@@Haddley333 It’s literally the same level of quality as Iceland brand frozen food. Don’t get all high and mighty because we have processed frozen food.
I like them, but I enjoy all of his content, I love the meal ideas he shows us too. And I respect why he didn’t go out and find things to review this year.
@@donald12998 I got a sweet and sour chicken from either Marie Calendar or Stouffers and it SUCKED!!! Believe it or not, the Healthy Choice Sweet and Sour Chicken is really good!!!! I got the other to try and it looked like more of a helping but it was not worth it. If you want too though go and buy one of the Healthy Choice Sweet and Sour Chicken meals. I don't think you'll regret it.
To answer "how can something with so much sodium still need seasoning?" it is because the bulk of that sodium isn't in the form of table salt with its big crystals on your taste buds. It's "hidden" in different forms in the various preservatives.
As a person that works with a lot of these preservatives (in shampoo, go figure), sodium is a common cation for preventing low solubility in water. Potassium also works but just very slightly not as well although you do see potassium based preservatives a lot too.
@@justincarroll1836 Yeah, wouldn’t it make more sense for a food product to use a potassium or Magnesium based preservatives instead of Sodium based preservatives? That way you’ll still have salt based preservatives without ever actually having that incredible sodium level
Are you old enough to remember when the Hungry Man series launched back in the 1970s? They were much larger than today; as a child, I could not finish one. At least one entree included soup as well as the meal and dessert. At this point, they still came in aluminum trays.
@@libertyprime619 hell yea, just add a little butter, salt, and pepper and they're good as hell. Same goes for Brussel sprouts, especially if you roast it like that in the oven
@@libertyprime619 if you prepare them right... Which I highly doubt these microwave dinner companies do. It's a shame because so many people think greens are gross when they simply haven't learned how to cook.
Where I lost it was the corn syrup in the gravy. The hell? I've made a lot of country gravy in my life. Never once have I though to myself, "Self, you know what this gravy needs? Sugar!".
Maybe Hungry Man should try these slogans.... Hungry Man: If you're hungry enough, you'll eat it. Hungry Man: Because hunger is the best seasoning. Hungry Man: Meh, it's better than starvation.
@@lozzamanuk This is a good look into what corporations here are marketing to us! This is the reason we are all overweight and the average pant size is 99cm around the waist (yes I had to look up the conversation from inches to cm)🤣
Thanks for saving me from having to eat this mess. NOW a request. Could you post a top ten or bottom ten list of meals that you have tested? I try to keep 2 or 3 ready to eat meals in the freezer for those days when you just need to put something in your 'pie hole'. Lately I can hardly find anything worth buying, but your recommendations are great. At least I can avoid the worse choices.
Check through some of his older videos he has top 10’s that he says are wonderful and cheap, also tutorials on cheap easy meals you can make at home in minutes
Make your own? Just cook a big pot of soup and freeze it into portion sized containers. There are also plenty of vids out there on easy freezer meals this don't taste like cardboard when you reheat them.
@@looksirdroids9134 Thank you for correcting a joke comment, you are very smart. I'd tell you a joke about two peanuts walking down the street but you'd just correct me saying peanuts don't have legs because of your genius so I won't.
It's not just your taste buds. Swanson dinners are the much better, higher quality versions actually worth buying and waiting for once in a while. Now, I don't know who owns them, but they've tanked this brand.
A long time ago, but I remember the apples. Back then, we knew little about really good and healthy foods. TV dinners on a TV tray/stand were a big deal: a sign of leisure, luxury, and convenience. Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end.
Okay, admittedly, I love Hungry Man meals (yes, even the mashed potatoes). I don't eat them often (maybe once or twice a month) but I truly do enjoy them. My favorites include the bone-in fried chicken and the turkey and dressing meal. Whatever the case, I love your videos! :)
Just wanted to say I love your vids and to this day I still make your "Hangover Hashbrowns" one of my favorite recipes and I have a blast while making it.
I can just imagine being stranded on a desert island, desperate for food, wishing something would just appear out of the blue, then someone with one of these turned up, piping hot and ready to go, and I'd be like, "Yeah, I'm not THAT desperate!!!"... :P
The worst part is looking at the nutrition facts and seeing all the crap but looking at the calories and it only coming out to 530. In laymen's terms, "its a whole lotta nothing!"
That entire meal is only 530 calories? That’s not even a full meal by FDA standards (roughly 700 calories). I’m more impressed that something with that much mass to it could have so little energy
"How do you screw up an apple?" Priceless! Thank you for taking one for the people!! The sodium content killed this one for me. Would definately undo my blood pressure med dose for that day if I was to consume that meal.
Many years ago, this was one of my sons' favorite "mom's not cooking tonight" dinners. BUT, I would remove the "gravy" before cooking, then I'd add butter, salt & pepper to the green beans and make a little fresh instant potatoes with butter and toss the ones that came with the dinner....so much for not cooking!!!!!
