Convenience food
Videos
Convenience food is food that is commercially prepared for ease of consumption, and is usually ready to eat with little to no preparation. It may also be easily portable, have a long shelf life, or of
Rack of convenience snack foods
Grocery store display in 1966
A cake mix
Onigiri at a convenience store in Kamakura, Japan
Frozen meal
Videos
A frozen meal, also called a TV dinner, prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal, frozen dinner, or microwave meal, is a meal portioned for an individual that is stored in a freezer and heated pr
Convenience food
…have a long shelf life, or offer a combination of such convenient traits. Convenience foods include ready-to-eat dry products, frozen food such as TV dinners, shelf-stable food, prepared mixes such as cake mix, and snack food. Food scientists now consider most of these products to be ultra-processed foods…
A German ready meal that has been heated: currywurst with fries
A frozen American TV dinner: Swanson "Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken"
A British ready meal after being microwaved: spaghetti carbonara
Swanson TV dinner ad from 1963