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Volume 1. Welcome to the first edition of DylanBright.com's review of frozen dinners. Microwave-able dinners are a necessary part of life for today's on the go single working professional, as well as today's single lazy person. I used to think that frozen dinners were wastefully overpriced for very little food, but now that I'm in the middle class, and getting even more lazy about cooking in my old age, I've been sampling a wide variety of what my grocer's freezer has to offer. This is no easy task. 21st Century Democratic Capitalism provides an overwhelming number of choices, and I am often left too awe struck to make a frozen dinner decision. Sometimes I am so awe struck that making the decision starts to take to long and I don't make a decision at all, and I just buy something that I understand, like hot dogs. I soon realized serious research was required. In this guide to frozen microwave-able food I will provide a valuable resource for myself and others. To get things started, we're going to prepare and taste: Marie Callender's Swedish Meatballs with Fettuccini Pasta in Sour Cream Sauce.
It was one of those fancy new "two pouch" things. It had the sauce in one pouch and the noodles in another. You have to cook the sauce for a while and then the cook the pasta. Obviously that costs some points. Two steps is one step too many. And you have to cut open the hot pouches with scissors, which is no fun. After 8 minutes or so, it was done.
Hmmmm..... That doesn't look quite like the picture on the box. Let's compare those right quick...
The good news is the finished product tastes better than it looks, and it was relatively filling. Although I did have a bagel two hours before I ate it, so it's probably not as filling as it seemed.
*Taste counts twice. Total score = (Preparation + (Taste X 2) + Portion + Value)/6
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