Best frozen dinners?

[ethan]

Man. Cooking really isn't hard enough to warrant eating that stuff.

[Dynasty]

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fried chicken

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I'm weak. I still like the Hungry Man Fried Chicken dinners. I keep it in check by only letting myself by one when it's on sale.

[bernie]

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Cooking really isn't hard enough to warrant eating that stuff.

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Depends on what you're planning on making. But some of these dinners/meals have come a long way. Especially the 'partials' that you add stuff to.

You also save time. No prep, no clean-up. You can do something else with the time it'd have taken. However, it does cost a bit more than if you make it yourself.

But there's also an intro to certain meals. Stuff you might never have tried. So instead of spending all the time making it to find out you don't like it, you can do it with a smaller sample size. I did this with the rigatoni and pesto sauce. It inspired me to make my own.

But as someone else said, sometimes you just want to pop a couple holes in it and throw it in a micro and be done with it. (personally, I don't really use the microwave for anything other than popcorn)

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[bernie]

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I'm weak. I still like the Hungry Man Fried Chicken dinners. I keep it in check by only letting myself by one when it's on sale.


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Some of these dinners are pretty big too. Like the XXL dinners.

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[Blarg]

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Unless you're still at mommys' house, it's very likely you know the frozen dinner section of the supermarket. They've come a long way.

Personally, I like stouffers the best. Their lasagna is good. Their rigatoni with pesto and chicken chunks is great. Especially when you add Texas Toast (garlic) to it. Your place will smell like an italian restaurant. Put it on a plate and it actually looks like you could've cooked it yourself.

Michael Angelo has some good ones lately too. I like their lasagna better than stouffers. Partially due to burnout. I also dig their chicken parmesan. It's actually pretty good.

Anyone else have some that they really don't mind? They've come a long way from just the plain old swanson days.

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Stouffer's regular lasagna is good, but the vegetable lasagna ain't so hot. Their t.v. dinners are pretty good though.

I like the Marie Calendars ones the best overall, I think. They taste the most like real food and least like stuff the astronauts are going to be unwrapping on a lifelong spaceflight.

There is one off-brand linguini and clams one I like a lot though. Not exactly meaty or anything, but I really like the flavor. One of those smaller square packs, I forget the maker.

Problem is almost all of these are very high in salt, which most people already get far too much of in their diet, so you're kind of taking a health risk eating these things much. Most of them also have a ton of sugar and calories.

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I still like the Hungry Man Fried Chicken dinners. I keep it in check by only letting myself by one when it's on sale.

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Those things are huge, I'm a 6'5" college kid and can't even finish one of these. I'm more a fan of ramen noodles since they're so cheap, but on occasion I'll spring for some hot pockets or some sort of chicken alfredo dinner. One of the grocer's around here carries some frozen BBQ from Famous Dave's and I'll buy that sometimes, usually beef brisquet and I'll buy some hamburger buns to put it on.

[thatpfunk]

Anything from Omaha Steaks. Order them online- great stuff...

Had some Alaskan salmon and potatos au gratin tonight. Yum. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[raptor517]

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the healthy choice fetuccini alfredo with chicken is pretty good.


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ding ding ding. these are the nuts. also, any spaghetti with meatballs is generally good frozen. 10 for 10 bucks. cant beat that. holla

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I still like the Hungry Man Fried Chicken dinners. I keep it in check by only letting myself by one when it's on sale.

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Those things are huge...can't even finish one of these.

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I guess you don't qualify as a "Hungry Man." [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[astroglide]

some frozen chicken tikka masala thing they sell at local stores