Review: Atkins Italian-Style Pasta Bake

I've touched on several Atkins products on the blog before and that includes nutrition bars, drinks and also frozen foods.  Today, I'll be dabbling once again in frozen food territory as I was able to pick up this Atkins Italian-Style Pasta Bake at Kroger for $3.99 (I had a coupon to knock that price down to $2.99 thankfully).  This one came in at a solid 9.0 ounces and had 360 calories with a pounding 33 grams of protein.

Review: MorningStar Farms Meal Starters Sausage-Style Recipe Crumbles

[Editor's Note:  This product has been discontinued.  DOH!]

I haven't exactly had the best luck with MorningStar Farms reviews on this blog.  While I've always found their vegetarian products to be mostly tasty, I've always found the cost/portion size of the products to be cost prohibitive and not something that I'd want to spend money on.  Being that my wallet is a glutton for punishment, I decided I'd try again using these MorningStar Farms Meal Starters Sausage-Style Recipe Crumbles (I can't find a good link on the website; looks like they may have discontinued this, so uh-oh).  I picked these up on sale (a key reason for my purchase) at Marsh for $2.99 since I had a $1.00 off coupon.

They say that one twelve ounce package of this is the equivalent to one pound of ground sausage, so when you look at the regular price, it's not really a ton different from the price of ground sausage at the supermarket.  When you factor in the coupon that I had, it becomes an even better deal.  FYI, each serving in the package contains 90 calories, so it's definitely "healthier" than sausage.  Costs aside, how did this one taste?

Review: MorningStar Farms Frozen Lasagna with Sausage-Style Crumbles

First things first, I am not a full-on vegetarian.  That said, as a way of controlling my calorie intake and monitoring my health, I do try to live a semi-vegetarian lifestyle be trying to contain my meat intake to only two days a week.  Because of this, I'm always looking for ways to get past the normal "boring" vegetarian-type food of fruits, grains, vegetables, etc.  That led me to MorningStar Farms line of frozen vegetarian products and this Lasagna with Sausage-Style Crumbles.  At 270 calories for an "entree", it's not a belt buster either.  This was purchased at Marsh on sale for $3.99.