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23 January 2003 (Thursday): ghetto cuisine

I finally caved last week and bought a freezerful of TV dinners. This bachelorette has given up on cooking.

What's most galling is, the stuff in these little plastic trays tastes better than what I was slaving over at the stove. Sigh.

At least they're $2 a pop. They were on sale. Trust good ol' Mom to alert me to such things.

posted by enjelani @ 02:45 PM PST

Replies: 12 comments

yup. For a lot of us, 'home-cooked' means 'I opened the can myself.' Everything I try to cook turns out pretty bland... and in the meantime, the TV dinners have gotten much tastier since the old days when the Swanson Hungry-Man dinners were the only ones on the supermarket shalves. Someone out there is really putting in a lot of work on this stuff...

But if it makes you feel better about the difficulty of home cooking, I recall a friend who once offered to reward a group of people who helped her move into a new apartment by promising *not* to cook for them.

And they took her up on the offer.

posted by m. mellow @ 23 01 2003 03:56 PM PST

I tell you no lie.

Get some good bread (*good* bolillo rolls or french buns or something), toast them up, put a sliced kosher-pickle on there, lay a few slices of cheddar cheese across, and top it off with some spicy brown mustard.

Heaven on the cheap!

posted by syndromes @ 23 01 2003 05:47 PM PST

oh honey.

*sigh*

posted by Gaudior @ 24 01 2003 02:27 AM PST

stouffer tuna casserole tv dinners are heavenly, except their puny size.

posted by dardi! @ 24 01 2003 09:57 AM PST

eeesh... well, at least you're eating something.

posted by soren @ 24 01 2003 11:21 AM PST

i've become partial to Trader Joe's little soup-in-a-cup thingies. incredibly small amount of effort required (i don't even bother to boil the water -- just get it out of the hot-water spigot on the coffee machine at work), cheap, small enough to be a grazing snack, yet hot and tasty.

you can find organic versions, too.

and sandwiches are my friends. i mean, you know, the kind of friends you eat.

er ...

posted by eric @ 24 01 2003 12:19 PM PST

e- what is the name of these tasty $2 treats?

posted by Tae @ 24 01 2003 03:50 PM PST

Yeah, but Syndromes eats oatmeal with crushed ice on it.
*blech*
I, on the other hand, suggest rice with a cup of green tea and some canned salmon on top.

posted by Moonpuddle @ 26 01 2003 09:58 PM PST

...

the green tea and the canned salmon go on top of the rice? or the salmon goes on top of the tea?

and you have to eat it on Syndromes' other hand? eew!

posted by eric @ 27 01 2003 03:30 PM PST

No, the tea and salmon go on top of the rice, with an umeboshi and/or some wasabi if you have 'em - ochazuke, breakfast of champions. And, no, definitely not out of Syndromes' other hand...I know where that hand has been. :P

posted by Moonpuddle @ 27 01 2003 06:19 PM PST

*blink blink*

*looks down at his right hand*

"I do believe they be talking bad about us Vern..."

posted by syndromes @ 27 01 2003 06:54 PM PST

tonight, i ate a frozen dinner, an apple, and a carrot.

luckily, i ate a 1.5lb burrito for lunch. :)

posted by echeng @ 28 01 2003 02:40 AM PST