World's Largest Private Lean Cuisine Collection?
These photos are not from a Costco freezer or secret Lean Cuisine headquarters. They are from someone's basement—the parents of a blogger at Epic Proportions. Apparently they stock up like it's Y2K or something when the frozen dinners are on sale. Impressive.
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14 Comments:
looks all too familiar- my mother is a coupon hound and their basement looks like an emergency shelter of some sort. The freezer in the garage is slightly more varied, but just as full of sale items. 6 bags of frozen ravioli, really mom?
RachelDP at 11:51AM on 04/25/09
Wow, I pity the folks who live on this cardboard diet. Yuck.
lambowner at 12:30PM on 04/25/09
I can't see past the preservatives.
izatryt at 12:54PM on 04/25/09
I'll admit I enjoy the occasional frozen dinner, but how can they even stand eating that many dinners in a year? I really hope that they rotate the dinners so that they don't end up with 2 year old dinners at the bottom, because even frozen dinners deminish in quality over time no matter how many preservatives it is made with.
elangomatt at 1:26PM on 04/25/09
Ugh, so much pointless processing and packaging. And if they are seriously stocking up in case of an emergency, it's pointless: as soon as the power went out they'd all thaw within a day or two.
Garyo at 2:01PM on 04/25/09
I can't imagine eating even one of those meals. You guys have said it all already. Processing, packaging, etc.... and they don't even taste good!
unpocojmoney at 3:57PM on 04/25/09
preservatives? huh? It's FROZEN!
Anyway, it is a pity how much frozen meals have declined in quality in a race to the lowest price.
peekpoke at 6:59PM on 04/25/09
I'm kind of repelled by the waste of all of this--to me, this is an argument against 'stocking up' and using coupons--you buy so much more than is needed.
HeartofGlass at 7:26PM on 04/25/09
Haha I apologize for my parents' love of Lean Cuisines. They both work 60-70 hours a week and have developed quite the routine as far as dinner is concerned. They also love saving a buck.
moorsfood at 1:36PM on 04/26/09
I'd make fun of this photo, but I have 27 cans of tuna fish in my pantry. And 20 cans of tomatoes in various forms in my basement. You see, they had a sale ...
momdgp at 2:50PM on 04/26/09
HeartofGlass: You don't "buy" these items. The whole reason there's a huge pile of them in this person's house is that they are about 10 cents a piece, often free, and sometimes you actually collect a couple dollars every time you haul 50 of these things home.
The downside of using coupons and supermarket sales to get free packaged/processed goods: you have to eat them eventually...
Luther at 4:13PM on 04/26/09
moorsfood said they work 60-70 hours a week, there are much worse things they could be eating fast food...maybe hungry man 3 POUNDS OF FOOD IN EVERY BOX!!!! or whatever their sales pitch is.
dmarina at 4:44PM on 04/26/09
I hope they have a back-up generator for when the apocalypse comes and spoils all their lean cuisines with a power outage...then again, maybe I hope they don't . . .
guido at 7:35PM on 04/26/09
so, i have to ask .... are they LEAN????? from that cuisine?
never had one, never want one.... but i guess if they're busy, busy, it's convenient....
pooch at 1:44PM on 04/27/09