I've written here in the past (here, for instance) about a great product called Jennie-O Turkey Pot Roast. This is a quick entree you keep in your refrigerator until the moment when you suddenly need to have a real dinner in a hurry. Then you pop one in the microwave…and fifteen minutes later, you have a steaming, delicious tub of moist dark meat turkey — and it's not just one meal. One package will last me for days.
I have also written here of my struggles to procure this product. For a long time, I got them at local Costcos. Then Costco stopped carrying them in my region…but fortunately, they turned up at the Fresh & Easy market chain. Then Fresh & Easy stopped carrying them. I spent many hours on the phone to both chains and to the Jennie-O people to try and figure out where, if anywhere, I could get more. One person at Fresh & Easy's corporate offices told me that what I craved was now a discontinued item that would probably never again be found in the refrigerator case of any Fresh & Easy store.
She was wrong. A few weeks ago, I made friends-over-the-phone with a high-ranking exec at the Jennie-O company and this much-smarter lady explained to me that production on this product, which had lessened for the summer months, was back full force. Apparently, it doesn't sell as well in summer so many stores don't carry it. But, she said, I would find them by this week in the Fresh & Easy stores…and sure enough, last night I scored four of them (about a month's supply) at one out in the valley. They should be back in some Costcos any day now, too.
Yay. If you haven't tried this product, you might want to give it a go. Some people use it like turkey carnitas and fold the meat into other, more ambitious recipes. I just put a glumph of dark meat turkey on a plate and have it with a side of rice or corn or something. A glumph, by the way, is more turkey than a splunge but not as much as a woomph. By any measure, it's a great and convenient meal.