Smart Ones® Pineapple Beef Teriyaki – Delicious, but doesn’t look like the photo!
Written: Apr 03 '08 (Updated Apr 07 '08)
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Pros: Decent flavor, nice combination of ingredients.
Cons: Lacks fiber, not many pieces of beef.
The Bottom Line: Decent flavor, decent ingredients, but could use more beef and put some fiber in the dish!
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| Magick1's Full Review: Smart Ones Fruit Inspirations Pineapple Beef Teriy... |
Weight Watchers® Smart Ones® are trying new items in their Fruit Inspirations ™ selections. This is a new items and I was eager to try it, as others that I have had were quite delicious! This meal is another quick fix item that takes 3 – 4 minutes in the microwave! You cannot beat that if you are pressed for time! (Conventional oven preparation does take longer – 35 minutes on 350 degrees.)
The Product
The product has a 6 point values on the Weight Watchers® points system, if you are looking for this information! It has tender beef strips, juicy pineapple and rice with peppers and carrots. The flavor is very lightly teriyaki and has a sweet pepper bite with the sweetness of pineapple to squash the burning sensation of the peppers!
Mind you, this is not a HOT dish, but it is spicy. They have red and green peppers in this meal and the seasoning for the teriyaki flavoring. The peppers are a very nice, strongly flavored batch of peppers which provided a nice little kick in the meal. The teriyaki, from my previous teriyaki dishes from the Smart Ones® line did not seem to have a kick, only a sweet, slightly sour flavor. But, this dish does have a bit of a flavor kick in your teeth! I loved it!
The pineapple inside the meal was juicy, but it reminded me of grilled pineapple. They have (obviously,) the cooked texture of pineapple with the super sweet juicy flavor, rather than a crisp, fresh consistency that you would find if you cut a pineapple fresh and ate it. (Some of the dishes that I have tried from the Smart Ones® meals seem to have the fresh tender crisp (vegetable) consistency and I was thinking possibly the pineapple would be that way too, but it was not.)
There was plenty of rice available in this meal. But, the beef strips seemed small and lacking. (I like steak and beef a lot, so this was a drawback for me). But, the pineapple pieces were very nice in quantity and they were not large pieces. The pineapple pieces were about the same size you would get if you purchased a pre-cut can of pineapple pieces from the store, roughly about 1 inch long and ¼ to ½ in wide.
The Ingredients
This list is nowhere near the length of others from the Weight Watchers® Smart Ones® food line.
Cooked beef (beef, beef stock, and less than 2% modified cornstarch, dextrose, salt, sodium phosphates, hydrolyzed soy protein, beef flavor [beef broth, monosodium phosphate, flavor, beef tallow], autolyzed yeast extract, caramel color, spice extractives), cooked enriched white rice (water, enriched rice [white rice, ferric orthophosphate, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid]), water, pineapple, bell peppers (red, green), carrots, brown sugar, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, vinegar, lactic acid), contains 2% or less of: soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt, alcohol), pineapple juice concentrate, cornstarch, garlic puree, onions, canola oil, spices, paprika, flavors, xanthan gum.
Contains soybeans, wheat
Nutritional Information
This information, like the ingredients, is taken directly from the box. The nutrition information is based upon a standard 2,000 calorie diet.
Calories 260 Calories from Fat 40
Total Fat 4.5g or 7%
Saturated Fat 1.5g or 7%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 40mg or 14%
Sodium 740 mg or 31%
Total Carbohydrates 38g or 13%
Dietary Fiber 0g or 0%
Sugars 15g
Protein 18g
Vitamin A 20%
Vitamin C 45%
Calcium 4%
Iron 10%
Overall Impressions
I enjoyed the flavor of this meal quite a bit. It had a decent little punch from the peppers and a sweetness from the pineapple that was genuinely delightful. The small teriyaki kick along with flavors mentioned just prior, all complimented each other very well.
I know that I would prefer more beef strips in the meal and I would enjoy having a mix of wild rice and the white rice to make it better in the fiber count! This dish had NO fiber and that was disappointing, considering how much they claim we all need more fiber in our diets.
I am still out as to whether or not I will purchase this dish again. I am not afraid of it, but I just prefer to have fiber, flavor, and variety. If it comes down to where I am getting bored rotating through all of the other great flavors I enjoy, I likely will grab one, but it will be very infrequent. If you enjoy a meal with a little beef, teriyaki flavor, rice and peppers, you will enjoy this dish!
As mentioned in other reviews, you can usually get some pretty decent sales on these products. Keep an eye on your local market savings fliers and watch for a bargain and stock up on a wide variety of meals. Smart Ones meals definitely have a great variety to choose from and you should have a lot of choices!
Check out my other reviews for Weight Watchers products:
Honey Mango Barbeque Chicken
Meatloaf
Chicken Fettucini
Dragon Shrimp Lo Mein
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