^^; As a lunch lady, I can say we do still have Salisbury steak. And it's one of the best things we make. It's one of the few foods we're still permitted to make from scratch.
From scratch school cafeteria food shouldn't be so rare. People just to cheap to pay lunch ladies and ordering that processed food service stuff instead.
As a college student who has 0 energy and needs good depression meals, I really enjoy your videos because they give me a good idea of what to get to keep in the freezer for when I really don't feel like cooking!! I have a whole list on my phone that's just "thewolfepit approved frozen meals" lol
No preservatives typically means no unnatural preservatives. All food you buy in a store has to be preserved in some way. Typical 'natural' ways of preserving are: Natural acidity (vinegar (ie pickled goods), lemon juice, fruit purees (naturally acidic), etc) Sodium ('natural' salt, as seen here) Pressure cooked sealed goods (ie sealed pouches or canned goods) Some frozen goods (freezing can naturally preserve goods for a short period - ie frozen fish) Refrigeration (used for 'fresh' meats, fish, etc)
Hey Wolfie, I wanted to tell you that I bought myself an air fryer and it is literally life-changing. I love soft-boiled eggs and now they're SO easy. No pot, no water, no worry I'll over or under cook them. Perfect tater tots in 9 minutes. Love you & Mrs. Wolfe, I hope to see you uploading more soon.
I feel like Larry (and Mrs. Wolfe pit) is the "people's champion" of frozen food reviews. I am also a fan of the budget meals series. They literally got my family through some tough times. Keep up the good work Larry!
@@brian70Cuda I don't disagree, I think it's probably just because I had a lot growing up! Although fun fact hamburger originates from "Hamburg steak" which was very much like a salisbury steak!
He used to do it but he got bullied for having giant Sausage fingers, and there was this debacle where he claimed he couldn't bend his fingers then bent them on camera
I literally just stumbled onto your channel yesterday and binged watched most of your dollar tree meal videos. I absolutely love them!! I don’t have a family to feed but I am on a very tight budget and I’m happy to make meals to eat for days!! Thank you for coming up with this!!!
@@chronic4twen -- The difference is that the Dollar Tree can charge above a dollar. In the Dollar Store everything is a buck or less. My wife finally drove that difference into my brain.
IMO, probably the best Salisbury Steak frozen meal out there. I too was skeptical about the mac n cheese combination but it actually works. Thanks for the review!
I appreciate your rundown of the nutrition label. You're helping to educate people who live in food deserts where Dollar Tree and Dollar General have become the only local options for sustenance.
No Walmart? No Grocery Outlet? No Winn-Dixie, Furr's, Albertsons, Safeway, Smith's, TruValu, Shop n' Save, Thriftway, Costco, Meijers, Fred Meyer, Kroger, etc.? Places with only the Dollar Tree plus convenience stores, man... I'm assuming you're talking about Detroit or something...
BenjaminGessel it’s a lazy human who can’t fathom driving 30 minutes to pick up groceries. You can order fcking groceries on amazon for Christ sakes it’s almost 2020 imagine thinking dollar general is the only place to get “sustenance”
@@Li8eralsarescum69 Yes, very true, I'm just wondering what wretched piece of Earth would only have the Dollar General or Dollar Store as grocery options, or if its a financial thing or something. I honestly don't know..
I just discovered you 💓 I’m incredibly thankful for your channel.. you have helped me more than you will ever know.. thank you so much for your videos..
Just watched your Salisbury Steak video. It's so easy, homemade, natural and looks delicious. I'm making it today with roasted potatoes and carrots. Thanks!
@@dadoctah exactly. Why worry and fret over something you have NO control over. We don't buy these meals for gourmet pleasure. We buy them because they're easy to prepare and they fill the "hungry hole" our bodies dig each day. The fact they're sometimes tasty is a bonus.
This is like the chimichanga all over again. Drinking game: drink every time Larry says Salisbury 😂😂😂 We still love you and all your chimichangas and Salisbury steaks.
I am constantly confounded how food companies can take something like chocolate cake or spaghetti sauce or cookies even, and make them all taste literally like nothing! We bought chocolate cupcakes and they were absolutely without taste. The cake was like eating nothing. No discernable taste. Not a hint of chocolate. And the icing was just as bad! These companies aren't about food! They're about dividends and the bottom line. It's just wrong! Jenn 🇨🇦
I've had two TV dinners in probably 30 years within the last week. One was Turkey and it came with mashed taters, green beans, and cranberry sauce. It was freaking delicious. Had that for Thanksgiving. I live alone and no family around and nobody here invited me. Then the next night I had Salisbury steak. It came with mashed taters and a vegetable medley. It was pretty tasty too. I believe it had two patties. They were Hungry Man two for $6:00. EDIT: If food has microwave and oven directions I will always choose the oven. Well, currently a toaster oven since I live in a tiny bedroom ''apartment'' above a bar. I rarely use the microwave other than to thaw stuff. Usually it starts cooking it which I don't like. Your oil comments had me laughing as I'm typing. I was gonna suggest adding gravy to the mac and cheese and lo and behold what do you do? You add some gravy.
I really enjoy your honesty. I want to see all your critic's, but I only catch your stuff when I run across it. AND I really appreciate your research & honesty !!!!
I always have that one in my freezer. It’s delicious! That Stouffers mac and cheese is the best frozen one. You should’ve popped it in the microwave instead, not dry at all.
