have a whole meal. I would also add pepper and the like but that's just me. 

I would say these are agreeable when on sale and a little overpriced when not. If you live alone and you eat alone these are fine but they are food for the lonely.

Michelina's Beef & Broccoli

 Michelina's Beef & Broccoli has a lot of flavor for having almost nun of the name ingredients. Do you see any broccoli in there?

The real show case on this one is the sauce which is Asian inspired and has a strong hint of ginger. Those are Italian style noodles. 

This works best as a topper for steamed vegetables and may work as a side dish at your next family meal. I wouldn't eat this one it's own because it will just make you more hungry and these things are so small that they never fill you up.

Michelina's Meatball Marinara Signature Bowl

 Michelina's Meatball Marinara Signature Bowl is not something you get if you want it fast. It needs to be heated, stirred, heated, and cooled. The result isn't all that good, it's not bad, but not very good. 

It could be a bit more meaty or have some vegetables to balance it out. However, the big failing in this is it's blandness. Not a lot of herbs on this marinara. I'm not sure what one would even call marinara but I would rather just call this tomato because that was all I tasted.

Michelina's Five Cheese Lasagna

 Michelina's Five Cheese Lasagna is small. I guess it needs to be to be good for you, but you're not walking away from this with out wanting something else. 

I think this stuff is okay. You get some lasagna like thing for a low price. I will buy again. Then I will eat two or three of them and then go eat something else.

Michelina's Pop'n Chicken

Michelina's Pop'n Chicken is the kind of nightmare food you would expect to get at a summer camp where they are trying to save money by feeding the kids less. 

Those smiley things which look like they would torture your soul in hell are made of potatoes. The chicken is hardly worth the name. 

Are these bad, well bad for you they are, but they taste okay. I just feel odd eating food that shouldn't have a face but has a face. I mean, this stuff is just wrong. 

Michelina's Zap'ems Home style Macaroni & Cheese

Michelina's Zap'ems Home style  Macaroni & Cheese is one of those things you eat when you dine alone. I do a good deal of that so I have eaten more of these than most. 

Are they good? Yeah, I'd say they are. Not like totally kick ass but good as you get out of a box. Then again, have you ever had bad mac and cheese?

Michelina's Swedish Meatballs

Michelina's Swedish Meatballs are more noodles than anything else. I'm not big on Swedish Meatballs so I don't know how good these really are. 

Now, these are fins if you eat them with vegetables and don't go overboard.  I would even say you could dump these on some steamed vegetables and then eat the vegetables from under them. Yeah, sounds funny, but it's better for you. 

Michelina's Cheese Manicotti

Michelina's Cheese Manicotti is only diet food because it's so small. Now if you have this with an other wise healthy dose of vegetables you're going to be fine. On it's own it's just not that much food. 

You may be tempted to dip bread into that red sauce to beef up the meal, but that's going to make you fat. In addition the sauce appears to have been added to the pack first and does not naturally cover the Manicotti. 

All and all, these are kind of disappointing. Have them as a side with something else and a healthy dose of vegetables and they'll be fine.

Michelina's Lean Gourmet Five Cheese Lasagna

Michelina's Lean Gourmet gives you an expectation with that cover art, but the thing beneath looks nothing like the cover. It could be five cheese Lasagna, but would that make much of a difference? 

Grant that these things are around a doller and only 280 Calories so you don't pay much and you don't get much. Still, the way too much packaging that comes with these thin little things is terrible for the environment. 

All and all, not bad, not as good as the real thing. I don't want to know how bad they are for me. 

Michelina's Meatloaf

I found Michelina's Meatloaf at my local market at two for a dollar and figured 'why not try some?' This stuff is half a meal in that it has starch and protein but no vegetables. Kind of high in salt.

No, potatoes are not vegetables!

In any case, if you can make vegetables these are otherwise a good thing to have around. Not a complete meal but not all that bad.