The Best-Tasting Frozen Dinners

Amy's...don't need to be vegetarian or vegan to like their stuff, it's damn tasty.

Baby, I got some pie for you!

Stouffers by a mile. I just had their lasagna for supper tonight. I was feeling very lazy. It's too bad about the high sodium content.

Isn't Amy's like $9,000 a box?

Not here, about $4.50 - 5.50 a box. But i live close to the manufacturing plant north of san fran, so maybe that's why...

Amy's is mighty tasty. Less than $4 a box down in Ga

Evo, Silk Road

Another vote for Amy's. I'm in NYC and it's reasonably priced.

Amy's Pad Thai, Trader Joe's Vegan Tikka Masala.

Stouffer's also, Marie Callendars are NOT BAD.

What stores carry Amy's? Harris Teeter?

Don't eat this shit.

This is why you all are fat.

You're better off with a turkey or tuna sandwich.

Eat real food.

I agree, R1. Amy's is awesome. Lots of stores carry Amy's (Safeway and other mainstream groceries). Teeter carries it, I believe.

I haven't had a frozen dinner in years. As Reply 12 said, eat real food such as a sandwich or a really good salad, with a tasty but not too fattening desert. That's how I've just lost almost 10 pounds.

I used to love Marie Callendar's pot pies.

Then I saw each one has more than 1,000 calories.

Forget about it.

If you like Indian, the Tandoor Chef people know what they're doing. Better yet, get them cheaper as "Deep Foods" brand meals, which is the name of the parent company. Those and others like them are at your friendly neighborhood Indian food store. I also like Saffron Road, though they are expensive.

The Michael Angelo's entrees are good. Sausage lasagna for that night you just don't feel like cooking. Florentine lasagna is great as well.

The Michael Angelo single serve products IIRC are along the lines of Banquet: inexpensive but miniscule portions. Perhaps a meal for a child but only a snack for an adult.

Saffron Road, EVOL (really like their truffle mac & cheese). A few varieties of Lean Cuisine are not bad, like the Korean spicy beef.

Believe it or not back in the mid 70s Weight Watchers made the best frozen meals. It was according to their program so you got a huge portion of protein and 2 low carb vegetables, no cheap potatoes or rice. They had a Salisbury Steak that to this day I've never tasted anything like that, chopped steak, meatloaf, anything int that family that is as delicious. It had plenty of this mushroom gravy. SO good. They did have a few pasta dishes as if you fit them in right a carb like that was allowed a couple of times a week. This was long before the points plans. They made a stuffed with veal and cheese and spinach that was so good I once made several of them for a dinner party and everyone raved. I never told them it was frozen WW dinners.

I miss them.

These days none of them taste like real food. Funny, if you cook something from scratch and then freeze some of it it tastes just as good when defrosted and used. The commercial frozen dinners all taste like fake food.

Sorry, meant to say it was WW frozen stuffed cannelloni pasta that was so good.

I thought we settled this?

Amy's is amazing. The Pad Thai and the Red Curry are fantastic. Actually super-flavorful.

I miss LeMenu.

Bertolli's frozen pasta, bitches.

I like amy's cheese enchiladas and I use it for dip for chips. It is so expensive and you do not get anything for it. I wish she sold these family size. I could eat about 10 plus enchiladas with a full sized salad for lunch.

This is why I am trying to find a warm Mexican gluten free cheese dip, so I can just make myself and save money. search of this thread to see the worse of humanity.

I think I bought a Swansons TV dinner once just for kicks and a bit of nostalgia. It was surprisingly quite good.

Amy's. The enchilada sauce they use is so good. Safeway's stuff is pretty good too

Another vote for Amy's. I find them discounted at Grocery Outlet.

Whatever happened to Le Menu? Back in the 80s it was delicious!

Atkins frozen dinners are good. They are kind of expensive

Wow, gotta try Amy's

Another mundane thread with the same 20 or so odd posts. Something is seriously up.

They are like "test" threads or something very fucking strange is going on in here.

I don't know if they're available nationwide, but Zatarain's dinners are good - red beans/rice; jambalaya; dirty rice; and a lot of pasta alfredo type dishes with chicken or shrimp.

