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For when you just can’t with cooking. Now that fall is here, it’s back to the weeknight dinner scramble. While we have plenty of absurdly easy dinner recipes, sometimes you just can’t deal with cooking. Enter the king of convenience cooking: the frozen dinner. In the name of your sanity and tastebuds, we ate more than 50—you’re welcome—to find the very best of the freezer aisle. This is the meal that convinced us we needed to round up the best of frozen food for you all. The chicken tastes REAL—no pressed-meat here—and it’s fresh, juicy and tender.
Even after eating 50 frozen dinners, we still went out of our way to buy this dish. While this will require you to dirty a skillet, it’s so, so worth it. The broccoli stays pretty crisp, and there’s enough of it that you feel good about your choiceseven though this is actually a glorified mac and cheese. This is loaded with rich, cheesy flavor. It has a slightly spicy kick from the buffalo chicken and tangy bleu cheese crumbles. The chicken was nice and tender and didn’t taste at all like it came from a frozen dinner. Great for an impromptu game day party, this is basically drunk food on crack.
There’s no need to go to PF Chang’s when you have this crispy, breaded chicken and sweet sauce. It’s a little annoying to prepare—you have to heat up the chicken and sauce separately—but overall the extra work seems to be worth it. This is the perfect date-night meal for those evenings when you’re too busy to cook from scratch but want to keep things feeling fancy. While classic Stouffer’s mac and cheese recalls your past, TJ’s mac and cheese should be your future. This amazingly creamy pasta basically tastes homemade—and beat out six other wannabes to become the Mac Daddy of them all.
We know, we know—microwaved kale is about as appealing as, well, kale anytime, served any way—but this is a surprise hit. It has a strong cheese flavor that makes it taste like a restaurant’s mac, and the superfood makes us feel like we’re basically eating salad. A cheesy, carb-y salad, but still. This enchilada beats many of the ones we’ve had in restaurants.
