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Growing up, I'm sure we all had our fair share of sodium-rich dishes made up of ingredients of dubious origin from the frozen aisle of our local supermarkets. Brands like, Stouffers, Banquet, Marie Callender's, etc! As a kid, your parents would be too tired to cook and you were a dumbass lovely kid who didn't know what real food tasted like, so those frozen lasagnas (this one has 6 cheeses!!!) were the perfect solution. Of course now as a grown up, those things taste horrible. I tried a Stouffers chicken pot pie recently for the first time in a decade and afterwards I felt exactly like you'd expect if you had just downed ~1500 mg of sodium littered with reconstituted meat from like 5 chickens at once and a piddling amount of baby carrots thrown in there to be, you know, healthy or something. Hey, vegetables! This thread isn't about those crappy brands. This thread is about those select few items from the frozen food aisle that actually almost maybe halfway kinda sorta measure up to a home cooked meal. Okay, that's unfair. I'm going to be crucified but I actually keep my fridge stocked with a few of my favorites (I promise I'm not a fat whale) for the nights where I've had a particular busy day at work and I don't want to cook and I want to put something tasty in my mouth that won't give me 50 different forms of heart disease. So, post your lazy Monday night standbys! I'm partial to the "sous vide" (who knows if they actually are made that way) lamb shanks from the generically-named Cuisine Solutions. Solutions to... cuisine. Anyway you can get them at Costco -- YMMV of course due to regional differences in supply -- and each pack carries 2 shanks. The meat is super tender to the point where it falls right off the bone and the sauce used to marinade the lamb is very flavorful. Here's what one looks like cooked (make fun of my plate and the fact I'm eating dinner at my PC, I understand):  I also really like Costco's chicken pot pie that you can get from their area where they sell their ready-to-prepare meals. I dunno if it counts because it's not frozen -- it's just already made and then you stick it in your oven at home. It has an awesome crust and is better than any pot pie I could make (I've tried). But it's gigantic, to the point where one pie will feed a single person for a good week or so. That and the fact that it's only sold in the Winter/Fall months means I really only buy it for the big annual holidays. anyway post stuff that makes you fat
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Suspect Bucket posted:Trader Joe's gyoza potstickers. Brown them quick in a pan, then stick them in a bowl of your favorite chicken broth (my own homemade out of the freezer) with chopped greens. I used brussel sprout leaves. Drizzle with sesame and chili oil. I had a TJs pot pie that was just completely devoid of any taste. Everything else I've had there is great. I actually really like their frozen mac and cheese and their orange chicken is just insanely good. Your potsticker soup idea sounds awesome and I have no idea why it had never occurred to me to try that.
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