Corky's Barbecue frozen dinners might be regional but they sure are good and filling:

I'm on Jenny Craig and I LOVE their frozen dinners and desserts.

How about Smart One?

Be careful about Trader Joe dinners. A lot of them have unacceptably high levels of saturated fat.

R37: Smart Ones has suspect ingredients (partially hydrogenated oils/trans fats)

I prefer Lean Cuisine. Their sesame chicken and tortilla crusted fish are really good and something like 8 points if you're on WW.

I eat hardly any saturated fat, being vegan, R38, so the meals are fine occasionally for me.

My dad and I used to eat Swanson TV dinners when my mom was working back in the 60s. Dad ate two, I ate one.

Turned out they we're only 200 calories back then. And I didn't even eat the peas or the "dessert."

No wonder we were all skinny as hell back then.

Best frozen food of all time was Le Menu.

Plus you got a free dish.

Amen r42! I loved those when I was a kid.

Le Menu?

R33 the last "interesting" thread was closed. But, now we can talk about frozen dinners, washing your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, and more peanut allergies (for the 500th time, from clueless queens who have never been around kids and no nothing about it).

KNOW* nothing

I haven't eaten a frozen dinner since I was a kid 50 years ago.

Here you go, R42!

Lean Cuisine has become so incredibly bad... every 3-4 years they do some kind of overhaul and make things worse and worse (aka cheaper and cheaper). It's virtually inedible at this point. Amy's is the main good brand left. Cedar Lane is a little better I think.

Skip the Hungryman dinners, and frozen garlic bread. They are awful.

I recommend the Marie Calandar's chicken pot pies (probably most any brand is good) for rare dinners, like pizza.

I don't eat this shit. it's not healthy. you must be a fatty.

What's so unhealthy about 250 calorie pad thai? You want the real kind for 1400 calories?

[quote]The Michael Angelo's entrees are good. Sausage lasagna for that night you just don't feel like cooking. Florentine lasagna is great as well.

A few years ago, a worker at the Michael Angelo's plant fell into a machine and was ground up into pieces. I tried to eat their lasagna, but I kept envisioning bits of that poor man in the meat. I was so grossed out that I had to throw it away.

it's all chemicals and preservatives and SALT! say hello to high blood pressure !

Stouffers used to have the most delicious pot pies, but then they cut the size in half and now they're more like an appetizer. I used to love those things.

The blanket judgments on "all frozen meals are unhealthy" is stupid. AGAIN, you might want to take a look at AMY'S...very good quality products, produced locally (to me), they opened a restaurant that is very successful and whose drive-thru line rivals In-N-Out's drive-thru at any given time. They have the most tasty vegan burger...

I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, love meat, but their food is delicious.

And, no - i'm not fat; far from it in fact.

I just checked out David zinzenko's book on what to buy in the super market to eat healthy/lose weight and discovered Blake's chicken pot pie. It was sold out at my home city market but I'm on vacation and found it at Walmart and it wS good but only had 12 grams protein but around 370 calories as I recall. he said lean cuisine French bread pepperoni pizza was a solid choice. I like chile relleno at Trader Joe's and it has 20 grams protein for around 400 calories and not too much fat surprisingly.

I don't eat any of this shit, only eat food cooked by my private chef.

They are not unnecessarily healthy. Many are low calorie, low in saturated fat, low sugar, and low carbs.

Are those Mrs Smith pies good?

[quote]The Best-Tasting Frozen Dinners

Rather like asking if the squat fruit of a Pekinese or pug is better.

Lean Cuisine has this cheese tamale w/cilantro-lime rice that I think is superior to Amy's cheese enchiladas. Fewer calories too and more filling. I couldn't believe it was Lean Cuisine.

I like Blake's shepherd pie.

I buy one and only one frozen dinner to have on hand when I just can't with the cooking: Amy's tortellini pesto bowl. There ya go.

r61 - what is squat fruit? i've never heard this term before...

that said, i have a black pug named Hercules and pugs as a breed are far superior to the stoopid pekinese (the bleached blonde, fluffy haired, overly tanned and not so bright girls from the 70s).

