Review of Schwan's Hearty Baked Ziti

Even though we do have Schwan's stop by our house every couple of weeks, we actually very rarely purchase anything from them (this is mostly because they come on non-payday weeks). However, my wife and I had a little extra in our food budget a couple weeks ago and decided to order a few things as a result. One of these was their Hearty Baked Ziti.

This product was actually something my wife was interested in trying, mostly because it looked good in the picture. While I didn't object, I honestly did have some doubts about this item, especially at the $11.99 price. And, unfortunately, after trying this late last week, I can honestly say it did not live up to my expectations.

My wife actually was the one who made this item (in our oven) while I was at the ice rink with my oldest daughter. And, I will start out by saying, when it came out of the oven, it did look very similar to what we saw in the catalog picture. That is something I'm not able to say about other frozen dinners.

However, while the product looked nice, it just wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. To be clear, it wasn't terrible. In fact, it had a decent taste to it. It just wasn't anything overly special.

In other words, there really wasn't anything about this product that set itself apart from the dozens of similar frozen dinners we could purchase at our local grocery store. Mostly because this dinner was twice as expensive as those dinners, I was expecting more from it (especially since it also didn't offer much more as far as quantity goes). It did not, however, live up to those expectations and, as a result of that, I was disappointed by it.

I'm normally not disappointed with Schwan's products. But, this one was definitely one of the rare exceptions. As I said, it wasn't bad. But, at the current price, it's just not something that is worth the money.

My Grade: C