Busog Meal | Jumbo Giniling

“Giniling” in Filipino is called grounded meat, and the meaning doesn’t stop. In Latin countries there’s a version of Giniling, which is called Picadillo that is the soupy version. Giniling is a popular dish in the Philippines as one of the go to viand, but there’s a difference still when the product is produced by 7 Eleven as part of their range of Busog Meal that’s aimed as their ‘filler meal.’ The home cooked version is traditionally known as the dried dish served with diced carrots and potatoes. The Busog Meal version is more economically different as being straight ground meat with little of the aforementioned vegetables. There have been a regular version, but a Jumbo Giniling is double your lunch meal.

When you are on the go and limited budget below your usual pay cut means things are going to a challenging day. It’s good that 7 Eleven is expanding their range of type of meals they offer, from premium meals that collaborates with well-known local restaurants to in-house products that they have offered before that they continue to improve and bring new things to their shelves.

Then there’s the Busog Meal that is below the target range for the average Filipino that featured breakfast and lunch meals. Sometimes having them for dinner is good to as their packaging is the most common box type coloured green or white.

Jumbo Giniling

If you read about the Jumbo Sisig, then you’ll have the same idea about this Jumbo Giniling that is twice served from their regular versions. Same packaging only slight bigger than the regular version due to they’ve doubled the contents of rice and viand for their Jumbo set like this Giniling.

The packaging stays consistent, but the contents are entirely different from their product image having more gloss and giving you an expectation that you’ll find the product to be the same picturesque meal. But like the Sisig, it’s not what you hoped for when you thought it is the same from the box.

Grounded by this Meat

There have been quite challenge in having a Jumbo Meal, which having twice the normal cup of rice if you are not used to having it twice. The Giniling is still good, but not the home cooked version you remember with your mum. It only have little cuts and diced carrots and the potatoes are almost non-existent but they are there.

It is recommended for a heavy eater same goes to the Sisig if you’re going for that. It is also considered a ‘filler meal’ if you are in a middle of a busy work schedule and have no plans or no idea what to have for lunch and that’s about this product.

Overall not for the ones who don’t eat much during lunch time or on a fixed portion diet that you need to control on what you consume. It is a heavy meal due to the carbo that the rice carries. Aesthetically, it does not match with the image on the packaging and still the best once you mixed it up with the steamed rice you’re good to go.

• Food Quality: 3 out of 5
• Affordability: A
• Overall: Without diced carrots and potatoes is not Giniling.

Jumbo Giniling | Retailed at: ₱ 59.00 Pesos [$ 1.56 AUD | $ 1.12 USD]**

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