Anyone tried them yet? The expensive frozen meals.

no.get the loaded skins because theyre good.end of thread.

Did you find them on sale?

If you get those skins, get them at a store like Sam's Club or Costco. The prices in a grocery store are way high.

i only ever get them just randomly at walmart sometimes.ive never seen them sold at costco but i did buy some twice baked potatos that had cheese on them that were good awhile back.

2 days ago I was riding on the train and I remembered that I gotta buy food, but getting out on Atlantic Avenue station and going to Target would cost me extra $2.25 for the train fare back home, but I figured that the prices at Target are at least 25% cheaper than at the local Key Food supermarket and the Target product selection is big, and after spending $30 or so, I would still save some money. So I decided to get off the train and go buy some food at Target.

Among many items that I bought there I bought a bag of TGI Fridays Cajun-Style Chicken Alfredo. Normaly I would never pay $4.19 for it but it was on sale for $1.99 and I was only able to find 1 bag of it in the back of the shelf where its impossible to see it unless you take a knee. All the shelves with this TGI Friday's sale items were empty.

This stuff is really good and tasty, and I could see why someone might have paid the premium price for it. The only 2 lows of this product were the small portion and only 5-6 pieces of blackened chicken. In order for it to be a hearty meal for me, I think that I would need at least 2-3 bags-worth of portion. The blackened chicken tasted very good, definitely a premium taste, but 5-6 pieces is something that I would expect from a Banquet product.

I will upload the pics of it later, but for now here is a screen cap from some deals website. Looking at this deals posting I can see why there was only 1 bag of this product left in the store's fridge.

Here's the pics:

I hate the restaurant, but I loves me some frozen P.F. Chang's frozen General Chang's Chicken. Probably out of your price range, being a dirty Russian Jew and all. It's not TGI Friday's, but it's the same basic idea.

Why didn't you cook it in the bag as the instructions specified?

In The Bag cooking was optional. I did it like a pro chef on a pan.

what's the sodium per serving and how many servings in that bag?

Totally beat me to it. I've tried every one of the Chang's and they're the shit. Cheap at Walmart.

Hey hey everyone, yo' boy Alex here with another exciting TGI Friday's "In Your Freezer" product review. Today's product is the Sesame Orange Chicken for one (12 oz. package) that I acquired today along with many other exciting frozen products in Stop & Shop supermarket. I don't know if you know about Stop & Shop, but it's a big supermarket (with 5 or so trailer docks) chain, and there seems to be only 1 door of it in Brooklyn. This place is kinda far from me but I do enjoy shopping there because they have wider selection of product than your average supermarket and they carry hard-to-find item in stock, like Old Spice Classic body wash ($4.49), expanded selection of Hot Pockets (including buffalo-style Side Shots), Newman's Own pizza, wide selection of Kool-Aid packets(4 for $1.00 reg. price) and much more. Their prices are also frequently cheaper than the smaller local supermarkets and they have good promotional sales a lot. I found out that Stop & Shop is having a promo sale this week for the TGI Friday's frozen foods: 2 packets for $4.00 (12 oz. per packet) "Entrees for One" or 2 packets for $10.00 (24 oz. per packet) "Complete Skillet Meals".



The difference between the 12 oz. and 24 oz. is that the first one has the meal on the plate on the packaging and that the later one has the meal on the skillet/frying pan. And if you do the math according to this store's promo then you will be paying $2.00 more if you buy the larger 24 oz. packets/bags.



So like I said, we have Sesame Orange Chicken for one here today. I bought only 1 packet because this product has rice instead of pasta like the previous review had. I am not a big fan of rice, generally I only like the yellow pork fried rice type of rice that you get at the Chinese food joints. I do not like the white or boiled rice, that stuff is disgusting to me, with all that steam and boiling smell going on. I pretty much prepared it in the skillet/frying pan like I did it in the previous review. So basically what you have in this bitch is Sesame Breaded White Meat Chicken (4 pieces of various size, like on the packaging graphic, so don't expect or hope for more), Asian-Style Vegetables (3-4 pieces of broccoli, sliced carrots and sliced red peppers) and White Rice "Tossed in Sweet Orange Sauce". Orange sauce being the brown mystery-looking chunks of matter.

So I prep that shit up and like last time: you don't get much of food in this packet-bag thing. It's probably enough to feed a skinny person like Gia, but for a normal American person 12 ounces of food is just not fucking enough. At first I tried a piece of chicken by dipping it into the sauced rice, and it tasted okay: the chicken looks good outside but inside it is just tasteless white. Then I took another bite of rice with broccoli. I started chewing it and then realized that I hate this kind of rice, so I spit it on the plate. I decided to eat the remaining chicken pieces and broccoli and throw down the toilet the rest (mostly the string beans, carrots and rice). I am not a fan of string beans and carrots either. I threw the stuff down the toilet and then I suddenly realized that the biggest chunk of grilled chicken went down the bowl, luckily I had the fork on hand and forked that good stuff out, cleaned it with warm water and ate it. I don't let the good stuff go to waste.

