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Let Seasoned Selects Rescue Dinner: $25 Gift Card Giveaway

Because my husband and I both work full time outside the home, we try to plan our dinners in advance.  However, sometimes life throws us for a loop and plans don’t always come to fruition.  There have been many times where we looked at each other and said, “I thought you were cooking dinner!”  In these instances, we generally reach for a frozen pizza, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or the old favorite….breakfast for dinner.  Who doesn’t love pancakes, eggs and bacon for dinner?!?

But, I think our most disastrous dinner was not due to lack of planning, but lack of skill.  We had been getting bored with the standard menu in our home, so I found a new dish to cook for our Sunday dinner, Raspberry Chicken.  Most of you know that I am not known for my cooking skills, but I swear that I followed this recipe perfectly.  I wish this was a “scratch and sniff” post, because it is not possible to share with you just how bad this dish smelled.  It.Was.Not.Good.  And into the trash it went.

For nights like this, you should keep Barber Foods new Seasoned Selects Stuffed Chicken Breasts in your freezer.  Dinner rescued!  In just 30-45 minutes, you can have a wonderful meal with no fuss.  From the press release:

Seasoned Selects are a new line of stuffed chicken breast entrees. They’re made with juicy, white meat chicken stuffed with savory combinations of meat, cheese and vegetables. Unlike the traditional Barber Stuffed Breast, however, this new line is not breaded, but is seasoned with a blend of herbs and spices, and is lower in calories, fat, and carbs. Seasoned Selects are a great dinner option for those nights when you need drama-free dinner prep. Just throw these entrees in the oven and get going on a quick salad or side dish. Barber Foods Seasoned Selects are a quick and unexpected dinner option that everyone in the family will love.

We had the opportunity to try the Seasoned Selects Chicken Cordon Bleu and Spinach Florentine.  After removing the chicken from the package (it’s raw), we placed them on a baking sheet and cooked for 35 minutes at 350F.  Confirming the chicken was done, we checked the temperature to ensure it was at least 165F.


Although we decided to go with roasted potatoes, Barber Foods suggests many delicious and simple side dishes and sauces to accompany the Seasoned Selects.  The Grilled Sweet Potato Fries look very yummy!  As we plated our meal, the dish smelled wonderful.  I cut open the Chicken Cordon Bleu and the cheesy goodness came pouring out!  The chicken was seasoned very well and the stuffing was hot and delicious.  My husband tried the Spinach Florentine and was equally impressed.

This was one of the easiest meals that we have prepared and it looked much fancier than the effort we put into it.  Due to the size of the entree, I would suggest making at least one side dish and a salad to accompany the chicken breast.  Both my husband and I agreed that we would definitely purchase Seasoned Selects Stuffed Chicken Breasts in the future!

GIVEAWAY

One lucky reader will win Seasoned Selects and a $25 Grocery Gift Card to complete the meal!

How to Enter:

1. Check out the varieties of Seasoned Selects and tell me the story of your worst dinner disaster!

Additional entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog and Barber Foods(10 extra entries).

2. Follow me (@BridgetteLA) on Twitter and Tweet this giveaway using #dinnerdrama. Every time you tweet you get an additional entry. Limit tweets to 10 a day, please.  (You must have over 50 Twitter followers to qualify for unlimited entries!)

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Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on April 4th. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.

This review is the opinion of The Experimental Mommy. Others may have a different experience with the product. A complimentary product was received to facilitate this review.  All opinions remain 100% mine.

342 thoughts on “Let Seasoned Selects Rescue Dinner: $25 Gift Card Giveaway”

  1. I nearly sliced my finger in half making my husband dinner when we were first married. I went to the ER and luckily they were able to stitch it back together without any long-term damage (just a scar).

  2. Had the turkey in the oven one Thanksgiving and the oven malfunctioned. Had to take the bird to my sister’s house to finish cooking.