All frozen food goes from the factory to a series of warehouses. In transit, the product might sit on 10 docks waiting to get loaded for the stores. If the semi driver goes to store 1 and it's load is in the front of the semi, stores 3 and 4's load will get unloaded and reloaded several times as the driver stops at multiple stores, resulting in MORE dock time. I have gotten loads that were so bad the fries were a solid block! This is a problem for all stores and the consumer pays. If you can see, feel, or hear ice crystals, do not purchase. If anything is fused together, do not buy. Manufacturers use boxes within boxes to protect products for about 30 minutes and most dock time exceeds this. I've always wanted packaging that changes color if product is over temp. Even the best foods turn to shit if the forklift drivers and truckers aren't able to get it in a freezer quickly. Sometimes it's slow stockers at the store.
I ran reffer for almost years and haven't ran into that problem. What I have seen is some drivers don't have the temp set low enough. Like they set it around 30f. They do this in the hope they won't have to make an additional stop to fill the reffer with fuel. Before they get to the receiver. This can cause the product in the rear of the trailer to reach temps above freezing.
After watching your video on this, and when at the grocery store, I bought one and tried it. First time, and I must say it was easy to fix and quite tasty! Thanks...we the people appreciate you!
I don't know about the frozen food style, but Salisbury steak is huge in Japan. They are just called hamburg here and are kinda like personal meatloaf patties. They are popular and can easily be cut and eaten with chopsticks. They are on the menus of most family restaurants and there is even one that serves them exclusively ;)
Encor has good flavor for their gravies. The price kind of scares me though. I have to wonder what's in it that they can sell it so cheap. I make sandwiches with the salisbury steak patties.
I like that your channel is evidence that you don't need a slew of sponsors and a valley of merchandise plugs to be successful. Most anybody else would have sold out a long time ago without question. Thank you.
boston market tv dinner is horrible. the mac n cheese has absolutely no taste.....i mean no taste....just nothing. the salsbury steak is flat on flavor and the meat is very fake texture. stouffer is the best brand for salsbury steak.
New subscriber! I’ve been binge watching your “What are we eating series” for a few days now! Your videos are not only informative but comical too and I love it
I know this was years ago, but I've somehow become hooked on this for the first time in my whole life. I'm 47, and I tried this for the first time in my life last week. I'm in trouble. I love to cook, I'm single, but omg. Stopping everything on new years lol!❤
I've never had the frozen ones but the Cracker Barrel mac'n'cheese that is the dry kind you microwave (like Kraft Easy Mac) is really good. They have a cheese sauce packet, not a powder and come with bread crumb topping
We used to be 8-10 years old and our tastebuds still worked really well, our standards were really low, and our lives were full of futures rather than pasts.
Ajah Oshae if you’re school has meatballs then you might notice the similarities between them the the Salisbury steak. At my school they had the same flavor with a different texture.
You hit the nail on the head - I am a proud-but-old-ex-Frat Boy that used to be able to drink till 2AM, wake up in the morning, order 3 different McDonalds breakfast sandwiches (A standard McMuffin with egg & ham, a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, and Steak/Egg/Cheese Bagel woohoo!) - a Hash Browns, and a large black coffee, go home and sleep, then call my friends and ask where we were having Lunch & watching sports etc. - no problem. I hit 30, everything changed. If I consume too much salt - and I have no sweet tooth, I drink booze and love salty stuff - but if I have too much salt, I will wake up with a terrible headache. Sometimes it starts the night before. So I could probably eat one of these - and absolutely *nothing else* all day, or I'd get a salt-migraine in the morning. People don't realize how much salt is in US foods ... even canned soup, ostensibly you think Healthy, right? Bullshit, more salt than you need all day. But I loved this video ... my Polish, ex-Nazi POW Grandmother used to make TV Dinners for us all the time, we *loved them* and they were only a buck or two back then, easy to pop into the toaster oven, simple. Brings back memories.
My dad used to eat and bake these for my brother and I as a kid. I always thought they were pretty good. Recently I made some from scratch with some mashed and it was miles better but still a nice piece of nostalgia lol. Funny thing is I hate meat loaf but love salisbury steak. I guess it's the gravy that makes it.
Frozen meals are like porn magazines , you feel guilty for buying them and you hope no one sees you doing it , but..... You just can't help yourself 😉 .
Hey Mr. Wolfe, I have a budget meal idea for you for breakfast. You can get all the ingredients for under $5 and it can feed about 6 adults. We make migas around here all the time. Just throw about 10-12 chopped corn tortillas into a pan with some onion and either some chopped bell pepper or jalapeño and cook until all of the tortilla pieces have turned brown and crisp, then add a dozen eggs and voila. That is all. It’s a Mexican staple that my mom has made me for years. It’s quick, easy, cheap, and delicious. Serve it like a breakfast scramble. Ingredients: 18 ct corn tortillas ($1.20) Dozen eggs ($1.15) Yellow onion ($0.78) Jalapeño ($0.20) - OR - Bell pepper ($0.68) = $3.33 total (I go with the jalapeño) Add salt, pepper, and onion powder to taste. All these prices are from my local Walmart! :) I would love to see you make this! Even if you double the recipe, it’s still under $7.00 and feeds a ton. Add some cheese or salsa on top to kick it up a notch and it’s still under $10.00.
