I'm hungry...

[Kali]

[NYC_SKP]

1. All I got is...

[Kali]

2. already made?

'cause I have oil and popcorn kernals and butter - the ingredients for popcorn

[NYC_SKP]

3. The missing element is heat.

I know you got some heat!

[Kali]

4. no, I have that too

the missing element is motivation

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. That's what microwaveable frozen dinners are for

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[redwitch]

6. I love how it looks like real food on the package.

Then you open it up.

All day breakfast? LOL!

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Actually they are pretty good!

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Consider this:

Everything is cooked right off the bat, fast froze - most importantly, the meat.

No time to spoil travelling around to stores, then butchered, then sitting in the coolers for who knows how long.

Never had indigestion from a a nuked frozen dinner, can't say the same for all my "real" meals made from store-bought ingredients.

Meat, poultry and fish are the most common sources of indigestion and/or food poisoning.

Especially from stores - not talking about a farmer eating his own cow, or eating a fresh butchered chicken or a fisherman eating fresh caught fish.

I like to cook, but like most people, I get lazy now and then - so frozen dinners it is.

Besides - who wants to spend hours cooking over a hot stove when it's 90 degrees?

Oh yeah, it gets that hot up here sometimes - and this is the time of year it happens.

Wintertime? - heck - happy to cook all day!



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[Chan790]

10. Okay, but the sodium content is killer.

On the list of 100 comparable frozen-dinner products, they have 80% of the top-5 for sodium and the top-2 spots overall. All 4 had more than the daily recommended intake of salt.

http://www.hellawella.com/100-popular-frozen-meals-ranked-by-sodium-content

I mean I guess it's fine occasionally, but I'd be concerned for anybody eating more than 1 or 2 a month.

[Brigid]

11. Yep, gotta watch the labels for sodium content.

I have put many an item back on the grocery store shelf for having a ridiculously high sodium content. And those Hungry Man things? I don't even bother to look at those.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. Well - I was living on canned food at one time

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recently - for over 6 years.

Cans contain MUCH more sodium than frozen food.

Just read the back of one of my Hungry Man dinners - sodium content is 60%.

Read a can of beans - 75%

Can of chicken noodle soup -54%

Can of sliced potatoes - 24%

and so on -

Yes, fresh produce is mostly sodium free - but our bodies NEED salt.

So even 2 frozen dinners/meals a day is just marginally over the recommended sodium intake.

Much better than throwing a bunch of canned food into a pot to make a meal, which is how I survived for many years, probably getting over 300% of the recommended sodium.

I don't even own a salt shaker, stopped adding salt to my food decades ago, so that is not an issue.

Yep - I'm a slow shopper, I read the labels to decide what to buy - dunno about in the States, but up here - most of our products have that nutritional information on the labels -

No info? - I don't buy it.

That simple.

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. Kali ...

this is too funny.

someone had to start a thread about it

[Chan790]

9. Story of my life.

Worse is when you want chocolate cake at 9PM, the grocery closes at 8 and you have all the ingredients, save baking soda.

How the hell do I not have baking soda? It's $0.39/box. I should buy it 10 boxes at a time and pour it into an empty oatmeal cardboard tube.

[Shrek]

13. I'm going to print that pic

And hand a copy to my son every time he whines about not having anything in the house to eat.

Next semester he's living in an apartment instead of the dorm, and without a meal plan I shudder to think about the impending nutrional apocalypse.