Review: Healthy Choice Meals Introduces Ravioli Florentine Marinara

Healthy Choice meals are quite satisfying for a number of reasons. Healthy Choice meals offer a variety of flavors and usually hold back the calories and fat content. Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara is a new addition to the line of Healthy Choice meals which I love. Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara brings bite-size pasta pockets of tasty ricotta and spinach tossed in a mozzarella marinara sauce brimming with classic flavor.

Preparation

Getting Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara to your table is quick and easy. There are two ways to prepare the meal: by microwave or in a conventional oven.

Microwave

After cutting a slit in the plastic cover over the food tray, place the meal into your microwave oven and begin cooking for 2 minutes on HIGH. After the Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara has cooked for 2 minutes, remove the tray from the microwave and stir the ravioli and sauce. Put the plastic film back on top of the tray and then resume cooking the meal for another 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 minutes on HIGH.

Once the meal has finished cooking, let the food stand in the microwave for 2 minutes before enjoying the meal.

Conventional Oven

After preheating your conventional oven to 350 degrees, cut a slit in the cover over the Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara and place the meal tray on a baking sheet. Cook the meal on the baking sheet for 30 to 33 minutes.

After the meal has finished cooking, remove the very hot meal from your oven and let the Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara stand for about 2 minutes before enjoying your meal.

Flavor

Healthy Choice meals don't disappoint. While they aren't always the most-filling frozen dinners, Healthy Choice meals do offer great flavor. The Ravioli Florentine Marinara entry into the Healthy Choice line of meals is no exception.

Half-dollar sized ravioli filled with ricotta and spinach bathing in a marinara sauce featuring chunks of onion and tomatoes reminds me a bit of bruschetta. In fact, I'd even say that the sauce tastes a little like bruschetta. The spinach and ricotta really balances out the flavors of onion and tomatoes. A light inclusion of mozzarella cheese tops off this great Italian-inspired meal.

Nutrition

Healthy Choice some how brought us this really great meal with only 240 calories and 4 grams of fat! Check out the complete listing of nutritional facts from the Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara carton below. The numbers correspond to an 8.5-ounce meal, which is a serving size.

Calories 240
Calories from Fat 40
Total Fat 4 grams
Saturated Fat 2 grams
Trans Fat 0 grams
Polyunsaturated Fat 1 gram
Monounsaturated Fat 1 gram
Cholesterol 28 milligrams
Sodium 540 milligrams
Potassium 570 milligrams
Total Carbohydrates 38 grams
Dietary Fiber 6 grams
Sugars 10 grams
Protein 11 grams
Vitamin A 15%
Vitamin B6 4%
Vitamin B12 25%
Vitamin C 6%
Vitamin E 8%
Calcium 20%
Iron 10%
Thiamine 10%
Riboflavin 10%
Niacin 4%
Phosphorus 20%
Magnesium 15%
Zinc 10%
Manganese 50%

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Healthy Choice Ravioli Florentine Marinara carton