Customer Reviews

Dr. McDougall's Right Foods Vegan Curry with Brown & Wild Rice Pilaf, 2.5-Ounce Cups (Pack of 6)

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Flavorful, mild curry. Rice is a little chewy, so I usually let it stew in it's cup an extra minute or two, or even shove it in a bowl and nuke it in the microwave for a minute at the end...and I often add extra vegetables, too. (Can you tell I eat this stuff at home, not at work?)

This product is easy to prepare and did not create any surprises in the microwave when I followed the very precise directions. Unlike a lot of instant products that are just zap and eat, this takes about 10 minutes to prepare. The resulting combination of textures - brown rice, wild rice, crunchy nuts, soft cooked raisins - is very satisfying and interesting. The flavors are good and the dish is filling. The curry flavor was not pronounced and was obscured by the several other flavors in the dish competing for attention. As others have noted, if you are thinking of this as a meal for one, think twice, since one serving is half the package and there's no easy way to make half. If you consume the whole thing, it's 60 grams of carbohydrates and 300 pretty empty calories - filling but not necessarily nutritious. Still, if you can fit 300 calories of mostly starch into your menu, the taste and texture won't disappoint.

I am very happy with this curry rice pilaf. It's so easy to make, it's healthy, and very tasty.

I highly recommend it!

I have purchased many of Dr. McDougalls microwavable ramen type cups. This has jumped up to my favorite. The texture of this pilaf is lovely. The raisins and nuts add such a wonderful feel with the rice. I add some extra curry to mine but I do not think there is anything wrong with the way it comes. You can not go wrong with only 3 grams of fat for the entired thing. I usually bring some extra veggies or two pieces of fruit with me to make this a more complete meal but you could cook this then put it in a real bowel with tofu(im a vegan) or meat if you choose, bring a salad or it might be enough for you all by itself. I just love the flavor of this. It can get a little messy if you do not watch it in the microwave because all microwaves are not made the same so times will be off. I will be getting this again for sure. I would recommend this to anyone.

A mild curry rice with some nice sweetness from raisins and some crunch from almonds. Several green peas and dried carrots also visible. Rice has a nice chewy texture, love the chewy bits of wild rice. Perfect amount of sodium for me - 26% of your daily recommended in one cup. But if this is a meal, that seems perfectly acceptable.

Nice portion size too: about two cups' worth.

VERY happy to have a easy meal/snack like this that doesn't rely on beans but rather a starch. I wish there were more instant rice/grain pilafs like this around!

Will order again.

This stuff is really great, vegan or not. Well worth $2 / meal!

The Black Bean soup is very good and even better the next day. The Split Pea was also quite good. The Vegan Curry is not really a soup but a nice rice dish. They are very easy to make but I recomend heating them longer than the directions recomend and instead of the suggested 8 minutes steeping time you wait a bit longer for the beans to soften.
It is a good instant soup but if you reheat it the next day it's a great instant soup that is actually quite filling. The price is fair and delivery was quick. I would recomend this product to lazy people who like good soup, like me.

I will buy this product again.
Dean

I really enjoy this product, but would assume that when I purchase a soup "cup" that it would contain one serving. The dietary information is for 1/2 container! No lies, just missleading. If it were not for this issue, I would have rated it five stars.

I've bought this soup multiple times, as well as Nile brand soup and other McDougal soups. The trick is to cook it for 60 seconds, let it rest, cook another 60 seconds after that. I do find these soups boil over if cooking straight through.

When I go on trips, I take the soup out of the container and put in a ziplock bag, then toss in my suitcase with one microwaveable bowl. The packaging is mostly air inside. So I can get a lot of soup in a small space doing it this way, control my calories, and know I'm getting something mostly healthy, other than the salt.

This is one of my favorite McDougall soups. It taste great. Really filling. I never seem to tire of it. Also, smells wonderful. I have it on auto ship. The flavors are so nice as the weather is getting cooler.