Boston Market At Home

Boston Market was a restaurant chain that offered semi-fast food service where you can order meals with carved meats and sides. They were pretty popular at one point, but I am unsure if there are still any stores remaining. Hmm, there appears to be 344 stores remaining across America. The ones that were close to where I live are closed though.

On my last trip to the supermarket, I found these Boston Market frozen entrees. The bowls were two for $5 so I bought two to try. I had the Fried Chicken Bowl just now for lunch. I was too lazy to type out the nutritional information so I just took a screenshot:

I bought this meal because the nutritional content was not too bad. There is a bit too much sodium, but that is typically true for all commercially prepped food. The carbohydrate and sugar content was pretty low so I am hoping that it will not spike my blood sugar. Since there is quite a bit of potatoes, I was concerned about the potassium content. Unfortunately, that information is not listed on the package. As for taste, it is about a 3 out of 5. Because the instructions said to mix the ingredients during microwaving, all the food flavors were mixed together. There was bacon in the mashed potatoes and it overwhelmed the taste of just about everything else. The chicken was okay, but you could not tell that it was “fried” due to microwave cooking. If the price is still $2.50, I would probably buy it again.

Common to all pre-packaged food, the photo on the box does not necessarily match the actual content. Here is the pretty picture on the website:

And here it is after cooking in my 1200 watt microwave:

Definitely not the same. It is also a bit overcooked, even though I took 30 seconds off the cooking time. The bowl was pretty shallow so you are not getting a huge bowl of mashed potatoes implied by the website photo. There was a lot of chicken though. Typically companies skimp on the meat protein part of the meal, but this was pretty filling. I did buy another different Boston Market frozen enteée so I will have to try it later.

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As a comparison, check out the nutritional information for their Sweet and Sour Chicken entrée. There is a lot more carbs and added sugar.

35 grams of sugar! That is ~70% of % daily value and will definitely require more insulin.