I'll give this a 5-star rating since it combines three of my favorite foods (bacon, shrimp and wild rice), plus I find I'm liking curry more and more too. I made this exactly as written. But I did use "thick-cut" bacon for additional bacon goodness, and since I could only find 4-oz. cans of small shrimp, I used 1 and 1/2 (eyeball measurement) of those cans. I did find that the 15+10 minute cooking time left quite a bit of liquid in the pot, so I then uncovered it and let it simmer for 5 more minutes. This was a very tasty dish, although I must say the curry flavor was very subtle here, and outweighed by the spice packet from the rice mix.