  3. Hard to pick one disaster, been a few over the years. Usually involves me trying to cook some new recipe and making a totally mess of it LOL

  4. Fit & Flavorful Cordon Bleu sounds yummy
    I was cooking chicken and rice for dinner for our church’s new youth pastor and I burned the rice. 🙂
    bdavisnc at gmail dot com

  5. If I plan a meal and include a bread, roll, or biscuit…it usually ends up being burned. I want to coordinate my meal to be finished at the same time, then I end up forgetting about the bread because I was trying to get the other items finished.

  6. One Christmas I tried to “bake” frozen pies 1n the microwave. That was the first and last time I tried that!

  7. my worst dinner disaster, we had a huge family get together on Thanksgiving, I burnt our dinner (the big bird) in the oven.

  8. Worst dinner disaster – I mistakenly used Cayenne Pepper instead of paprika for the chicken!
    Yikes.
    Thank you.
    barbara dot montyj at gmail dot com

  9. soon after my husband and i were married i wanted to show off my cooking skills and decided to make glazed casrrots, the recipe said the sauce would turn brown as it carmelized, i didnt realize i had burnt the sauce until my husband took his first bite his expression said it all to this day he still does not want to try carmalized carrots

  10. I would lke to try their Chicken Parmesan. When I first got married I wanted to make veal parmesan for our first Valentine’s Day together. Well I over cooked the veal culets, then thought I could just cover it up when I put the marinara over them and topped with cheese covered the dish with tin foil and baked for about thirty minutes. Well I had the oven to high so when I pulled out the dish and uncovered it the cheese and sauce were dried up (lol) boy what a mess but I can cook up some mean veal parmasen today 🙂
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  11. I am a Fan of The Not-So-Blog and Barber Foods on Facebook
    (Tamara Bennington)
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  12. Just the other night, I over-cooked the chicken dish and it came out VERY dry. It still amazes me how a chicken in a crockpot with broth can be dry.

  13. I tried to make a vegetable beef stew once time. We all took one bite, looked at each other, and headed to the garbage can. Good thing pizza is delivered.

  14. I love Barber Foods! I don’t know if I have an actual dinner disaster but I will say that I am incapable of cooking chicken! It always turns out way too dry and yucky. It’s a running joke at home, lol!

  15. Just last week I put beef stew in the crock pot before I left for work, but forgot to turn it on. We had frozen pizza for dinner and I nearly cried throwing out all that good food!

  16. I usually don’t have any disasters; but, one time, the mashed potatoes “collapsed”, because the potatoes I used were very water-logged.

  17. A few Thanksgivings ago, we had put the frozen turkey on a high shelf in the garage to thaw. We had a big dog that slept in the garage at night, but we were sure he couldn’t reach the turkey. Come
    Thanksgiving morning, we go to get the turkey and there was nothing left except scraps of plastic and pieces of bone!! The BIG dog had eaten it! We ended up eating side dishes for Thanksgiving! lol! 😉

  18. i tried cooking dandelion greens one time they were just – awful i followed the directions or thought i do they were so bitter had to throw them out

  19. My worst dinner disaster was trying to make gravy for a holiday meal. I think I used too much corn starch becasue it looks horrible and tasted worse.

  20. Vinegar Meatloaf.
    It was supposed to be BBQ meatloaf, but I was an inexperienced cook and didn’t realize there was a misprint in the recipe (the ratio of vinegar to other ingredients was way out of whack). And to make it worse, I tried the recipe again thinking I had messed it up!
    susitravl(at)gmail(dot)com

  21. i’d like broccoli and cheese and my worst disaster was making thanksgiving dinner one year to realize my roasting pan was MIA and i had to run to the store like a mad woman to get one
    nannypanpan at sbcglobal.net

  22. i checked out the varieties on the website. . . My worst dinner disaster was when i boiled eggs and forgot they were boiling on the stove and they turned black. . . I’m lucky they didn’t explode!

  23. The first meal I made my husband after getting married was a meatloaf. As I was getting it out of the oven, I dropped it. I sat on the kitchen floor and cried! He ate it anyway.

