Favorite Store Bought Quick Meal in a Box

[RebelSS]

57 minutes ago, bobbymalone said:

instant mashed potatoes beat real mashed potatoes hands down.  

*GASP*           

Edited January 6, 2016 by RebelSS

[RebelSS]

49 minutes ago, lovebigbluegills said:

Stove Top stuffing is pretty dang good!!! 

O ya, I forgot about that!! I DO haveta keep that on hand to go with the chicken!!!

[bobberineyes]

Big bowl of capn crunch is tough to beat..

[pikestabber]

Another vote for Zatarain's. I like Dirty Rice or Red Beans & Rice. Last time around I used the Dirty Rice, added a pound of Jalapeno Venison burger and some crispy diced bacon and it was actually pretty darned good. I am a "from scratch cooker" 95% of the time, but I do save a night now and again for a meal like this when I don't feel like tearing the kitchen up.

I would imagine some spiced up chicken would be a good compliment to this, too, as would pork sausage, etc.

Edited January 6, 2016 by pikestabber

[reinhard1]

Good point on the potato buds or potato flakes.  I have used those for a walleye or panfish batter dip cycle.  Very good.  The boxed scalloped potatoes are acceptable for sure.  My daughter has used the instant mashed potatoes at times when we were over and they were good as well [not as good as the real deal but good in a pinch].  good luck.

[Mid-Lake Rock]

Boxed mashed potatoes will never compare to mom's.  However, in college, after a night on the town, my buddy would whip up some "porridge."  This consisted of cooking up some instant mashed potatoes then mixing in ranch dressing.  Pretty solid after too many Busch Lights.

I was also a ramen fan.  If anyone likes ramen, I highly recommend shopping at an asian grocery store.  They typically have a huge variety of ramen that is much better than the stuff you find at your local grocery store.  

My personal favorite quick box meal = Steak-umms.  Haven't had them for years, but I love them.  

 

[ThunderLund78]

5 minutes ago, Mid-Lake Rock said:

 too many Busch Lights.

NO SUCH THING!

[reinhard1]

Oh yes Ramen!!  I also will say to go to a Oriental store and get some good stuff there.  Kimchi style, Hot or mild, and all of the rest of the flavors.  The noodles are better quality and so are the spices.  Even stores like Cubs have them in the Asian section.  good luck.

[Coffee118]

Ramen noodles with some velveta cheese, onions, mushrooms, cayenne pepper, green onion and a hot dog or two diced into small pieces for a meal that takes 5 minutes to make

[lovebigbluegills]

33 minutes ago, ThunderLund78 said:

NO SUCH THING!

My thought exactly!!!!!  

[Boar]

Oh evay!! I learned how to cook via the boxed meals, one just has to stop trying to eat the box, ya have to take the stuff out from the inside and cook it or it dont work very good. 

Tuna helper pot pie. Awsome! but a very time consuming deal. now we have premade crust and its quicker. good bachlor food when ones mind is alterd and Led Zepplin is crankin"

Ramen noodles. is a must, add cheese or velveta, great food, after a afternoon with the girlfreind, when the mind is alterd and Pink Floyed is cranking.

Instant potates. oh man!!! theres a whole entire bowl that gets consumed when they come out to play, and there great cold, they are better cold than real mashed potatos are.

All time fave after an evening of Iron Maiden jam session in the garage, its a half gallon vanilla ice cream with cocco pebbles mixed in. mom could never understand why there was cereal in the ice cream, cause I neverremeber doing it. I never remebred doing it when I was a bachlor either, but ther it was, in my freezer, my girlfreind tried it, then had a wiered idea... so yeah boxed food can be good.

 

[smurfy]

Another favorite of mine is the old box of jeno' s home made pizza. Double size. Now I think chef boyardee makes them.

[RebelSS]

10 hours ago, smurfy said:

Another favorite of mine is the old box of jeno' s home made pizza. Double size. Now I think chef boyardee makes them.

You oughtta tell Boar about Chef Boyardee...He makes spaghetti in a can. Bet even Boar couldn't fudge up that spaghetti. 

 

 

In fact, I bet I know what YOU like.....

Edited January 7, 2016 by RebelSS

[smurfy]

Reb, don't you gotta go make cookies with the neighbor lady???????

[delcecchi]

I just thought of one....   We make this while canoeing but it is good enough that have made it at home. 

1 box augratin or scalloped potatoes.  Cut up some sliced ham, even deli ham works. 

Cook potatoes, stir in ham if on top of stove or on fire.  Else add ham before putting in oven. 

[RebelSS]

1 hour ago, smurfy said:

Reb, don't you gotta go make cookies with the neighbor lady???????

Gad, I hope not! I haveta go do something fun, like make a jar of Reb's Rib Rub. I'm out. Ribs for the weekend when it's -6 out.

[icehole10]

I still have a thing for tuna tetrazzini (tuna helper). It's a quick, easy meal, and somewhat palletable, we used to eat it a lot when we first got married, but it has been awhile. I don't mind potato buds either, but they need lots of butter, and seasoning on them. Not out of a box, but I'm a big fan of kippered snacks, and smoked oysters, if I don't want my wife within a few hundred years of me, I just open a can of those up, and suddenly I am all by myself!

[SkunkedAgain]

I used to get into the Zatarains quite a bit when it first came out, usually the red beans or black beans and rice. I would cube up a summer sausage and saute that along with garlic and onions in a side pan and then add it back into the Zatarains when that was done. Good stuff. Any meat or seafood will do.

Every once in a while I'll grab some kind of a Indian curry box or Asian and then add stuff to it, but that's more rare. I like making the curry myself when time allows.

[Leaky]

Not much of a boxed meal guy, but............

I'm a big fan of the frozen Broccoli in Cheese sauce they sell in the box.  Usually have a box of instant oatmeal as well as Beef Rice-a-Roni.  Like to use that for my rice mixture in Stuffed Green Peppers.  It's loaded with sodium, but gotta splurge once in a while.  I always have a box of Velveeta cheese in the fridge as well.  It's not a grilled cheese or mac and cheese if its not Velveeta. 

[smurfy]

Heck I didn't know there was any other cheese other then Velveeta till I met my wife.

[LindellProStaf]

When I was a young bachelor and microwaves were the new cool thing I after a night of partying loved Banquet Chicken microwaved.  lolol  Nice soft crust.  Therefore no crust.  Just the way I don't like it now..   BUT was sure good then. Could eat the whole box of it...   Otherwise my room mates (guys) would..   Kind of like the pride of lions thing.  Eat it all or someone else will...  I would have shared it with a hot chick....  

I haven't had Banquet Chicken for 20 years or more.  I am sort of curious to try it again.  The wife said we are not going to microwave it.    

[RebelSS]

I have to admit I ate that at about the same time as you...can still remember it was $2.69 a box. 

[leechlake]

47 minutes ago, smurfy said:

Heck I didn't know there was any other cheese other then Velveeta till I met my wife.

no kidding.  Deb buys every type of shredded cheese possible.  When I was a kid we were big time and had the huge block of Kraft cheese in fridge where you had to use the cheese slicer thing to cut it off.  

Between hair care products in our shower and cheese "we" spend a small fortune at the store every month.  I use 6 oz of shampoo per year and could lose less I think.

[RebelSS]

Growing up in the 60's, didn't everyone have this box of American cheese in the 'fridge? 

[smurfy]

Nope it was definitely Velveeta. We got that every now and then when my grandparents had to much