Product Review of Two Dinners from Tai Pei

The PEPPER STEAK DINNER comes in a 14.2 oz (403 g) box like regular take out Chinese food. You cook it right in the box and do not remove the plastic wrap by putting it in the microwave to cook it for about five to six minutes. The box contains beef, vegetables black pepper sauce and steamed rice. My husband ate this as I was going to eat the Garlic Shrimp, but I also tried some of this.

It was very tasty and had an assortment of vegetable, having green peas, carrots, beans broccoli, and celery. The meat is cooked seasoned beef and there was just the right amount of beef to satisfy my husband. He was quite full in spite of the fact he doesn't care for rice and there was just too much of this to suit him; he still went away full with not eating much of the rice.

The serving amount is listed as 190 calories, with 29 grams of carbohydrates, 7 gr protein but 10 gr of sugar which was a little high for a diabetic.. It says that 1 cup should be the serving size, I really don't agree that it would have three servings in the box, but if you were to share a box with two people it would easily suffice if you were medium eaters.

The sauce is a bit sweet for my taste but delicious however I am not used to eating anything sweet because I am diabetic. However, it was a very nice frozen Chinese dinner and quite tasty for the price. My husband even commented it was good and he is hard to please when it comes to readily-prepared food.

The box lists the ingredients as cooked rice, water, soy sauce, sugar, canola oil, white wine, toasted sesame oil, garlic, green onions, corn starch, celery, beef, beef stock, yeast extract, salt, cotton seed oil, corn syrup, onion powder soybeans, wheat, seed and sulfites.

I got this product on sale at Albertsons for 2/$4 and felt it was a good buy for the money and made a good change from the traditional TV dinners. We don't eat many TV dinners but it since it was payday and we had been running paying bills, doing errands all day, it was a nice change.

The GARLIC SHRIMP DINNER is packaged in a box like the pepper steak. It has only six shrimp, too many carrots, broccoli snow peas, onions, bell peppers, shallots and a few water chestnuts and is cooked the same way as the Pepper steak in the microwave.. It calls for 1 serving to be 70 calories, 3 grams of sugar, 6 grams of protein. It could only really be consumed by one person, but had a wonderful sauce that was tasty. It also has wheat products and soy in it, so if you are allergic to either I would not recommend it to you. However, as a diabetic, it was quite good other than it was over done with way too many carrots. The package was 12 oz. (340 grams) but was more than enough for a nice healthy Chinese frozen dinner for one person.

All in all if you get these two products on sale for 2/$4 it was a bargain and we both enjoyed our meals.