Banquet Mexican Style Beef Enchilada & Tamale Combo Review

Looking for an inexpensive meal to feed your familia, amigos, or usted (that is "family," "friends," and "you," in Spanish)? Why not fire up the microwave or oven and pop in Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo! This Banquet meal offers a diverse plate with a beef enchilada, a tamale, Mexican rice, and beans.

Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo offers decent taste, especially for the price. It also does not take long to cook. Less than 5 minutes in the microwave heats this Mexican plate right up. Within 23 minutes, you can place this Banquet feast into your conventional oven and have it fully cooked.

The meal does lack a sweet, bland dessert. But don't forget, I am also talking about a dinner you can buy for less than a dollar, so I will leave that observation as a fact and not a gripe.

About Banquet's Mexican Style Beef Enchilada & Tamale Combo

Costing only 88 cents at Sweetbay Supermarket in Central Florida, Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo is an excellent mixture of decent taste and great price. At 8.4 ounces, Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo brings to the table enough food to satisfy the light-to-moderate appetite looking for a spicy snack or quick meal with south-of-the-border flair.

The beef enchilada and tamale offer even taste, though it can taste a little flat if eaten without the rather flavorful sauce found in the entree's main dish area. The beans and rice are tasteful and round out the tortilla-wrapped entree.

Banquet's Mexican Style Beef Enchilada & Tamale Combo: The Numbers

Before eating a plateful of Banquet's Mexican fiesta, it never hurts to take a health-minded look at the back of the package.

310 calories

90 calories from fat

10 grams of total fat

3.5 grams of saturated fat

0 grams of trans fat

10 mg of cholesterol

930 mg of sodium

470 mg of potassium

44 grams of total carbohydrates

11 grams of dietary fiber

1 gram of sugar

10 grams of protein

Decent Dietary Numbers

Before I go any further, let me again direct your attention to the dietary numbers. Only 1 gram of sugar. An amazing 11 grams (44%!) of dietary fiber. Just 310 calories overall. A minuscule 3% of total cholesterol for the day. Not bad at all.

But You Can't Win Them All....

Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo does pack a very high 930 mg of sodium -- 39% of the average adult's daily recommended intake. However, in all, that is not terrible, especially given the meal's fairly healthful dietary fiber, sugar, and cholesterol readings.

My Thoughts

Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo is actually a very good choice, especially as the product is not outright branded on the carton as a "healthy" meal. Given, the sodium content is relatively high, and with 18% of daily saturated fat allowance used with this one meal, it really is not a "low-fat" option.

However, this meal packs quite a punch in delivering nearly half of one's daily dietary fiber intake (a "toughie" number for some to get in on a day-to-day basis). You surely won't use a lot of your sugar allowance on this meal, as it does deliver just 1 gram -- most people take in much more than that with a single cup of coffee. Cholesterol is not a star player in this meal, and the calorie expenditure here is relatively minimal.

Taste is fine, and the price is right. Overall, Banquet's Mexican style beef enchilada & tamale combo is a meal you might want to try if your budget is tight and you are wanting to try a frozen dinner that delivers a bit of flair.

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Banquet's Mexican Style Beef Enchilada & Tamale Combo carton