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If you're a busy mom or a happy bachelor like me, you're likely the consumer of preprocessed foods, the "almost ready dinners", the food that is the middle between delicious, preservative-free home cooked meal and the no hassle convenience of fast food. I'm talking about all those chicken strips and meat balls that dominate the refrigerators of most supermarkets (at least here, in Ontario).

If you ever tried to "try something new" from the varied selection of these foods, you probably had to go through a couple of failed dinners when marketing skills of the company outweigh the food making skills.

It is due to those moments that I've decided to post my short comments with few pics for selected preprocessed foods that I buy once in a while. Enjoy!

Price:

$6.99

Cooking time:

50-60 minutes

Total weight:

1kg

Neat little meat tubes on the picture, combined with relatively cheap 70 cents per 100g price made me purchase this concoction. I rank this dish somewhere in the middle...Let's see why.

Cooking time is almost tripple the regular cooking times you find on most other foods of this type. This fact makes this dish far less than ideal for cooking after work (you'll starve before it's ready). Moreover, even after the dish is ready, it takes considerable time for it to chill to eating temperatures, which in effect extends cooking time.

The picture is amazingly misleading. Never have eaten "cannelloni" before, I was quite surprised to unpack a solid brick of frozen tomato sauce instead of the meaty tubes on the picture. This makes it quite an inconvenience for a single-person dinner: dividing frozen brick into portions is impossible for practical reasons, and once cooked, you end up with 1 kilo of freaking food. I ate a third and I am more than full, this means that my next 2 meals will probably be the same cannellonies.

On the plus side, I can say that semi-liquid mixture of tomato sauce and cannellonies is in pleasant contrast to most foods of these type that often require an extra component (e.g. pasta or mashed potatoes) in order to produce complete fulfilling meal. Also, everything comes in oven/microwave-safe tray, which completely eliminates any cleanup after cooking.

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