Biscuits and gravy

Or, as I like to refer to them, alchemical wonders of the modern age. Seriously, someone sold a soul to the devil* for the recipe to this one. Either that, our it's proof that science had truly gone too far.
Why? Well, it's not because these are the best biscuits and gravy you'll every have or some crazy idea like that. Simply the fact that two bags of powder with some water added and shoved in the microwave for a couple minutes should not be able to come this close to approximating real biscuits and gravy.
That's really all this meal is. It come with two little bags of powder. One for the biscuit and one for the gravy. You add water to both, let the gravy sit while you cook the biscuit in the microwave, and them cook the gravy in the microwave for a minute. Pour gravy on top of biscuit and your meal is ready.
Taste is not everything in a meal like biscuits and gravy, and the texture is where this dish shines. It actually kinda feels like real biscuits and gravy. The biscuit, which is the real wonder of science here, actually feels like a biscuit. At least, as close as one cooked in the microwave will ever feel, and the gravy thickens to a smooth gravy like consistency. It's not perfect, but you can pretend for a couple minutes that what you're eating didn't come out of two bags of powder.
Wish I could say the same for the taste, which is, actually, okay, but does taste like something that comes out of two bags of powder mixed with water and thrown in the microwave. I recommend mixing a veggie sausage in if you have it. Doesn't add too many calories, but adds a lot to the flavor.

Giving this one an even 3 out of 5. It's not the best flavor, but it's worth it for the sheer joy of the sconce experiment involved.

* Why do people always say ”they sold their soul to the devil”? Lets be honest, if a person has gotten to the point of being willing to barter with satan, they're probably awful enough that it's not going to end up being their souls on the line. So someone probably sold someone else's soulto develop this recipe. I think explains a lot of the vacant looks you see on celebrities in my opinion.

28 Days In

I haven't been able to post for the last couple days. I wanted to note that monday was day 28. In four weeks of nutrisystem I lost 16 pounds and my wife lost 9. My first week I lost 7, so I don't expect quite as much of a loss from now on, but it's been a pretty steady 2-3 pounds per week without a lot of extra exercise, and I work a desk job. I started at 263, so not everyone is going to see the same results, but from my experience you're going to lose weight on nutrisystem.

Orange Creme Bars

Wow. That's all I can say. These are so good. The flavor was a little on the light side, but it was a really good flavor. Creamy, but firm. Didn't melt too fast. This was one of the best dreamsicle type ice cream bars I've ever had, and I love dreamsicles, so I don't say that lightly.

4.7 out of 5. It would have gotten 5 out of 5 if it was a little stronger in flavor. I will definitely get more of these.

Chicken Tortilla Soup - Dinner

I want to start by noting the addition of dinner to the title of this post. That's important. There is a chicken tortilla soup for lunch that is very different.

That noted, I want to start with my wife's review of this soup. You see, she started the evening with this as her dinner choice. She took one bite and immediately was disgusted. There was a spice in it that she just couldn't eat. This is a pretty big deal as she has been able to finish everything she has eaten on the plan so far. Needless to say, she was very disappointed, especially since chicken tortilla soup is one of her favorite soups, and ended up eating chili. She gave it a 1 out of 5.

That's not the end of the review, though. I thought I had to try this disgusting mess they'd tried to pass off as soup. Frankly, it wasn't so bad. In fact, since I was in the process of choosing my dinner for the evening, I went ahead and ate the soup completely and was quite satisfied.
I would say there is some thing a little off with one of the spices. It's also very one note. There's a lot of flavor there, but it's mostly just one flavor, which is a fairly generic chile. It had a good heat to it, though, which I like, and it was pretty substantial compared to many other nutrisystem dishes, and the flavor want really bad, either. It just wasn't great.

I'm going to give it a 3.1 out of 5. I'd eat it again, even if it wasn't my favorite.

Fresh frozen ham and cheese omelette

One of the reasons I waited to start these reviews until we'd been doing Nutrisystem for a month was because I pretty much immediately knew I was going to be upgrading to the plan with fresh frozen foods. Today was the first day I was able to try one, so I thought I'd give it a review.

I tried the ham and cheese omelette this morning, and I took the extra step of cooking it in the oven. It took about half an hour to cook at 325. I was hoping this would help it taste a bit better and be a little less rubbery than microwaved eggs often are.
I think this was mostly successful, but it also made the eggs really dry. The filing was quite yummy, although there wasn't enough of it. That's kind of the whole idea of a diet focused on smaller portions, though, so it was fine.

On the whole, one of the better things I've eaten on nutrisystem. I'm giving it a 4.1 out of five. I will be ordering this one again.

Lasagna with meat sauce

There are two different options for lasagna on the Nutrisystem menu, both on the non frozen option. Tonight I had the lasagna with meat sauce.
It comes in a package very similar to many of the other non frozen dinner entrees. You open the box and inside is a little plastic tub similar to the Dinty Moore food packages you might have seen on the grocery store shelf. Lift up the corner, pop it in microwave for a minute and a half and dinner is served.
The lasagna is... not bad. That really is the best way to describe it. It looks like they made some efforts to fancy it up a bit from your typical microwave lasagna, but they still had to make it healthier than those other microwave lasagnas. This means while it may not taste worse than them, there really isn't much taste there at all.

I'm giving it a 2.5 out of 5.

It's not the worst food I've had from Nutrisystem, but far from the best I've had so far.