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Ever since my husband and I were diagnosed as pre-diabetic, I’ve been looking for short-cut meals with manageable carb counts that can be prepared quickly. I’m still figuring all this out.
I found Taylor Farms vegetable-based meal kits at Meijer grocery* that I wanted to test. This one, Lemon Pesto Veggies with Pasta + Sauce, $4.99, was decent.
The carb count was 11g per 1 cup serving. The bag said it contained “about” 5 servings; I found that optimistic, although I didn’t measure.
To stretch the servings and increase protein (for an actual meal), I added about 1 1/2 cups of medium, cooked shrimp straight out of the freezer. It would have been helpful to notice that they were tail-on! How bone-headed was that?
I picked them back out and cut off the tails. I added the shrimp with the package of sauce included in the kit once the vegetables were nearly tender.
It did come together quickly, but I didn’t make it in the 7 minutes advertised on the package, what with adding frozen shrimp and the whole shrimp-tail debacle. It took 10 or 12 minutes — still fast.
The sauce was enough to flavor the addition of shrimp. There wasn’t much pasta, but it still felt like a treat. Total carbs for the bag was 55g; per 1 cup serving, 8 or 9 grams. Not bad; low enough to eat more than 1 cup. The photo shows about 1 1/4 cups on a small plate.
There was enough for two meals; we also had salad.
* According to a Google search, Target and Walmart also carry the kits.
Hi, Debby. Interesting stuff, but I’m curious about something. I’ve avoided buying all forms of what I call mail-order dinners, figuring that I can make something healthful and tasty for less than it costs to have it shipped to me. Am I off-base?
Not at all off base, Bill. This is basically a packet of sauce, a cup of cooked noodles and veggies someone else chopped. Simple to do yourself and control everything. The only trick is cutting each of the different veggies the right size so they cook in the same time. I suspect I was tired the day I bought this (and another one I may review).