It's basically your gluten free hamburger helper. I was excited to find it at my local QFC, and I remember it only being about $5. There were three meal options total, I got the Cheeseburger Mac and Creamy Tuna. This was a great option to try out when my hubby was out of town and I was too tired to make a proper dinner.
The dinner was easy enough to make, you do the same kind of deal as a hamburger helper meal - brown the beef, add the liquids and sauce mix, then add the pasta and let cook. Usually I have browned ground beef in my freezer ready to throw in meals, which would have made this dinner really a 15 minute dinner like it claims. As I had to thaw and then brown the beef, it was a little over half an hour from start to finish, still not a bad deal.
The pasta only took 13 minutes to cook.. It smelled pretty good as it was cooking! I was doing the dishes while cooking dinner, and both were successful! So the ease part of the meal kit was definitely there. The pasta held up nicely in the pan, I only cooked it for 12 minutes and that was perfect. If you like your GF pasta al dente you may want to cook it a little less.
The texture of the pasta was great, not soggy at all! I thought the flavor of the sauce was a little meh, but my kids gobbled it right up. My kids are big pasta eaters, and one box of this meal was barely enough to feed me and my three kids (ages 6, 4, and 20 months). It definitely would not have fed my husband if he were home. It does say it makes 5 servings on the box, but if I do this in the future I will be buying two boxes. I think you could still get away with one pound of ground beef between the two boxes, but then I'm also not a huge meat person (with the exception of steak!). Adding veggies or other side dishes would also make one box stretch more.
Overall, I think this meal was a keeper. It was super easy, reasonably priced, and the kids loved it. It will be interesting to see if the tuna meal works as well!
