Lean Cuisine is recalling 900,000 pounds of its entrees after “several consumers” reported finding blue plastic in the product. If you have the Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, the Chicken Mediterranean or the Chicken Tuscan varieties, here are the UPC and production codes of the affected batches.
Café Classics Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta
UPC code: 1380017117
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Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with 82805959
Best Before May 2010
Spa Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean
UPC code: 1380016612
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Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with any of the following:
82315959
82415959
Best Before September 2010
82635959
82695959
82745959
Best Before October 2010
82915959
83015959
Best Before November 2010
Dinnertime Selects Chicken Tuscan
UPC code: 1380014890
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Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with any of the following:
82345959
Best Before September 2009
82535959
82695959
Best Before October 2009
82925959
82965959
Best Before November 2009
If your product matches any of the above numbers, Lean Cuisine says to “return [it] to the place of purchase for a full refund.”
The information above was taken from the Lean Cuisine info line at (800) 993-8625. (To get to the recall info, press 2, then press 1.)
“Nestle Recalls 900,000 Pounds of Lean Cuisine” [ABC News]
“Lean Cuisine recalls frozen chicken meals” [Los Angeles Times]
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that’s the kind of fail you see…
well, scarily often.
I really thought food was not to be eaten if frozen over 6 months? or was that it started to taste bad after 6 months? Ether way some of them will last till late 2010, talk about a nuke safe food.
@Ben_Q2:
Things like frozen, uncooked shrimp go bad after about 6 months.
Cooked chicken will eventually get freezer burned and dry, but doesn’t really go bad.
I feel cheated. The last Lean Cuisine was missing both taste and the plastic.
But the plastic was the tastiest part!
The plastic WAS the chicken….
I want to know how many WW Points the plastic adds to the count for each dish.
…or maybe you can count it as fiber! So technically, the plastic makes them FEWER Points! YES! I am a DIET GENIUS.
Coming soon to an infomercial near you: The Juliekins Miracle Plastic Diet!
I found a piece of plastic in my Lean Cuisine, Roasted Turkey Breast about a month ago. It was like a pill capsule that is sealed in the middle and just one half of it. I saved the packaging and plastic, but never got around to contacting them. The piece of plastic has since been smashed, but I still have it.
not real sure why people are bashing lean cuisine. the food is surprisingly very good and pretty good for you. and it cant be cheap to recall 900000 pounds of food. thats pretty impressive. good for lean cuisine.
@danger the pirate ★ feels as though he should have a star a…: HAHA love the name, and the comment reflects my same sentiments
@danger the pirate ★ feels as though he should have a star and a preposterously long name mostly because all the cool kids are doing it, but also because he likes typing in third person, and finally, to see if you can max out a screen name. It would appear as though they let you go for a while…: @Ftp1423: I concur.
@Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: But see, the jokes on them. (although this might not be so funny until my new avatar shows)
@danger the pirate ★:
Agreed! There are many folks who would be doing themselves a big favor by eating Lean Cuisines instead of burger, fries, & a Coke for lunch…
@danger the pirate ★ feels as though he should have a star a…: It’s not actually that good for you. They pack a ton of sodium into the meals to mask how they use low-quality ingredients, as well as to mask the chemical taste of overly-processed chicken.
Hello everybody,
I ate two hotdogs, bagel with creamy cream cheese, several cookies, a few bags of stuff from the vending machine, drank a lot of brew-o-sh!t coffee courtesy of the lunch room, and for dinner a ceaser salad and three beers.
*bow and walks away*
I used to eat lean cuisine a lot, and several times I found pieces of plastic alongside my chicken. That and fragments of bone. I suppose thats better than a dead rat, but still pretty nasty. I stopped eating it because of that.
There are way more recalls than you might think:
[www.fda.gov]
You can subscribe to the FDA recalls email list here:
[service.govdelivery.com]
Some of the notices are funny, but most of the recalls are for undeclared allergens.
Waiter, there’s chicken pieces in my plastic.
I have found pieces of plastic in some of their veggie dishes.
to the guy with the long as heck name: i can see why people would be upset, I know I don’t like eating plastic…
I think that I just bought that the other day.
I actually like Lean Cuisine. For about a year and a half, I lived on potatoes, rice, salt, and ghetto Cheerios to save money… and pretty much conditioned myself to have exceptionally low expectations when cooking at home. So, now, when I get the occasional Lean Cuisine (which, I think tastes pretty good and is pretty filling for ~220 calories), I’m in flavor heaven.
They must have some sort of quality control problem. Last year I found a 6″ string in a Lean Cuisine dinner. I called the complaint hotline and they told me to hang on to the string and they would send UPS to pick it up. I hung on to that stupid string for a month, UPS was never sent.
And just last week my “Thai Peanut Noodles,” was nothing but a box of noodles. No sauce, no veggies, nothing. I complained online and this time they sent a coupon and an apology letter.
It’s too bad, because they do have the tastiest lunches out there.
Remember, ANYTHING you don’t grow or make yourself, you can’t control how much contamination that can go into your food.
But sometimes, it’s the things that we’d normally call nasty and inedible the ones we find the most tasty
@wesa: *sigh* i said ‘pretty healthy’. i looked and the highest i could find was 30% DV for sodium. whatever. thats fine. its essentially fast food. and damn good fast food at that. way healthier than the shit im gonna get at wendys around the corner, and at only $2 (on sale, woooo!) you cant beat em, as far as im concerned. i like them because theyve helped me drop 20 lbs with zero exersise (im lazy, what?) and i still think its awesome that theyre recalling NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND pounds of food. the shipping cost alone must be ridiculous. and theyre replacing them for free. i still say good for them. they will continue to get my business(i bought 6 15 minutes ago!)
@danger the pirate ★ feels as though he should have a star a…: On of the women I work with lost weight eating them for lunch. It’s a better choice than deep fried, full of fat food from some place like McD’s when you need an easy lunch at work.
My store pulled the product, it’s fine. I ate one today. Typical FDA.
Now I know why it tastes like plastic!