Trader Joe’s Vegetable Biryani with Vegetable Dumplings is clearly a high-quality dish. The rice is perfectly seasoned and cooked to perfection. The vegetable dumplings are mouthwatering, and even the lima beans are pretty impressive.
Unfortunately, a great frozen meal requires more than quality ingredients. The proportions of this meal are way off. As you can see in the picture below, this dish is mostly just rice. There are hardly any vegetable dumplings, only a few cashews, and just a handful of lima beans.
This isn’t necessarily a case of false advertising; the picture on the box is mostly rice as well. Still, it was hard not to feel disappointed by how few dumplings we had. By the time we finished with this meal, we’d been eating nothing but rice for a while.
Because this meal is mostly rice, it isn’t particularly filling. To make things worse, there are two servings per container, which means it clocks in at a whopping 520 calories. When we take in that many calories, we want to feel like we had a substantial meal.
Even though Trader Joe’s Vegetable Biryani tastes great, we can’t recommend it, and we probably won’t try it again. This is worth eating if you’re in the mood for rice, but if you’re excited about the dumplings, you’ll probably be disappointed.
For more information about this dish’s ingredients and nutritional content, check out our scans below.
Also, you can add to that the deception of Trader Joe’s(aka Traitor Joe’s) passing off sneaky things as being healthy. What is the long term use of Canola Oil in their’s or other’s foods products? “They”(Canada) modified the rape seed because of the high erucic acid content in it not healthy for humans, and cardiac muscles of animals and imparts a bitter taste, and gluconsinolates, which made it less nutritious in animal feed. So they taut the Low erocic acid rapeseed and labeled it as being “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA. And we know how the FDA has come to use word play(aka word salad) to slip things through and they’re also compromised with many kinds of conflicts of interest by multi-millions of dollars from big pharma, big food, etc. Just do your own research. Originally, Canola Oil was cross bred from two rapeseed cultivars to get what was known as Canola oil, but nowadays much of the Canola is of the genetically modified varities.