S/D: Frozen lunches

D - Weight Watchers Smart Choices. bleargh in general. also too small usually still hungry.
S - Lean Cuisine's generally okay, especially pasta. But they weren't on sale this week.

Amy's is good too but kind of pricey compared to the corporate non-healthy options.

Ethnic Gourmet's pad thai is actually quite tasty. The Michelangelo frozen lasagnas are usually enough for dinner and a lunch or two (and they are like $6).

When I go hog wild in the frozen food section, I find myself buying:

Frozen green beans (?)
The aforementioned delicious Red Baron pizzas.
Tater tots (YUM)
SUPER PRETZELS (best invention ever! 30 seconds to hot, salty pretzel heaven)
And the occasional burrito, and very rarely, Bagel Bites.

I think frozen vegs are great Molly. better than canned and better than nothing if you're like me and leave vegs to rot in fridge often.

frozen taters a must.

I make some white rice, and then plop the frozen green beans in a small frying pan, dump a bunch of soy sauce on it, and then drop in a can of (drained) tuna and cook it for a little while. Sounds rank, I know, but is quite cheap and tasty!

Frozen vegetable are pretty great. So versatile. So useful. So cheap.

Amen to that. (Can one "amen" themselves? Is that frowned upon? I am so tired today, I am lucky I can formulate sentences)

i sometimes look at all the eggo variety with fondness, esp all the weird new ones they have, but i never buy. because i would probably eat them for all meals for days and then not eat them again for years.

I tend to make a ridiculous amount of chicken soup, whenver I happen to make it, and freeze a good percentage of it, because when you're sick, you don't feel like making any.

The school where I work gives all its employees 12lb turkeys for Thanksgiving. Well, last year, I'd just moved down here, and really knew no one, so I decided to cook that goddamn turkey for myself. I was eating it for a month. I wished I had roommates I could pawn it off on, but now such luck. Not surprisingly, I haven't had turkey since. But, I was quite productive! I froze a lot of it and made turkey pot pie, turkey curry, turkey sandwiches for lots of folks at work, etc.

i'm more of a fan of instant soup and pasta than frozen meals. i like to cook for dinner and bake, but i'd actually rather eat ramen or easy mac for lunch as often as not rather than eat anything healthy.

Turkey curry is pretty tasty, even though my landlord complained that I stunk up his house. Whoops.

Is it gross that my family enjoys taking leftover turkey bits and dipping them in mayonnaise? It's some kind of delicious.

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Hmm, this site obv. has very different standards than me.

this is what i bought for dinner tonight. i don't have any cookware here (i have my reasons) so i also bought a disposable sheet pan for $1.29.

What is with the South not having microwaveable SUPER PRETZELS in the freezer section? I have wandered around 2 grocery store's frozen food section, and found NOTHING!

I did see this, however. I almost bought it, for sheer novelty and sick curiosity, but my arteries were screaming "NO!" Has anyone tried these:

http://www.junkfoodblog.com/uploaded_images/jimmy-dean-pancake-sausage-chocolate-chip-735947.jpg

i don't think i have ever in my life bought a frozen meal. aren't they really pricey? and fresh food is so much nicer!

it was fine. but i'm a little sick today and my tastebuds aren't really working.

You're totally right: fresh food is way better. Frozen food is for when you're lazy and/or broke. I'm full into my semi-annual frozen food obsession. Although, see this Chocolate-Panckase-Sausagesickle may have knocked me right out of it an back to my senses.

re: Red Baron -- Bummer about the tastebuds! The Red Baron Supreme (with peppers, sausage, etc.) is mystifying and tasty.

i imagine they taste like balalarlgh compared to homemade equivalent (which i am totally makign for future-breakfast-with-future-boyfriend b/c when else would i make it? it's special, it's crazy, it's breakfast x157), but yet i am still glad frozen kind exists.

xpost stuff: smooovies with fresh+frozen fruit yes! also good in them: coconut milk.
and i was wondering about those Pres Choice frozen meals b/c i like PC stuff, so i may experiment based on yr recommendations, mrnoodles, when they are on sale, of course.

Frozen meals might be pricey compared to cooking stuff yourself and freezing, but the time saved and the relative savings vs. going out for lunch is big.

Search: Amy's Samosas (if you like curried veggie yummy goodness that is, in this case, not fried).

i also must add i'm slowly getting off of 3 weeks of eating really healthy (salads, salads, string cheese, salads, cottage cheese, etc.). i'm now spiraling downwards to actually contemplating the jimmy dean concoction!

To me cooking is not quick and easy. Not going to happen. I don't feel sick from eating frozen lunches. I have an immune system of steel (or something.)

the cheapest lunch near me is a slice of pizza for $2.50. A $2.50-$3 lean cuisine is a better option. A slightly better lunch in the employee cafeteria nearby is $4.50 for a tuna sandwich. I like that fine but it's pricey. I could walk a bit and have taco bell, chick fila or wendy's but those aren't really better and the food's cold by the time I get back to my office. :(

I keep a plastic container of bread in my desk and often just make pb&js.

i'm also a fan of the pb&j though. super cheap. that's what i ate every single weekday all summer.

my mom always used/uses a food processor. i do not have a food processor :( but i am just one person and cannot process enough food to really necessitate a food processor, let alone live up its name.

but food processors are really only good if you have a dishwasher to clean them b/c cleaning them is waaay more boring than chopping vegetables. i don't have a dishwasher either :(

i just rediscovered jam. it's great!

I kind of want a food processor to make sublime hummus. It would probably also add something to my olive tapenade, which is currently made by using my ancient blender, which is hard to clean as well. I'm also sans dishwasher.

I made a huge amount of egg salad last night (yum!). I even made my sandwich last night! I managed my time well (for once)! Too bad you can't freeze it.

we had chicken tacos last night, a standby.

http://www.breakfastblogger.com/2006/09/29/pancake-and-sausage-on-a-stick/

I am microwaving a frozen dinner for the first time ever; wish me well.

I believe in you! (Also: welcome home!)

I buy frozen lasagna every so often, on the theory that making it myself would be a lot of work for just one person.

And I have a weakness for Stouffer's Turkey Tetrazzini, probably because it reminds me of college days (and I don't doubt the dining hall was just heating up industrial-sized casseroles of the stuff.