Review: Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken

Overall

2.5

Is Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken any good?

This is a mediocre frozen meal for my money. The flavor is unrelentingly sweet, which might be your thing, it’s not mine. The chicken pieces are lackluster and mushy too.

I was hesitant to try this one, I was certain I knew what was going to happen here. Sadly, I have to report I wasn’t wrong – this frozen meal’s piece de resistance is a bludgeoning of surgery sweetness. I had chanced my luck, maybe there was something of nuance here, after all the Moroccan Beef in this product line was great. Nope, this was a fairly generic tangerine orange flavored sauce screaming with sweetness.

Naturally, there’s a huge portion of the populace that will lap this up, but not me. I was additionally not too impressed with the piece of chicken in the dish, which microwave up fairly mushy. Add on top of that the vegetable studded rice, which wasn’t too amazing either, this was a bit of a let down. Still, for the price I paid (see below) I didn’t feel too disappointed overall.

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken – what’s in the box?

Inside the cardboard packaging you’ll find the microwavable plastic pack ready to go.

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken nutrition

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken ingredients

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken cooking instructions

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken package front

Lean Cuisine Marketplace Orange Chicken nutrition – what’s a fair price?

Like other items in this range, the product is priced at $2.50. At least they are at my local Walmart, and I feel that’s a fair price.

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Stuart

Hi I’m Stuart, professional food writer and long time eater. You can find my writing at places like Gastronomic SLC, Visit Salt Lake, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Stories, Utah Now Online and many others.

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