Umami Tries "Nutrisystem Vegetarian Chili"

Umami found this on the office snack counter, a parting gift from a retiring co-worker.  It was also past its nominal expiration date of April 2010, but Umami was sure it was still good.  The co-worker also left a packet of instant Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal, but why would anyone eat that instead of nominally expired vegetarian chili?   Anyway, it came to pass that Umami was working one Saturday and in need of lunch.  How perfect is that?

The vegetarian chili is described as "Four beans in a zesty tomato sauce accented with flavorful chili and spices for a taste as satisfying as it is delicious."  Let's be clear, it's four kinds of beans (kidney beans, black beans, chickpeas, and . . . pink beans . . . whatever the heck those are), not just four beans.   Glad we got that cleared up!  But it tastes like a chili, albeit one of the processed, canned variety.   And, to answer one of the office food critics, it was not like eating a salt lick, although with 650 mg of sodium (27% rda), it basically was a salt lick!  But so does every other canned chili, so on that standard, it's totally credible.  And edible.  However, it does raise an issue about these processed foods . . . they might be low fat, but they're almost inevitably high salt.  In this case:  .5g saturated fat, 0 monounsaturated fat, 0 polyunsaturated fat, 0 trans fat, heck, you might conclude it's good for you!  But definitely not for Umami's everyday consumption, but for one Saturday in the office, had to be tried!