I prefer…no. i strictly enjoy boxed, canned, or good ol’ home cooked meals to frozen ones.
unless it’s mac 'n cheese.
then i prefer home-made to boxed.
Simply for taste.
Is anyone else picky this way?
I tend to not like boxed meals much. There’s something off about the flavor, compared to fresh or frozen.
I had to re-read the OP a couple of times. I forgot that people eat MEALS out of boxes and cans… I can’t remember the last time I opened a box or can other than a single ingredient (can of tomatoes, box of pasta).
To me, they just overwhelm with synthetic flavors and too much salt.
Frozen fruits and veggies are about the only frozen stuff I buy, except for the occasional box of veggie burgers. Lots of home made stuff in the freezer though. Boxed and canned foods I tend to think of as sodium bombs. For the most part, I either make stuff from the component ingredients, or I eat out.
The average American gets somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of the sodium in their diet from processed foods. If you want to cut down on sodium (which is something that most of us could stand to do), reducing the amount of processed foods you eat would be a good start.
I love Kraft boxed macaroni and cheese. I think of it as a totally different thing than homemade macaroni and cheese.
I have never found a frozen meal that was worth eating. Occasionally I’ve had a frozen pizza that was okay, but they never rock my world.
Boxed meals, on the other hand, are salty and sort of delicious, but I don’t eat them because I just don’t need all those carbs and sodium. If I’m served any kind of -roni side dish at a friend’s house, though, I secretly squirm with delight.
I can’t think of anything out of a can that I would eat and call a meal. Canned pasta is something I’d have to be very, very hungry to eat.
Yeah, mostly I eat homemade food.
Yep, two completely different foods that just happen to share a name.
I generally buy fresh vegetables every day rather than eat frozen.
Depends on what it is. Frozen tamales are pretty good, and in general, I find that freezer meals are better than boxed. Boxed stuff is limited in what you can include, so it’s either pretty minimalist (mac and cheese), or pretty nasty (I had some freeze-dried Pad Thai once that was… unique).
For ingredients, though, it’s a toss-up. Frozen meat (before it’s cooked) is entirely legitimate, but so is jerky. Dried apples are heavenly, frozen blueberries are too - as long as you don’t thaw them. A lot of vegetables freeze pretty well - peas especially - but I wouldn’t touch the dried/canned versions. Beans, though, dried or canned are the way to go. If I had a bigger freezer, I’d have a lot more frozen stuff, but as is I’ve got as much or more canned goods.
by canned foods i mean, chef boyardi and soup