^^; As a lunch lady, I can say we do still have Salisbury steak. And it's one of the best things we make. It's one of the few foods we're still permitted to make from scratch.
From scratch school cafeteria food shouldn't be so rare. People just to cheap to pay lunch ladies and ordering that processed food service stuff instead.
As a college student who has 0 energy and needs good depression meals, I really enjoy your videos because they give me a good idea of what to get to keep in the freezer for when I really don't feel like cooking!! I have a whole list on my phone that's just "thewolfepit approved frozen meals" lol
Hey Wolfie, I wanted to tell you that I bought myself an air fryer and it is literally life-changing. I love soft-boiled eggs and now they're SO easy. No pot, no water, no worry I'll over or under cook them. Perfect tater tots in 9 minutes. Love you & Mrs. Wolfe, I hope to see you uploading more soon.
I feel like Larry (and Mrs. Wolfe pit) is the "people's champion" of frozen food reviews. I am also a fan of the budget meals series. They literally got my family through some tough times. Keep up the good work Larry!
No preservatives typically means no unnatural preservatives. All food you buy in a store has to be preserved in some way. Typical 'natural' ways of preserving are: Natural acidity (vinegar (ie pickled goods), lemon juice, fruit purees (naturally acidic), etc) Sodium ('natural' salt, as seen here) Pressure cooked sealed goods (ie sealed pouches or canned goods) Some frozen goods (freezing can naturally preserve goods for a short period - ie frozen fish) Refrigeration (used for 'fresh' meats, fish, etc)
@@brian70Cuda I don't disagree, I think it's probably just because I had a lot growing up! Although fun fact hamburger originates from "Hamburg steak" which was very much like a salisbury steak!
I literally just stumbled onto your channel yesterday and binged watched most of your dollar tree meal videos. I absolutely love them!! I don’t have a family to feed but I am on a very tight budget and I’m happy to make meals to eat for days!! Thank you for coming up with this!!!
@@chronic4twen -- The difference is that the Dollar Tree can charge above a dollar. In the Dollar Store everything is a buck or less. My wife finally drove that difference into my brain.
He used to do it but he got bullied for having giant Sausage fingers, and there was this debacle where he claimed he couldn't bend his fingers then bent them on camera
I just discovered you 💓 I’m incredibly thankful for your channel.. you have helped me more than you will ever know.. thank you so much for your videos..
I appreciate your rundown of the nutrition label. You're helping to educate people who live in food deserts where Dollar Tree and Dollar General have become the only local options for sustenance.
No Walmart? No Grocery Outlet? No Winn-Dixie, Furr's, Albertsons, Safeway, Smith's, TruValu, Shop n' Save, Thriftway, Costco, Meijers, Fred Meyer, Kroger, etc.? Places with only the Dollar Tree plus convenience stores, man... I'm assuming you're talking about Detroit or something...
BenjaminGessel it’s a lazy human who can’t fathom driving 30 minutes to pick up groceries. You can order fcking groceries on amazon for Christ sakes it’s almost 2020 imagine thinking dollar general is the only place to get “sustenance”
@@Li8eralsarescum69 Yes, very true, I'm just wondering what wretched piece of Earth would only have the Dollar General or Dollar Store as grocery options, or if its a financial thing or something. I honestly don't know..
This is like the chimichanga all over again. Drinking game: drink every time Larry says Salisbury 😂😂😂 We still love you and all your chimichangas and Salisbury steaks.
IMO, probably the best Salisbury Steak frozen meal out there. I too was skeptical about the mac n cheese combination but it actually works. Thanks for the review!
Just watched your Salisbury Steak video. It's so easy, homemade, natural and looks delicious. I'm making it today with roasted potatoes and carrots. Thanks!
I am constantly confounded how food companies can take something like chocolate cake or spaghetti sauce or cookies even, and make them all taste literally like nothing! We bought chocolate cupcakes and they were absolutely without taste. The cake was like eating nothing. No discernable taste. Not a hint of chocolate. And the icing was just as bad! These companies aren't about food! They're about dividends and the bottom line. It's just wrong! Jenn 🇨🇦
After watching your video on this, and when at the grocery store, I bought one and tried it. First time, and I must say it was easy to fix and quite tasty! Thanks...we the people appreciate you!
I really enjoy your honesty. I want to see all your critic's, but I only catch your stuff when I run across it. AND I really appreciate your research & honesty !!!!
Frozen meals are like porn magazines , you feel guilty for buying them and you hope no one sees you doing it , but..... You just can't help yourself 😉 .
@@dadoctah exactly. Why worry and fret over something you have NO control over. We don't buy these meals for gourmet pleasure. We buy them because they're easy to prepare and they fill the "hungry hole" our bodies dig each day. The fact they're sometimes tasty is a bonus.
Encor has good flavor for their gravies. The price kind of scares me though. I have to wonder what's in it that they can sell it so cheap. I make sandwiches with the salisbury steak patties.
