Barilla Italian Entrees, Marinara Penne, 9 Ounce (Pack of 6)
- Classic pasta and sauce combination has no preservatives and makes a quick and healthy meal
- Cooks in 1 minute
- Sauce is made with vine-ripened tomatoes, onion, basil, oregano and garlic
- All natural meal on-the-go
- Product of USA
For more than 135 years, Barilla has been committed to making authentic, high-quality pasta for everyone to enjoy. Now with Barilla Italian-Style Entrées, you can savor the taste of 100% Barilla quality for lunch or at any moment. Paired with Barilla pasta, all our Italian-inspired recipes are made with a combination of delicious, 100% Real ingredients. Enjoy the flavorful, easy pasta in no time, ready from the microwave in just 1 minute!
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Good product, but with one notable design flaw,
The product contains a larger plastic, microwavable bowl containing pre-cooked pasta, and a smaller bowl that contains the pasta sauce that rests in one end of the larger plastic bowl. The smaller bowl is not attached to the larger bowl, it just sits in it. Both the larger and smaller bowls are sealed shut with a thick plastic film cover.
To prepare the pasta you pull back the plastic cover slightly to allow venting from the sauce. It’s true that it takes only one minute to heat this meal – handy!
After only one minute in the microwave you pull it out, and then remove the top film entirely. THIS IS WHERE I NEARLY HAD A MEGA-DISASTER! I pulled the plastic cover back, starting at the end where I had already pulled the plastic back to allow venting, and I had to apply a fair amount of pressure because the plastic was attached quite firmly. At this point I did not know that the sauce bowl and the pasta bowl were not connected, and as I pulled back the plastic it came free of one end of the sauce bowl before the opposite edge. The pasta bowl pulled up and nearly spilled all over the counter, but luckily it didn’t. That was CLOSE!
OK, with the plastic cover removed and disaster averted, I poured the sauce over the noodles and stirred it up. The portion size of noodles was appropriate for lunch. The amount of sauce was good for the amount of noodles included. Don’t you hate it when you have pasta, but you don’t get enough sauce? That was NOT the case here. There was plenty of sauce for the noodles.
The consistency of the noodles was great. They were neither too hard nor too soft for my tastes.
All in all I would award this product the following rating:
5 stars – Ease of preparation
5 stars – Portion size
5 stars – Food taste
5 stars – Food consistency
5 stars – Completely recyclable
1 star – Chance of spilling the sauce all over the place
All in all 4 stars – and it would have been 5 stars if the instructions had warned me that the larger and smaller bowls were attached and to be extra careful while removing the thick plastic film cover. Once you know about this issue you shouldn’t have any problems.
Good stuff, just a minor engineering glitch.
I hope this is helpful.
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|Terrifyingly tasty,
I kind of expected it to be gross because it was too easy, but I dare say it was tastier than most pre-packaged meals I’ve tried. The pasta has really good texture–it’s not mushy and doesn’t get “hard” like a lot of frozen pastas do if they get nuked without sauce on them. The sauce is pleasant and you can see bits of ground beef something-or-other in it, and I even saw chopped garlic in it. There’s something a little disturbing about eating non-refrigerated ground beef, like…it’s probably the first technological step toward the zombie apocalypse or the creation of Big Foot, but at least we’ll have palatable non-perishable food to eat during the end of the world.
Pros:
Super easy to make, does not require MIT degree to microwave correctly
Doesn’t need to be refrigerated
Tastes good
Cons:
The packaging, while easy to use, is a little excessive and I actually heard the cries of the future baby seals that will never be born because of it.
Non-refrigerated beef leading to the apocalypse.
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|non-diet ‘diet food’,
I don’t like spicy food per se but this has a tiny kick to it- nothing crazy spicy.
It cooks in 60sec which is awesome too. The pasta may have a slightly more ‘dense’ (not dente)feel to it if that makes sense but really tastes very fresh. Hope amazon stocks these soon! I found them at my local grocery store but was hoping amazon had them in their subscribe & save offerings…
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