I don't see any heart in the ingredients, but listed is beef so maybe heart is just included under that catch all term. I take the lid off the container to look at the meal before cooking - it's brown and that's about all I can make out. 2 serves of veges per pack, great. It comes in a convenient plastic bowl so I don't have to do any dishes (apart from the fork). Let's get this thing in the microwave.
Wattie's Big N Hearty Soup obviously doesn't conform to the 5 minute standard cooking time for microwave meals. "Screw the system!", it seems to say as it revolves on the microwave plate.
Ok, digression over. Time to eat. I'm writing this sentence in an empty store on a fairly quiet day. Let's see what happens when I put fork to lips.....
No customers! It's amazing, I can eat my meal in peace. However, I now know that eating soup with a fork is HARD.
It's tasty and rich - very savoury. I'm not clued up enough on the language of cuisine so I don't really know how to describe it. "Beefy" comes to mind. It's fairly salty, savoury... I can taste onions, a hint of ginger. The vegetables and pasta are all of decent quality and consistency. A bit scarce on the meat. In fact, the picture on the container is slightly misleading - it presents a picture of generous chunks of beef floating amidst a sea of vegetables and pasta spiral. In reality it's more like a token portion of beef lost in a sea of gravy with an ok amount of vegetables.
Alas, Wattie's, I fear that this meal is not living up to it's epithet as it is neither very big nor hearty. That aside, it is still enjoyable and delicious. The flavours complement each other well and it almost does taste like a homemade soup (albeit on the stingey side).
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