Shipping Box - Weight (21 Meals) is a Consideration for a Senior or Elderly Person to Carry
Packaging was Excellent. No Shifting Trays During Shipping and Food Stayed Cold
No Broken Seals on Microwave Trays
Only 1 of 21 Meals had Some Water in the Trays, a Huge Improvement
Cheese Omelet with Mini Pancakes and Syrup, Nice Breakfast
Beef and Noodles Much Better in 2017
Chili and Cornbread Much Better in 2017
Spaghetti Dinner Much Better in 2017
Pork Tenderloin Much Better in 2017 and a Now a Complete Meal
Tuna Casserole Better in 2017 with a Larger Portion Size and a Very Tasty Dessert
Lasagna Much Better in 2017 and Now a Complete Meal
Chicken and Noodles Better in 2017 and Now a Complete Meal
Chicken Fajita - Reheated Perfectly and a Huge Portion Size. Restaurant Quality
Cheeseburger - Reheated Perfectly, a Challenge for Most Meal Delivery Services
Beef Meatballs with Mushroom Gravy - The Perfect Al Dente Pasta was the Star of the Show
Beef Goulash and Mixed Vegetables
Mushroom Risotto, a Pleasent Surprise at this Price
Chicken Marsala - Very Large Portion Size
Chicken Alfredo
Salisbury Steak
Breakfast Scramble
Cheese Omelet with French Toast - Portion Size was a Little too Skimpy
Meatloaf
"Beef goulash over pasta is really rotini in meat sauce."
Barbecued chicken is basted with barbecue sauce and grilled. What they sent was another chicken patty, cooked via microwave or whatever process (no grill marks) with a dab of barbecue sauce on top. Flip it over; no barbecue sauce on the bottom, therefore proving the sauce was added before sealing the package, but not in cooking.
Beef goulash over pasta is really rotini in meat sauce—no beef chunks at all. SO that is total false advertising. Beef goulash is beef chunks, usually chuck, over egg noodles. Goulash is an Austrian/Hungarian dish. Rotini with meat sauce is an Italian pasta dish. BUT the package does claim to be goulash over pasta. I defy anyone at Mom’s Meals to produce a cookbook that says, “to make goulash boil some rotini and spoon in a little meat sauce.”
The meatloaf and the Salisbury steak seem to be the same thing (beef patty of “beef, textured protein”). The meatloaf has a little squirt of ketchup, the Salisbury steak has some brown gravy, both very dried out.
The “Pepper Steak with gravy over penne pasta and spiced fruit crisp” is not a steak, it is just another beef patty (literally labeled “Salisbury steak” on the ingredients), no peppers, some gravy with rice, not pasta. There was no spiced fruit crisp, but the compartment was about 1/5 filled with what I think were cranberries in a very sweet sugary syrup.
The website (https://www.momsmeals.com/our-food/) says “safekeeping of meals in a refrigerator for 14 days from the date of delivery.” The delivery was November 11, 2021. But some of the meals say “good until Dec 3.” Some have no date on them at all, so you just don’t know.
On November 11, 2021, Beatrice at Mom’s Meals promised to have a supervisor call me. As of today. November 26, 2021, nothing yet.
-Joseph Zodl
Phoeniz AZ
Thank you for sharing your senior meal review