Marie Calendar's pot pies are NOT 1000 calories. The large are somewhere around 800 and the small are about 450. If you bake them the small one instead of nuking it and have a side salad with some olive oil and lemon, you've got a very tasty, cheap and fairly healthy dinner.

Stouffers mexican lasagna--good nutritionals and pretty tasty! Eva chicken chipotle enchiladas

Evo not Eva damn autocorrect

I am not as impressed with Amy's fare as some of you are. And I have doctor most frozen dinners with my own spices.

Trader Joe

Also, saturated fats are no longer the enemy

R71, wrong. Saturated fats are still linked to cardiovascular risk

Study links sat fats to early death

Don't be stupid: butter is obviously bad.

Harvard researchers renew warnings about saturated fat and heart disease

Does Amy's offer anything that's not spicy, like enchiladas or Thai dishes.

I like Jimmy Dean's breakfast bowls.

That looks like a heart attack in a box

Amy's broccoli and cheddar pasta is good.

This mac and cheese is good. Also comes with one made with pepper jack cheese. Yummy!

I only recently stopped using my LeMenu melamine plates. They were great but they finally wore out.

I now use Corelle salad plates for nuking things.

Wonder why LeMenu went away? Everybody remembers this brand fondly.

R26, I have been gluten free exclusively for a long time.

First, Amy's does sell the cheese enchiladas in a family size. They are available in my area at Target, Kroger, Safeway and Walmart, about $8.50 a package.

Second, if you're willing to eat convenience foods, Velveeta is gluten-free, as are Rotel canned tomatoes and Pace Picante sauce and Hatch chili products. You can make your own dips with those items. Or you can make a dip by starting with a white sauce base with milk, cornstarch, and add cheese and other ingredients to make something you like.

Cheese is far worse then butter. You don't use much butter when you cook, I don't speak about cookies. But people tend to use too much cheese and put tons of it on everything.

Cheese is the problem, not butter.

Amy's $3.49 at Target. Love the Pad Thai.

R66 - I think you are mistaken. You quoted calories for a serving Even the small pie is more than one serving

Fat whores and Girls, girls! The pot pie data is available online on Marie C.'s own website. Keeping with the spirit of DL, I chose Chicken.

You have to do a little math. Because Marie is addled on crack, her pies are packaged in oz but the nutritional info is listed in g. A small pie is 10 oz, or about 285 g (I rounded up). The nutritional info/portion is for 200 g. So, multiply by 285/200 or 1.425 to get the info for a full pie.

That means 612 calories, 36 g fat, 14 g sat fat, 1069 mg sodium, etc.

For the large pie, your multiplier is (454/200) 2.27. So, 976 cal, 57 g fat, 23 g sat fat, and 1700 mg sodium.

Don't forget to horf down a Pepperidge Farm chocolate cake for dessert!

Stouffers is my fav since I like nuts and cheese. 2nd is Marie Callendars, though it's a bit pricey.

[quote]Cheese is far worse then butter. You don't use much butter when you cook, I don't speak about cookies. But people tend to use too much cheese and put tons of it on everything. Cheese is the problem, not butter.

Ugh....these fucking American problems with butter, cheese, potatoes, carbs etc.

The rest of the world manages to be slimmer and live longer without obsessing over this shit.

Instead of the palm oil and transfat garbage you all eat, stick to high quality full fat butter and good olive oil.

Cheese is the problem? It's only a problem if you're eating the industrial blocks of wax Americans call cheese. Believe me a nice chunk of aged pecorino will do you well.

Did someone mention Stouffer's French Bread Pizza? One of the joys of my childhood!

Here's a webpage that extols the late, lamented Swanson's LeMenu frozen dinners:

Saturated fat rules! It provides optimal browning

Grass-fed butter, peanuts, coconut oil, avocado, yum yum yum!

A Le Menu TV commercial:

Yeah, cheese and butter are not good for you. It's simple

Litttle butter and cheese is good for you. It's tasty and please you, but like every good thing one must not abuse them.

Eating kale, steamed food and brown rice is good for you but quickly boring.

It's just a question of balance.

one of the saddest threads ever, even for DL standards

It's all crap: full of sodium and it'll plug you up for days.

If you are throwing calories to the wind then Marie C's.

Fuck Amy!

