Rice Meal Express | Plant-Based Swedish Meatballs
Meatballs are a personal favourite, it is either with Sweet & Sour Sauce or prepared as Swedish Meatballs they are something you don’t have every day. IKEA tops them all now that they have Plant-Based versions that can be also purchased to take home and have them at the confines of your dining table.
7-Eleven has just recently launched its plant-based take on the meatballs as part of the Rice Meal Express range, which was originally composed of breakfast rice meals. But this one comes as a coincidence together with the Arroz a la Cubana that preceded these two types of viand was kind of similar to what Shopwise Supermarket has.
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But with the ingenious marketing from 7-Eleven, they made it plant-based in collaboration with UnMeat, which also produced their previous success with both plant-based hamburgers and burger steak expanding it with Korean-themed plant-based Chicken Sandwiches was not the end of that.
The Plant-Based Swedish Meatballs came out of nowhere, but 7-Eleven is expanding its Rice Meals Express with these two healthy lunch meals. Previously, the Arroz a la Cubana didn’t live up to expectations, but this Swedish meatball appears to have potential with how it is put together and would reveal itself with a closer look at this product.
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You look at the way packaging and presentation look good and size and dimension side-by-side with Shopwise Meal featuring their take on the Meatballs with Sweet & Sour Sauce they look the same on top. But you look at the side one with 7-Eleven is smaller and you think portions will be entirely less than the one with the Shopwise Meal that doesn’t hide anything.
Now, you look at the Plant-Based Meatballs by 7-Eleven with the top cover makes you think the rice portions will be plenty, but you’d be underwhelmed once you peel the plastic cover before shoving it into the microwave oven. It’s not even close that you are paying for something that is supposed to have matched the quality of their competitors and they don’t.
Deceived by Rice Portions
This is not the first time 7-Eleven had to make less rice to make room for a side dish to match the meatballs they have included. They had a strawberry sauce for you to either dip the meatballs in it or pour it on all five of them. It tried to be fancy and yet it doesn’t look the way you hoped for because they cut down on the rice portions.
It could have been good if they put the green peas on top of the rice and not lessened the portion. This would be considered as a snack, not a lunch meal. The Meatballs having them smaller than the usual Shopwise Supermarket have in their version were enough for a full rice, not a quarter that they had included.
Overall, like the previous plant-based meal this one is also underwhelming to a fault and it was never even considered a lunch meal for its way of cutting down the rice for tiny bits of green peas that could have still been included if they did not become stingy on the rice and deceive their consumers hoping this one would be as good as it was expected to be.
No one would eat green peas with that many, and if they included this side dish they could have matched the amount of space there beside the rice that they reduced. Probably, the consumer who likes their green peas would enjoy it. Honestly, you can put this type of dish as a budget it could have been a full meal and consumers would pay for it the way they did with the Burger Steak.
- Food Quality: 3.5 out of 5
- Affordability: C+
- Overall: Deceived by portions, cutting down the rice for a handful of green peas is not going to make it as lunch.
Plant-Based Arroz à la Cubana | Retailed at: ₱ 80.00 Pesos [$ 2.19 AUD | $ 1.44 USD]**
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