Organic Chicken Dumplings from Wegmans Review

I'm always on the lookout for new organic items; so I crowed with joy when I found organic chicken dumplings in the already prepared dinner section at Wegmans. Wegmans prepares them, but the in-store sushi chefs told me they aren't involved.

Organic Chicken Dumplings from Wegmans ( Taste )

Ever since I spotted Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings perched in an out-of-the way corner of a cold box display, whenever I first walk into Wegmans I make like a chicken that scrambles at feed time on a farm, skittering right to the little semi-hidden spot where the dumplings are nesting. The organic chicken dumplings taste very fresh, both the wrap and the filling, and they're meaty, with a nice little blend of organic vegetables.

Organic Chicken Dumplings from Wegmans ( Ingredients )

Filling

Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings are filled with organic chicken, organic cabbage, organic soybean oil, organic green onion, organic carrot, sea salt, organic sugar, organic sesame oil.

Sesame oil makes everything taste better to me these days; and the ingredients making up the filling are simple yet complete.

Wrapper

Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings wrappers are organic unbleached wheat flour, water, sea salt and organic corn starch.

What's nice about the short list of ingredients that make the wrappers is just that; it's short. No need for partially-hydrogenated this and that, and a hundred other non-essentials.

Soy Sauce

Here is where Wegmans starts getting lily-livered and inexplicable with this already prepared ( mostly ) organic dinner: The soy sauce Wegmans puts into a little cup and puts into the container as the dipping sauce isn't organic.

Wegmans goes through all of the motions of preparing a nice, already prepared organic dinner, and the easiest thing to do with the whole dinner ( unless they make it in-house, which I seriously doubt ), is to pour ( organic ) soy sauce into a little plastic cup and put it in the middle of the organic chicken dumplings.

Additionally, Wegmans then again sticks it head in the sand and bungles the dinner by scattering a small few cut scallions ( according to the list of ingredients, though it looks a lot like green onions to me ), which again aren't organic, over the organic chicken dumplings in the container.

Organic Chicken Dumplings from Wegmans ( Price & Quantity )

Two prices are set for the two already prepared containers of organic chicken dumplings Wegmans offers: $5.00 for the small container and $8.00 for the large container.

The few short weeks ago I first started purchasing these snacks/dinners, the five dollar container held 10 organic chicken dumplings, and the larger container held 20 organic chicken dumplings.

Organic Chicken Dumplings from Wegmans ( Weight and Savings Discrepancies )

I checked the weights of each container of Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings on Wegmans website, only to see the numbers don't add up: the smaller container is said to weigh 12-ounces and the larger container gives no weight; however, the larger container sitting next to me as I pen this review says it's 20-ounces.

Wegmans has either decreased the weight of the larger container of organic chicken dumplings, so that it's no longer double the weight of the smaller container, or I was tricked into thinking the larger container contained a double portion of organic chicken dumplings than the smaller container ( 10 organic chicken dumplings in the smaller container and 20 organic chicken dumplings in the larger container ), since while 10 doubled is certainly 20, 12-ounces doubled is 24-ounces, and certainly not 20 ounces.

Wegmans is perhaps making a couple of organic chicken dumplings smaller in the larger pack, or all of them ever so slightly smaller, so that instead of getting a dumpling of 1.2 ounces as you do in the smaller pack, you're getting a dumpling of 1 ounce in the larger pack.

If that's the case, then the savings you think you're getting when purchasing the larger pack at $8 for 20 organic chicken dumplings instead of the smaller pack at $5 for 10 organic chicken dumplings is not the savings you think you're getting.

Doing the math, if you buy the large container of 20 organic chicken dumplings from Wegmans for $8, that works out to $.40 cents per organic chicken dumpling; if you buy the small container of organic chicken dumplings from Wegmans for $5, that works out to $.50 cents per organic chicken dumpling.

However, by weight-and really, by-and-large, all foods in this world, now and throughout history, are measured in and priced by weight-if you purchase for $5 a small container of organic chicken dumplings, which weigh a total of 12 ounces, you're paying about $.42 cents per ounce of organic chicken dumpling, or about $6.72 per pound of prepared organic chicken dumpling; if you purchase for $8 a large container of organic chicken dumplings, which weigh a total of 20 ounces, you're paying about $.40 cents per ounce of prepared organic chicken dumpling, or about $6.40 a pound.

Comparing the two selections of Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings, we see a large difference when comparing them by prices, portions and weight; instead of realizing a savings of $2, like you think you're getting when purchasing the large container, which has double the quantity ( 20 ) of organic chicken dumplings than the quantity ( 10 ) in the smaller container, but not double the weight, you're only realizing a savings of $.40 cents.

It's four ounces that's missing from the larger container; at $.40 cents per ounce of prepared organic chicken dumplings when purchasing the large container of 20 ounces for $8, instead of saving the $2 you thought you were, you're only saving about $.40 cents, since $.40 cents per ounce multiplied by four missing ounces equals $1.60, and $2 ( what you perceive you're saving when buying a large container with a double quantity of dumplings for $8 instead of the small container for $5 ) minus $1.60 equals $.40 cents.

Don't you just hate it when grocers set a price for the sale of food and then trick you into believing if you buy twice the amount of organic chicken dumplings you'll save 20%, when in fact you're not because Wegmans used false scales when apportioning out to you the double portion of Wegmans Organic Chicken Dumplings you were supposed to get.

Sources:

Wegmans, Organic Chicken Dumplings, https://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&productId=675679&catalogId=10002&krypto=QJrbAudPd0vzXUGByeatog%3D%3D&ddkey=http:ProductDisplay

Wegmans, Organic Chicken Dumplings, http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SearchResults?topsearch=true&Ne=5&Ntt=organic%20chicken%20dumplings&Ntk=All&langId=-1&storeId=10052&Ntx=mode%20MatchAllPartial&N=0&catalogId=10002&Nty=1