I only buy Lean Cuisine.

Lean Cuisine is declining

I'm shocked at the lack of Trader Joe's mentions in this thread, I thought it would be what everyone said.

Trader Joe's excels at their frozen entrees, and they are priced more affordably than Amy's. I won't really buy frozen entrees anywhere other than Trader Joe's.

Lean Cuisine's Sesame Chicken with pasta and vegetables is very good and satisfying.

Amy's you definitely have to shop around. It's $1-2 cheaper at Target than the local grocery stores, which have them at $4.69 and 5.99. Their red label bean and cheese burritos are the thing I eat the most. And their cheese pizza. For the person wanting non-spicy, I'd recommend the Veggie Loaf meal. It's a slice of lentil loaf in a brown gravy with whipped potatoes and peas/corn. Midwestern tasty.

The Trader Joe's frozen Indian food is really good. (While I think the Amy's Indian food is absolutely disgusting.) Garlic naan and the Paneer Tikka Masala are delicious.

I don't agree about Trader Joe's Indian line. I'm R16 who mentioned Tandoor Chef, etc. I've tried four of TJ's Indian entrees and at least one variety of the naan, and they don't measure up to the taste of the others mentioned. Really, go and compare for yourself.

Someone beat me to the Marie Callendar's pot pies. That's the best frozen thing you'll ever eat. I too quit them when I read the calories on the back. Holy shit I had no idea.

Anyone found good frozen or canned hot and sour soup?

So, Amy's is only vegetarian? I didn't see any meat trays? A lot of cheese too, which I don't like

Amy's is meatless vegetarian only, with several vegan and/or gluten-free options.

I like most of Amy's canned products. However like all prepared food you have to watch the calories, carbs and sodium. I'm not a big fan of anybody's frozen food. But I keep some cans of Amy's stuff around. For example one can Amy's chili and a wheat tortilla seems reasonable. But you are looking at over 160 grams of carbs and over 2000 mg of sodium. Although if you switch to a corn tortilla - carbs and sodium drop significantly.

I would like to find good frozen fish

I like Mrs. Pauls frozen beer battered fish.

I love me some Peppertidge Farms cakes!

Cake is a dinner? The lean cuisine tortilla crusted fish is great

I second the tortilla crusted fish!

Lean cuisine Parmesan fish good too

Tried Amy's red curry Thai over the weekend based on the recommendations here. It did not disappoint! I'll definitely look to getting it again the next time I'm at Target.

Boston Market. The sirloin tips are pretty good, the chicken patties too. But they're a little on the expensive side.

Americans won't quit until every food option is smothered in a mountain of melted cheese. It's the preferred way to eat anything here. I told a friend of mine trying to diet to limit cheese to one food item a day and don't make other changes just yet, and he lost weight quickly.

In Texas they have Nighthawk frozen dinners of chopped steak with tater tots or other sides. Those things are like crack. Unhealthy, but so tasty.

Yeah, all this cheese consumption is so gross and bad for you

The problem with Lean Cuisine, like most diet frozen food, is that carbs and sodium are out of line for the number of calories. For example if you are on a 1500 calories a day diet in order to lose weight if you extrapolate this Lean Cuisine meal to your entire daily intake that would mean 205 grams of carbs a day. Way out of line for a health diet let alone one to lose weight. Same is true with the sodium.

Yeah, Lean Cuisine has way too many carbs - even though there are 50 different meals, all are carb-heavy. There was an Atkins and South Beach low carb brand out for a while, but it was gross. The meat was impossible to chew, it smelled bad, and it was expensive.

I'm sure it's best not to know but my curiosity is winning out--how is it possible for Banquet to sell their meat pies and small dinner entrees for $1?

I admit I buy their pies every now and then. I swear, no more than 4-5 a year, though I know that number should be zero.

Yeah I don't get lean cuisine meals. Their stuff is too carb heavy (and not that good compared to Trader Joes/Amys), I always want to say something when I see women who want to lose weight buying them up.

I have a weakness for those over salted Salisbury steak dinners with the mashed potatoes and green beans. On-Cor makes the best.

[quote] Wonder why LeMenu went away?