I like a ton of salt, and my cardiologist said to eat quite a bit (to counter low blood pressure), I would like to see less since it is easy to add at the end for anyone.
@@msr1116 Yes because the effects are immediate, vs longer term with high blood pressure. The worst is when it is sudden drops while I'm driving or walking, where suddenly the whole world is falling to the left and I'm trying to continue straight.
@@randomvideosn0where ...I happened to be googling uses for the jars of pickle juice in my fridge, and came across a number of people using it after a workout for electrolyte replenishment or to treat low blood pressure. Just thought I'd pass that on.
At first I thought I had uncovered another "Mandela Effect" - Saltbury. I had always known it as Salisbury. He actually took the time to edit the box to say Saltbury! I even looked it up to double-check that I wasn't losing my mind. Good one, Larry! 😂
Thank you for all of the videos Wolfe, they give me great ideas for quick fillings when the wallets with the wife!!! Makes feeding the friends fun too! Always get the question "what's that????" But I always end up hearing "mmmmmm" well they chew. Thanks!!!!
Please keep making more budget meal videos! 👍 😁 I'm trying to save money for Christmas. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that's saving up for Christmas.
It is macaroni and cheese because the meals were made in city diners. There used to be made in Pittsburgh diners on certain days and some were made on some days. .slot of hot dogs were made with macaroni and cheese on some days. Love you and your family.
The Salisbury Steak I used to get from my Elementary School cafeteria was absolutely delicious, as was their Hot Turkey Sandwich with Gravy. Of course, this was the early 1970s, so it was way before all the crap they did to the school meals.
When I had Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes and green beans during my elementary/middle school days they served it in those aluminum containers with the paper cover that you had to fold over away the edges to remove the cover. I'll admit, it was fantastic. Then again, during those times I was always starving so of course it'll taste fantastic.
Salisbury steak was one of my favorite lunches back in the 60's when we had actual lunch ladies in the school cooking. It needs mashed potatoes though, so I can dip the meat in the taters.
Love your channel ! I myself being a bachelor eat a lot of frozen and meals from the box... almost everything I want to try from the frozen food section , you have done a review for it. This is awesome thanks ! Have you reviewed any of the Devour frozen meals ? There are several meals in the devour menu that are very edible lol. The buffalo chicken Mac n cheese& the steak and potato bowl is great that is if you can find it. It’s the holy grail of devour meals. Very hard to find... Thanks again for the great content! You keep uploading I’ll keep watching and liking !
I love these, i buy so many of these when i know i'm not gonna have the time to cook or want to get away from fast food, my absolute comfort food of choice but i'm gonna try cooking a fresh batch this weekend.
I use leftover Banquet Sodiumbury Steak patties (from the family pack) with Kraft Mac and Cheese and it is like heaven. I put the patty in a bowl and put the mac and cheese on top, as I eat it I can cut bits off or mash it up together. Best way to use leftovers is putting it a different meal if at all possible.
Yes, I like it cooked in the oven. I enjoy putting something in the oven, giving me time to do other productive tasks while my meal prepares itself, giving off wonderful smells and warming the house.
I really like these, probably my favorite Stouffer's meal. After I cook them, I always put half of the gravy in the mac. Glad someone else agrees that makes it better! haha P.S. a SMALL amount of salt and decent portion of pepper on the mac makes it better
The funny thing is I was just eating a tv dinner before this video popped up FYI: avoid the 'baked ham and fried chicken in burbon sauce' hungry man dinner like the plague. the 'burbon sauce' is the most disgusting thing i've ever tasted in my life and the ham had the consistency of some horrific unnatural merging of week old dry ham and cardboard
You need to eat the fried chicken from hungry man cooked in oven. Itll probably kill you since it has 100% daily value of saturated fat but it's actually pretty high quality
@@rickdaystar477 Got a little of that. Mostly the Beave. It's great to have memories. My 88 year old mom is still sharp as a tack. Hope it's a gene thing.
I honestly eat this A LOT. the mac n cheese and the sauce the steak comes on taste SO GOOD together. You were unlucky with your batch bc i've never had mac that looked that dry
I wish they would bring back frozen meals in those aluminum compartmentalized trays, they were like a little taste of the army or prison when you were a kid 😂.
Oh absolutely. There was something about them that just tasted better. Also with the pot pies. In some weird way I think they would change the pies (sweet kind) in the freezer section to the paper tins if they thought they could get away with it. At least the alluminum trays were recyclable where the paper trays from the food products are not. Plus all the plastic covering. And no I am not a tree hugger.
I make Salisbury steaks all the time and I use half lean ground pork and half beef with cheap french onion dip mix and wosterchire sauce. They're super easy and super tasty.
^^; As a lunch lady, I can say we do still have Salisbury steak. And it's one of the best things we make. It's one of the few foods we're still permitted to make from scratch.
Mad respect to all the lunch ladies! :-)
Ultra respect
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From scratch school cafeteria food shouldn't be so rare. People just to cheap to pay lunch ladies and ordering that processed food service stuff instead.
Not in my school, unfortunately. It's government Salisbury now.
Whenever people ask me why I look so young for my age, I reply to them that it is the preservatives in my food.
LOL
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lol!
I always said it was the beer 😂
Zizzi's Genetics I’m sure you’re fun at parties
“As soon as that juicy meat slid into my mouth”
WHAT AM I WATCHING
Sexual food porn here.
- "All that salty goodness just slammed into my tastebuds."
