I really need to get a set up that lets me cook for myself.

Okay, I've known for years that packaged foods rarely live up to their marketing pictures. I've even gotten fairly good at guessing what the actual contents might look like based on past experience with how the various ingredients handle freezing/drying/canning. This time neither the picture nor my guess where anywhere close. every ingredient promised by the label and the illustration were indeed present, but not in the expected forms. I'm guessing it had to do with differing cooking times, but other manufacturers have come up with much more . . . elegant solutions to that problem. And in the end it tasted like a generic microwave meal, something I'm training myself to expect more than.