Over the course of the past year, I have been trying out
different packaged pulled chicken meals. I like a slightly sweet yet smoky
barbecue sauce with my pulled chicken. I
had high hopes for this Trader Joe’s
Pulled Chicken Breast with Rib Meat in Smoky BBQ Sauce.
A serving size is 1/3 of the package – 151grams. Its 140 calories for the serving and only 3
points plus values which I felt was impressive.
What really sold me was the “smoky BBQ sauce” so I decided to take a
gamble and pick up a package. I heated
it through for lunch one afternoon, piled my serving onto a Trader Joe’s
multigrain slim and paired it with a cut up microwave cooked potato for “fries.”
At first it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t delicious. It was smoky but also somewhat sweet. It was a
simple meal – rather mediocre and not rave worthy. I finished my serving, put the rest away and
the next day I heated the remainder through to make a sandwich for my boyfriend
and I. Well, I bit into a piece of what I
call grizzle. You know that hard, “plastic”
type cartilage that you can sometimes find in chicken? Well … let me just say, I have texture issues
and the moment I bit into that, I was done. I was no longer hungry, I was
repulsed and my sandwich went into the garbage.
I’m starting to believe my quest to find A++ style pulled
chicken, that’s not bad points plus wise, is not going to happen unless I just
make it myself.
QUESTION:
Have you tried the Trader Joe’s pulled chicken?
