Good point. But the fresh corn we froze last summer is all gone.
Onomatopoeia, we learn something new every day around here. 
oh man, they have these cheese-filled pretzel thingies… SO GOOD! Also, the single serve, deep dish pizzas used to be a favorite around here. We stopped getting them when we began to cut grocery costs, but I still think of the pretzel bites with a lot of love…
Not a warning, just an observation as it certainly isn’t endemic to Schwan’s. A neighbor family orders a lot of their fried and processed stuff and over just a couple of months we’ve seen them suddenly become… how do I put this delicately… shockingly heavy. Scared for the kids heavy. I’m sure Schwan’s has some healthier options. Go there.
Now, the good. Awhile back some kids covered a car we’d left out with paint remover. A brand new car. Paper tags still. A couple of days later the Schwan’s guy made a surprise stop at our house. Came up, told me his name, that he’d seen the car and wanted to know if he could give us some ice cream. He was just one hell of a nice guy. I thanked him, told him my wife’s favorite flavor and he spent several minutes digging through all his stash just to find that one flavor. People like that, a company that looks for people like that, I never forget. For the rest of my life I’ll always think very, very well of them. I hope, AuntiePam, you really enjoy their service and be sure and let us know what we need to order.
We use them for ice cream now. Can you blame us?
Psssst… post #13…
You are correct, it’s Trident. Those are the *best * fish sticks ever, and I never thought I could say such a thing.
Hah! Missed it! 
That’d be awesome. There’s a Costco around here somewhere.
lieu, that’s good advice. My husband’s diabetic and overweight, so I think we’ll probably go (mostly) for the “LiveSmart” choices. (I’ll hide the crab cakes.)
That’s such a nice story about your Schwan’s man. (I keep wanting to put a comma between Schwan’s and man, now that I got the joke.) This guy seemed nice too – not pushy at all, and kinda cute.
On edit: Trident – gotcha!
French Toast Sticks.
nom nom nom
Okay, I know this is irredeemably childish, but I’ve been laughing uncontrollably for the last hour or so in this thread, and am compelled to share.
A simple movement of a comma or two in some of the posts gives them completely new meanings. A few examples:
Post 6:** “When I had a Schwan’s, man, their frozen chicken breasts were one of my stock items”**
Post 9: “I don’t have a Schwan’s, man, but the rest of my family does and I get to eat their food, does that count?” …uhhhh
Post 15:** “Having a Schwan’s, man, used to mean you could consider yourself to be a farmer.”** …I guess that’d make all men farmers
Post 16: “Yeah, I’ve been using Schwans for about 15 years. (off & on)” Perhaps that would be schwanses
…and of course Post 27: "That’s such a nice story about your Schwan’s, man."
Okay, okay. I’ll leave now.
I was a Schwan’s man for a day! Sort of a job-interview thing. They will come by as rarely as you like customers have notations like “Every other month” or whatever. Oddly, the company is privately held >The truck are all propane (Natural gas?) powered and have no refrigerator on board. It is all done with cold plates.
Ask them to stop by. They will give you a quart of free vanilla ice cream.
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Schwan’s makes several brands of grocery store frozen pizza. In Blaine, MN, there is the Schwan’s Super Rink (a very large hockey/ice skating facility), which has ads inside for Red Baron, Tony’s and Freschetta.
When I was a kid, our neighbors bought from Schwan’s, and I loved those “push-up” ice cream pops.
When my ex-boyfriend’s brother first got his CDL license, he had a really hard time finding a job. So, he got a job with Schwann’s. It was wonderful for the whole family. We got to use his employee discount, which is the only way I’ll ever be able to afford their food.
We tried most of their catalog at least once. Everything was delicious. My favorite was the frozen root beer float cups. I dropped him off at work one day and he gave me a pack as a thank you. I took them to work with me then forgot to put them in the freezer. About 3 hours later, they were about half thawed and oh so delicious. I tried them completely frozen and completely thawed. Half is so much better.
I think they are called Barquitos- frozen mini-pizzas with a corn-based shell. Fantastic!
We had a Schwans man when we were newlywed and living in a townhouse complex.
I remember liking the ice cream, chicken nuggets, mini corndogs, and assorted frozen fruits. But the prices kept us from ordering a whole lot or very frequently (our guy came twice a month, as I recall). Then he got pissy with us and told us if we weren’t going to order more, then it wasn’t worth his time to stop by.
So we said good riddance and I can’t say that we missed him. We weren’t getting anything we couldn’t get from the local supermarket.
Same thing I’d warn about any processed, pre-packaged food.
I think that it’s about the worst stuff out there for anyone to eat.
Tons of added sodium. Usually a lot of added sugar, sometimes high-fructose corn syrup. Preservatives, and weird ingredients that I might eat once but that I wouldn’t make a regular part of my diet no matter what the FDA says. There’s nothing magical that Schwans is doing that Stouffer’s isn’t.
I imagine that their frozen vegetables are coming from the same places that Jolly Green Giant and Bird’s Eye are coming from.
I usually prefer frozen fish (since “fresh” usually means frozen and then thawed), so I’d have to try theirs to see how I like it.
Here’s some nutritional information. . .
http://www.schwans.com/customerService/NutritionGuideCategory.aspx?tb=6&C2=4780
I like the 1630 mg of sodium in the “chip beef”. Imagine making that yourself, and then adding 3/4 tsp of table salt to a 1 cup serving.
Ice cream, definitely. Schwann’s Chocolate Marshmallow Ripple is my favorite flavor of all time; it’s smooth and not overwhelming. Great ice cream sandwiches, too.
Their seafood is pretty darn good. They used to have an “ocean scrod” that I loved, but it looks like they don’t sell it anymore. Hard to go wrong, though.
I practically lived on the eggrolls until age 19 or so.
Their pot stickers aren’t bad. The beef sirloin tips make a good foundation for a lot of quick stews. The ready-made meatballs are handy for tossing into sauces and other dishes. The pierogies are tasty. The pork chops are good, and chop up easily for making fried rice or hot & sour soup. The chicken breasts are convenient for turning into a wide variety of chicken dishes, from cacciatore to wiener backhun.
Basically it’s higher-end ‘convenience food’, which means watch the fat, carbs and salt, because it has more than you think. As Trunk noted.
But lots of their stuff gets used by us in the process of making other dishes, where I take care to add no salt at all!
[Teri Garr]
He would have to have an enormous Schwan’s Stucker!
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The Schwan’s man hit and killed our dog in our driveway when I was a kid and we stopped getting deliveries from them after that. Ever since, I have despised Schwan’s… There’s your warning!