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TV dinner

A TV dinner (also called prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal, frozen dinner, frozen meal, microwave meal) is a prepackaged frozen or chilled meal that usually comes as an individual portion. It requires very little preparation and contains all the elements for a single-serving meal. A TV dinner in the USA usually consists of a cut of meat, usually beef or chicken; a vegetable, such as peas, carrots, corn, or potatoes; and sometimes a dessert, such as a brownie or apple cobbler. The entrée could also be pasta or a common type of fish, such as Atlantic cod. Rice is a common side item. In Europe the meals can be more diverse, with items such as Indian or Chinese meals being common in the UK.

The term TV dinner is a genericized trademark originally used for a brand of packaged meal developed in 1953 by C.A. Swanson & Sons (the name in full was TV Brand Frozen Dinner). In the United States the term remains synonymous with any prepackaged dinner purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home.

The original TV Dinner came in an aluminum tray and was heated in an oven. Most frozen food trays are now made of microwaveable material, usually plastic.

Usage examples of "tv dinner".

But when their time is their own, they prefer to hunker down in the wall-to-wall anonymity of their one-story, flat-roofed, Levittown-style homes between the base golf course and the officers' club, there to relax in front of the tube with a succulent TV dinner.

He went into the kitchen with his shirt still off and fixed a pot of coffee and a TV dinner.

She wasn't holy, he assured himself as he sat down to eat his TV dinner.

Dant bourbon, TV dinner trays, a _Cavalier_ magazine with some of the ads clipped out, and pieces of a letter she'd taped together under a strong light.

Altogether, it was as appetizing as the TV dinner it closely resembled.

And they didn't require a hot meal made from scratch, thanks to the invention of the Swanson TV Dinner.

For the balance of the ride back to French Landing, Fred never once let go of his son's baseball cap, and he has a hand on it even now, as he eats a microwaved TV dinner in his too empty living room and watches Action News Five.

It wasn't much help that both Lance Sheath and MuMu deCharraiveuneuirauville were quite obviously courting-no, probably stalking was the better word -cosmetics heiress Martha Whoopley, a stocky stodgy fortyish styleless frump with the face of a TV dinner and the personality of a humidifier and the ownership of eleven million dollars in her own right.