The folks at Healthy Choice Gourmet Steamers do a fairly good job, but if you eat enough of these things, you'll probably get tired of the "same old, same old" and begin to crave a change. Variety being the spice of life, and all that.
So I did a little experiment. I went against their advice and pulled off that plastic film on the top, the one they say 'DO NOT PUNCTURE'. I didn't puncture it. It's very much unpunctured - but it's in the garbage can. Then, I lifted out the inner tray with the munchies and set that aside for the moment. In the base container, in the very bottom, frozen like a rock, is the sauce that has been chosen by some nameless minion at the food company as being appropriate for the contents of that inner basket. If you read the outer package for what that consists of, it may scare you off, or at least lessen your enthusiasm, not to mention your appetite just a wee bit. However, it's unlikely that plain boiled water can harm you a lot, as long as you don't get into it. So I substituted boiled water for that mysterious sauce, re-assembled the dishes, covered the top with an overturned paper plate, to avoid splashing up the microwave, and cooked it.
After removing from the microwave oven, and removing the paper plate cover, I put the contents of the inner basket, now nicely cooked in plain steam, into a bowl, seasoned it with some margarine, salt and pepper, and enjoyed my sauce-free snack. It was very tasty. For the first time, I could actually enjoy the flavor of the food itself, instead of that chemistry-lesson gravy usually covering everything.
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