@@spikefivefivefive "I'm the only one in my family that eats mushrooms"
Lmao
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As a college student who has 0 energy and needs good depression meals, I really enjoy your videos because they give me a good idea of what to get to keep in the freezer for when I really don't feel like cooking!! I have a whole list on my phone that's just "thewolfepit approved frozen meals" lol
I'm guessing the FDA doesn't classify salt as a preservative and that's why they can legally say it doesn't contain any preservatives.
No preservatives typically means no unnatural preservatives. All food you buy in a store has to be preserved in some way.
Typical 'natural' ways of preserving are:
Natural acidity (vinegar (ie pickled goods), lemon juice, fruit purees (naturally acidic), etc)
Sodium ('natural' salt, as seen here)
Pressure cooked sealed goods (ie sealed pouches or canned goods)
Some frozen goods (freezing can naturally preserve goods for a short period - ie frozen fish)
Refrigeration (used for 'fresh' meats, fish, etc)
Thanks... I didn’t know sone of that... interesting to know how some things are classified
@@emilybilbow5304 It's called google. Instead of being ignorant do a search or two lmfao.
You missed smoking and drying (dehydrating). But yeah, that's probably it.
@@Exilitate bitch
Hey Wolfie, I wanted to tell you that I bought myself an air fryer and it is literally life-changing. I love soft-boiled eggs and now they're SO easy. No pot, no water, no worry I'll over or under cook them.
Perfect tater tots in 9 minutes.
Love you & Mrs. Wolfe, I hope to see you uploading more soon.
This guy just gets is simplicity, to the point, few jokes spread out, just the right amount of everything automatic like before i even watch.
He still drew out what could be a 5 minute video into a 10 minute one but he wouldn't make any revenue otherwise so its understandable
Kiernan and honestly it ain’t bad I’d rather support this guy than somebody else. Dude is hella wholesome
So how you do all that is in the video, before you even watch it to give it the like? 🤔
i love this one but I NEVER make it in the microwave. tastes way better out of the oven.
ill have to try that i always microwave them, but i enjoy them that way as well
Always better in the oven
I never cook any protein in the microwave.
We get it you went cold turkey, good thing you had your oven to warm it up.
Simmer mines on top of the stove in a skillet
Honestly I would eat that lol, these frozen dinners are my dirty secret.
The Marie Callenders frozen products are actually good af too
Ain't no Shame tho. I like those pot pies from Marie Callanders.
Imperator M.E.L. Buy them at Costco!
I bet they make you shit good too
John Kincaid 😭
That's my favorite Stouffers meal especially if it's microwaved. The Mac and cheese stays moist.
Same!
Same, don't eat them too often but always keep a few tucked a way in the fridge for when I get a craving 😋
Stouffer's Mac n Cheese is an absolute titan.
Haha someone else in the comment section said they liked it but it's better baked
@@maricampari3970 I agree, their Mac and cheese is so good! Especially the crispy burnt edges even when cooked in the microwave.
I can confirm that they still serve Salisbury steak in school cafeterias
I can second that.
@Maximiliano Licona I'm from Hobbs Nm,
@Maximiliano Licona that's dope
That is truth. It’s served but not many eat it. 🤢🤢
@Maximiliano Licona I'm a junior just one more year of it then it's gone lol
I feel like Larry (and Mrs. Wolfe pit) is the "people's champion" of frozen food reviews.
I am also a fan of the budget meals series. They literally got my family through some tough times. Keep up the good work Larry!
I'll admit it... I secretly like me some Salisbury steak
low key bomb.
I can't stand the texture, but love the flavor. I think a burger should be put on a bun, hot off the grill, just what I like:)
It's a guilty pleasure for me. It was one of my favorite school lunches, and when they served it at scout camp I didn't mind...
@@brian70Cuda I don't disagree, I think it's probably just because I had a lot growing up! Although fun fact hamburger originates from "Hamburg steak" which was very much like a salisbury steak!
@@AdlerTX ditto
Gotta say, this wolfe pit guy has beautiful nails.
Claws...lol
His wife does the video stuff still lol
@@cheshire147 He says that, but he also talks about how "he" did this, and "he" did that.
O I c where ur coming from
He used to do it but he got bullied for having giant Sausage fingers, and there was this debacle where he claimed he couldn't bend his fingers then bent them on camera
I used to love Salisbury steak TV dinners when I was a kid
Did you rake the kernel corn into the mashed potatoes?.
Rick Daystar Most of the corn was in the potatoes when you open it 😂
I love salisbury steak, like how I love Salisbury. Rhodesia.
I literally just stumbled onto your channel yesterday and binged watched most of your dollar tree meal videos. I absolutely love them!! I don’t have a family to feed but I am on a very tight budget and I’m happy to make meals to eat for days!! Thank you for coming up with this!!!
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a “what are we eating” from your adult playground “The Dollar Tree”
no the dollar store!!
@@marcoramirez120 is there a diff?
@@marcoramirez120 he specifically goes to Dollar Tree though
@@chronic4twen -- The difference is that the Dollar Tree can charge above a dollar. In the Dollar Store everything is a buck or less. My wife finally drove that difference into my brain.
@@Dr.Pepper001 Preach
IMO, probably the best Salisbury Steak frozen meal out there. I too was skeptical about the mac n cheese combination but it actually works. Thanks for the review!
