These Jimmy Dean Simple Scramblers are found in the refrigerated section of your grocer. I like that they aren’t frozen and they don’t have potatoes in them. Just eggs, cheese, and some meat. this was a good match for the Keto diet I tried out.
Preparation is super easy and quick. You open the sealed package and remote a small sealed cup that contains liquid eggs, and also a package that contains the cheese and meat. Empty the liquid eggs into the cup and place in the microwave for a short time. In mine that’s 60 seconds.
After a minute you take out the now hot cup of liquid eggs, and open the package of cheese and meat and stir it into the cup. Place the cup back into the microwave and cook it a second time. In my oven 50 seconds is what I use to finish cooking the mixture and have it solidify like scrambled eggs do when cooked.
I remove from the microwave and add pepper or some hot sauce and then it’s ready to consume straight from the container. I like that it yields pretty tasty results with a minimum of preparation effort or things to clean up.
I like all of them and usually pickup at least one of each of the three varieties. The pricing in the grocery store is much less than what I saw when adding the Amazon shopping info to this post.
Here are some of the frozen lasagnas that I have tried and my thoughts.
If you know someone who insists upon always making their lasagna from scratch, hug them after reading this blog post.
I don’t have time for that and like many folks buy frozen food instead. Here are some of the frozen lasagnas that I have tried and my thoughts.
Publix Lasagna with meat sauce was good and probably the lowest cost per serving of the ones reviewed here. I don’t remember how much I paid for it but I know I bought it because it was on sale. I’d buy it again on sale.
Devour’s Lasagna Alfredo with Bacon and Sausage tasted pretty good. I’m accustomed to lasagna with red meat sauce so this was a departure from my usual choice. I’m pretty sure I also bought this when there was a sale and mentally placed it on my buy again list after eating it.
I’m certain that I’ve had a couple more varieties of frozen lasagna that aren’t listed here, simply because I forgot to take some pictures of the boxes. My favorite brand of frozen lasagna is Stouffer’s.
This Stouffer’s Lasagna bake with meat sauce is pretty good and similar in taste to their regular meat lasagna in a square container with cheese on top. I would say it’s my standard “frozen lasagna go to” when I’m shopping the frozen food aisle at the grocery store.
The top pick on my list of frozen lasagnas is also from Stouffer’s and it’s their Meat Lovers variety. Delicious!
The family size meals are enough food that I usually eat half and then later reheat the remaining portion for a second meal. This selection has plenty of chicken pieces and I like it.
Marie Callender’s Grilled Chicken Alfredo Bake
This is similar to the one above but it’s a single serving size and has some additional vegetables. It’s a good Alfredo dish but I’d rather have the Chicken AND Shrimp dish that’s farther down on this list.
Marie Callender’s Hearty Three Meat Marinara Bake
This is another larger serving size that I use for two meals. It’s cheesy and meaty so I really like it. I find it to be rather filling.
Marie Callender’s Meatballs & Sausage Marinara
This is very similar to the one above but it’s in a single serving size and not as cheesy. I add some Parmesan cheese of my own when I prepare it.
Marie Callender’s Creamy Chicken & Shrimp in a Parmesan Alfredo Sauce
This is my second most favorite white sauce entree from Marie Callender’s. Creamy and a tasty portion of two proteins.
Marie Callender’s Fettuccini with Chicken & Broccoli
This is my favorite white sauce entree from Marie Callender’s. I use a good amount of coarse ground black pepper on mine and I find it to be nice and creamy and satisfying.
Marie Callender’s Beef & Broccoli
I really like this entree and I always prepare mine with the addition of some coarse ground black pepper. I stir it up well to get the sauce all over the rice.
Marie Callender’s Chicken Teriyaki
I add some soy and teriyaki sauce of my own just before serving. Stir the contents so that the sauce is mixed well and coats the rice and other items well. There’s a sort of sweet taste to the sauce that’s nice and I’m pretty sure there are some crunchy water chestnut slices in it as well. This one’s in my top 5.
Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken & Rice
This is one of my favorites. A key to making it even better is to stir the contents around so that the cheese sauce is distributed over all of the rice and broccoli.
Marie Callender’s Salisbury Steak
This is one of my least favorite selections among those in this post. It’s not bad but if I’m going to eat Salisbury Steak, I prefer Stouffer’s.
Speaking of Stouffer’s, I’ll have a post similar to this one listing entrees from them and my thoughts at some point in the future on this blog.
I tried out some of the frozen foods from Devour that I saw at my local grocer and here are my thoughts about the ones I tried.
Lasagna Alfredo with Bacon and Sausage
I’m used to eating lasagna with a red meat sauce, so this was a nice switch up. The flavors of the Applewood Smoked Bacon and Italian Sausage went well with the creamy alfredo sauce. 570 calories with 330 coming from fat was delicious. This is a single serving sized container but nothing says that you have to eat all of it at the same time. I found it to be rich and good. I would buy it again.
Angus Beef with Cornbread
This was my favorite of the three Devour foods that I tried. The beef was covered with a sweet and smokey sauce. The cornbread was made with jalapenos and had a nice and spicy flavor. It had 750 calories with 310 coming from fat. I actually wished that the serving size was twice as much, that’s how tasty it was. If I see it in the store again, I’m buying more than one of these again.
White Cheddar Mac & Cheese with Bacon
This was good but it was also the one out of three that I tried that I liked the least. It’s not that it tasted bad, it just wasn’t as good as the other two. It was cheesy and the bacon taste was nice. If Bacon Mac & Cheese is your thing, you should still give it a try.
The product page at Devour shows many more in addition to the ones I bought at Publix, and I hope to be able to try the others at some time and review them as well. Happy eating!