Sunday, July 05, 2015

Review: Hamburger Helper Asian Sides: Beef Fried Rice


I like to try new foods when I see them, so when I saw this Hamburger Helper Asian sides Beef Fried Rice, I decided to get a box and try it out. Now I should also state that I have stopped buying the regular Hamburger Helper because most of it tastes really bad to me and my family doesn't like it either. There's really very little that I won't eat or at least try, but there are a few things that I refuse to eat anymore, Liver, Hamburger Helper, Liverwurst, Snails, Raw Fish or anything that smells rotten will never be eaten by me.

I usually make dinner every night for my family and I like to add potatoes, rice, noodles or some sort of side dish to accompany the protein that I make. I remember what it was like to be a single person working all the time and never having time to make a real meal. Eating Tv dinners, frozen chicken or ramen noodles for dinner isn't something I'm likely to do again now that I have a family.

Directions
The directions for this rice seemed very simple, brown the beef, add the rice and everything else in the one pan that they call for and let the rice get tender. After that you scrape everything to one side and scramble one egg in the pan and then mix it into the rice. I'm not sure who thought mixing an egg in the same pan was a good idea, it wasn't as easy as they make it seem and it didn't even look all that appetizing on the box. Eggs are for breakfast and not really all that great mixed together with hamburger and rice. I'm not sure what the makers of this rice were thinking at the time they came up with this.

Now I'm pretty easy to please, really. Knowing this was Hamburger Helper I didn't expect it to be gourmet food but I did expect it to at the very least be edible. Unfortunately, I expected too much.

I got a little out after it was done and put it on my plate, I knew right away it wasn't going to be good because of the smell but I decided not to say anything to my husband when I told him dinner was done.

Tasting
I sat nibbling my food while Ken got his food out and sat down. I watched his face as he took a bite and made a face. He took another bite, I'm guessing just to make sure he tasted what he thought he did and looked over at me, making a face.

The rice and hamburger tasted horrible, a bit like salty vomit and the eggs did absolutely nothing to help this dish. We could not even finish what we had on our plates before getting up and throwing it all in the garbage.

We were still hungry since it was dinner time so I thawed out some pork chops and made them instead.

My conclusion
I will never buy another Hamburger Helper side dish ever again. They have forever left a salty vomit like taste burned into my taste buds and I would rather eat ramen noodles for dinner from now on.

If you are looking for a good side dish for dinner tonight and you see Hamburger Helper on the store shelves. Walk away, very fast and don't look back.

18 comments:

  1. I will remember that brand name and walk away. Thanks for the heads up!

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  2. LOL.....yeah, I think all those box things a full of sodium. You should look on the side of the box, just to see!

    A few years ago, another blogger friend of mine took a photo of that box you have and posted it. She thought it was hilarious, like people were cooking Asians, due to its name. Because all the other names are things like Tuna, Hamburger or Chicken.

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    1. I just make my own fried rice now. lol

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  3. lol yep, they taste like crap, all the preservative nonsense in them

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  4. Thanks for sharing your views! I will remember the name in next shopping.

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    1. Thanks for coming by. Glad I could help.

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  5. Eyikes. That does not sound good at all. I think there's one type of theirs that I was okay with but nothing I'd rush out to get.

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    1. It wasn't. There used to be one that I didn't mind but now I just make my own and it's so much better.

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  6. I do like fried rice with egg, but I mix it before adding to the pan. And only add the rice after I added the egg. This sounds horrible though, I understand why you threw it away. Trying new things is fun, but unfortunately sometimes you end up with things like this that taste horrible.

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    1. I like fried rice with egg but this rice was flavored with something that just didn't go with egg and it tasted nothing like fried rice. I still try new things, in fact hubby just brought home a strange acorn squash and I tried it for the first time. Not bad..

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  7. LOL. Oh my, that sounds horriblexD I tend to avoid those products because you dont know how old that stuff is.

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    1. It really was. lol I don't buy too many packaged rices or noodles these days because I am learning to make them homemade.

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  8. Daisy would probably like it

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    1. lol my rats wouldn't even eat it.

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  9. Like you, I'm no fan of Hamburger Helper even though it's an easy meal to make. Something about it has always tasted too greasy for me, so I'm not surprised this one was just plain yucky! Sorry you got stuck with that for dinner. Hugs...Ro

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  10. I haven't had it in years. We ate it a lot when we were really tight for money. Good on you to try something new even if it wasn't a hit.

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