I appreciate your rundown of the nutrition label. You're helping to educate people who live in food deserts where Dollar Tree and Dollar General have become the only local options for sustenance.
No Walmart? No Grocery Outlet? No Winn-Dixie, Furr's, Albertsons, Safeway, Smith's, TruValu, Shop n' Save, Thriftway, Costco, Meijers, Fred Meyer, Kroger, etc.?
Places with only the Dollar Tree plus convenience stores, man... I'm assuming you're talking about Detroit or something...
BenjaminGessel it’s a lazy human who can’t fathom driving 30 minutes to pick up groceries. You can order fcking groceries on amazon for Christ sakes it’s almost 2020 imagine thinking dollar general is the only place to get “sustenance”
@@Li8eralsarescum69 Yes, very true, I'm just wondering what wretched piece of Earth would only have the Dollar General or Dollar Store as grocery options, or if its a financial thing or something. I honestly don't know..
@@BenjaminGessel when u realise that u live in poland and have like 5 brands of shops xD
BenjaminGessel it sounds like Mordor 🤣
I just discovered you 💓 I’m incredibly thankful for your channel.. you have helped me more than you will ever know.. thank you so much for your videos..
You gotta microwave this one, there's no benefit to doing it in the oven it just takes a lot more time and it makes the mac really fry.
I microwave it for 9 and a half minutes with 2 slices of white bread and nice bev
Put the gravy and in the Mac and cheese. That improves things.
"Saltbury Steak!" 😂
NO, NO, NO.... It's SALTbury steak! Even professional food companies can't properly proofread (or is that "truth-in-advertising"?).
saltbury lol
Maybe that is why it is at DG.
@@davywhite - you mean like GRADE D?
syxepop dollar general
Just watched your Salisbury Steak video. It's so easy, homemade, natural and looks delicious. I'm making it today with roasted potatoes and carrots. Thanks!
As someone who has eaten this many time. They always have some overflow into the mac
I personally believe the overflow occurs before freezing while packaging. I actually like mixing the gravy with the mac & cheese.
@@dadoctah exactly. Why worry and fret over something you have NO control over. We don't buy these meals for gourmet pleasure. We buy them because they're easy to prepare and they fill the "hungry hole" our bodies dig each day. The fact they're sometimes tasty is a bonus.
I too myself have seen that and thought the same.
This is like the chimichanga all over again. Drinking game: drink every time Larry says Salisbury 😂😂😂
We still love you and all your chimichangas and Salisbury steaks.
But you pronounce chimichanga wrong
@@taimak123 Sometimes my canary craps on my head
Salt of the earth this guy! This guy is whats worth fighting for in everyday life.
I am constantly confounded how food companies can take something like chocolate cake or spaghetti sauce or cookies even, and make them all taste literally like nothing! We bought chocolate cupcakes and they were absolutely without taste. The cake was like eating nothing. No discernable taste. Not a hint of chocolate. And the icing was just as bad! These companies aren't about food! They're about dividends and the bottom line. It's just wrong!
Jenn 🇨🇦
When he said motor oil 😂😂, 10w-30 😂😂😂
I've made your Salisbury steak recipe for several years. It's amazing. Thank you for the years of videos.
This and sliced turkey meals are classics.
You wouldn't believe how many people call me Salisbury steak
Ya I would
Salisbury steak
2, but it's still strange it happened twice.
i mean its pretty obvious
How does it make you feel?
I sit and watch this as i eat a Banquet salisbury steak , my only regret is i didnt get 2
I've learned that I ALWAYS buy two. I usually intend to eat one, but end up eating both
Ed B banquet is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to frozen meals. They serve disgusting food product. Upgrade to stouffers like an adult
@@Ballabruce1 At least get On-Cor brand. Generally a step up from Banquet.
Backpackingbatman nah banquet is the cheapest and they have the best Salisbury steak gravy out of all of em. Can’t beat it
Chris Rankin nah these meals ain’t gonna make you fat
I use to eat these DAILY 🤣🤣
I hope your blood pressure is OK now
Rip your blood pressure
That and cup noodles my sodium intake was off the charts
I've had two TV dinners in probably 30 years within the last week. One was Turkey and it came with mashed taters, green beans, and cranberry sauce. It was freaking delicious. Had that for Thanksgiving. I live alone and no family around and nobody here invited me. Then the next night I had Salisbury steak. It came with mashed taters and a vegetable medley. It was pretty tasty too. I believe it had two patties. They were Hungry Man two for $6:00.
EDIT: If food has microwave and oven directions I will always choose the oven. Well, currently a toaster oven since I live in a tiny bedroom ''apartment'' above a bar. I rarely use the microwave other than to thaw stuff. Usually it starts cooking it which I don't like.
Your oil comments had me laughing as I'm typing. I was gonna suggest adding gravy to the mac and cheese and lo and behold what do you do? You add some gravy.
Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and a roll is like the perfect meal, I love it.
“That’s a free shout out, so please, send me some MACARONIANDCHEESE!” lol
I really enjoy your honesty.
I want to see all your critic's, but I only catch your stuff when I run across it. AND I really appreciate your research & honesty !!!!
I always have that one in my freezer. It’s delicious! That Stouffers mac and cheese is the best frozen one. You should’ve popped it in the microwave instead, not dry at all.
I adore The Wolfe Pits economic vids, as most great foods are the cheaper normal meals, and for good reason they are so tasty. Well done Mr Wolfe Pit.
