TV Dinners

Been many many years since my last one. Are they any good? About the same?

What is a good one?

new age version

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Healthy Choice is edible with salt, pepper and butter.

A great song, and video, by ZZ Top

Better than the 70's Swanson.

Check the sodium content on the box and you will likely change your mind about eating one.

This! Get your weekly sodium allowance in one easy to reheat meal.

They've also got preservatives and other chemicals that are horrible for you. Many are loaded with saturated fat and ultra processed garbage, too.

Maybe there is something out there that's not bad for you, but as for my family, no thanks.

When I was younger it was a quick meal. Not any more.

Ate a bunch as a kid in the 70's, Hungry Man. Frid chicken my favorite. I would not eat it today.

My mom bought them all the time when I was growing up. Patio was my favorite until I moved out after high school. Then I could afford the Nigh Hawk TV Dinners. Haven`t eaten one in over 40 years though.

I use to eat the Hungry Man dinners.

Good stuff, but not fast. 30 minutes in the oven.

I couldn't remember the last time I had one. I used to like the frozen tv dinner macnchz. Cant recall the brand.

The super spicy ramen in a bowl is a guilty pleasure every once in a while. Crack an egg in there and it will do. Fresh green onion is a plus as well.

This is my go to frozen dinner Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie.

Okay, those are good

I liked the Marie Callenders until I read the label: 110 percent of the daily saturated fat guideline and 56 percent of the sodium. Man, TV dinners were a big treat when I was a kid in the 1950s. Put on my jammies with "feets" and had one all to myself on my own TV tray, watching the little GE black and white with all the tubes. I know -- prehistoric ...

I dont ever remember eating them growing up but maybe we did. We would eat a few as a young married couple. I keep a couple as emergency backups at the deer lease. Ive never had a decent tasting one.

Parmesan Chicken

Marie Callender and some Stouffer's are pretty good, but not exactly healthy.

I miss TV TRAYS, Grandma's cooking, and good cartoons.

Amen!!! And the tv stations going off the air at night,

Yes Sir.

My kids don't know what it's like to be the remote lol.

I really do miss those days for a lot of reasons.

“How do you please a hungry man??”

I always ate the El Charrito dinners. Weren’t half bad.

I was the youngest, so that was my job. “Greg, go change it to channel 8… Dallas is about to come on”

My tv dinners were usually leftovers. But they were very, very good

Haven’t had one forever.

I use a TV tray everyday. We have a set of four. I keep one open beside my recliner and use it for snacking and to put my coffee cup on. They come in handy!

I probably made it sound like they weren't any good, but back then I guess they weren't too bad. My mother worked a lot as a court reporter so I saw many TV dinners.

The way my bride cooks I don’t need or want one…..

You guys were lucky, mom bought the stores cheap off brand.
TV dinners were the death of a lot of good home cooked meals around our house.

Think we used to dining table once in our 5er.

Kids Cuisine back in the day.

I use to eat a lot of Patio burritos back in the high school days.

the wife and I order these and they are great. Fresh not frozen and ready in 2 minutes.

Never did like those, I think those came later after the Swanson 70's run. My son made this chicken pot pie soup last night (pic below), it was delicious and reminded my of the swanson chicken pot pies, loved those things..

That looks really good.

ya it does!

HEB makes some fresh heat and eat meals that are pretty decent if you're in a hurry. Other than frozen lasagna, I haven't bought anything even close to a TV dinner in years.

https://www.heb.com/search/?q=Meal%20Simple

Agree not healthy but best ones I ever tried were from them and their pot pies are good but do not read the label.

I ate Patio then changed to El Charrito when they came out. They were very good to a young teen who loved Mexican food but had an English mother.