Advantages: Quick and Easy Disadvantages: It smells, your mouth smells, your house smells!
Tesco Chicken ChowMein - Ready meals
Since I have moved out of the family home I have become a bit of a fan of ready meals, and being as there's a Tesco within a stone's throw away I've become even more of a slob!
I bought a meal from the fresh section as something I could take to work, however, I always try out a meal in the house first so that I know I will not waste it in work if I don't like it.
I picked up this one for £2.27 for 450g. So it's quite pricey for an individual fresh meal, considering that the Frozen meals are often buy a few for a set price.
# The packaging
The red range is for all oriental ready meals. The picture on the front is of noodles, chicken and peppers. It looks colourful and delicious.
The inner dish is a comical, rather large plastic bowl with a clear plastic film lid. (I find it ...
Advantages: Relatively quick, easy, really tasty, and not a lot of washing up Disadvantages: Lot of calories in the sate sauce
For a real treat, and for me to do my share of the cooking for my wife and I, I purchased a packet of Vesta ChowMein for one, some fresh bean shoots, a pair of chicken breasts, soy sauce and smooth peanut butter.
I cubed the chicken and put the pieces on skewers to roast in the oven. Following the conventional instructions on the packet I placed the ChowMein and soft noodles in a saucepan. Whilst this was simmering for 20 minutes I made the sate sauce.
Two dessert spoonfuls of peanut butter (it is very rich so no need for much more) mixed with equal amounts of water and soy sauce and mixed to a pourable consistency. Just gently heat this up just before serving.
For the final two minutes of cooking the ChowMein I added the bean shoots to bulk it ip for a two person serving. They only need warming through to retain some ...
Advantages: You get to eat chinese food! Disadvantages: not the healthiest option
I love Chinese food so much! But as it can be quite expensive I turn to the supermarkets to help me out.
At Tesco's I can always rely on good prices, when I went to the Chinese food section i was impressed as they have a lot for selection.
I am writing this review based on the fresh prepared ready meal of Tesco's own chicken chow main.
It takes about 20 minutes to cook in the oven 190c/375f or in the microwave on full power for 5 minutes.
I cook mine in the oven as I can do other jobs around the house while it's cooking and the smell coming from the oven always makes me want the food more and therefore enjoy eating it, but that could just be me and my weird eating habits.
Anyway, the chow main I have found always has plenty of chicken pieces in, which is nice as I hate feel that I've be hard done by. The chicken after ...