All frozen food goes from the factory to a series of warehouses. In transit, the product might sit on 10 docks waiting to get loaded for the stores. If the semi driver goes to store 1 and it's load is in the front of the semi, stores 3 and 4's load will get unloaded and reloaded several times as the driver stops at multiple stores, resulting in MORE dock time. I have gotten loads that were so bad the fries were a solid block! This is a problem for all stores and the consumer pays. If you can see, feel, or hear ice crystals, do not purchase. If anything is fused together, do not buy. Manufacturers use boxes within boxes to protect products for about 30 minutes and most dock time exceeds this. I've always wanted packaging that changes color if product is over temp. Even the best foods turn to shit if the forklift drivers and truckers aren't able to get it in a freezer quickly. Sometimes it's slow stockers at the store.
I ran reffer for almost years and haven't ran into that problem. What I have seen is some drivers don't have the temp set low enough. Like they set it around 30f. They do this in the hope they won't have to make an additional stop to fill the reffer with fuel. Before they get to the receiver. This can cause the product in the rear of the trailer to reach temps above freezing.
@@JackPaynesFoodPains I have seen it at 3 major major chains over a 24 year period.
After watching your video on this, and when at the grocery store, I bought one and tried it. First time, and I must say it was easy to fix and quite tasty! Thanks...we the people appreciate you!
Shaked it like a prison snitch 🤣🤣
I don't know about the frozen food style, but Salisbury steak is huge in Japan. They are just called hamburg here and are kinda like personal meatloaf patties. They are popular and can easily be cut and eaten with chopsticks. They are on the menus of most family restaurants and there is even one that serves them exclusively ;)
On-Cor makes a decent frozen Salisbury Steak family dinner
Buss Stop. Cheap too, they’re like $2 for 6 or 8 in the family size
I use that one to stretch my own. Plus I've never mastered gravy.
Encor has good flavor for their gravies. The price kind of scares me though. I have to wonder what's in it that they can sell it so cheap. I make sandwiches with the salisbury steak patties.
@@greyeaglem esp with a slice of cheese! We didnt have much growing up so we ate those alot!
The On-Cor ribs are nice too!
I like that your channel is evidence that you don't need a slew of sponsors and a valley of merchandise plugs to be successful.
Most anybody else would have sold out a long time ago without question. Thank you.
I usually shave some Cracker Barrel cheese on it and mix it together.
Will you review the Boston Market Salsbury Steak w/ Mac ' Cheese?
boston market tv dinner is horrible. the mac n cheese has absolutely no taste.....i mean no taste....just nothing. the salsbury steak is flat on flavor and the meat is very fake texture. stouffer is the best brand for salsbury steak.
Salisbury steak is such a guilty pleasure for me ! The texture and flavor is a taste of happy memories !! I’ll still happily dig right in.
New subscriber! I’ve been binge watching your “What are we eating series” for a few days now! Your videos are not only informative but comical too and I love it
I know this was years ago, but I've somehow become hooked on this for the first time in my whole life. I'm 47, and I tried this for the first time in my life last week. I'm in trouble. I love to cook, I'm single, but omg. Stopping everything on new years lol!❤
As of two years ago we had them, and can confirm that my college has them as well!
I've never had the frozen ones but the Cracker Barrel mac'n'cheese that is the dry kind you microwave (like Kraft Easy Mac) is really good. They have a cheese sauce packet, not a powder and come with bread crumb topping
I get these when they're on sale for 3/$10. FYI: Mac and cheese isn't dry if cooked in the microwave but it's still just okay, not great.
Grimbis 3 for 10$ that’s pricey as hell
We get them 3 for 6$ in Ontario Canada
I get them a dollar a piece at Dollar tree 😁👌🏼 Yummie
I love Stouffer's Salisbury Steak tv dinners.
TV dinners weren't bad maybe 30 or 40 years ago. Now, they're hardly fit for mean dogs. 📺
@@charlesminer1383 I think you mean a nice Swanson. 🍆
I think it has to do with 2 things.
1.) We used to cook them in the oven.
2.) We used to watch Disney on Sunday evenings while eating them.
We used to be 8-10 years old and our tastebuds still worked really well, our standards were really low, and our lives were full of futures rather than pasts.
@@J546b Daaamn
@@J546b incorrect unfortunately
This is the best. Texture, flavor and consistency.
We had Salisbury Steak a couple of weeks ago at school and surprisingly it was good. 👍🏽
Ajah Oshae if you’re school has meatballs then you might notice the similarities between them the the Salisbury steak. At my school they had the same flavor with a different texture.
You hit the nail on the head - I am a proud-but-old-ex-Frat Boy that used to be able to drink till 2AM, wake up in the morning, order 3 different McDonalds breakfast sandwiches (A standard McMuffin with egg & ham, a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, and Steak/Egg/Cheese Bagel woohoo!) - a Hash Browns, and a large black coffee, go home and sleep, then call my friends and ask where we were having Lunch & watching sports etc. - no problem. I hit 30, everything changed. If I consume too much salt - and I have no sweet tooth, I drink booze and love salty stuff - but if I have too much salt, I will wake up with a terrible headache. Sometimes it starts the night before. So I could probably eat one of these - and absolutely *nothing else* all day, or I'd get a salt-migraine in the morning. People don't realize how much salt is in US foods ... even canned soup, ostensibly you think Healthy, right? Bullshit, more salt than you need all day. But I loved this video ... my Polish, ex-Nazi POW Grandmother used to make TV Dinners for us all the time, we *loved them* and they were only a buck or two back then, easy to pop into the toaster oven, simple. Brings back memories.