All frozen food goes from the factory to a series of warehouses. In transit, the product might sit on 10 docks waiting to get loaded for the stores. If the semi driver goes to store 1 and it's load is in the front of the semi, stores 3 and 4's load will get unloaded and reloaded several times as the driver stops at multiple stores, resulting in MORE dock time. I have gotten loads that were so bad the fries were a solid block! This is a problem for all stores and the consumer pays. If you can see, feel, or hear ice crystals, do not purchase. If anything is fused together, do not buy. Manufacturers use boxes within boxes to protect products for about 30 minutes and most dock time exceeds this. I've always wanted packaging that changes color if product is over temp. Even the best foods turn to shit if the forklift drivers and truckers aren't able to get it in a freezer quickly. Sometimes it's slow stockers at the store.
I ran reffer for almost years and haven't ran into that problem. What I have seen is some drivers don't have the temp set low enough. Like they set it around 30f. They do this in the hope they won't have to make an additional stop to fill the reffer with fuel. Before they get to the receiver. This can cause the product in the rear of the trailer to reach temps above freezing.
I've had two TV dinners in probably 30 years within the last week. One was Turkey and it came with mashed taters, green beans, and cranberry sauce. It was freaking delicious. Had that for Thanksgiving. I live alone and no family around and nobody here invited me. Then the next night I had Salisbury steak. It came with mashed taters and a vegetable medley. It was pretty tasty too. I believe it had two patties. They were Hungry Man two for $6:00. EDIT: If food has microwave and oven directions I will always choose the oven. Well, currently a toaster oven since I live in a tiny bedroom ''apartment'' above a bar. I rarely use the microwave other than to thaw stuff. Usually it starts cooking it which I don't like. Your oil comments had me laughing as I'm typing. I was gonna suggest adding gravy to the mac and cheese and lo and behold what do you do? You add some gravy.
I like that your channel is evidence that you don't need a slew of sponsors and a valley of merchandise plugs to be successful. Most anybody else would have sold out a long time ago without question. Thank you.
I always have that one in my freezer. It’s delicious! That Stouffers mac and cheese is the best frozen one. You should’ve popped it in the microwave instead, not dry at all.
Thank you for all of the videos Wolfe, they give me great ideas for quick fillings when the wallets with the wife!!! Makes feeding the friends fun too! Always get the question "what's that????" But I always end up hearing "mmmmmm" well they chew. Thanks!!!!
At first I thought I had uncovered another "Mandela Effect" - Saltbury. I had always known it as Salisbury. He actually took the time to edit the box to say Saltbury! I even looked it up to double-check that I wasn't losing my mind. Good one, Larry! 😂
You hit the nail on the head - I am a proud-but-old-ex-Frat Boy that used to be able to drink till 2AM, wake up in the morning, order 3 different McDonalds breakfast sandwiches (A standard McMuffin with egg & ham, a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, and Steak/Egg/Cheese Bagel woohoo!) - a Hash Browns, and a large black coffee, go home and sleep, then call my friends and ask where we were having Lunch & watching sports etc. - no problem. I hit 30, everything changed. If I consume too much salt - and I have no sweet tooth, I drink booze and love salty stuff - but if I have too much salt, I will wake up with a terrible headache. Sometimes it starts the night before. So I could probably eat one of these - and absolutely *nothing else* all day, or I'd get a salt-migraine in the morning. People don't realize how much salt is in US foods ... even canned soup, ostensibly you think Healthy, right? Bullshit, more salt than you need all day. But I loved this video ... my Polish, ex-Nazi POW Grandmother used to make TV Dinners for us all the time, we *loved them* and they were only a buck or two back then, easy to pop into the toaster oven, simple. Brings back memories.
New subscriber! I’ve been binge watching your “What are we eating series” for a few days now! Your videos are not only informative but comical too and I love it
I know this was years ago, but I've somehow become hooked on this for the first time in my whole life. I'm 47, and I tried this for the first time in my life last week. I'm in trouble. I love to cook, I'm single, but omg. Stopping everything on new years lol!❤
I don't know about the frozen food style, but Salisbury steak is huge in Japan. They are just called hamburg here and are kinda like personal meatloaf patties. They are popular and can easily be cut and eaten with chopsticks. They are on the menus of most family restaurants and there is even one that serves them exclusively ;)
We used to be 8-10 years old and our tastebuds still worked really well, our standards were really low, and our lives were full of futures rather than pasts.
My dad used to eat and bake these for my brother and I as a kid. I always thought they were pretty good. Recently I made some from scratch with some mashed and it was miles better but still a nice piece of nostalgia lol. Funny thing is I hate meat loaf but love salisbury steak. I guess it's the gravy that makes it.
Please keep making more budget meal videos! 👍 😁 I'm trying to save money for Christmas. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that's saving up for Christmas.
Love your channel ! I myself being a bachelor eat a lot of frozen and meals from the box... almost everything I want to try from the frozen food section , you have done a review for it. This is awesome thanks ! Have you reviewed any of the Devour frozen meals ? There are several meals in the devour menu that are very edible lol. The buffalo chicken Mac n cheese& the steak and potato bowl is great that is if you can find it. It’s the holy grail of devour meals. Very hard to find... Thanks again for the great content! You keep uploading I’ll keep watching and liking !
