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

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 ...

The aluminum tray with its neat compartments holding turkey, mashed potatoes, and peas might look modest today, yet it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Times certainly change. TV dinners might now be largely the domain of gap-toothed hillbillies living in trailers down by the river, but when they were introduced by C.A. Swanson & Sons back in 1953, ...

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 ...

We’ve been living the good life of frozen food for about 80 years, and in the 1970s, things weren’t too different from what they are now. We’ve still got Stouffer’s and Swanson’s. We’ve still got lots ...