I just had the Stouffer's Salisbury steak for dinner. It was about as good as can be expected.
J.D.1989 we’re praying for you.....🙏🙏🙏
@@johnyoung4561 😂😂😂
They were actually really good a number of years ago. They changed something.
My dad used to eat and bake these for my brother and I as a kid. I always thought they were pretty good. Recently I made some from scratch with some mashed and it was miles better but still a nice piece of nostalgia lol. Funny thing is I hate meat loaf but love salisbury steak. I guess it's the gravy that makes it.
Frozen meals are like porn magazines , you feel guilty for buying them and you hope no one sees you doing it , but..... You just can't help yourself 😉 .
I always hide mine in the bottom of the cart. But still always find my self explaining myself.
The background music sounds like some retro 80s porn music
Jim Bob talking about the mags or the food?
0_0
If you still BUY porn, you're outdated.
Hey Mr. Wolfe, I have a budget meal idea for you for breakfast. You can get all the ingredients for under $5 and it can feed about 6 adults. We make migas around here all the time. Just throw about 10-12 chopped corn tortillas into a pan with some onion and either some chopped bell pepper or jalapeño and cook until all of the tortilla pieces have turned brown and crisp, then add a dozen eggs and voila. That is all. It’s a Mexican staple that my mom has made me for years. It’s quick, easy, cheap, and delicious. Serve it like a breakfast scramble.
Ingredients:
18 ct corn tortillas ($1.20)
Dozen eggs ($1.15)
Yellow onion ($0.78)
Jalapeño ($0.20) - OR - Bell pepper ($0.68) =
$3.33 total (I go with the jalapeño)
Add salt, pepper, and onion powder to taste.
All these prices are from my local Walmart! :) I would love to see you make this! Even if you double the recipe, it’s still under $7.00 and feeds a ton. Add some cheese or salsa on top to kick it up a notch and it’s still under $10.00.
Nothing like cooking plastic with a plastic cover and not worrying about chemicals/cancer
Yes, get rid of the cheap plastic tray and film and use aluminum foil as a dish if you want easy cleanup.
Too busy worrying about sodium 😂
Out of the many frozen dinner brands- Stouffers has always tasted the best to me. I loved your comments to the “online medical doctors” lol so true
I like a ton of salt, and my cardiologist said to eat quite a bit (to counter low blood pressure), I would like to see less since it is easy to add at the end for anyone.
Same here. My blood tests showed very low sodium, my cardiologist recommended that I eat foods that are high in sodium.
I've heard low blood pressure---although not nearly as common---is as bad as or worse than its opposite condition.
@@msr1116 Yes because the effects are immediate, vs longer term with high blood pressure. The worst is when it is sudden drops while I'm driving or walking, where suddenly the whole world is falling to the left and I'm trying to continue straight.
@@randomvideosn0where ...I happened to be googling uses for the jars of pickle juice in my fridge, and came across a number of people using it after a workout for electrolyte replenishment or to treat low blood pressure. Just thought I'd pass that on.
Every time I stand up its like whoosh!
Ngl, after working out and a shower, this exact frozen dinner hits the spot like nothing else
At first I thought I had uncovered another "Mandela Effect" - Saltbury. I had always known it as Salisbury. He actually took the time to edit the box to say Saltbury! I even looked it up to double-check that I wasn't losing my mind. Good one, Larry! 😂
Thank you for all of the videos Wolfe, they give me great ideas for quick fillings when the wallets with the wife!!! Makes feeding the friends fun too! Always get the question "what's that????" But I always end up hearing "mmmmmm" well they chew.
Thanks!!!!
Most “steak” in school lunches is turkey... lol
Welcome to hedonic adjustment. This is how the government is able to tell us that inflation is only 1 or 2 percent.
Emily Bilbow I always thought it was cheap teriyaki.
Please keep making more budget meal videos! 👍 😁 I'm trying to save money for Christmas. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that's saving up for Christmas.
This guy would appreciate Kay’s kitchen cooking
It is macaroni and cheese because the meals were made in city diners. There used to be made in Pittsburgh diners on certain days and some were made on some days. .slot of hot dogs were made with macaroni and cheese on some days. Love you and your family.
Stouffer's has some good meals salty asf but good 😬
The Salisbury Steak I used to get from my Elementary School cafeteria was absolutely delicious, as was their Hot Turkey Sandwich with Gravy. Of course, this was the early 1970s, so it was way before all the crap they did to the school meals.
When i was a kid in elementary school they called it meatloaf
This meatloaf is in patty form and served with gravy. Technically different bro
@@edgarsmittenheighnjenkson9226 i know m8
@@ignoranttax5606 I know you know.
@@edgarsmittenheighnjenkson9226 For what it's worth, where I grew up even meatloaf was served with gravy (and not, as I see everywhere else, ketchup).
@wikked girl It was in the form of a loaf, not a patty, so it was a meatloaf. And it was topped with brown gravy - no tomato anything.
When I had Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes and green beans during my elementary/middle school days they served it in those aluminum containers with the paper cover that you had to fold over away the edges to remove the cover. I'll admit, it was fantastic. Then again, during those times I was always starving so of course it'll taste fantastic.