They were too expensive to make. Other manufacturers jumped into the microwaveable frozen food market (which was fairly new at the time) using much cheaper foods and Le Menu got priced out.

After all this LeMenu talk, I found a thread somewhere on the internets about LeMenu, and a guy who said he had been the LeMenu brand manager piped up. He said that they were retail priced at about $5.59, which was a ton of $$$ in the 1980s for a frozen meal. They had a solid but not huge niche in what was then not a real big market, and no competition. Apparently the quality was good (I never ate one). Then the microwave-meal competitors started up with much cheaper food and packaging. LeMenu tried to compete but couldn't - customers were angry at the lower quality food and packaging, sales dropped, and Swanson killed the brand.

And 25 years later, there still isn't really a replacement for LeMenu in the US market, that is to say, good quality frozen food made with at least average quality ingredients. Nobody wants to make an affordable meat-based frozen entree. The Brits are right - everything is carbs and cheese.

I'm having a food flashback from that time (early '90s). A friend and I would get stoned and eat at Taco Bell. We thought it was amusing to challenge each other to eat $5 of Taco Bell food. That was a lot of TB. So a frozen dinner that cost even more than that would have seemed bourgeois-luxe to the point of being silly.

Celentano Eggplant Parmigiana - tastes very good, though only have half and save the rest in the refrigerator to nuke for the next day. Have it with some veggies and/or some pasta and marinara on the side.

R118, I like Nighthawks too - very tasty, and the name sounds like a 70s gay porno.

Nice

This Lean Cuisine is pretty good. Butternut Squash ravioli with sugar snap peas and carrots. They were $2 at Target last week.

I'll have to look for that, r127. I really enjoy the Michael Angelo brand.

anything from amy's is good. AND it's organic!!

I'm not fat but tall..do you think lean cuisine is a small amount of food?

All that nasty cheese

Does Amy make any dick pie?

You mean spotted dick..no

[quote]It's all crap: full of sodium and it'll plug you up for days.

This is the only brand I've ever tried that doesn't get me horribly constipated.

Why is there so much sodium? With refrigeration and modern preservatives, why resort to medieval means to hide the taste or extend the shelf life? Can't people just add salt at home if it's not salty enough for them? No tiny little entree should have 25-30% of daily sodium limit.

Good question

If you want the best pot pie money can buy, get Mrs. Budd's pot pies. I've tried them ALL, and Mrs. Budd's pot pies are as good as home made. Marie Calendar can't come close.

Mizriz Budd don't sell her chicken pies in my Kay-Roger or Piggly!

As a kid, I loved those little cake cobbler desserts in the old Swanson TV dinners. Those things were like crack. Little buttery cakes filled with apples or apple-cranberry.

I loved the Hungry Man line of frozen meals as a kid too, r142. And every once in a while I'll cheat on my diet and buy the spicy fried chicken meal from their Select series.

The lean cuisine are okay. I like the chicken enchiladas. I don't eat the rice...

[quote] those little cake cobbler desserts in the old Swanson TV dinners

They were disgusting. Molten chemical sugar soup that exploded and bled into all the other parts

The new thin crust square digiorno pizzas are good, I tried the one with sausage that resembles sliced pepperoni and cubes of provolone --I will try the one with pepperoni and carmelized onions

Why do much fried chicken? Why so little fish beside salmon, cod, and tilapia?

[quote]Why is there so much sodium? With refrigeration and modern preservatives, why resort to medieval means to hide the taste or extend the shelf life? Can't people just add salt at home if it's not salty enough for them? No tiny little entree should have 25-30% of daily sodium limit.

Trader Joe's tend to be lower sodium. One of the many reasons they are the best for this stuff.

Yeah

I love Trader Joe's burritos but they are also high in sodium 1000mg per.

All you have to do is read this thread to understand why Dataloungers are so overweight.

Dump them all in your slow cooker. Make delicious meal for all your friends and family! They'll think you've been slaving in the kitchen for hours!!!

I love Jenny Craig's food. It's kind of expensive for the program but the food is good.

....

Gay men discussing eating TV dinners?!?!?

It must really be the end times.