Personally I did not liked this TGI Friday's Sesame Orange Chicken for one entree and will not buy it again, but I can definitely see someone who is into rice and vegetables enjoying this stuff. It is of premium quality compared to other brands like Banquet and Hungry Man, so it is worth giving a try. I did, but I did not liked it. If you hate rice and veggies then don't buy it, but if you like these kinds of ingredients then be my guest.

I will post the pics in a little while because I gotta resize, crop, adjust the exposure, adjust the brightness & contrast and add some sharpness.

And in the other news: (1) Staples has initiated their shrink ray on the small bubble wrap, bringing to the length of their bubble wrap by 25 squares less (12x175). (2) Snuggle has re-done their Snuggle bear from whitish creepy smile bear to brownish and more classic version of Snuggle bear.

I also came up with the idea of this TGI Friday's stuff checklist, so let's try to collect/eat them all.

No one read all that shit. Just post pics of the dead bodies in your freezer and be done with it.

The freezer is stocked with good stuff for this week:

I think "buffalo-style Side Shots" could probably also refer to the bowel movements you take after eating this horrible diet of frozen crap. Also, proving you are a complete lunatic, your freezer is the cleanest part of your home. This is the complete opposite of a normal person.

UPDATE - the pics:

I clean my fridge and freezer once every 2 months. There is nothing wrong with cleanliness.

Explain that to your underpants. And what happened to your cooking? Not to to encourage you posting more food pics, but you could easily (and more economically) make pizza at home that is better than anything in your freezer.

Gia I've cut out the most disturbing part for you.

How is frozen pizza by the slice economical when you live in Brooklyn and can go to the corner for not only cheaper, but BETTER. You're in N-Y-fucking-C, you fucking fuck, and you want frozen boxed pizza by the slice?

I am not a big fan of cleaning up the utensils, pots, pans, etc. after the cooking. But sometimes you gotta let the little hooks do the work:

It;s Fresheta and Red Baron, I never tried Fresheta because it is not cheap and they do not sell it anywhere near where I live, and Red Baron is my fave brand of freezer pizza, so it must be good. Plain pizza slice where I live costs $2.50-$2.75 and Fresheta was $2.49 AND it tasted pretty good, I only tried the spinach one yet. Red Baron has 2 slices per box at 2 boxes per $6.00. I eat pizza frequently when I am in the city, mostly at 2 Bros Pizza where a slice is $1.00 or at Famiglia place on 8th street that charges like $6.00 for a vegetable slice.

I might make a "Russian" pizza. I already narrowed-down 10 key toppings

Panzer's idea of a hot tub party.

It does appear that Panzer has moved to a nicer apartment.

Same apartment just new kitchen. New TGI Friday's review coming up in 15 minutes.

Whats up everyone, Panzer here with another TGI Friday's product review here. Today's product is Sizzling steak fajitas that come in a cardboard box.



The reason for the box instead of the plastic bag is that the box houses 2-compartment tray and a seperate plastic pouch that has 3 tortillas inside, all for just $1.99 (sale price). Like I mentioned in the previous review, I am not a big fan of rice and this product has some of it. This rice is a special rice: that is because it is mixed with black beans and cheese. Due to the container and pouch thing, you can't cook this meal on a skillet/frying pan and the only way to do it is to nuke it.

All-in-all it takes 6 or so minutes to get the 3 fajitas done, and let me say that 3 fajitas for $1.99 is a good value these days. Local Taco Bell sells soft tacos for $1.49 each plus tax and there are not many outlets around where Mexi food can be acquired at. The fajitas really tasted good and all 3 were wholesomely stuffed even thou they were not large tortillas, just standard-sized. In the ingredients you have: flour tortillas, steak, rice, cheese, black beans, green peppers, red peppers and onions.

I was only able to eat 1 and 1/2 fajitas before I got tired of the cheese, scooped out the steak pieces as well as the green & red peppers and threw the rest down the toilet. Like I said, I am not a fan of rice. But if you a person who loves shit like risotto and basmati rice then this one will be up your alley. Premium frozen food flavor and good price is what TGI Friday's frozen food are all about and the Sizzling Steak Fajitas (3 units, 12 ounces) deliver a good meal deep down your belly.

Pics soon to come.

