Spoiler Alert! It was disgusting.
I’ve been waiting until I could find the new Nestlé Vital Pursuit meals. They were supposed to all be out in October, but it wasn’t until December that I found the first two in Orlando. I found more when I went to San Antonio in December, though.
See how Lean Cuisine stuck a couple of their new “Life Cuisines” GLP-1 dinners in there, too?
The choices I had seen in Orlando both had red meat or pork in them, so I wasn’t able to taste them until something came out that either had no meat or it had chicken on it that I could eat.
A few days ago, I found the Cheese Pizza. Yay! I could finally taste something!
Here’s my unboxing:
Cooking and final product.
Verdict
It was vile. The crust is cauliflower. Out of the package, it smelled like cauliflower. In the microwave, it reeked of cauliflower. Eating it, it tasted like cauliflower with a teaspoon of sauce and no-taste cheese.
And I like cauliflower! Just not in my pizza.
I threw half of it away and it smelled so bad, I had to take the garbage outside to get rid of that awful cauliflower smell.
Who the heck did they taste test these on?
Packaging
The Vital Pursuit packaging is really poorly done. It took a magnifying glass to find these in the freezer. The box is so simple and so boring, who can see them? Good lord, Nestlé, who did your packaging design? It sucks!
As I said, opening the box was not easy and the instructions vague.
I really encourage Nestlé to go back to the beginning and try again. Yes, we on GLP-1s would love to have custom foods for us, but they have to taste good, too!
I will be sticking to my Lean Cuisines and Healthy Choices for now.
The Downsized’s Taste Test
Christopher and Laraine Durham did a tasting of a couple of Vital Pursuit dinners after Nestlé sent them some. Here’s their taste test on their YouTube channel “The Downsized.”
Will I be trying the other new ones when they finally arrive in my Publix? Not if it’s made of cauliflower!
Have you tried any of these Vital Pursuit dinners? Let me know in the comments if you give them a thumbs up or down.
Thank you Barb for all your knowledge! I learn so much from you. I will stick to my healthy choice meals. I do not like their beef though. I just had some pizza from a restaurant and I hadn’t had pizza in months! Cauliflower pizza, ack. I did recently see these meals in our frozen section at the store I go to but I didn’t try them. I’m trying hard to lower my stubborn cholesterol right now. I just had my labs done and all is good except my cholesterol is through the roof. (And eating pizza was before I knew my numbers.) So I have more work to do and 40 more pounds to lose yet as well. So keep updating your ideas and paving the path for us all to follow, lady! If you happen to like one of them meals then I’ll be brave to try one lol!
Love ya bunches❣️❣️