Salisbury steak was one of my favorite lunches back in the 60's when we had actual lunch ladies in the school cooking. It needs mashed potatoes though, so I can dip the meat in the taters.
Hey Mr. Wolfe, I have a budget meal idea for you for breakfast. You can get all the ingredients for under $5 and it can feed about 6 adults. We make migas around here all the time. Just throw about 10-12 chopped corn tortillas into a pan with some onion and either some chopped bell pepper or jalapeño and cook until all of the tortilla pieces have turned brown and crisp, then add a dozen eggs and voila. That is all. It’s a Mexican staple that my mom has made me for years. It’s quick, easy, cheap, and delicious. Serve it like a breakfast scramble. Ingredients: 18 ct corn tortillas ($1.20) Dozen eggs ($1.15) Yellow onion ($0.78) Jalapeño ($0.20) - OR - Bell pepper ($0.68) = $3.33 total (I go with the jalapeño) Add salt, pepper, and onion powder to taste. All these prices are from my local Walmart! :) I would love to see you make this! Even if you double the recipe, it’s still under $7.00 and feeds a ton. Add some cheese or salsa on top to kick it up a notch and it’s still under $10.00.
boston market tv dinner is horrible. the mac n cheese has absolutely no taste.....i mean no taste....just nothing. the salsbury steak is flat on flavor and the meat is very fake texture. stouffer is the best brand for salsbury steak.
Ajah Oshae if you’re school has meatballs then you might notice the similarities between them the the Salisbury steak. At my school they had the same flavor with a different texture.
I've never had the frozen ones but the Cracker Barrel mac'n'cheese that is the dry kind you microwave (like Kraft Easy Mac) is really good. They have a cheese sauce packet, not a powder and come with bread crumb topping
I like a ton of salt, and my cardiologist said to eat quite a bit (to counter low blood pressure), I would like to see less since it is easy to add at the end for anyone.
@@msr1116 Yes because the effects are immediate, vs longer term with high blood pressure. The worst is when it is sudden drops while I'm driving or walking, where suddenly the whole world is falling to the left and I'm trying to continue straight.
@@randomvideosn0where ...I happened to be googling uses for the jars of pickle juice in my fridge, and came across a number of people using it after a workout for electrolyte replenishment or to treat low blood pressure. Just thought I'd pass that on.
Yes, I like it cooked in the oven. I enjoy putting something in the oven, giving me time to do other productive tasks while my meal prepares itself, giving off wonderful smells and warming the house.
You are so funny. I'm going to send this to my mother and she's a vegetarian that's how funny you are! Thank you! I've had this meal before but the smaller version and the macaroni wasn't as dry. I cracked up when you call the dinner saltbury steak!
The funny thing is I was just eating a tv dinner before this video popped up FYI: avoid the 'baked ham and fried chicken in burbon sauce' hungry man dinner like the plague. the 'burbon sauce' is the most disgusting thing i've ever tasted in my life and the ham had the consistency of some horrific unnatural merging of week old dry ham and cardboard
You need to eat the fried chicken from hungry man cooked in oven. Itll probably kill you since it has 100% daily value of saturated fat but it's actually pretty high quality
The Salisbury Steak I used to get from my Elementary School cafeteria was absolutely delicious, as was their Hot Turkey Sandwich with Gravy. Of course, this was the early 1970s, so it was way before all the crap they did to the school meals.
I really like these, probably my favorite Stouffer's meal. After I cook them, I always put half of the gravy in the mac. Glad someone else agrees that makes it better! haha P.S. a SMALL amount of salt and decent portion of pepper on the mac makes it better
It is macaroni and cheese because the meals were made in city diners. There used to be made in Pittsburgh diners on certain days and some were made on some days. .slot of hot dogs were made with macaroni and cheese on some days. Love you and your family.
I love these, i buy so many of these when i know i'm not gonna have the time to cook or want to get away from fast food, my absolute comfort food of choice but i'm gonna try cooking a fresh batch this weekend.
@@rickdaystar477 Got a little of that. Mostly the Beave. It's great to have memories. My 88 year old mom is still sharp as a tack. Hope it's a gene thing.
I wish they would bring back frozen meals in those aluminum compartmentalized trays, they were like a little taste of the army or prison when you were a kid 😂.
Oh absolutely. There was something about them that just tasted better. Also with the pot pies. In some weird way I think they would change the pies (sweet kind) in the freezer section to the paper tins if they thought they could get away with it. At least the alluminum trays were recyclable where the paper trays from the food products are not. Plus all the plastic covering. And no I am not a tree hugger.
Stouffers has the absolute best Mac and cheese. The huge oven pan that you can get is so good, it’s in my opinion better than any homemade Mac and cheese I’ve ever eaten
When I had Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes and green beans during my elementary/middle school days they served it in those aluminum containers with the paper cover that you had to fold over away the edges to remove the cover. I'll admit, it was fantastic. Then again, during those times I was always starving so of course it'll taste fantastic.
