This is one of the Weight Watchers® Smart Ones® Fruit Inspirations™ meals that they have been bringing out recently. I have enjoyed others in this collection and thought I should try this, since I enjoyed the other turkey meal so well. This appears to have bits of cranberry with the turkey pieces, stuffing and a mix of red potato wedges and green beans and carrots.

This is a hearty dish. It allows you to have some wonderful cranberries and turkey along with stuffing and potatoes and it is nicely done. But, I did have questions when I first looked at the package and compared it with what I got inside the box! I will explain what happened next.

The Product

The box has a wonderful picture of some delightful looking pieces of roasted turkey with just a drizzling of cranberry sauce. I was afraid the cranberry sauce would be overpowering or there would be way too much of it. I like cranberry sauce, in moderation. This definitely would fit moderation, as you really could not find the cranberry sauce! The stuffing looks wonderful and the potatoes with green beans and carrots look divine. But, let me just say, the picture is enticing and looking at the product in the dish wasn’t so enticing!

The turkey, I almost worried about it. After microwaving the meal for the required amount of time (3 – 4 minutes depending on your microwave), I noticed the turkey appeared a bit pink. I wondered if the turkey wasn’t done. Then, I thought about the cranberry sauce and realized that it must be the coloring coming from the cranberry sauce (which I could not find really anywhere in the dish, even under the turkey pieces).

The flavor was very nice. The turkey pieces were nicely flavored and there quite a few pieces to be had! The stuffing wasn’t too bad either and had a really nice flavor as well. It appeared to be a bit more stuffing than the other Smart Ones® meal that had turkey and stuffing in it. That was mostly bread crumbs only. This had bits of celery, onions, and seasoning included making it a bit more true to “stuffing” that I enjoy.

The potatoes and the vegetables mixed in were very nice as well. They had that tender crisp quality to them making them seem steamed almost rather than micro waved in a meal. Most times when I have had micro waved vegetables they invariably seem to turn out mushy and unpalatable.

The Ingredients

Cooked turkey medallions (turkey breast meat, water, seasoning, [autolyzed yeast extract, maltodextrin (corn), salt, turkey flavor, turkey stock, flavor, gum Arabic], modified cornstarch, salt, canola oil, carrageenan, sodium phosphate, natural flavoring, paprika), water, potatoes, breadcrumbs (enriched bleached wheat flour [flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], vinegar, vegetable oil shortening [soybean], sugar, salt, leavening [sodium bicarbonate], yeast, yeast nutrients [calcium sulfate, ammonium chloride], dough conditioners [ascorbic acid, l-cysteine monohydrochloride, azodicarbonamide], spice extractive), carrots, cranberries, green beans, sugar, celery, contains 2% or less of: seasoning (corn maltodextrin, onion, dehydrated turkey meat [contains bha, propyl gallate, citric acid), sugar, spices, soybean oil, dehydrated celery, parsley, garlic, sulfur dioxide), soybean oil, apple juice glaze (maltodextrin [corn], modified food starch [corn, tapioca], methylcellulose gum, xanthan gum), cornstarch, red wine vinegar (sulfites), orange juice concentrate, sea salt, spices, flavoring (hydrolyzed vegetable protein [hydrolyzed corn gluten, dextrose, disodium inosinate and guanylate], autolyzed yeast extract [autolyzed yeast extract, flavor], soy flour, lactic acid, calcium lactate, dried chicken broth, chicken fat, dried chicken meat, dried onion), xanthan gum, parsley, onion, butter flavor (whey solids [milk], modified butter oil and dehydrated butter, corn syrup solids, salt, guar gum, annatto, turmeric), garlic, annatto (soy), black pepper.

Contains milk, soybeans, wheat

Nutritional Information

All of these details, including the ingredient list above are taken directly from the box. This nutritional information is based upon a standard 2,000 calorie diet and is based upon 1 serving (which is 1 box).

Calories 350 Calories from Fat 40
Total Fat 4.5g or 7%
Saturated Fat 1g or 5%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.5g
Cholesterol 25mg or 9%
Sodium 560mg or 23%
Total Carbohydrate 59g or 20%
Dietary Fiber 4g or 16%
Sugars 23g
Protein 18g
Vitamin A 25%
Vitamin C 10%
Calcium 6%
Iron 15%

Overall Impressions

This meal rates 7 points on the Weight Watchers® points system if you use that at all. Overall, this is one of the lower sodium content meals that I recall. I wonder if it is due to their use of sea salt that I saw in the ingredients. I don’t know, but it’s nice to see and I hope they continue down that path1

I enjoyed the flavor quite a bit. This meal really did take care of my hunger for the rest of the work day. I appreciate that. Normally, I don’t pack a snack for the afternoon and I find some of the meals leave me hungry a short while later. But, this one did not. It really seemed to take care of those hunger pangs. I enjoyed the turkey as well, as it did make me feel the happiness that surrounds families during Thanksgiving. I will definitely be getting this meal again.

~Thanks for spending time with me today!~

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