Stouffers spaghetti is excellent

This is really very sad and everyone on this thread should seek professional help starting yesterday

UH, some of us don’t have the time, money, skills, energy, kitchen equipment, etc. to whip up something tasty or go out to a restaurant. Frozen meals are very convenient and if you choose wisely, just as healthy as homemade food. The people deriding them must snack on fatty salty things all day...News flash: 25% of your salt for the day is not much if you have cereal, OJ and an egg for breakfast and a peanut butter sandwich, milk and baby carrots for lunch. You have to watch your numbers regardless of where the food is coming from.

Thanks to you bitches for mentioning Marie Callender’s chicken pot pies. I was in the store and saw it - so I decided to try it. God damn! That was so friggin good. Like crack. After one, I’m addicted. I couldn’t bring myself to look at the ingredients or calories. I feel so ashamed. But I can’t wait for the next one,

Are people eating salad again?

I love frozen dinners

It's been a decade since I've had them, but Marie Callender's everything was quite tasty and filling. Yes, you have to kiss your food plan goodbye, but, going with the best-tasting theme, I'd say MC. They do a nifty thing with their sauces where you microwave the packet on top of your meal, so you get decent gravy on your chicken-fried steak. The pot pies are delicious, too.

I'm PISSED that EVOL stopped making their tandoori chicken. It was low cal, low fat and good.

I like Blake's shepherd's pie, Trader Joe Pizza Margherita, various Indian foods that are all made by the same company and sold to Amy's, Trader Joe & supermarket brands.

I used to like Lean Cuisine tortilla crusted fish but it seems to have been discontinued in favor of even more fake Asian food.

Part of LeMenu's branding success came from including the microwavable plate at a time when microwave ovens were fairly new and many dishes weren't compatible with those older microwave ovens.

My idea is to create a new brand called LeCaftan - every meal will include a large comfy Caftan - you know just to air out your private parts while you watch that all that cheap goop spin around in your microwave oven.

About once every five years I buy a chicken pot pie, but they're always disappointing. That's the only frozen-dinner I've ever tried. I just cook a regular decent meal, it's not hard.

Trader Joe's jackfruit curry and it's thai eggplant are truly yummy!!! Cheap and so good! I add peanuts to mine, for added protein as I am vegetarian, and I serve the thai eggplant over rice or pasta. Don't be afraid to add a few ingredients to your meal to take it over the top! Much faster and cheaper and tastier than takeout!!

Holy shit why is food so cheap in USA? Here in Norway a frozen dinner costs 8 $ and up.

Lean Cuisine's Moroccan beef is very good. Butternut ravioli with veggies is tasty with added frozen peas. Both have been $1.69 each at Smith's (Kroeger.) Their Asian entrees are way too sweet. Frozen dinners are reserved for when I'm sick and therefore can't cook.

R167 It's the reason why you way 85 kg and Americans weigh 150 kg.

^^^ weigh weigh weigh ^^^^

Michelina's $1.00 foods are just enough and decent.

I bought them for an elderly uncle at his request and tried one to be polite.

Is there any frozen dinner that has good nonfried chicken?

The sodium count is usually off the charts in any of these frozen dinners including the veggie ones.

I like Jenny Craig frozen dinners I get from my JC center. I'm a member and am entrenched in a weigh loss program partnership with them.

Yeah r173. Almost all prepared American food has lots of sodium. Even chipotle

Lately I have been eating the Lean Cuisine Pecan Chicken, it is Chicken, wild rice, a sauce and cranberries. Doesn't sound like that great of a combination but the cranberries really set it off. Don't expect a lot of Pecans, I have yet to fine anything near a whole Pecan as pictured on the box.

Le Menu was about as successful as Le Car.

How dare you, R177?

LeMenu was worth it for the free dishware alone!

LeMenu?

Frontera fajita bowls

OMG I feel so guilty when I eat this but Banquet has a new Mega Bowl, and its delicious. They have different ones, but I only tried two of them, the Nashville Chicken with potatoes is delicious! The MacnCheese with Buffalo Chicken is disgusting....

But they have Fried Chicken, Chicken Fajita, Chicken Queso Bowl and they have new pot-pie types.

They cost like $2.50 each. Cheap and filling. Spicy though!!!

Here is the website you can see all the food they have

Is Lean Cuisine better than Smart Ones?

