I enjoy French onion soup and have previously reviewed the Cuisine Adventures French Onion Soup from Costco. I had never seen or even heard of a French onion style ravioli bake before, so when I spotted this Rana product at Costco, I had to pick it up and give it a try. It looked like the perfect hearty, comfort meal for a winter night. Unfortunately, after trying it, I wouldn’t buy it again, find out why below!
Location in Store
This is located in the refrigerated deli section of Costco, near the Kirkland Signature Basil Pesto and the Kirkland Signature Spinach & Cheese Ravioli. The item number is 5057007.
Taste
This isn’t my favorite Rana meal, and despite liking French onion soup, I probably wouldn’t buy it again. My biggest complaint about the meal is the portion size—there’s only enough ravioli for two people, and there’s barely any beef included.
Overall, the meal is quite rich, with lots of thick, creamy, slightly sweet French onion sauce. It vaguely reminds me of a mushroom sauce, though it isn’t one. It’s more like the Cuisine Adventures French Onion Soup, but in the form of a thick sauce.
The sauce contains a few caramelized onions and some chunks of beef, but not many. The quality of the beef in the dish isn’t great. On a positive note, the ravioli itself has a very flavorful cheese filling. Each ravioli contains a good amount of filling, and what’s there is full of flavor.
Cost
The 992-gram package costs $19.99 Canadian, which, in my opinion, is quite expensive for what you get. There was very little beef, and there wasn’t enough ravioli to adequately serve a family of four.
Convenience
There are two cooking methods listed on the packaging: you can either microwave the ravioli meal or cook it in the oven. I used the oven method, which turned out fine. I don’t think microwaving the ravioli would yield significantly different results.
I served this with a Caesar salad and fresh bread, which paired well with the meal. It’s a somewhat unique pasta dish, so I’m not convinced kids would love it. The meal needs to be kept refrigerated and has a best-before date of about a month from when I purchased it. I’m sure it would freeze well, too.
Nutrition
Calories
A one-and-a-half cup serving contains 530 calories, 33 grams of fat, 35 grams of carbohydrates, two grams of fibre, eight grams of sugar, 24 grams of protein, and 1,420 milligrams of sodium. I was surprised by the amount of protein per serving, especially since there wasn’t much meat in the dish. The calories, fat, and sodium levels are all quite high.
Ingredients
The ingredients list is quite long and includes a few less-healthy ingredients, such as corn oil, sunflower oil, and sugar. “Natural flavor” is also listed multiple times. The meal contains milk, eggs, and wheat, but does not contain soy.
Scoring
Taste: 6/10
Cost: 4/10
Convenience: 7/10
Nutrition: 2/10
Overall
Walk on by!
My parents enjoyed this meal but complained about the lack of meat. In my opinion, the dish is too rich and heavy.
Have you tried the Costco Rana French Onion Style Ravioli Bake? What did you think of it?
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This is a very tasty meal. I agree with the meat quality comments but am surprised. people expect to feed four. The serving size / nutrition info on the package implies three servings although two adult servings is more like it. Flavour is great. Ravioli very tasty. This seems simple enough to replicate on one’s own with sufficient quality and quantity of meat, ravioli with French onion soup and cheese. I paid $14.99 which is probably the proper price point. Cheers!
We just tried this last night. Loved the flavor but like others have said, there is no way this would feed 4 people and the sheer lack of meat. I’m going to play with the idea and make a homemade version that will hopefully also be quite a bit lower in sodium and fat.
I’d give it a 7.5/10 overall
8/10 Taste
5/10 Value
9/10 Convenience
6/10 Nutrition
Taste- the sauce was flavorful and the ravioli had a nice cheese filling, some of the beef was tough though which is really the only downside when it comes to taste. Comes with a LOT of sauce.
Value- I purchased it on sale for $14.99 (normally $19.99). It says it’s meant for 4-6 people (which I guess technically it is if you strictly eat the recommend serving size of 300g) but realistically it only feeds 2 people if you want more than 3 ravioli per person. BUT, it comes with a LOT of sauce. So much sauce that you can either add extra pasta or put some to the side for another meal, which makes up for it a little bit in my mind. It’s rather lacking in the beef department but the beef wasn’t great and was never meant to be the main star anyways (I didn’t actually know there was supposed to be beef in it until I got home!). $20 for a meal for 2 isn’t great, but in this economy it isn’t far from the norm unfortunately.
Convenience- It’s actually very convenient to make because it comes with a dish to bake it in. It takes about 35 minutes to make if you include 5 minutes for “prep” and cooling, so it isn’t the fastest packaged meal to make, but all you have to do is put the ravioli in the container and cover them with sauce. You dont even have to do dishes afterwards! (except for silverware and a serving utensil).
Nutrition- 530 calories is kind of a bit, especially if you are doubling up and eating 2 of the recommended servings, but its honestly to be expected with a pasta dish. Especially one with filled pasta, beef, and extra cheese on top. My family is not one to needlessly villainize ingredients like sugar and oil, so we aren’t disturbed by their roll in the ingredients. It is quite a long ingredients list, but there is a lot of components to the dish that each need to have their ingredients listed so thats understandable. It’s recommended that an adult eat 2000 calories a day, so even if you eat 2 servings thats only 1060 of your daily allowance which leaves you 940 for breakfast and lunch which should be plenty if you eat a lite lunch (especially if you are like us and don’t really eat breakfast in the morning). Where I would be a bit concerned is the fat and Sodium content. 62% of your daily sodium and 44% and 90% of your daily fat. Its honestly about the same as I would expect from a restaurant pasta dish though so I would just be sure to go lite on the sodium and extra lite on the fat the day of.
Overall I give it a 7.5/10, the taste was great (aside from a few pieces of beef) and it was extremely convenient to make. Its not the best value though and is a bit high in the sodium and fat departments so beware of that. I definitely recommend adding extra protein and/or pasta if you’d like! I’ve heard the Costco rotisserie chicken works great with it!
(Sorry for the extremely long article of a review lol)
Has anyone added the Discover three chicken to it so it has more protein?
6/10 for taste
4/10 for cost
The big negative is the lack of beef and the beef that was in there was grisly. No dish should have that
I tried this tonight and absolutely loved it. The sauce and ravioli were very flavorful. My complaint was the serving size. The package said 4.5 servings, but there is no way you could serve 4 people! Realistically it is only 2 servings. Still, I would buy it again because I loved the flavor.
I absolutely love this dish but they don’t have it anymore at Brantford Costco!!😢
The packaging could be better as well, the oven directions printed on the back of package is very hard to read (white on beige).