Keep These Store-Bought Frozen Meals Away From Your Shopping Cart

Marie Callender's Meatloaf and Gravy frozen dinner comes with meatloaf, mashed potatoes in gravy, and corn. The meatloaf is tiny compared to the sides.

In addition, the meat is too gravy-soaked, the mashed potatoes are thin and watery, the gravy is extremely salty, and the corn texture is rubbery and even hard at times.

Banquet Foods’ Chicken Fried Chicken meal includes a fried chicken breast patty, gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn. The gravy makes the patty mushy after heating.

The mashed potatoes taste like standard, bland instant potatoes, and the only detectable flavor in the gravy is salt. The meal has just one redeeming quality: the corn is decent.

The Lean Cuisine Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes is quite disappointing. The chicken is soggy, rubbery, and tastes pretty bland, not even like chicken.

The meal comes with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and corn mixed together in one bowl and topped with gravy. The mashed potatoes are soupy, the corn is hard, and it’s all bland.

Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese has had a decrease in quality recently. Now, the dish is watery, has too few noodles, and is tasteless and extremely salty.

Marie Callender's Tender Ginger Beef & Broccoli Bowl contains beef chunks, broccoli, and rice with a ginger garlic sauce. The dish is mostly rice and sauce.

You can't taste the ginger or garlic, and some reviewers found the sauce uncomfortably sweet. The texture is off as well, as the rice is hard and the beef chewy and stringy.