  24. I remember LOVING those nights when we resorted to breakfast for dinner when I was a kid. Homemade waffles and syrup at night?! Jackpot! Thank you for trying and reviewing Seasoned Selects! Hopefully they can save someone from too many ‘breakfast-for-dinner’ nights in a row 🙂

  25. My dinner disaster was pretty much a non-dinner because I didn’t realize what our schedule was going to be like…. I was working, had to rush to pick up DD from track practice, run her home so she could shower and change and rush back for her choir performance. Time to eat dinner, much less prepare dinner, ummm, not! Oh well, PB&J and an apple in the car – at least she got something to eat!

  26. My worst dinner disaster was I was preparing my first meal for my new in laws…(chicken) and the chicken wasn’t cooked right; (enough time) the potatoes were hard…the only thing we could eat was the corn lol

    pattifritz2000 at yahoo dot com
    thanks bunches

  27. Fan of The Not So Blog and Barber on Facebook Patricia Hess

    pattifritz2000 at yahoo dot com
    thanks bunches

  28. My worst dinner disaster was trying to make Potato Soup and it was so thick and awful you could have hung wallpaper with it.

  29. My worst dinner disaster was when I followed the directions on the pizza box and put the pizza directly on the rack. Never again. It melted right through the rack and burned itself to the bottom of my oven. HUGE mess.
    Alicia Webster
    5webs@comcast.net

  30. I tried to make a no carb pizza crust, and it turned out NASTY!! My husband still picks on me about it.LOL

  31. the asparagus and cheese stuffed chicken sounds delicious! i recently had a dinner disaster – i majorly overcooked pot roast and i swear i almost broke a tooth!
    oheeyore at hotmail dot com

  32. I’d like to try the Seasoned Selects Cordon Bleu.
    I think one of my worst cooking disasters was after I was first married. I was broiling a steak. I lined the pan with foil and the foil caught fire. I havent broiled a steak since (24 years now).
    Thanks!
    jackievillano at gmail dot com

  33. checked it out and my worst dinner ever was my attempt at corned beef and cabbage…my hubby is forever traumatized and will eat virtually anything in this world but has sworn off that for life
    pedidentalasst at yahoo dot com

  34. Just as I was about to prepare dinner, the washer overflowed. It would have been a good time to have some Premium Entrees Chicken Parmesan in the freezer.
    momznite_at_yahoo_daught_com

  35. My husband and I made some atrocious steaks one time that were so rubbery that a bottomless pit teenage boy wouldn’t even eat them—they were BAD!!!

  36. Working overtime every tax season is a dinner disaster every year. I’m exhausted when I get home. Quick and easy is my motto. Thanks for the giveaway.

  37. My last-minute dinner drama was a new recipe that did not come out right. we ended up eating cereal for dinner!

  38. The broccoli and cheese stuffed chicken breasts look great. One of my worst dinner disasters just happened a few days ago. My friend was roasting chicken for everyone when he went to add more water to the pan and it exploded, luckily in the oven and didn’t hurt him!

  39. i ws trying to make fresh green beans and i didn’t cook them long enough so they were super crunchy, now nobody wants to eat fresh veggies here

  40. i don’t eat meat, but my boyfriend loves chicken, the first time i cooked it for him it was still a little raw and he got sick

  41. One of my worst dinner disasters was when I decided to make homemade spaghetti sauce, simmering it overnight in a crock pot. It turned out so acidic that no one could eat it. I didn’t know that just adding a spoon of sugar before cooking would have avoided this.

    dchrisg3 @ gmail . com

  42. My worst dinner disaster was dropping the fully cooked spaghetti into the sink…there went that dinner!

  43. My worst dinner disaster was the chicken I boiled for chicken salad – after it was done I rinsed it off with water and it tasted like cardboard

    nblexp ( at ) gmail (dot) com

  44. My disaster was when I let the pork chop cook for a little too long, overcook pork chops a little too long and you never hear the end of it

