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Boston Market frozen dinners.(Taste Test)(Evaluation)

Consumer Reports

| February 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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