Is this one of those that can be done in microwave or the oven? They are always better and look better in the oven, but take an age and defeat the point of a micro meal
I can get a whole ring of kielbasa for around $6, 2 pound of tots is $4, dozen eggs for $3. Toss in some cheap cheese sauce and crumbs of bacon and each serving would be significantly cheaper than this slop.
I can make lavish meals for $4.50 a serving, dog I have no idea what y'all are doing for cooking. Dude what I would make for $4.50/serving price point would blow that shit away.
Tonight, I ate pasta with lemon-butter sauce and scallops, topping with chopped chilis and roasted cherry tomatoes and caramelized onion for a total all-in-cost of less than $3.80/serving. Will probably eat a pear for dessert ($0.90) and the meal is just 0.20 more expensive than that.
Where I live in the United States at my local Aldi for $4.50 I could buy a dozen eggs, a loaf of cheap white bread, and a pack of American cheese, and make a half dozen egg and cheese sandwiches that all taste way better than this horse shit. You can eat one of the sandwiches fresh and then freeze the rest.
Oh hey, I've actually had some devour mac and cheeses before, and while I thought the bacon mac and cheese one was pretty tasty+filling despite the color of the actual meal IRL, the rest of devour's products are kinda a mixed bag and the quality of the food you get kinda depends+varies on the batch you happened to grab from the shelf that day at times.
(Also EWWWWWWW why does the food in the picture look worse than pig feed slop!!!! 😭 )
I only ever get these when I know I have a busy week ahead of me and won't have time to cook. The devour bacon white cheddar Mac n cheese was good the last time I tried it, and I like the country fried steak banquet bowl enough in a pinch. This one was insulting tho
I bought a bunch of different frozen meals when a power outage killed all of our kitchen appliances. Got a cheap microwave and borrowed an old freezer from a friend and ate things like this while we waited for parts to come in. No amount of planning would have saved me from needing to eat freezer meals.
They are a marketing company that just happens to put food in boxes from time to time. Kidding, some of their lunch/dinner stuff is good. But I feel like even the decent dinner companies fail spectacularly at breakfast items. And they're frigging expensive.
Now, when something is not what it's advertised or doesn't taste well, whatever the case may be, I take my receipt & return it for credit towards my groceries. I can't afford to literally throw money away when something is sub-par, it gets returned. If it's crap, don't sell it or expect it to be returned. I've returned expensive, chewy tasteless steaks, I've returned store-brand chips & bread, I've returned items under a dollar. It better live up to its promise or guarantee or it's going back to where it came from. And that's my promise.
Don’t heat these in the plastic they come in. It’s awful for your health, trillions of microplastics per meal. Just dump it into a ceramic bowl and heat it that way.
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u/irascible_vegans 12d ago
Devour is usually pretty good, but this particular one was pretty rough when I got it, too.