  45. I hate seafood. Of any kind. So when I cook seafood, I have to go by the recipe because I refuse to taste test it. Once, I decided I’d do something different and make a tuna casserole. Not only did it smell awful, everyone hated it! But I had no idea it was so bad because I wouldn’t try it! LOL

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  46. When we first got married I decided to make my husband some chili. So I got a recipe and bought all the ingredients. It cost quite a bit. He saw me looking for the recipe. He saw me buy everything. He watched me prepare and cook the chili. Not once did he tell me that he hated everything I was putting in it. I only figured it out after 5 days of it being in the fridge untouched and him being “just not hungry”. I ended up throwing it away. Now he makes the chili 🙂

  47. my worst dinner disaster, was when the neighborhood pooch stole the steaks right off our grill! I had to make something else that night. We had to have mac and cheese lol

    itsjustme62613 at gmail.com

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  49. My worst disaster has to be the first Thanksgiving, I tries to cook a frozen turkey and it wasn’t done until Friday so everyone we invited had to all go to the local restaurant for dinner.
    carolkfoster at comcast dot net

  50. My worst dinner disaster was the year we had an ice storm and had no power for Christmas. Since we had a well, that meant we couldn’t use water or flush toilets either. Christmas Eve, we went to the mall JUST to use their bathrooms! I couldn’t cook our big, traditional Christmas Eve dinner because I couldn’t use the oven, stove, or microwave, so we had cold cuts on paper plates!! That was so depressing!

  51. A couple of years ago my mother gave me a pressure cooker as a gift.
    We had invited several friends for dinner and I decided that it would be the perfect time to use my new pressure cooker. So in went my meat vegetables and seasonings. I put the lid on tightly and let my meal cook for several hours.
    As everyone was arriving my husband was entertaining everyone in the livingroom. I had an antique deep dish platter that I was going to pour our dinner into that would make a gorgeous display of our meal and had went into the kitchen to remove it from the pressure cooker to the platter.
    As I reached to grab the pressure cooker the weight blew off and my dinner started blowing through the top. It covered the stove, cabinets, ceiling, floor and me.
    Fortunately we all have a great sense of humor or otherwise I would have been mortified to walk into the livingroom with meat and vegetables in my hair to tell everyone that we were all going out for dinner.

    I have never used that pressure cooker again. Or lived that dinner down.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

  52. When I lived in New Hampshire I was trying to cook healthier (before there were tasty options) and the pizza place knew us so well that when the girls called they would say- your mom tried to cook healthy again, didn’t she? Want your usual. (Does many disasters count? lol)

  53. I am very fond of heating frozen dinners in the microwave. Hard to believe one can mess up there, right? Well hit the keypad to cook for 6 minutes and add an extra 0 accidentally, and you end up with a charred dinner after you realize it’s been an awfully long time without the microwave telling me dinner was done! Fortunately there’s always more frozen dinners in the freezer so I just cooked another, and was very careful setting the cooking time!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  54. So many disaster dinners-worst one….recently, cooking Thanksgiving turkey for my students and I cooked the turkey so long it was like rubber. You couldn’t chew it. We ended up having sushi for our Thanksgiving meal.

  55. I tried to make a dish with tofu in it, and the tofu was so rubbery when I was done cooking it that we totally couldn’t eat it!! mopugmoments at gmail dot com

  56. Thanks for the giveaway…our otherwise well behaved Labrador Retriever has, on occasion, absconded with a cooked pork chop, steak, chicken breast, etc. from the kitchen before we have had a chance to get it on the dinner table…and usually at the most inopportune times !

    senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com

  57. You mean like the time I was making tuna casserole, realized I was out of tuna and used sardines instead? Bad idea. Don’t try this at home.
    Thanks for the contest.

  58. My worst dinner disaster is when the oven went out on Thanksgiving and I had a half cooked turkey in it.

  59. My worst dinner disaster was when I added salt to an already salty dish and the entire meal was inedible.

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