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Looks like Stouffers is a winner here…their Pepperoni Pizza for me, though last time I had it, I thought it had gone way down in likeability.
Oh, I love Stouffer’s Welsh Rabbit. I top toast points with bacon and sliced tomato and then pour on the rabbit, which I doctor with some dry Coleman’s mustard and Worcestershire sauce.
Looks like Stouffers is a winner here…their Pepperoni Pizza for me, though last time I had it, I thought it had gone way down in likeability.
I still eat that occasionally also, I think the sauce is a little different than it was say, 20 years ago, but it’s the bread itself that I like best about it, and that hasn’t changed as far as I can see.
For a quick lunch I like Lean Cuisine Swedish meatballs, or Stouffer’s Welsh Rarebit.
I’ve been keeping a bag of frozen breaded chicken tenders in the freezer, 5 bucks at Aldi, they’re pretty good, don’t remember the brand name. Throw a few on a cookie sheet with some french fries, and 20 minutes later I have dinner. Takes me longer to make the dipping sauce for the chicken than it does to put the things in the oven.
When the Banquet beef and chicken pot pies are on sale for $0.86 each and their berry pies and apple pies are on sale for the same, I always buy a dozen. Mamaw Smith loves them and I take her a chicken pot pie and apple pie, I sprinkle the apple on top with sugar and cinnamon. Both bake pretty and brown and surprisingly the taste is outstanding. The pies are very good with some nice vanilla ice cream. Quick and easy.
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN
Cheap frozen burritos for me.
I love how many of us eat cheap frozen pizza! [:D]
I think Serious Eats said it best:
If you’re sacrificing crust quality for convenience, why not go for broke? To me, all those “fancy” frozen pizzas are bland. They think they’ve taken real “pizza” and frozen it. They make what I call “Pizza That Is Frozen” and not “FROZEN PIZZA.” Frozen Pizza revels in its crappiness. It amps up the flavor with an ingredients list of junk you probably don’t want to look too closely at. It’s “pizza” in the same way a Big Mac is a “hamburger” or Taco Bell is a “taco.” If you suspend your disbelief, I believe you can thoroughly enjoy it for what it is.
well for the kids there’s usually a Totino’s pizza , fish filets or chicken strips, but I prefer food that doesn’t taste like cardboard, so if I really don’t want to “cook” I’ll do some kind of chunky soup or just cereal and milk. Hubby’s go to if I don’t feel like “cooking” is Lipton noodle soup or eggs, hash and toast.
It’s simpler to just cook the darn simple stuff than to wait for the oven to heat, and deal with larger size pans that are involved with oven cooking.
I love how many of us eat cheap frozen pizza! [:D]
Money saved on frozen pizza can be spent on better beer![;)]
Stouffer’s lasagna is about as good as frozen lasagna gets (especially their “Italian”, that has ricotta and beef in it). On a scale from 1 to 10, about a 6. Unfortunately for me, it’s not good enough to justify the carbs.
My two “go to” frozen meals are Celantano Eggplant Parmesan and the Barber stuffed chicken breasts (these days, the ones without the breading, which lets out the other brands). On the other hand, I use a LOT of the shelf-stable Indian vegetable dishes; I steam chicken breasts, cut them into chunks, and freeze them in 6 ounce packages; I add a package of chicken to one of the Indian vegetable dishes (Kohinoor, Priya, Haldiram, MTR, Trader Joe’s); they’re about $1.50-$2.00 a 10 ounce box in the Indian groceries, and come out just like frozen.
Bart
I buy Marie Calendar chicken pot pies to brown bag lunch sometimes, but keep small containers of leftovers in the freezer, that and chicken flavored ramen or Lipton chicken noodle (dry pkg).
I love how many of us eat cheap frozen pizza! [:D]
Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza – Deluxe if I can get it, Pepperoni if I can’t
Home Run Inn pizza — Classic Cheese or Ultra Thin Deluxe
Green Mill Pizza — Thin ‘n’ Crispy Il Primo
He keeps that stuff in there for nights when I’m having fresh ahi tuna and watercress salad for dinner…….two delicious things that he will not touch. It is a small step up from Boyardee ravioli……….
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