The Simple Truth organic, ethnic meals from Kroger are surprisingly good.

Most of the products you are listing are horrible choices for people who want to eat healthy food and not get fat.

Many of these products, like R182, are just garbage.

Chef Bombay’s Chicken Tikka Masala is the best Frozen Indian food I have ever had. Very tasty and light. Low in sodium and sugar too!

I just tried a "Michael Angelo's" frozen lasagna (way better than Stouffers that doesn't get the sauce right). I added some mozzarella cheese on top the last minute of cooking (microwaved) and it was pretty darn good. Had a nice piece of homemade bread (mom's she gave me) with butter on the side.

If you’re eating at restaurants, you’re eating a lot of frozen food items.

Saffron Road and Amy's are my favorites. For gluten-free Chinese, I look for Feel Good. I'm not claiming it's the best frozen Chinese food, just that it's a good, gluten-free option. For "American" food, Nighthawk or Boston Market. I now avoid regular Stouffer's and Marie Callender because they seem to be nothing but fat and salt. Lean Cuisine still has some decent options, e.g., the spicy Korean BBQ.

I like Souffers Swedish Meatballs.

Frontera taco bowls - I prefer the al pastor bowls.

[quote]Is there any frozen dinner that has good nonfried chicken?

The Marie Callender pot pies are good but of course not low calorie/low fat

Pot pies are not supposed to be low calorie/low fat, low intelligence r192.

Stouffers Fettuccine Alfredo, they also sell it with chicken & broccoli which is good too

R3 uses "supper," so I can guess why he got crossed out years ago.

I learned to cook and make food ahead. A hell of a lot healthier.

I love Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice frozen meals. Though I do like to cook, I also like to have these on hand. They're low calorie, low fat and low sodium, and many of them include a good portion of vegetables. Plus they make portion and calorie control effortless. They're almost always on sale at my local grocery store, like 4 for 10 deals or even better 5 for 10 deals. I would spend considerably more to buy all the ingredients to make these meals from scratch.

Healthy Choice Simply Cafe Steamers are great.

Ideas

Frozen fish with some simple fresh vegetables.

Saffron

Tried Amy's cheese pizza based on recommendations from this thread. Majorly disappointed in taste and quality.

For me, the best frozen pizza is Virtuoso/Dr. Oetker.

Had to laugh at R53 -- even though he wrote that three years ago, the worker killed at a Michael Angelo's plant died in 2003. It wasn't "a few years ago," it was 14 years before he posted, 17 years now!

I think they got the bits n pieces of the dude out of the machinery by now.

Morning Star Farms Buffalo chicken patties and corndogs. Trashy goodness without the guilt.

Stouffers spaghetti

[quote]but a lot of their stuff has nuts and cheese

I love it when jokes tell themselves...

Thanks to this thread I tried a bunch of Amy's dinners and the enchiladas are fantastic, you bitches did not disappoint.

Didn't care for Amy's pad thai, but the frozen Saffron Road pad thai was really good.

Unlike others I like the Atkins frozen dinners, the bowls with cauliflower rice are very good.

[quote]I learned to cook and make food ahead. A hell of a lot healthier.

R196, I do this to. I cook 3 different batches on weekends andn make 20-30 meals for a few weeks. Much healthier as I can control the sodium.

Since the portions are small My stomach seem to have shrunk and I get full fast.

With my daily 2.5 mile walk, I'm currently losing pound a day. Losing weight ain't that hard if you cut down on eating and exorcise.

Saffron Road has excellent Indian food

All that shit is bad for you. Too much sodium, sugar, chemical additives, etc. carcinogens,

You can see nutritional value on the package. Some frozen food has a good nutritional profile

I just had Stouffers Turkey Tetrazzini and it was bad. Usually Stouffers is pretty good so I thought I would try this, but it was gummy and left a bad taste in my mouth

When I lived in Atlanta we called it Harris Tee Tee.

DEVOUR

Interesting how many posts in such a benign topic thread get red tagged.

Interesting how this bump bitch troll thread keeps coming back again and again.

When I am feeling lazy I heat up a Stouffers spaghettie with meat sauce, it's pretty good if you add a bunch of Parmesan cheese to it.