Swedish meatballs for me. I like Michelena’s, which are about $1 each, even the dinners with shrimp (a tiny amount, but real shrimp) - I might buy, cook, and eat TWO!
I love TV dinners, and count me among those who love to cook but also enjoy the occasional fried chicken and Mexican TV dinners.
Whenever I think of them, I’m reminded of this Bloom County comic.
I remember the Beans and Franks meal fondly. Those apples were a treat. Sitting with a TV tray and a TV dinner so I could watch Man From U.N.C.L.E..
Mine comes from Pepperidge Farm via the local grocer.
Remember the video?
Banquet still sells the box of fried chicken. You can even get it Southern-style.
As for TV dinners, I like the Banquet Salisbury steak followed closely by the turkey.
With my brother and I, it was Starsky and Hutch. 
And to peedin, YES - we only ever had TV dinners when my parents were going out with their grown up friends! It’s a totally fond memory. Thanks for reminiding me!
We just finished off a box of those last week. I LOVE them!
I don’t do them for dinner, but for lunch I will often have one of those Smart Ones or Lean Cuisines. I like pretty much any of them, but I usually buy the cheap ones when they’re on sale for less than $2 a pack (I’ve gotten them as low as a $1.25 each with a sale and using a coupon), so, of those varieties, the enchiladas and Santa Fe style rice and beans are my favorite. I pop one of those in for lunch and it usually tides me over until dinner.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but if that’s the definition, I don’t think I’ve ever had a complete TV dinner, then. The closest would be the hot lunch at grammar school, which would have salisbury steak, potatoes, peas, and dessert. The convenience foods in my house growing up were frozen pizza, various canned foods, Rice-A-Roni, Noodle-Roni, maybe frozen burritos and frozen chicken kiev. Oh, and we also usually had a bunch of the Michelina’s around. But not something with meat, starch, veggies, and dessert all in one box.
“There’s peas in my fruit cobbler.”
“There’s peas everywhere!”
These boxes and cans of beans were a staple when I started living on my own.
I had one recently, and given my experience with other TV dinners, I would agree.
I asked Kroger to carry more varieties of Hungry Man, and I wish they would get Night Hawk. I lived off them in College, but they no longer have a distributor in Arkansas.
I think those are the ones I remember. They were marketed specifically to kids, weren’t they? Didn’t they have a pouch of some flavor drink powder to add to milk? I remember being SO excited that I got a grape one. And then my (both older) brothers convinced me that grape milk was not something to look forward to. :o
Magic Milk.
The Night Hawk ones actually aren’t bad. We still get them, but they’ve discontinued one that was really good-- the beef fajitas.
We had Night Hawk restaurants here back in the late’60s. Were they all over the USA or just in Texas?
Obviously, THRUSH has perfected the mind-reading machine, and used it on me.