Tranzer, do you not own a garbage can? Normal people throw food in the garbage or down the garbage disposal. You dump and remove food from the toilet.

Panzer is his own garbage can and toilet. Truly a Renaissance man.

It's easier to dispose the stuff in the toilet than to go to the garbage chute room and risk the small talk with some neighbor from the floor.

Don't you have any Eastern Euro hookers in your building you could chat up? Or do they get beaten if they talk to any men that aren't paying? Do they have a common term for "pimp" in Russian?

I've got friends who work in the fast food and packaged-foods industries. It may be fashionable to run them down, but food scientists and chefs in both industries work double time to find the right balance of tasty, nutritious food and reasonable price. Of course, there's a lot of salt involved, because salt tastes good, but all in all there are some pretty reasonable eats that one can find for $2.00 per meal.

I still think one would be better off cooking a meal or two, for oneself and perhaps some loved ones (or a crack whore who could use a meal), but let's not overlook the miracles here. Alex Panzer's very existence has been brought to us by the genius of Norman Borlaug and Clarence Birdseye. All hail science.

The kitchen looks nice, Alex. Got any more pictures of the kitchen?

The TGIF Chicken Fajitas are better than the Steak. I never had either from a box though, only the bag. And I use lots of hot sauce, the cheap Goya stuff.

TGI Friday's Sizzling Steak Fajitas pics:

Does the bag version has flour tortillas inside?

No whores from Eeaster Europe, but there was a period of time that some Russian chick lived in the building and I think that she used to dance in the nudie clubs of NJ, because she would get out of the building at 6pm and some van would pick her up and she would often get back at like 2pm in different SUVs every time with different guys that would often bring her flowers and gifts. She also had somekind of yellow ribbon on the door at times, I think that it was somekind of sign that she was a whore or something. Here are couple of pics of the kitchen, I put the backsplash tile myself so its not that perfect:

Did you notice how all the steak strips are essentially the same thickness and width? That's achieved by pasting together meat scraps and scrapings using something called "transglutaminase", which causes muscle fibers to stick together. Then the "beef" is seasoned, shaped, and extruded through an automatic cooker, and sliced off into fajita strips for inclusion in your $1.99 meal ($0.66 per fajita!).

I saw some Jamie Oliver show where he tried to gross out the kiddies, showing them how chicken carcasses are processed to get bits of chicken meat which are then pasted together to make nuggets. He made a big deal about it. The kids were suitably impressed.

However, I was reminded how people in poor countries, and recently poor countries like China, eat every goddamn scrap of meat on whatever animal they've grabbed and killed. Eyeballs, tongues, brains, and toes... they pick them bones clean. It's all fair game, nutritious and (they say) delicious. I fail to see how the "frankenfood" industrial processing of meat and meat by-products is any different from anything humans have been doing for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

Yeah, I know that that stuff is science, but as long as it tastes good and priced cheap; that is all I want to know. I have all kinds of documentaries about factories of all kinds and I seen how meats gets processed. I also seen that Jamie Oliver stuff where he went to some fat southern family and showed them how this stuff gets made. Sometimes when I get the meat on the bone, I cut the main stuff and scrape away the rest and fry it while the main stuff marinades.

Alex, I would've done the subway tiles in white. The grey makes it look like prison.

Those black tiles probably were on sale. Still, this kitchen is a hell of an improvement on the tenement-house kitchen grandma had, and it was executed with Alex's own two hands to boot! Well done.

I should note, however, that the four-burner camp stove would never pass code. Open flame right next to the wood of the apartment's frame, and wooden blinds? That's a severe fire hazard, Alex. You need tile on the wall next to the stove, and keep those blinds away.

Its stainless steel - the color of professionalism.

The tiles were $20/sheet (about 1'x1') at Home Depot. I have spent around $700 and all the tiles, tools, tile saw and the cement for the wall.

The previous stove was in that place when I moved in the place, every apartment with this layout in the building has the stove there, that's where the gas line is at. The blinds are plastic they just look like wood and some of it has melted/deformed.

Do you still live with your mother?

After looking at the pictures of your kitchen, I am still scratching my head as to why you needed to shoplift so much stuff from Williams-Sonoma to service a diet that seems to consist exclusively of microwaveable frozen food?

You know that the container your food comes in is both the cooking and serving vessel, correct?

He was going for the gulag look.

Yes on the tortillas, I think 6 of them, and more than likely on the stripper/whore.

Show your neighbor some of your enema tank blueprints. You won't ever have to worry about unwanted small talk ever again (Freudian slip here, I just caught myself typing smell talk)

Who picked out that green for the walls? Kermit the Frog?