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The Boston Marketbrand of fast-food home-style dinners has a new home--your supermarket's frozen-meals section. H.J. Heinz, in a licensing deal with the restaurant chain, now sells ten frozen dinners under the Boston Market name. One in particular--the Oven Roasted Chicken Juicy Glazed Breast Quarter with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy--is as tasty as the top-rated frozen meals from our last test. But it's also somewhat pricey, and high in fat and sodium.
We compared the Boston Market chicken-breast frozen dinner, a Boston Market chicken leg-quarter frozen dinner with stuffing and gravy, and one of the top-rated frozen meals from our report in February 1999, Marie Callender's Herb Roasted Chicken and Mashed Potatoes. We also compared these meals with similar take-out dinners of white-meat and dark-meat chicken from local Boston Market restaurants. (The restaurants feature rotisserie chicken; the frozen dinners, oven-roasted chicken.) All meals were priced comparably--between $4.29 and $5.29--but cost considerably more than most frozen meals ...