Two of my other go-to dinners:
Can of mushroom soup and can of tomato soup, mixed together with Italian seasonings and cheese thrown in (usually parmesan, but cheddar would work, or cottage cheese). This is surprisingly tasty.
Canned spaghetti sauce and spaghetti - if you brown a pound or so of hamburger and add it to the canned sauce, it takes it to a whole nother level of yumminess. I sometimes throw frozen vegetables (broccoli, peas, corn) into the sauce too.
Lipton Noodles and Sauce are WONDERFUL! Try the Tomato Parmesan one - that’s yummy! And I love the cheddar broccoli rice and sauce too.
And don’t mock the O’s - there is no shame in loving the O’s.
If you ever find yourself in Pittsburgh, we have Trader Joe’s here. We’re about a two-hour drive from you (my parents live near you).
I could feed my husband Marie Calendar’s Chicken Pot Pies twice a week and he’d be happy. I like the frozen taquitos–shredded beef kind. And Publix Thin Crust Supereme pizza is really good.
I could feed Jim spaghetti and sauce or Chef Boy-ar-dee every day and he’d be happy. The only one I need to cook fancy for is me. 
Our house is pretty much the opposite. I could happily eat leftover Chinese food from lunch (in fact, I just finished off some egg foo young!), peanut butter and banana sandwiches on toast, or Boston Market frozen stuff five nights a week. But my husband’s gone three nights a week, and when he’s home, he likes real food for dinner.
I like the Publix Premium Thin Crust Margherita myself.
And what’s up with that “store brand premium” thing? Who buys the store brand NOT premium? (You?)
“Combination” Totinos for me. Lately I’ve been getting thin-crust chicken alfredo pizzas at Costco for variety.
Well, for a very few products, me. My local supermarket chain (Martin’s) has three levels of store brands: Premium, Giant (Martin’s is owned by Giant), and their super-el-cheapo, GV (which stands for Great Value).
In most cases, GV is total crap. But for things like canned tomato sauce that I’m just going to jazz up and use as a base for something anyway, it’s fine. Likewise, the GV version of “Hamburger Helper Cheesy Mac”. I use it as a jumping-off point for making my own version of Beefaroni (well, in my house, I have to call it “Cheeseburger Casserole” because my 9YO doesn’t like beefaroni! 
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Anyway, as I said, it’s just a base, and unrecognizable as Hamburger Helper once I’m done with it, so the el-cheapo is less than half the price of the name-brand, and comes out tasting just as good.
Totino’s is one of my middle daughter’s “go-to” foods. She’s a picky, picky eater, and even when I make stuff she likes there’s at least a 50% chance that she won’t be interested in it that particular night. So I keep stuff like this in the freezer so she can feed herself. I am not a short-order cook.
I don’t use convenience foods all that much (I live alone, so I can cook a few times a week and eat the leftovers the rest of the time), but I always have a few packets of Mahatma Saffron Yellow rice in the pantry, and a couple of Patio Mexican frozen dinners and Boca Burgers in the freezer. I’ve also gotten store-brand frozen chicken egg rolls before that were pretty darn tasty. My grocery store is H-E-B, but they’re probably carried at other grocery stores under the store’s private label.
My favorites are Lean Pockets - ham and cheese; and Lean Cuisine pizza and spaghetti with meat sauce.
This is more of a “holy crap, I’m broke” recipe, but I’ll make a can of cream-of-chicken soup, and pour it over two bricks of ramen (break them lengthwise, and do not use the ramen flavor packet). Add garlic, onion powder, chili flakes, etc. to taste. Better than you’d think, fills you up better than just ramen or just soup would, and the 2:1 ratio is just right.
