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Consumer Complaints & Reviews

I had a Lean Cuisine Alfredo pasta with chicken and broccoli at 6 p.m. for dinner, started to feel weird - achy around 9 p.m. so I went to bed. Never slept a wink. I was in the bathroom every 10 minutes. 500 mg 2X day of Cipro stopped it.

I heated a Swedish Meatball dinner according to the directions on the box, but the plastic container melted so the contents went all over the microwave. I was afraid to eat it, fearing that the plastic had gotten into the food, so I threw it out. I then heated another dinner (sweet and sour chicken fried rice) and the plastic container almost melted again. I've been eating Lean Cuisines for years and have never had this happen before. Are you making the plastic containers thinner or just cheaper? I am now very leery of eating this product.

I buy and eat a Lean Cuisine every day for lunch. Today, I found a chicken bone in my sweet and sour chicken. It was about an inch. Very gross. I'm so disappointed!

I cooked two Lean Cuisine Beef and Broccoli entrees, and within an hour and a half, I started experiencing nausea, abdominal pain, and a cold sweat. I then spent the next four hours vomiting in my bathroom. The vomiting and nausea would come in waves. It was a horrible early morning. Since this happened after midnight and I had been up all morning, I was unable to attend work, and lost my wages for that day.

I contacted Lean Cuisine to inform them of this two days ago, and make a claim for lost wages. I was told I would be contacted by a representative from their company, but I am still waiting for that phone call. I am now considering taking them to Small Claims Court if they do not contact me soon to resolve this issue. I no longer feel safe eating their products, and I will never purchase them again.

There were several pieces of bone in my culinary collection lemon chicken (Code: 1349500413 / Model: P695). This is very dangerous, especially if given to a child.

I ate the Lean Cuisine chicken with penne pasta and within an hour, I was throwing up. I couldn't stop vomiting for almost seven hours. It was horrible. I was on the toilet and vomiting at the same time, no fun. It's going to be really hard eating anything from Lean Cuisine again.

Lean Cuisine sucks. I broke 1/3 of my tooth. Since I didn't find whatever hard was in the meatball they wanted all my personal info to tell me this claim is dismissed. I had to spend $800.00 to get the tooth fixed and I need a crown, I can't afford. I'm a widow with just a low income. This company is terrible and I never, in my life will eat their food again.

I was once a loyal Lean Cuisine consumer. However, that has changed since I found a long, black, curly hair while eating their Mexican enchilada dinner. I was and actually still am horrified and will never eat their products again! I did make a complaint with the company and they assured me all employees wear hair nets so they could not understand how that was possible. Well, it happened. It was lodged inside the enchilada; so gross. They sent me a stack of coupons for free meals and I threw them away!

Chicken used in lean cuisines is disgusting. You only use fatty chicken. What's up with that? How is this low calorie. I am telling all my friends not to eat your product. It's expensive and pretty worthless. I tried to eat a Lean Cuisine ginger garlic stir fry with chicken for lunch and every piece of chicken had a piece of fat on it. I lost my appetite.

I submitted 25 reward codes and did not get lunch bag. They refused to give me credit. Email is on their site.

Just a Lean Cuisine "sirloin tips with broccoli". The entire beef tips had some sort of fat attached to it and the broccoli tasted like soap for some reason. Terrible meal. I will think twice about buying any more Lean Cuisines.

Cooked and ate a Sweet and Sour Chicken dinner for supper and within 1 hour I knew something was wrong. Was sick all night long with diarrhea and throwing-up. The next day, I was so weak I felt I was on death's door. They should change their name to "Mean Cuisine." I'll be going to the hospital if this doesn't clear itself.

I am rather weary of finding inedible "chicken" in my Lean Cuisine. Yet again, I've tried to bite into a nasty, spongy, or woody piece of something that is indescribable, and couldn't be chewed. I have reported this situation before, but, it seems that whenever I try it, there they are. The "chicken", at best, is not at all like chicken, in taste or texture, but when a tan-and-brown "thing" has to be removed from my mouth, I swear I'll never buy this product again! It was not an enjoyable experience! The rating system above is unexplained!

I'm a Special Needs Teaching Assistant and I always look forward to my 23 minutes of lunch time which always consists of a Lean Cuisine. Well, I opened my Herb Roasted Chicken but there was no chicken. I was in no way in danger of starving; I do eat with my peers and they do share but I was disappointed. I am skeptical about buying again because it would be just my luck for that to happen again.

I spend many weeks saving and recording points to get a lunch bag. I just started using it and the zipper tab broke off. I am left with a sharp edge and a bag I cannot use. I was informed that the promotion is over, even though they still feature the lunch bag as a "reward". It was far from it. I'm done with the whole thing, and I have told all my friends.

Lean Cuisine runs a rewards program wherein you accumulate points based on entering codes off the packages of their meals. Those points can then be turned in towards merchandise.

I spent a long time getting to 500 so that I could order a lunch bag. They deducted my points but I never got the bag. I emailed customer support and their response is that they have no record not only of my transaction but my account as a whole. I am still able to log in using the email they say they can't find in their database. I have sent them a copy of my transaction history straight off their website. I have gotten no acknowledgement nor response.

Last night, I ate a "lasagna and meat sauce" Lean Cuisine meal. Now, even just writing and reviewing that situation in my mind, makes my stomach turn. That meal was consumed at about 8:30pm. It is now 1:34, and I have just finished vomiting for the second time. I hope that is the last time, but the pulling feeling in my stomach suggests that it's still not over.

I've been eating Lean Cuisine for almost 2 months and have raved about them, however, I'm not going to anymore. The chicken pieces in the meals have been terrible! They have been fatty, greasy and some are brown & mushy. I had 3 Market Creations last week (1 Chicken Alfredo & 2 Chicken Margheritas) and then the boxed Grilled Chicken Caesar today. What a disappointment! I've had to throw away most of each meal because it's uneatable. The box said 6g of fat. Well, there's definitely more in there because I can see it. I've got 4 boxes left in my fridge that contain chicken and I'm worried they will all be the same. Someone needs to investigate their production.

I chipped a piece of tooth off on a round cylindrical piece of wood approx. 1" long by 1/4" diameter found in a Lean Cuisine lasagna with meat sause frozen meal

I became very ill after eating a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine beef and broccoli. After I ate the Lean Cuisine my stomach was hurting. Then as the night went on I became sicker and sicker. It was food poisoning.

I had to loose a day's pay and am still feeling weak from the ordeal. I don't think I could ever eat a Lean Cuisine again.


I cooked a Lean Cousine dinner tonight, bar/scan # on package: 1380016699 Beef Pot Roast. The whipped potatoes had 3 different large hard objects in them. I think it was slices of raw uncooked potatoes, although I am not positive. I threw the entire dinner out after chipping my jaw tooth on the first bite. I eat Lean Cousine dinners nearly every evening. I hope I will be compensated for the cost of my dinner. I will see a dentist asap to repair jagged/sharp chipped tooth.


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