Sorry for the hijack, but learning how to cook really is not that difficult, and you’ll save a lot of money and usually the food you’ll cook yourself will be a lot more healthy than most frozen food. And taking a basic cooking class is often a great way to meet women.
Wal-Mart has some frozen microwave pizzas that I love. They’re flat square slices that come four to a box and cook up in 90 seconds. Lately, all I could find are the pepperoni pizza, but they’ve also had supreme and bacon-chicken-ranch pizzas.
Agreed. I eat pretty well and don’t know much about cooking but keep it basic. Hell pasta alone can get you through many a meal and it’s very cheap and easy (the better sauces you can buy are generally respectable; can’t stand the cheapie Ragu type stuff, but to each their own). And if you can grill like me that covers a lot of meals 
And you can buy frozen veggies and nuke them, it’s just like steaming them as long as you don’t overcook. etc etc. Really it takes little effort or skill to make many decent meals for one’s self these days.
To follow up my own post, the last bit was meant as encouragement. I would have no idea, as I have been happily married for 30 years. But I assume it is true based on how much my wife enjoys my cooking.
My mom made sure that all of us kids could take care of ourselves as independent human beings - cooking, laundry, basic housework, etc.
I sense damage control.
It depends really on your situation, some things would simply take too much effort and time to replicate(not to mention money). A tub of ricotta cheese costs the same price as a Rosina lasagna, and that is before I buy the lasagna noodles and sauce and mozerella and… Sure I could make lots of lasagna and eventually break even, but who is going to eat it? I sure don’t want to eat it all the damn time, and it will probably spoil.
Like I said situations differ.
Maybe so, but why grief him about it?
Lasagna freezes nicely. There are a lot of semi-disposable plastic containers available for sale, and also zipseal bags. Get the bags that are meant to be used in the freezer. Divide the lasagna into single servings, put in bags, remove as much air as possible, label, and freeze. Then sit back and gloat for a bit, because even though you might not have lasagna for another couple of weeks, by Og you have some great lasagna in the freezer, better than any frozen or commercial lasagna.
I also freeze spaghetti sauce in single servings, because it’s a trivial matter to boil up some pasta. My husband loves my spaghetti, and while he’ll eat and enjoy restaurant spaghetti, he vastly prefers my recipe. And if my gut is bothering me, he can pull out some sauce, boil some noodles, and enjoy spaghetti while I eat oatmeal.
Stouffers lasagna.
Good stuff.
Not really. Well I suppose if you’re filthy rich then learning to cook could be N/A.
But for by far the vast majority of people, making your own meals most of the time is easily cheaper AND far healthier than the pre-made stuff…and while some of the pre-made stuff I admit tastes good, a lot of that is due to loading it up with salt, fat etc. You can cheaply and easily make your own stuff that still tastes good.
OK sorry still sidetracking. I’m off to have a Jimmy Deans egg mcmuffin.
A lot of recipes are too complicated to bother. But at a very minimum, people should know how to make breakfast - few breakfast ingredients can’t either be bought very cheaply fresh or frozen for storage.
OK - keep this to yourself! Chicken Kiev by Barber Foods. Unbelievably delicious. They also make chicken cordon blue and Florentine but the Kiev is wonderful. People hide boxes of the Kiev way in the back of the stacks of the other flavors to make sure they don’t disappear before they come back for more. Seen it many times.
Also, Amy’s pizzas are great (but not cheap.) My favorites are Pesto and Margerita.
Yessiree, bob!
This thread inspired me to look closely at the Frozen food section.
Bought marie callender’s scalloped potatoes and ham for just over $5. It supposed to feed three. So the two of us should eat pretty good. It’s baking now. I’ll report back after I’ve consumed it. 
It looked really good when I slit open the cellophane top to bake it. Lots of sliced cheese in there for the cheese sauce. I’m getting hungry now. Takes 50 mins to bake.
Reporting back after dinner. marie callender’s scalloped potatoes and ham was really good. At first we were concerned it might not fill us up. But, I fixed some toast and jelly to go with it and we are nice and full. Will buy this again for sure.