Meal prepping has all but taken over in the world of convenient dinner options, but there was a time in America's history when the humble TV dinner reigned supreme. Although the groundbreaking rise of ...

Humans have been freezing foods for ages, but Clarence Birdseye changed the game when he introduced the quick freezing method in 1924. This method, and the ensuing Birdseye company, helped push frozen ...

Picture this: families gathered around their kitchen tables after a long day, the aroma of home-cooked meals filling the air, ...

Frozen TV dinners became popular in the 1950s after Swanson mass-produced the concept, which created a big convenience for American families. While frozen dinners are often seen as low quality ...

Nov. 4 -- — In honor of Swanson's TV dinner turning 50, Good Housekeeping magazine staffers tested four frozen single-serve turkey dinners and four frozen single-serve Salisbury steak dinners to see ...

Most people over a certain age have memories of eating frozen TV dinners. For some, it's laughing at Lucy and Ricky while chewing on a hunk of gravy-slathered turkey. For others, it's trying ...

Most people over a certain age have memories of eating frozen TV dinners. For some, it's laughing at Lucy and Ricky while chewing on a hunk of gravy-slathered turkey. For others, it's trying ...

In 1896, 17-year-old Carl A. Swanson borrowed enough money from his sisters to travel from his native Sweden to Omaha. Without knowing a word of English, he began working on a farm near Wahoo, then ...

These were made in Omaha by C.A. Swanson and Sons -- who may or may not have had the idea first -- but the company was the first to get the dinners into thousands of America’s freezers in 1953. The ...

As frozen meals go, there are certain dishes you can count on seeing time and time again in the frozen food aisle, regardless of the brand they are made by. Salisbury steak (an old-school dish no one ...