Review: Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers

I'm doing a lot of shopping around these days for some healthy frozen meals. One of the lines of frozen dinners I like is Healthy Choice. I recently found Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers. In my recollection, I hadn't had potstickers before, so I decided to try out the Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers as a way of introducing my mouth to another item in the Asian cuisine I love.

Let's take a look at how easy it is to prepare Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers, talk a bit about the flavor, and find out how this Healthy Choice frozen dinner does in the nutrition department. Hang on, while there is so much to brag about with the good numbers on the food label, there are one or two areas you may want to watch out for!

Preparation

Here's some good news for you folks without microwave ovens: Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers can be cooked in a conventional oven! With the rise in frozen dinners today which aren't being made for conventional oven preparation, it's nice to find that there are some tantalizingly new and fresh frozen dinners like these Asian potstickers which are designed for the 'ol conventional oven!

Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers can be zapped in the microwave in just 4 minutes on high. Be sure you cut a slit in the cover before first placing them in the microwave. Rotate the potstickers after the first 2 minutes then return them to be cooked for 1-1/2 to 2 minutes more on high. They'll have to stand for 2 minutes before being enjoyed.

If you're going to cook your potstickers in a conventional oven, preheat it to 350 degrees first, then after cutting a slit in the cover, place the plastic dinner tray from the box on a cookie sheet in the hot oven for 28 to 33 minutes. After this time has passed, let the meal stand in the oven for 2 minutes then you can go ahead and devour your hot Asian potstickers.

Flavor

I'm finding Healthy Choice offers some really filling meals. Of course, Healthy Choice meals aren't nearly as big for the most part as Hungry Man meals, but when you compare the two lines' food labels there's no comparison - good combinations of flavor and healthy meals are rather hard to come by in the frozen food arena. Again, flavor claims a victory with the Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers.

The meal includes 3 Asian potstickers stuffed with cabbage, vermicelli, tofu, bulgar wheat, rice, water chestnuts, green beans, onions, and carrots. These 3 potstickers reside on a lush layer of brown rice, carrots, red peppers, and scallions - and everything is lightly layered in a zesty soy sauce.

I use the word "dynamic" sparingly when describing the flavor of any frozen meal, but I've got to say the Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers are probably one of the closest things I've had yet which at the very least verges on having "dynamic" flavor. Again, keep in mind this in terms of frozen dinners. Still though, the flavor of these Asian potstickers is, in my opinion, highly satisfying.

Nutrition

Okay, so overall the Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers belong to one of the - literally - healthiest lines of frozen food you're going to find in most grocery stores. But how do each of the areas on the nutrition label look? Well, as I promised, there is much good... but there are a couple areas you're going to be a little concerned about if you're on a strict carbs or sodium diet.

Oh, but you'll like the counts for dietary fiber, calories, cholesterol, folic acid, protein, and many of the vitamins and minerals! Check them out below...

These numbers apply to a full 10-ounce meal:

380 calories
45 calories from fat
4.5 grams total fat
1 gram saturated fat
0 grams trans fat
2 grams polyunsaturated fat
1.5 grams monounsaturated fat
0 milligrams (mg) cholesterol
560 mg sodium
220 mg potassium
75 grams carbohydrates
6 grams dietary fiber
18 grams sugar
8 grams protein
30% Vitamin A daily recommended intake
4% calcium
20% Vitamin E
8% riboflavin
4% Vitamin B6
15% phosphorus
8% zinc
6% Vitamin C
6% iron
10% thiamine
2% niacin
30% folic acid
15% magnesium
50% manganese

The Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers is a frozen meal I'm definitely going to enjoy again. The flavor is great, most the food label numbers are good, and this meal is actually filling - at least for me.

I bought the Healthy Choice Asian Potstickers for $2.39 at a Sweetbay Supermarket grocer in Central Florida during January 2010.

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