An Outsider's Guide to the Insider Report

I started this post a while ago (it looks like on 2007/05/24) after the Summer insider's report first arrived. I held off posting to make sure I had a chance to try everything that caught my eye (prefix PC to everything)

Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies - these are very tasty. Like the old school Dad's Oatmeal Cookies I used to eat but even tastier. Checking out the nutritional information was sort of a let down because if you care about your heart and saturated fats you'll have to scale back the cookie consumption. Tough but necessary.

Naan Chicken Tandoori Pizza and Pita Chicken Souvlaki Pizza - These were on for $4.49 when the report first came out. Supposedly each box will feed multiple people - I elect to eat the whole thing in a sitting. The Naan chicken tandoori pizza is the better of the two

Field and Grove Juice - There's a mango "based" one and a berry "based" one. "based" because there are a lot of other juices in there besides the one that forms the theme. These are $1.69 currently for 1L. For juice I think that's not bad. I'm a fan of both of these although the mango is my favorite. The concept is similar to the V8 Fusion that as far as I know isn't in Canada yet but was very tasty when I've had a sip down under (in the US).

PC Bento Chicken Yakitori & PC Bento Salmon Teriyaki - No real surprise Salmon is the winner here. They're both pretty good. It's pretty wild and crazy - the instructions say you should heat it up without lifting up a corner to let the steam escape. I followed the instructions and it turned out well. The gyoza is in a little too much sauce and it's sad you only get one. The rice is sort of weird and it wears on you but overall the meal's pretty good. Sure we use some of reusable bags Galen Weston is nuts about to bring the meal home but I still feel like maybe this massive fake bento box and chop sticks (which are a nice bonus that we save) might not be the most environmentally friendly meal. Oh well, the price again is the main deterrent that prevents me from getting these more frequently.

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This is also part of a bigger rant (that I may continue late) I have that if food is packaged like it should be a complete meal then there should be enough calories for a complete meal. I'm tired of seeing all these "meals" with less than 500 calories. "Healthy" meals are the worst. It's not healthy to slowly starve to death and if it defeats the point of healthiness if I need to have multiple cokes to get enough calories. If it's a snack sized portion label and price it as such. I'll rant more about this some other time
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Those are all the products I seem to recall trying. Here's the full listing of new products. I may try some more so faithful blog readers can look forward to that!