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| A delicious breakfast bowl at a delicious price. (Img source: Walmart.com) |
My Lord am I getting senile in my old
age: At a quick glance during a frustratingly long (and overly
expensive) trip to Walmart, I half-blindly grabbed a couple of these
breakfast bowls as an option for lunch at work. In my exhaustion, I
thought I was grabbing one bacon and one sausage, but as it turns
out, the second kind was actually a sausage and gravy breakfast bowl!
I don’t know why I’m telling you this long-winded story, because
the only moral of the story is that I’m even more excited to try it
now.
Prepwork consists of popping it in the
microwave for 4 minutes (thirty seconds more than the bacon version),
letting it sit, then enjoying. Pretty straightforward and simple;
perfect for a quick breakfast on the go—and smart to eat as a
breakfast food because it gives you all day to work off the excess
calories.
Oh yeah, this one hits the spot. The
gravy is a delicious country gravy that doesn’t really taste like
“standard” sausage gravy even when mixed with the sausage
crumbles, but it does add quite a bit to the flavor that the regular
bacon bowl is missing. And speaking of sausage, there is a ton in
this bowl; there’s enough that you can get some in every bite all
the way up until the end, which is a somewhat welcome surprise,
considering some of them tend to be skimpy. Also, even though each
bowl is technically 7 ounces of food, I still feel like sausage is a
much heartier, more substantial and filling breakfast meat than the
little scraps of bacon served up in their other variety, so I walked
away feeling much fuller. And fatter.
It’s also apparently “healthier”,
with “only” 340 calories, 25g of fat, and 215mg of cholesterol
per bowl. High numbers, to be sure, but somehow still smaller numbers
than those found in the bacon bowl. The excessive grease of the bacon
bowl also didn’t seem to be much of an issue here, although it’s
possible that maybe I just didn’t notice it thanks to the coating
of gravy. Either way, it didn’t feel as “heavy” as the bacon
did, giving me just enough food to fill up for breakfast.
The more I eat of it, the better it
gets: I’d go out on a limb and say that this is better than most
fast food breakfasts, and certainly better than almost all fast food
sausage gravy’s…the texture is perfect, and although it looks
like it might be a little “snotty” and off-putting when first
looking at it, actually comes off as much more smooth once it's all
mixed together and the bites start ending up in your mouth.
As someone with borderline high
cholesterol, these don’t fit into my diet very often at all (though judging from my other reviews, it certainly doesn't seem like I pay much attention to it, haha), and
it’s going to stay that way. But as a once-in-a-while convenient
breakfast, or for those in a much better health situation than I am,
these are a delicious concoction that are way tastier than I would
have expected, and for a pretty solid value.
Overall: 8/10. These are surprisingly
good, and coming in at just $2.00 per 7 oz. bowl, offer up a decent
value that at least rivals fast food breakfasts in terms of taste and
“quality” (term used loosely). The gravy is the difference-maker
here, adding in some additional texture that prevents the potatoes
from being too dry, while also contributing an extra flavor missing
from the bacon bowl. I won’t get these all the time, because
they’re pretty horrendous for you, and I should probably at least
start taking my health into consideration, but as an occasional
treat, I would definitely grab these again if I find myself at a
Walmart store. God forbid.
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