Review - "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts"

My husband and I get home pretty late some nights, so we are always on the lookout for foods that are easy to prepare and ready fast. If they are inexpensive and taste good it's a bonus! Milford Valley makes a variety of Stuffed Chicken breasts that fit the bill. The varieties we have found and tried are " Kiev", "Cordon Bleu", and "Broccoli and Cheese". This is a review of the "Broccoli and Cheese" variety.

We bought "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts" when they were on sale for just one dollar each at Hy-Vee. This seemed like a pretty good deal for a quick and easy meal. If you read the (not so) fine print you will see that this is a "stuffed chicken breast with rib meat patty", so it is basically a giant chicken nugget. Each "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast" comes in a green package with a picture of the product: a breaded patty "pocket" spilling out a cheese sauce and broccoli. The description tells us that the "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast" is an "uncooked breaded chicken breast with rib meat patty, stuffed with Broccoli and Cheese. So this looked and sounded really good.

"Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts" taste very good. The chicken is tender and not as rubbery as a typical nugget, so in that way it exceeded expectations. The breading was bland and didn't add much as far as flavor, but it does add a nice little bit of texture. The filling of cheese and broccoli was not as generous as I had hoped, but what there was of it was a creamy, well-balanced blend. Overall, this was my favorite variety of "Milford Valley Farms Stuffed Chicken Breasts". (Though no one else in my family would eat it, as they don't like broccoli)

The biggest drawback to "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts" is that they are not great for you. Each one has 330 calories and twenty five percent of you saturated fat!!! It also has thirteen percent of your cholesterol and thirty two percent of your sodium. In return you get four percent of your Vitamin A, six percent of your Calcium, ten percent of your Iron, twelve percent of your fiber, and nineteen grams of protein. So it's not all bad, but probably not worth the tradeoff in my opinion. Especially as someone with a bigger appetite will probably have to eat a couple to feel full.

So if you are looking for a quick, easy, inexpensive meal, "Milford Valley Farms Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts" fit the bill and they taste very good. Though they aren't as bad for you as the Kiev or Cordon Bleu variety, if you are looking for really good nutrition, I'd still look elsewhere.