I'll Be Making My Own "TV Dinners"

[Trish]

Prepared single serve meals such as those by Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice are lacking IMO. Since I hate to cook and often find myself wondering what to make while simultaneously not feel like making anything, I decided to cook and/or buy enough to freeze. We get these dinners from a local restaurant that gives very large portions. Mine is the vegetable platter. There's enough rice and veges for 3 or 4 servings. So I freeze half of that and add meat or fish. I recently got Chinese food from my favorite halal Chinese restaurant. Yep, more rice and I froze part of that. I now have these in the freezer:
~Vegetable egg foo young with fried rice
~2 homemade (imitation crabmeat) crab cakes dinners with rice and veges.
~Barbequed chicken with rice
~Homemade chili

It's easy to steam broccoli or boil green beans (both frozen) to have with all of the above. I also have easy prepared foods to turn to, like Marie Callendar's chicken pot pie, Prima spinach-mozzarella ravioli, frozen turkey burgers, Gorton's fish fillets, Nathan's onion rings and Alexa sweet potato puffs. In addition, I can make Hungry Jack instant mashed potatoes taste like homemade by using almond milk and adding cream cheese and butter.

What if anything are you doing to make meal time easier?

I love cooking and putting together platters and salad bowls.

For me, it is kitchen gadgets which have made cooking and preparing food easier - no more pots and pans on the hobs or in the oven - today it is just popping food into an air fryer, slow cooker, microwave etc. Actually, the air fryer is our most used gadget and, these days, I rarely use the oven.

I know people who order meals on a weekly or monthly basis - not meals on wheels - they choose their menus and the food arrives, everything they need and minimal cooking/preparation. It's great for people who either do not like cooking or are unable to. I like the idea of ordering from a restaurant