Review: Healthy Choice - Balsamic Garlic Steak - Day 0 Lunch

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Liver Shrink Frozen Food Review: [Day 0 Lunch] 

Healthy Choice | Balsamic Garlic Steak

	Nutrition Facts		Liver Shrink Diet
	230	Calories	300 max
	6g	Total Fat	10g max
	450mg	Sodium	700mg max
	29g	Carbohydrate	30g max
	15g	Protein	15g min

Liver Shrink Perspective:

It's not officially on my Liver Shrink list. But its values are within my Liver Shrink limits. That being said Protein/Carbs are a bit MIN/MAXed with this one. A better choice would have had more protein and less carbs. 

Would I eat it again:

Eh. Probably not. It wasn't 'bad', but Protein keeps you fuller longer. And while starches can be very rewarding flavor wise, these potatoes were just missing something. And does anyone enjoy tooth squeaking green beans of increased chew texture?

Protein	Starch	Vegetable	Sauce
Great	Great	Great	Great
Good(-)	Good	Good(-)	Good
Shrug	Shrug	Shrug	Shrug
Eww	Eww	Eww	Eww
Nope	Nope	Nope	Nope

Protein: Steak

As a steak aficionado, they're not going to win any awards. But, in the light of low calorie frozen food, pleasantly surprising. There is a meat flavor here that is reminiscent of good beef jerky. I don't want it to sound off-putting, but the texture with that jerky flavor makes it feel like a properly rehydrated beef jerky steak while chewing. Already mixed in with the Green Beans and Balsamic Garlic Sauce. I kind of like the jerk flavor and texture on this one. Plays well with the sauce.

Starch: Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Some potato skin included. The flavor is weak. You do taste some garlic, but they taste very plain otherwise. Not bad plain, but "obviously someone didn't use butter or much milk in this recipe" plain. Texturally reminds me of Mashed Potatoes you can get at some restaurants. Not the good restaurants, or the bad restaurants, but like the middling restaurants. Red Lobster, Cheddars, Applebees, etc. If these had just a HINT of butter or milk flavor, even if it was fake, they probably would have reached Good level. Decent Texture but overshadowed by the 'missing something'.

Vegetable: Green Beans

They're squeaky against your teeth. Common for many frozen vegetables.Not too soft. Good texture and crunch to them.It feels odd to say I'm not sure if green beans are supposed to have this much chew-texture. Usually green beans are mush or petrified in other frozen meals. Already mixed in with the Steak and Balsamic Garlic Sauce. I liked them.

Sauce: Balsamic Garlic Sauce

I love me some Balsamic Vinaigrette, but this is only lightly Balsamic. Slightly sweet, very slight vinegar taste buried in there. Already mixed in with the Steak and Green Beans. You need this sauce to make the Steak and Green Beans work. It wouldn't score well on its own, but its the reason Steak and Green Beans got into "Good"

One Offs:

• I had one (1) green bean stem, not just a green bean, but a stem. which was in my potatoes. Its mass production, so you make some allowances for food in the wrong area or the occasional stem.
• I remembered after I ate that I have "I can't believe its not butter." which a single spritz on the potatoes would greatly help them.