Gwynedd Stuart
If you buy frozen breakfast food, you know Jimmy Dean. The man. The myth. The ground meat legend. He was literally a country music star who became America’s preeminent sausage magnate. I wouldn’t know one of his songs if Jimmy sang it to me himself from beyond the grave, but I’m now deeply familiar with his work in the frozen aisle.
In a recent taste test, we stocked up on a variety of Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches, Jimmy Dean breakfast bowls, breakfast burritos, and more; we cooked them in the microwave; and then we tasted them side by side. Here are the six best Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast items to buy.
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- Jimmy Dean Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl
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When we did a full taste test of frozen breakfast bowls, Jimmy Dean breakfast bowls didn’t top our ranking—BUT we learned a valuable lesson, which is that country gravy makes everything a little better—especially breakfast bowls, which can turn out kinda dry without it. Not to be confused with the Jimmy Dean biscuit and gravy bowl (which is much too weird), the sausage and gravy breakfast bowl combines scrambled eggs, cheese, potatoes, and sausage. It’s a big bowl of slop, but it’s filling, comforting, pleasantly salty slop.
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- Jimmy Dean Delights Egg’wich Bacon, Spinach, Caramelized Onion, and Parmesan Egg Frittatas with Turkey Sausage and Cheese
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This bread-less, low-cal Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich looks like a nightmare. The egg patties that serve as the “bun” are greenish gray from the spinach in the mix, but they genuinely taste good. The flavor reminded me a lot of quiche. It’s a great low carb, high protein breakfast option, but as my colleague Jordan Myrick pointed out, if the idea of holding a straight-up egg sandwich gives you the willies, you can always stuff this whole thing inside an English muffin (we even found good gluten free English muffins in our ranking if that’s a concern).
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- Jimmy Dean Croissant Ham & Cheese
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Like a lot of microwave breakfast sandwiches, you gotta eat this sucker quick before it hardens, but if you make haste, it’s kind of great. The ham is a little tough, but right out of the microwave, the croissant is really nice and squishy—nothing like an actual croissant, of course, but a lot like the squishy bun on a Burger King Croissan’wich. It’s super simple and you don’t really miss the egg, which tends to be spongy and flavorless anyway.
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- Jimmy Dean Griddle Cake Maple Pancakes & Sausage
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This is another good Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich, especially if you don’t eat egg and cheese. If you do eat egg and cheese, get the sandwich in the #1 spot on this list, but if you don’t or simply prefer a simple sandwich, this is a tasty option. I miss the textural variety and the added salt of the cheese, but the fluffy pancakes and nicely spiced sausage shine. Also, if you’re a meat freak, it seemed to me that the sausage patty in this version of the sandwich was a little thicker to compensate for a lack of other ingredients.
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- Jimmy Dean Spicy Crispy Chicken Honey Biscuit
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Okay, let me begin by saying that the biscuit part of this Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich is not good, but as a full package, this is great. The chicken patty is thick and substantial. I did get some gristle which I didn’t love, but I’ll chalk that up to an error. The breading is nice and light and it’s actually spicy. We cooked this in the microwave, but you can also take the sandwich apart and cook the chicken patty in the air fryer if you want more crisp. Franky, I think it’s fine as is. Again, the biscuit itself is nothing to rave about, but this is a tasty little sandwich.
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- Jimmy Dean Maple Griddle Cake Sausage Egg & Cheese
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In a previous taste test, we established that microwave pancakes are pretty damn good, but the combo of squishy pancakes, salty sausage, egg, cheese, and maple syrup flavor in this Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich is outstanding. These taste buttery and satisfying. The sausage is a perfect complement to the sweet pancakes. The egg doesn’t contribute much—in any of these tbh—but the cheese really does, giving it a nice punch of salt. We like the plain sausage griddle cake, but this one has so much more variety of flavors and textures. It’s such a fun breakfast and it’s the best Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich we tried.
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Other Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast sandwiches, etc. we tried
Jimmy Dean Biscuit and Sausage Gravy Breakfast Bowl, Jimmy Dean Delights English Muffin with Turkey Sausage, Egg & Cheese, Jimmy Dean Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit, Jimmy Dean Blueberry Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick, Jimmy Dean Meat Lovers Breakfast Burrito, Jimmy Dean Snack Size Sausage Biscuit Sandwiches
Jordan Myrick
