Frozen Meals- What is your fav?

[dakcp2001]

I prefer Lean Cuisine over WW and Healthy Choice, and my current favs are the Potstickers, or the Butternut Squash Ravioli...What is your fav?

 

[lemondog]

My absolute favorite is Kashi Mayan Harvest Bake.

My other staples are Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli and Sante Fe Rice and Beans.

I never buy Healthy Choice or Smart Ones...they are lacking compared to Lean Cuisine, IMO.

 

[AlohaPolynesian]

I'm a vegetarian so I eat a lot of Amy's. They have this amazing no cheese pizza with veggies and a sweet onion sauce. SO GREAT!

 

[klacey1]

There's a Lean Cuisine skillet meal that I LOVE! Chicken, great sauce, pasta, and veggies. You make it in a wok/frying pan and it comes out decent once you add some cracked black pepper.
ETA: I love Amy's too! The pesto tortellini is delicious!

 

[JoiseyMom]

I also prefer Lean Cuisine, no HFCS and no trans fats (not even trace amounts). I was rather shocked when I looked at the ingredients of WW and HC and saw their ingredients .

 

[Jacoby 46]

Mmmm!! Butternut Squash Ravioli sounds fabulous!!!

 

[java]

LC lemon chicken picata with rice (mmmm) delicious!

 

[Robinrs]

Bertolli's Chicken Florentine and Farfalle.... to die for!

 

[*BTMRR*]

LC lemon chicken picata with rice (mmmm) delicious!

This is my favorite, too.

Frozen meals have come a long way.
Remember the "TV dinners" on a foil tray with a flat blob of watery mashed potatoes with the dot of yellow colored "butter" in the middle? Those tasted soooo good when we got them for a treat when I was a kid! I hated that they had to heat in the oven for, like, 45 minutes!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

Hungry Man Salsbury steak. Yummy!

 

[C.Ann]

I prefer to make my own (doing batch cooking), but there are some Stouffer's that I like - and I love the drumsticks in the Kid's Cuisine.. To me they taste just like KFC..

 

[dakcp2001]

I prefer to make my own (doing batch cooking), but there are some Stouffer's that I like - and I love the drumsticks in the Kid's Cuisine.. To me they taste just like KFC..

I could use some lessons in this! lol. Starting a new job on Monday so my freetime is shot. Hopefully df will pick up the slack. What kind of batch cooking do you do? What types of dishes?

I once went to a tupperware party where they had the "tv dinner" type of tupperware, and I used to scoop leftover veggies & mashed potatoes into them and freeze them for later, but that was years ago.

 

[C.Ann]

I once went to a tupperware party where they had the "tv dinner" type of tupperware, and I used to scoop leftover veggies & mashed potatoes into them and freeze them for later, but that was years ago.

Well - this is kind of what I do - with some things.. I'm one of those weird people who loves cubed steak - but it can't be cooked ahead of time because it will taste awful when it's not cooked fresh.. So I will do containers with mashed potatoes and veggies - and then cook the meat fresh..

I will cook a turkey roast - with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, a veggie - and do up a bunch of dinners.. Same for roast beef; ham; etc..

Sometimes I do rice - instead of mashed potatoes..

Spaghetti is a good "batch" dinner.. As is chili con carni..

Pretty much anything that will still taste good when you reheat it.. You can even freeze homemade soups - then serve with a specialty bread (french; rye; whole wheat; etc.)..

If you want to batch cook main ingredients without doing the veggies as well, just keep some fresh veggies available to make a quick salad to go with dinner..

The possibilities are endless if you really stop to think about it..

Good luck with the new job!

 

[dakcp2001]

thank you!!