Review: Smart Ones - Cheesy Scramble with Hash Browns - Day 1 Lunch

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Liver Shrink Frozen Food Review: [Day 1 Lunch] 

Smart Ones | Cheesy Scramble with Hash Browns

	Nutrition Facts		Liver Shrink Diet
	190	Calories	300 max
	7g	Total Fat	10g max
	530mg	Sodium	700mg max
	16g	Carbohydrate	30g max
	15g	Protein	15g min

Liver Shrink Perspective:

Officially on my liver shrink diet. Protein is at the minimum. Disappointing and unfulfilling.

Would I eat it again:

By choice? No. As one of only TWO breakfast meals on an approved list of meals for Liver Shrink I am disheartened. Breakfast may have to wait until Phase 4, many weeks after surgery.

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: Scrambled Eggs

Pre-cooked scrambled egg crumbles. Texturally accurate, but they also have that “they used the leftover day old scrambled eggs to make this” vibe. Flavor was equally slightly off, which seems to me to be the reason to add the cheese sauce. To cover up the many many shortcomings.

Starch: Potatoes

What makes a piece of potato into a hash-brown? Cooking method? Spices and Flavor? Just appearing next to a breakfast item? There are pieces of potato in this frozen meal. And unless the mere presence of eggs is enough to qualify them as hash-browns, these potatoes had little flavor in addition to having little to no spice on them. Texturally they were inconsistent. Tongue scalding mush one bite, barely cooked stiff French fry the next.

Vegetable: Bell Peppers and Onions?

According to the package this includes red and green bell peppers and onion. There were not many of them, cooked to a tongue/gum-able tasteless mush.

Sauce: Cheeses

When you open the package you can see bits of shredded cheese within. When cooked the first time it’s a nice little mound of various shredded cheeses. I probably should have tried them in this half cooked, unmixed state because once they were mixed in with everything all you could taste was a weak cheese-like flavor. None of the flavors of the individual cheeses came through enough to verify if they were indeed a Cheddar, Monterey Jack and Mozzarella blend. Checked the ingredient lists for all three of these to be literally the last ingredients. With Cheese Sauce and Cheese Flavor being much higher in the list. Solves that mystery.

One Offs:

• The sum is less than the total of its parts. The cheese sauce was there to hold mixed bits together for the spoon, while attempting to hide everything textually and flavor(ly?) wrong.
• But Tangent, what does something have to do to get a ‘Nope’ rating?!
• Make me sick or I dislike it enough to go cook something else instead.
• Which, while unfulfilling and disappointing, it did not.