Zatarain's Jambalaya with Sausage Frozen Entree (5 Units Included per Order)

We love Zatarain’s. The frozen Alfredo is huge in this house as well as many other sides from the brand. We kept pushing this jambalaya to the back of our meal rotation until it came down to it or hamburger helper. Tonight we tried it. It starts off tasting completely bland and flavorless. About 6-7 bites in the spicy kick finally hits ya. It’s not the best but we’ve had worse. I got through with dinner just in time to run to the bathroom. I was completely unaware Zatarain’s had gone into the laxative business. Thankfully we have three bathrooms. The baby wouldn’t even touch his and now I’m grateful for that. Save yourself the time and effort of a nasty dinner and the toilet paper and air fresheners you will need after consuming. Just don’t do it.

I like most of Zatarain's packaged mixes, but I had never had any of their frozen dinners, so I decided to try this. The taste was fine, though not as good as preparing it fresh, as one would expect. My big complaint, however, is that this 12 oz single-serving package contained exactly 4 ½ thin slices of sausage. That's pretty skimpy, even at the cheap price (one dinner was $2.99 at a local grocery store).

Purchased frozen at a high-volume grocery chain.Having really liked some of Zatarain's stove-top dry rice sides, I figured these were a no-brainer for lunch. I tossed out the first one because it tasted rotten and smelled like a cadaver, and when my wife brought home a couple more a month or so later, having seen the first one vanish and nary a protest from me, I thought I'd give them another shot. Was the first one a fluke? A mishandled shipment? Poorly rotated inventory? Wrong!These things are great for folks on a diet, because one taste, and you'll completely lose your appetite for the entire day! I don't know what the firm, gray, sweaty "sausage" is made of, but I'd rather just eat whatever organism it is made from raw. On second thought, just give me the box and some ketchup packs. Save your time and choke down a couple salisbury steaks from the bargain brand. The dog wasn't even interested in eating it later, although I bet he'd roll in it! The smell as it cooks is somewhere between 'burning landfill' and 'muggy day at the fishing pier.' It takes a pretty bad experience for me to run off and write a negative review like this, but these suckers are FOUL! I've tolerated some pretty sketchy TV dinners when poor and in a hurry, but nothing has made me gag instantly and throw it in the trash, except this.I would like to reiterate that I really like their dry rice stove-top products and will continue to consume them at every opportunity. Probably. Maybe. Perhaps I've been irrevocably conditioned against it.

I gave one star because there was not an option for zero stars!!! When you buy this you get a dish of barely moist, flavored rice with four thin slices of sausage and a few barely detectable slivers of green pepper. The flavor is OK - Zatarains knows how to do spices. But this product is an insult to the purchaser and to the cajun-creole culinary tradition from which jambalaya came. Do not allow yourself to be swindled by this fake product - it is not even close to real jambalaya. Please also complain the the store that sold it to you.I threw it out and reheated some left-over lasagna.

I like the spicy taste. Sometimes with things like this, you would be better off doing it yourself instead of frozen.