You are a brave soul to eat these! The sodium is ballistic. I thought these meals would be decent as a college student...they start off tasting good but then the sodium hits and you regret it for the next 24 hours
Never ran across mock chicken leg, but hospital food used to include compressed white chicken meat called chicken roll, similar to that regional specialty pork roll.
@Skye325 I don't understand why they used pork and veal to make mock chicken legs but whatever man lol. There's been some weird dishes over the years and I'm glad that's one I never came across. Those old recipes with savory Jello flavors and mayo galore are also really weird. Those are textures I don't want my food to have.
These are the best videos on RU-vid. You spend 10 minutes watching someone eating a frozen dinner and laugh while you are at it! Hahaahaha well done Wolfie
Love, love, love your channel!!! Your humor makes me chuckle every time. I always put pepper and butter on the potatoes and veggies in a frozen meal. I never add more salt as there is usually way more than I'm used to already.
Larry, I've tried several hungry man dinners, none were good, nuked or oven, & adding salt you hit over 100 % of daily sodium in-take, try Mrs. Dash seasoning( no,sodium) if it needs more flavor. In my book,for all around meals, # 1 Stouffers meals, #2 Marie Callender's , # 3 Banquet if I'm going real low budget, but some are really good. Try Marie Callender's mac-n-cheese with Vermont white cheddar, 1 of the best I've ever eaten, better than most restaurants & homemade. I ate a whole family size for 4 at 1 sitting & wanted more, that good.
I used to love all these meals as a child in the 70's. I opted for the long oven prep method even after microwaves were in most households. Especially with breaded main courses. Back then the meat products weren't so sketch. If one takes the time to cook in the oven and watch over them these meals can be ok but that would defeat the whole purpose of these meals. If you have not already please try the TGIF sliders. They have cheese and sweet grilled onions on a brioche type bread. They have a lovely grilled flavor to. I put on paper plate and cover with a tupperware and 45 seconds later (per burger) it's perfectly heated and bun is soft n warm... perfect quick bite. Don't even need ketchup if you can believe that. Blessings
My dad and I always used to have these when I was younger and my mom was out of town or she didn't want to cook. The ones with the brownies were the best..
You guys in the US have more options for pre-made meals it seems. It used to be fun to cross the border and go grocery shopping in the States before Covid. Canada has less variety when it comes to groceries.
Agreed. My family lives about 90 minutes from the US border. Whenever I go home, I make a grocery run. The American border town has three grocery stores for some 3,000 people. The larger Canadian town has only one. The selection is so very much better in the US.
WOLF PIT. SO GLAD TO HAVE ANOTHER VIDEO OF YOUR CHANNEL. YOU WERE THE FIRST THAT I WATCHED ON U TUBE YEARS AGO. THANKYOU SIR FOR KEEP POSTING. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND WORDS SO MUCH THAT I COULD PROBABLY WATCH YOU DO A VIDEO ON A ROCK. BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO.👈👆
I'm thankful that Smellovision never took of in the 60's. Oh, and when you do your home cooked videos, feel free to up load in 4K. Stuff like this is too close in 1080p, what corporate companies thing they can serve up as food.... It makes me want to cry. Take care.
I personally make country fried steak with gravy, home made, southern taught and I must say they didn’t do too bad as long as you sprinkle just a tad bit of salt and pepper. You should have tried flipping your steak over for more gravy.
Others told me there was too much sodium in these dinners but I didn't believe them. I ate Hungry Man dinners for years because they were convenient and they tasted good. My favorite was the Classic Fried Chicken. That was until my wife noticed my right ankle was swollen. After she retired she started baking fresh chicken and making homemade meatloaf. After several weeks she checked my ankle again and it wasn't swollen anymore.
This new format is really good. You providing both cooking methods along with trying it with butter and salt afterwards gives alot more helpful information. Then again, put salt and butter on a turd and it'd be alright haha. Cheers bro.
For reference, I looked at the sodium content on a bag of Jumbo Brand sunflower seeds. 90mg per 3/4 cup in the shell serving. You will need to consume over 2.5 one pound bags to get the same amount of sodium in this meal.
I used to like Swanson's back in the 1970's and while watching Love American Style or Laugh-in. Now, I think your trying these meals puts you at the risk of a heart attack. You are braver than me!!!
not that I'm complaining at all cause I love your videos, but is there gonna be a visit back to your own personal playground soon? dying to know if there's anything good lately from the good ole dollar store
I ate this sucker every day for months at work. Every Hungry Man would cook to almost oven-perfect quality at 666 seconds in the nice industrial microwaves we had. Feast of the Beast.
Man, that's a lot of sodium! If someone eat this kind of food once in a blue moon, no problem. But if that's eaten every day... I love your channel! Keep it up! 😁
What kind of physics defying magic did Hungry man put on those oven baked mashed potatoes? At the end of the scene where you show them on the spoon, they seem to form a mini-steam vacuum that actually sucks the steam back into the potatoes. Can't wait to try this at home!