I wonder when they stopped selling it with mashed potatoes. That's what I always had whenever I used to get it. It's been a long time though.
thisd is one of the best channels on youtube, keep up the dad puns
"Shake it like a prison snitch" lmfao
Don’t care it taste good. Mixing it is the way I eat it!!😁👍🏼😎
Salisbury steak was one of my favorite lunches back in the 60's when we had actual lunch ladies in the school cooking. It needs mashed potatoes though, so I can dip the meat in the taters.
Definitely mash potatoes. Mac - n - cheese is a no no.
Love your channel ! I myself being a bachelor eat a lot of frozen and meals from the box... almost everything I want to try from the frozen food section , you have done a review for it. This is awesome thanks ! Have you reviewed any of the Devour frozen meals ? There are several meals in the devour menu that are very edible lol. The buffalo chicken Mac n cheese& the steak and potato bowl is great that is if you can find it. It’s the holy grail of devour meals. Very hard to find...
Thanks again for the great content! You keep uploading I’ll keep watching and liking !
It doesn’t matter how salty it is, I get more sodium in the comments section lol
I love these, i buy so many of these when i know i'm not gonna have the time to cook or want to get away from fast food, my absolute comfort food of choice but i'm gonna try cooking a fresh batch this weekend.
This is actually a good dinner! I enjoy it whenever I get it.
I use leftover Banquet Sodiumbury Steak patties (from the family pack) with Kraft Mac and Cheese and it is like heaven. I put the patty in a bowl and put the mac and cheese on top, as I eat it I can cut bits off or mash it up together. Best way to use leftovers is putting it a different meal if at all possible.
“ Shanked it like a prison snitch “😭😭
Yes, I like it cooked in the oven. I enjoy putting something in the oven, giving me time to do other productive tasks while my meal prepares itself, giving off wonderful smells and warming the house.
I really like these, probably my favorite Stouffer's meal. After I cook them, I always put half of the gravy in the mac. Glad someone else agrees that makes it better! haha
P.S. a SMALL amount of salt and decent portion of pepper on the mac makes it better
I put the gravy in the Mac too shit goes crazy bruh
Except I use tony sacheres instead of salt and pepper cause I live in the south we like a lot of spice in our food
They do still serve these to the kids. I remember liking it when I was growing up, but we we dirt poor and and it had flavor.
The funny thing is I was just eating a tv dinner before this video popped up
FYI: avoid the 'baked ham and fried chicken in burbon sauce' hungry man dinner like the plague. the 'burbon sauce' is the most disgusting thing i've ever tasted in my life and the ham had the consistency of some horrific unnatural merging of week old dry ham and cardboard
I see no lie in that statement...
I like the bourbon sauce but I had it in a different meal and it was served as a dipping sauce.
I got a beefstrips in bourbon sauce one a few weeks ago, and I won't be getting another
Hungry man died when it stopped being made by swanson
You need to eat the fried chicken from hungry man cooked in oven. Itll probably kill you since it has 100% daily value of saturated fat but it's actually pretty high quality
i love it when he says, YOU DA PEOPLE!!
A T.V. tray in front of Hawaii 5-0. Book em Dano!
😀👍 and we didn't need a helmet to ride a bike LoL
I'm so old I watched Ozzie and Harriet on black and white TV eating sliced roast beef and mashed potatoes TV dinner on a TV tray..lol
@@rickdaystar477 Got a little of that. Mostly the Beave. It's great to have memories. My 88 year old mom is still sharp as a tack. Hope it's a gene thing.
@@rickdaystar477 OMG too funny 😂
This particular frozen dinner is actually my favorite comfort food. I usually put all the mac and cheese into the gravy
Holy hypertension, Batman!!! 3:12 That sodium level is through the roof!!
Batman villain: Sergeant Sodium.
Salt is 6 gramm for Adult ppl so its ok
I honestly eat this A LOT. the mac n cheese and the sauce the steak comes on taste SO GOOD together. You were unlucky with your batch bc i've never had mac that looked that dry
I wish they would bring back frozen meals in those aluminum compartmentalized trays, they were like a little taste of the army or prison when you were a kid 😂.
Oh absolutely. There was something about them that just tasted better. Also with the pot pies. In some weird way I think they would change the pies (sweet kind) in the freezer section to the paper tins if they thought they could get away with it. At least the alluminum trays were recyclable where the paper trays from the food products are not. Plus all the plastic covering. And no I am not a tree hugger.
Plastic is a problem now a day(idk if i'm writing it right)
@@nyxiia23
nowadays
@@shawbros thanks english isn't my first language
@@eaglegapinstituteofintensi228 polish ✌🏻 and urs?
thewolfpits nails are perfect as always
Those stouffers give me the worst worst worst worst farts after. The kind where you cant go to the bathroom but you are blowing up all night.
Han Yolo Nothing worse than thinking you have to take a dump but just end up sitting on the toilet and farting.
Chef boyardee gives me gas and I’m like OK LETS EAT AGAIN
Here I sit all broken hearted, I tried to shit but only farted.
Bashcrash 914 it’s worse when you have to fart but when you let it rip, you shit yourself
Noah...
I make Salisbury steaks all the time and I use half lean ground pork and half beef with cheap french onion dip mix and wosterchire sauce. They're super easy and super tasty.