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<\/center><\/p>\nI am generally a fan of Kashi products — being a lazy pseudo-hipster who likes to buy overpriced food that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s touted as healthy without having to go through all of the effort of visiting hippie food stores and co-ops to make my own healthy food. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I like to refer to as “The American Way.” And when it comes to frozen meals I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that Kashi tends to be the Cadillac of the frozen food aisle. Or rather, should I say the electric Cadillac-hybrid with a solar powered espresso maker in the dash.<\/p>\n
Kashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mayan Harvest Bake was really no exception. Perfect for autumn, the harvest bake (or, harvest microwave, technically) consisted of plantains, kale, sweet potatoes and black beans over a bed of Kashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trademark 7 grain pilaf, polenta and amaranth — whatever the hell amaranth is — covered in a spicy Ancho sauce. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like, seriously Kashi? Sweet potatoes, plantains and black beans? (Oh my!) Those are only some of my favorite things in the food universe. The only way I could have been more content eating this meal would be if Kashi accompanied it with a warm towel and back rub.<\/p>\n
Oh! Oh! Oh! And did I even mention the pumpkin seeds<\/i>? The glorious, glorious<\/i> pumpkin seeds? Indeed, the meal came with a generous portion of pumpkin seeds sprinkled on top, which I picked off and ate separately because I am what I like to call a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153food separatist.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Seriously though, name me another frozen meal out there that comes with actual pumpkin seeds. See? You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even do it.<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nLucky for food separatist me, the mish-mash of a food bowl was layered in such a way that I was able to eat the plantains, which were plump and delectable despite somehow coming from a tray out of the microwave, apart from the sweet potatoes, which were charred on the edges in such a way that I assume the product had once been, in fact, baked. The Ancho sauce complimented the meal well, which was sweet, spicy and delicious, although while the plantains and sweet potatoes were flavorful enough on their own, some of the parts on the pilaf underneath didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get much sauce on it, making it taste a bit bland.<\/p>\n
The Mayan Harvest Bake is one of Kashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vegan meals, which means it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also ideal for lazy pseudo-hipster vegetarians. It’s also all natural, which means Kashi didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to make us have to pay another dollar for it by making it say “organic.” It’s really considerate of them, if you think about it. The Harvest Bake is also a nutritional smorgasbord, touting an impressive nine grams of protein (for something that doesn’t contain any meat), eight grams of fiber and 400 milligrams of potassium from the plantains, which is basically just a fancy way of saying “banana.”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, for the steep price tag of over $5.00 a box, regularly priced, it would probably be more cost-efficient to get your potassium intake the old fashioned way by just eating actual bananas.<\/p>\n
(Nutrition Facts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 10 ounces (1 package) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 340 calories, 9 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 380 milligrams of sodium, 58 grams of carbohydrates, 8 gram of fiber, 19 grams of sugar, 9 grams of protein and 20% iron.)<\/small><\/p>\n
Item:<\/b> Kashi Mayan Harvest Bake
\nPrice:<\/b> 2 for $6.00 (sale price)
\nSize:<\/b> 10 ounces
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Fresh Grocer
\nRating:<\/b> 9 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Delicious. Sweet potatoes. Black beans. Fancy bananas. Pumpkin seeds, bitches.
\nCons:<\/b> No warm towel or massage with meal. Goddamn expensive regularly priced. Not stocking up on more Mayan Harvest Bake while they were on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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