900,000 Lbs. Of Frozen Chicken Meals Recalled

[Pluff Mudder]

Dinner Dangers: 900,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Meals Recalled

November 19, 2008 at 10:00AM by Karen Berner | Comment

Time to check your freezer -- you may have a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner that's on the recall list. The entrees are being recalled because they might contain small pieces of hard blue plastic. The producer of Lean Cuisine, Nestle Prepared Foods Company, received consumer complaints and one report of injury.

Known meals being recalled are Café Classics Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, Spa Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean, and Dinnertime Selects Chicken Tuscan. The frozen chicken meals were produced from August 18 to October 27.

You can get additional information about the recall by calling the Nestle Consumer Service Center hotline at 1-800-227-6188 or by calling Lean Cuisine at 1-800-993-8625.

For more information about the recall, check out the latest News Release on the USDA’s Web site.


http://www.delish.com/food/news/chic...l-lean-cuisine

[Food Network Fan]

I never buy the meals ... I get Tyson frozen chicken at Sams and make my own meals. I hope it's okay.

[Bentley Green]

Originally Posted by Food Network Fan

I never buy the meals ... I get Tyson frozen chicken at Sams and make my own meals. I hope it's okay.

I never do either. But I thought Stouffer makes Lean Cuisine.

The other day, I was at Shaw's and was going to buy a rotisseried Chicken. It probably would have tasted fine, as it usually does, but it was the price of $ 13.00 that turned me away from getting one. I can make my own for far less. I'll just wait until the whole chickens are on sale at a much cheaper price, get some and put them away in the freezer.

I just saw on the news where a 13-year-old girl bought a double cheesebureger at a McDonald's and found a small piece of metal in the sandwich.

[Pluff Mudder]

Originally Posted by Bentley Green

The other day, I was at Shaw's and was going to buy a rotisseried Chicken. It probably would have tasted fine, as it usually does, but it was the price of $ 13.00 that turned me away from getting one.

$13.00 for one chicken!? Are you sure you looked at the price right? I could get 2-1/2 rotisserie chickens around here for that.

[Bentley Green]

Originally Posted by Pluff Mudder

$13.00 for one chicken!? Are you sure you looked at the price right? I could get 2-1/2 rotisserie chickens around here for that.

Haha!! I kid you not.

I laughed after doing a double take to make sure!

It could have been a mistake, but I didn't ask. Wasn't too long ago that those same ones were selling for $8.00!

And don't forget, you live in the South. Food is cheaper there than up here in the North.
Probably because the cost of living there is cheaper.

[Pluff Mudder]

Originally Posted by Bentley Green

And don't forget, you live in the South. Food is cheaper there than up here in the North.
Probably because the cost of living there is cheaper.

Food isn't cheaper here then it is in Boston (well, except for shrimp, crab and fish because I can catch those in our tidal creek). I've been in Boston three times and I found that most foods there are near the same in price as here.

Based on a salary of $35,000, the cost of living in Charleston is 21.9% lower than Boston, BUT... for the same exact job in Charleston, you would be paid 17.4% less than you were being paid in Boston so you're only 4.5% better off here than Boston. Meaning... you could live on $1,566.00 less a year here and that isn't much different.

[Bentley Green]

People can also grow there own fruits and veggies there practically all year round. That helps, I think. My brother used to do it before he died.

He lived with his 2nd wife in Columbia, SC.

[Pluff Mudder]

Originally Posted by Bentley Green

People can also grow there own fruits and veggies there practically all year round.

Yes, but that is mostly in the sub-tropical and tropical parts of the South. The upper and middle South's growing season is mainly from May to Sept. Here on Edisto Island (sub-tropical) we have about 290 growing days.

[bakerman]

The going rate for a rotisserie chicken here is around $6 and that is for a jumbo perdue chicken here.

I haven't found a huge difference in food prices between here and New England. The cost of living here is definitely cheaper than the Boston Metro area.

Even in northern Maine, which is pretty isolated compared to the rest of the country, has similar if not cheaper food prices than here.

[Food Network Fan]

We paid more for groceries in Fredericksburg VA than we did when we moved back here. But the salaries were higher out there being so close to DC.