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 ...

TV dinners are such a staple of supermarket cuisine that it's hard to imagine a time when people weren't zapping prepackaged ice-cold meals. The concept was downright revolutionary when it was ...

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 ...

There was nothing fancy about them. No garnish, no fresh ingredients, no clever packaging—just a foil tray and the promise of something hot to eat while watching cartoons or reruns on a boxy TV. Back ...

Swanson's original TV dinner has become an iconic image of Americana. Gravy-covered slices of turkey sat on a bed of cornbread dressing (or is it stuffing?) in a partitioned aluminum tray, sides of ...

TV dinners have come a long way. The Swanson brothers had no idea what they were setting into motion with that first turkey and stuffing meal in 1953. Believe it or not, those early renditions weren't ...