re: Kids of the 70’s - the ole tin tray tv dinners

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Anybody remember those little meal in a bag mini-dinners? Delchamps sold them for 33c apiece in the '80s. Turkey or salisbury steak, put them and the gravy on bread would give you a cheap shite-on-a-shingle supper.

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Yes, I ate many of those over a couple slices of bread back when.

Parents would get the cheap Mexican ones. It took a lot of salsa to make them taste decent.

Swansons were more premium.Had really good fried chicken as I recall.

Not rich , mom couldn't cook . Ate swansons and chef boyardee pizza . Thank goodness we had a housekeeper , she could cook . Dad cooked fried spam sandwich and chicken soup in a can on Sundays .

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Patio Mexican TV dinners. I tore those up.

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I use to love Patio burritos when I was a kid. This was pre-microwave. Your bake them for about 45 minutes.
Every once in a while, my mom would cook me one for my lunch to bring to school. She’d wrap it in a ton of aluminum foil. By lunch time, it would be just perfect, not super hot. Other kids were jealous of my lunch.

I’m pretty sure you’re my best friend

I loved those things growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. Sure seems like that aluminum foil kind tasted better than these plastic ones. Pot pies seemed like they were more substantial than today. Pot pies and chicken noodle soup out of the can were my go to after school snack. I loved those Mexican enchiladas too back in the day. Old El Paso brand or something along those lines. I ate a lot of Raviolis out of the can too. It didn’t take much to please me in my youth. I just wanted something edible, quick, and easy for a young one to cook. It’s funny I cooked in the oven when I was around 3rd grade on. Seventy five percent of these kids today would burn a house down cooking a TV dinner in the oven yet they can fix all of your phone, TV, or computer issues.

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Schwegmann’s used to sell Swanson chicken pot pies for 10 for $5. That got me through law school.

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To this day my wife still likes to heat up some of those chicken pot pies I get in bulk at Costco.

My first introduction to Swanson's Frozen Dinners came in the early 60's after my dad died and my mom had to find work and not be the typical stay at home housewife.

We'd have them at least one day a week and some nights she'd get packets of roast beef in a brown gravy that you dropped in boiling water to heat up in their plastic packet, cut it open and use the sliced beef to make sandwiches or put over rice or mashed potatoes.

As kids, me and my two sisters were very happy when "grandma" came by to watch us and she'd cook us her homemade meals that were always great eating.

Unfortunately, she didn't pass on her cooking prowess to our mother. To this day, that woman can't make a simple roux.

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Glad I married a girl who could cook.

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Sounds like our house when I was a kid and into my teen years. Fish sticks, fries, TV dinners, tuna casseroles, Vienna sausage and potted meat on crackers.

I too learned to cook early on and do 99.9% of it for our household ever since I was a bachelor and eventually heading into 3 marriages. I've been with my current wife for close to 30 years and I don't think she's cooked more than a handful of meals a year in all that time.

She actually prefers my cooking.

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Sounds like our house when I was a kid and into my teen years. Fish sticks, fries, TV dinners, tuna casseroles, Vienna sausage and potted meat on crackers.

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My mom's idea of breakfast was a pop tart and Instant Breakfast, bless her heart. I've learned to cook, but my wife is better than I am at most things, and loves to bake.

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I ate a lot of Raviolis out of the can too. It didn’t take much to please me in my youth.

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I remember distinctly the discovery of progresso canned ravioli, life was never the same after that

the chef was a pale imitation