Thank God National Frozen Food Month is over

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Mar 31st 2008 @ 5:30PM

March is National Frozen Food Month and in honor of all those giant food corporations that made millions and millions of dollars during what is essentially a month-long marketing promotion, I went ahead and subjected myself to the danger of eating frozen foods for a few days.

You all should appreciate the dietary sacrifices I make for you in the name of food blogging! And by "dietary," I don't mean just the 600+ calories per serving I consumed with each food, but the fact that my "dietary" insides will now be preserved for study by dietitians and nutritionists across the country for the next 25 years from all the chemicals that are used to keep these things "fresh" and shelf-stable for three years.

Yes, the picture of the Salisbury Steak Meal above is something I ate, along with a few other things. Excuse me while I finish digesting them, even though I ate them all over a week ago.

Filed Under: Ingredients
Tags: beef, cheese, comfort food, fish, grains, meat, national frozen food month, NationalFrozenFoodMonth, vegetables

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3-31-2008 @7:32PM Cynthia said... Wow, you'll do just about anything for your readers, won't you? Now *that* looks like a fine meal!
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4-05-2008 @12:41AM sarah said... all in the name of food, cynthia, all in the name of food. :)
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3-31-2008 @8:12PM Jennifer said... Frozen food month wasn't just for the frozen dinners... I bought a TON of frozen veggies, many of them the "steam" varieties without fatty sauces.

For veggies, it's one of my favorite times of year - second of course to when the farmer's markets start offering the *fresh* produce. I have to wait a while for that... forecast still has snow. :(
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3-31-2008 @11:35PM Lzbeth said... Here's a warning for you: Don't Ever Buy Swanson frozen Sweet n' Sour Chicken & Rice bowl. The memory of that stench will haunt me for the rest of my life.

I've been experimenting this month with all the different brands that make Sweet n'Sour Chicken and rice combos. Scarily enough, Michelina's is the best (aka most edible). Whereas Swanson reached new lows with that disaster of a meal.

With absolutely no exaggeration, it quite literally (and horrifically) smelt like a combination of vomit and baby poo once cooked in the microwave. My taste buds feel traumatized. The pieces of white chicken meat were threaded through with something yellow and stringy that I didn't recognize from any chicken I've ever seen.

I even wrote in to Swanson, because that had to be an aberration. I can't believe a company would knowingly try and sell the scariest toxic waste I've ever seen disguising itself as food.

Consider yourself warned.
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