Breakfast bowls are every sleepy person’s ideal product. You get to hit snooze a few times and still get a decent breakfast in before you have to rush out the door. That said, I think we can all admit to ourselves that we’re not exactly getting a gourmet experience when we heat up a breakfast bowl. Sure, it may have all the components of a hearty, home-cooked breakfast, but it comes frozen and is ready to eat in two minutes flat. Suffice it to say, Trader Joe’s won’t be getting a Michelin star for its new Chicken Sausage Breakfast Bowl, but it has its virtues.
I will say that I was a little worried about this thing even before I opened the box. Look at Sporked’s favorite frozen breakfast bowls and tell me what’s missing from TJ’s. That’s right: potatoes! This thing only contains scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and chicken breakfast sausage. I want this thing to conquer my hunger, and potatoes are an unrivaled stomach filler. Strike one.
A point in the positives column: As a breakfast bowl should be, this Trader Joe’s breakfast bowl is extremely easy to prepare. The instructions make no mention of stirring the ingredients halfway through the cooking process—just set the timer and forget about it until it’s done.
The first whiff of the bowl gives major hotel breakfast bar vibes in the best way possible, mostly because the sausage is so fragrant. The aroma is very reminiscent of sausage stacked in a chafing dish over a Sterno flame. I mixed up all the bowls contents as quickly as possible to incorporate the melty cheese into the sausage and eggs before it hardened. With only three ingredients to work with, I wanted to make sure they all got a chance to shine.
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