TV Dinners~ bad for you?

[booker81]

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I love jalapeno poppers and I still eat them from the store. I wish I knew how to make them

hint hint.

I love stouffer's lasagna and mac/cheese.

I don't see Amy's brand here at the store, enchiladas are one of my favorites.

Jalapeno Poppers

This is my "starter" recipe - I add bacon to the cheese mix, and then follow the steps up to the frying part. Instead of frying them in the recipe, I place them all on a cookie sheet and freeze. Once frozen solid, I dump them into a gallon zip top baggie, and put that in the freezer (this way they don't stick together). Then, whenever I want some, I grab a handful out, put on a cookie sheet and bake at about 400 for 15 minutes or so, or until the cheese starts oozing a bit. Also, to "load" them easier, I put the cheese mix into a baggie, snip the corner off, and "pipe" it into the peppers.

Funny folks mention enchiladas - I've just put 3 batches into the freezer for future dinners. For $150 today, I'll put up about 30 meals of homecooked, fresh ingredient dinners that will only require either a crockpot or 30 minutes in the oven, no prep time. Each meal will feed me (normal eater), the child (eats about half what I do), and DH who eats 2-3 times what I eat, plus have leftovers for lunch.

 

[Dar]

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Crockpot love, dump in a few things in the morning, put on low, come home to dinner.

when I was working 12 hour shifts I would cut my veggies and have everything ready so all I had to do was dump it into the crock pot in the morning and go. I would freeze the plastic container so that the meat would not spoil and just plop it in the morning of...

I also have a programmable rice maker that i can delay the start for up to 15 hours... take my meat out the night before and put it in the fridge and start my rice maker in the morning all I need to do is grill my meat because the rice is waiting for me

make pasta sauce one night and a few nights later turn it into chili add some spice and some beans (I will put this in the crock pot too)

make a pot roast on the weekend and then have the left overs in a pulled pork sandwich with a salad one night

pasta bake... I use the left over pasta sauce from the other night... add some shredded cheese mix it all together with some pasta and put it in a baking dish... while I was walking the dog or in the shower it was baking .. all you need is 20 minutes and when i was done dinner was ready/// add a salad and rolls and presto...

none of it came from a can or box... and very quick to make.

 

[SarahFair]

We use to keep a lot of "frozen dinners" and things of such nature till I learned how bad they were for you.
Now I think weve bought 1 frozen pizza and 1 mac n cheese thing in a year (and that was the SO)

Sometime ago I read that all the preservatives in the human diet these days slows down decomposition of our bodies after we die

(But you cant trust everything you read on the internet either

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[Dar]

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wow theres another reason I want to be cremated...LOL

 

[PaulaSB12]

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I have to agree after a 12 hour shift you don't want to spend much time cooking you are plain tired to do much. So on occasion I just go to the local fish and chip shop.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

For me, ages ago, 2 for DH, 1 for me - 5 dollars. I could make WAY more food for that money, DH loves my cooking, and we just feel better. Started having kids, 5 dollars was a lot of money for 1 meal with DH at E-4 pay grade.

 

[spacecowgirl]

What a rip-off!! From what I can see in that picture, you have about a cup of cooked pasta (less than 25 cents worth, if you cooked your own) and three bites of nasty looking chicken...in some kind of sauce?? And it probably cost around 2 to 3 dollars, right?? And your probably still hungry after you eat it, too..and I bet it didn't taste good, either..

Cooking your own meals isn't hard and it's totally worth it. Very economical, and you know what's going into what you're eating.

If you think microwaving plastic is bad, think about all the crap that they're putting into those TV dinners!!

 

[cassie]

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This ought to put things in perspective about preservatives allegedly slowing down body decomposition in modern day humans. There was a body found. It was taken for an expert opinion on how long it had been dead. The person whose expert opinion was asked estimated the body had been dead a few months. Turned out it was a casualty from the Civil War some idiot had dug out of hsi grave. How many preservatives do you suppose were in the food in the 1860's? By the way, because of this fiasco, the so-called body farm was established at the university. There controlled studies are done to measure rates of decomposition for law enforcement. I think it is at the University of Tennessee, but I could be wrong on that.

 

[arabianequine]

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I love jalapeno poppers and I still eat them from the store. I wish I knew how to make them

hint hint.

I love stouffer's lasagna and mac/cheese.

I don't see Amy's brand here at the store, enchiladas are one of my favorites.

Jalapeno Poppers

This is my "starter" recipe - I add bacon to the cheese mix, and then follow the steps up to the frying part. Instead of frying them in the recipe, I place them all on a cookie sheet and freeze. Once frozen solid, I dump them into a gallon zip top baggie, and put that in the freezer (this way they don't stick together). Then, whenever I want some, I grab a handful out, put on a cookie sheet and bake at about 400 for 15 minutes or so, or until the cheese starts oozing a bit. Also, to "load" them easier, I put the cheese mix into a baggie, snip the corner off, and "pipe" it into the peppers.

Funny folks mention enchiladas - I've just put 3 batches into the freezer for future dinners. For $150 today, I'll put up about 30 meals of homecooked, fresh ingredient dinners that will only require either a crockpot or 30 minutes in the oven, no prep time. Each meal will feed me (normal eater), the child (eats about half what I do), and DH who eats 2-3 times what I eat, plus have leftovers for lunch.

Thank you very much, they look yummy! Enchiladas sound good too....I make homemade burritos and freeze them a lot.

 

[Illia]

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I disagree. It's called homegrown, organic, tested non-GMO, and made completely from scratch.

Oooh on the topic of horrible ingredients one thing I love to point out are completely useless ones. Take for example, Jell-O's cook and serve pudding mixes. They contain Polysorbate 60. What's it for? To prevent scorching!