I work nights and I’m really trying to avoid eating out all the time, but I haven’t found any frozen food I like. Most frozen food makes the school cafeteria food taste like it’s a Michelin restaurant!
Pretty much any cuisine is fine with me and I certainly love spicy food.
Yes, I can make my own food at home and bring it in, but there’s some days that’s not happening, I like too have a few frozen meals at work so I’ll have something around.
Not that spicy, but surprisingly edible for frozen food.
Frozen store-brand cabbage rolls. Good for two really decent meals.
I like Marie Callender’s
Look for their Parmesan chicken pot pie, cheesy chicken & bacon, or broccoli cheddar & potato pot pie.
Dinners
Slow Roasted Beef
Steak & Roasted Potatoes
Cheesy chicken & rice
Are really good
Their bowl dinners are spicy. I don’t eat spicy but the OP may like them.
My all time favorite is Stuffed chicken with broccoli & cheese.
By Barber foods. Kroger & Walmart sell them. I buy the big box with 6 at Sams Club.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Barber-Foods-Broccoli-Cheese-Stuffed-Chicken-Breasts-10-oz-Box/13908638
But, you’ll need a side to go with it. Open a can of corn, beans, or maybe Stouffers frozen mac & cheese.
Or you can zap a potato in the microwave at work.
Stouffers makes good frozen dinners.
Trader Joe’s makes exponentially better frozen dinners.
Jenny Craig has some foods that are really very tasty. They have a beef merlot that I enjoy a lot.
Michael Angelos has the best Chicken Piccata I’ve ever had. A lot of their stuff is really good.
Cuisine Adventures French Onion Soup is pretty good (though I like to add extra pepper to it). I get 6-packs of it at Costco every now and then.
There are a few different bowls, some I thought were bland but two I thought were spectacular… I buy them every week: “Three bean taco bowl” and “Tinga taco bowl”. You won’t be disappointed.
Trader Joe’s is pretentious and twee, but their frozen food section has some decent options. We get their gyoza/Japanese dumplings pretty often, although I don’t know if they’ll work for your purposes, since they’re not fully microwaveable (I think). They also have some pretty decent frozen Indian meals.
Amy’s has some fairly decent frozen and canned stuff. It’s also organic, if that matters to you any.
Stouffers is the best, readily available frozen food. The mac & cheese (esp if you mix with a small envelope of tuna and a handful of frozen mixed veggies). Their stuffed green peppers are quite good and their regular lasagna (haven’t tried the veggie lasagna). Even their spaghetti decent.
I haven’t tried the Chicken Piccata (but I will-- thanks), but their eggplant parmagiana is quite good. I overcook it in the microwave so that the edges are a bit crusty–yum.
I second this one. I usually squirt some sriracha on it and it’s quite good.
Lean Cuisine Spicy Beef and Bean Enchilada is good.
Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers, I really like the Chicken Pesto one.
EVOL burritos are good, bring out the sriracha.
My husband really likes Marie Calendar and Stoufferschicken pot pies, and the Amy’s brand meals.
I, too have been experimenting with some frozen stuff. I’m t1 diabetic so I’m careful. None have blown up my tastebuds. I kinda like lean-cuisine veggie lasagna. There’s a 5 cheese ravioli I like. Can’t remember the brand. I have very few options when it comes to grocery stores.
Oh, and there’s some egg rolls I like.
I’m having better luck in the canned dept. I like soups and beans alot. I put up my own peas and tomatoes every summer so I have those to fall back on. Good luck, if you find something outstanding let us know.
I tend to cook up my own and freeze, this way it tastes like I like it!
I would agree that their lasagna is pretty good. Other things I’ve sampled have been meh or worse.
We do this on rainy weekends. Make a huge pot of soup or stew, cook a huge pan of lasagna, etc. Eat it fresh for dinner that night and package up the remainder for freezing and future use.
My go-to waffle recipe serves eight. We eat some for breakfast and I cool/package/freeze the rest.
This. TJ’s makes really good frozen dinners. My favorite is their Paneer Tikka Masala. And their cheese tamales have become my ‘comfort food,’ usually with a dab of their salsa verde.
Boomerang’s Pot Pies are very good, too. I find them at Fresh Thyme and Whole Foods.
But their prices aren’t. I can put up with a lot of pretentiousness in other ways if it’s absent from the price tags.