I am very happy to find others that love rice oriental as much as we do.  THat just proves what a wonderful product is was.  I am shocked to find out it had low sales because that is the only hamburger helper that we would eat!  I would mix one box of it and a box of white rice together.  It would last for a few meals!  I would definitely buy it in bulk if betty crocker would bring it back!  Please we are dying out here!!!!!

I have been eating Rice Oriental since I was a little girl.  I think it is a shame that you have discontinued the production of this product.  I will then make it my goal in life to boycott all General Mills or Betty Crockers products in protest.

I agree with Rev. Fish's reaction to Hamburger Helper Rice Oriental (HHRO) being discontinued - I want to cry.  This was my favorite flavor.  I logged onto the website this morning to order some for both my mom and me and was very sad to learn it has been discontinued.

I grew up eating HHRO and I have made it for my family.  My stepkids can sometimes be picky eaters, but they enjoyed the HHRO.

Please, please reconsider bringing this flavor back.  I would buy several boxes at a time if it was available again!

Thanks!

My entire family and I miss the the rice oriental. WE LOVE IT!!!!!  PLEASSSSEEEEE  BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!

i agree as well. i miss the oriental rice, i tried to find it everywhere because i wanted my new baby girl to try the one i loved so much. my grandmother and aunt tried to find it as well. how can you discontinue it when people have been tring to find it? the only reason it didnt have enough sales is becuase you made it so hard to get. please bring it back, i am about to have another little girl and i would love for them to grow up being able to eat this wonderful dish that i loved so much as a kid. or could i perhaps have the recipe for the sauce mix to try and recreate it myself.

OMG...I have been looking for this myself! This was my all time favorite and I have been scouring stores for the last couple of years too. How can they take away such a great dinner? My kids will never know how wonderful it was unless you bring it back! At least give us a reason why it's gone....please! Sad In Texas

My family is terrribly upset at finding the only Hamburger Helper flavor they liked had been discontinued.  PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!  Looking at all the posts it seems that this one flavor truely was one of your best.  I understand that items would get discontinued for lack of sales but I find it hard to believe that this is one of those.  When it was available both at Albertson and Stater Bros they could not keep it in stock in my area.  When they built a new Albertsons in my area they had a dollar day special on may items and Hamburger Helper was one of them.  I bought all they had in stock which was only 24 of them this was about a little over a year ago.  I have only one box left.  Again PLEASE BRING IT BACK or at least post recipe so it can be made at home...Another disappointed consumer....

I have got to agree with everyone else, I am rather upset with Betty Crocker for discontinueing Oriental Rice. It has greatly affected the amount of Hamburger Helper I now purchase and prepair for dinner.  It seems to me that you offer too many cheese type flavors which does give one very much to choose from and because of this I am becoming burned out on the Hamburger Help brand. At least with Oriental Rice it was a nice change sometime, but I have to be honest,  Oriental Rice was what I prepaired most.

Hmm, five pages of people commenting on Rice Oriental yet it wasn't popular enough to keep making.  It was my favorite for as long as I can remember.  I've tried other copycat recipes, but they're just not the same.  Hopefully, enough people will keep coming here and complaining and BC will come to their senses and bring it back.  Even if it was only offered once or twice a year as a sort of limited/special edition kind of thing...I'm desperate.

Hello, Please share your recipe with  me!   My family and I really miss that flavor!

Thanks,

"Disappointed" Rice Oriental lover!

Hello Patty,

Your website contains pages, upon pages full of disappointed customers wanting General Mills to bring back Rice Oriental.  Can you send this information up the chain of command?  Ask them to do a search for Hamburger Helper Rice Oriental, to see for themselves just how many of us were loyal customers to that particular flavor.

Dear Sirs          i have been looking through out the stores , looking fo your  hamburger helper " RICE ORIENTAL" style  for the longest time to no evale , my family has asked numerus times why i don't make it any more ?  i told them that can not find it in the stoes & if i could i would glaly make it for them, butseeing i can not find it i can't & if they were able to find it sometime & get i will do so , it wasnot till i came online to your site that i find that it's no longer prodused, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE either bring it back or send me the recipe so i can make it for my family.     THANK YOU!  NANCY  SWANSON

Try this

Hamburger Helper's Beef Pasta cook the same as it says,but use a bag of minute rice instead of noodles.

simmer for 20minutes instead of 10minutes.

I add 2tbs of soy sauce before simmering.

All,

I've pretty much written off HHRO and Betty Crocker.  Since my last post I have been making sld1986's recipe; here are my tweaks:

• I use 1 package of instant gravy and 3 tsp. of beef bouillon.


• I usually add a few dashes of onion & garlic powders, salt and pepper while browning the meat.


• 3 tbsp. soy sauce (but I like soy sauce so I prefer to use a little more)


• 2 c. white rice with 5 c. water


• 15 minute covered low boil or simmer, then 10 min. no heat uncovered (that's where the little extra water helps)

I haven't looked back.  If you're Jonesing for your HHRO fix, this is it.  It will grow on you! 

Warm regards my friends,

The good Reverend Fish >

PS - I've also taken a shine to adding celery, onion and other veggies to the boil.

Thanks for the info... I have always loved this HH and was totally distraught once this box was off the aisles.  I would always pick up another one to change it up from time to time but since... I have dropped all BC products.  I only signed up on this site to express my disgust.  It's funny, the night began trying to figure out what happened to my beloved Doo Dads and ROHH.  I found all these blogs of people just like me.

Betty must be rolling over in her grave.  Good job corporate!

I really find it hard to believe that's the reason it's been discountinued.  Whenever one of my buddies mentions having / eating Hamburger Helper it always seems like it'll be mentioned how Rice Oriental was their favorite. 

Also, if sales were the actual reason, I would bet anything on it that a product like this would do much better a second time around.  People who loved it would certainly be buying / appreciating it more than in the past.  Where I am in Canada it's been off the shelves for years.  I can't even remember the last time I saw it.

yes please bring it back i love this its the only hambuger helper i like and my kids love it too it sooooooo good please

I'm really hoping I can find an effective way to petition Betty Crocker to bring back the Rice Oriental Hamburger Helper.  My poor husband has been looking for it every week when we go to the grocery store, and every week he's disappointed.  Each time we visit a new store we make a special trip to the Hamburger Helper display in hopes there will be a surprise stock of his favorite flavor.  I guess we just have to accept it's been discontinued for the time being, since we aren't the best cooks and I doubt we could recreate it satisfactorily, but I'm going to do everything I can in order to reverse BC's discontinuation decision!

Lindsay Lou - that is quite interesting since in my family that is the name of the person that liked Hamburger Helper Oriental Rice more than me. 

The last time I found it was off the Betty Crocker Website in June of 2007 and I bought 4 Cases...I am now out and looking for more.  So don't feel alone.  We your fellow Oriental Rice fans are still there...

Hope we get it back.

Mike