Vintage tv dinners

Today is National Frozen Food Day. Since I have no idea what that means either, here's some vintage ads for TV dinners with as much mystery to the meat as to today's holiday.

TV dinners rocked!

The TV dinners (Swanson & Banquet) I remember eating back in the days. 70's, 80's, vintage, retro foods, oldschool meals. G;)

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Picked up a large assortment of vintage packaging recently, and chief among the stuff was a neat stash of TV dinner boxes. The boxes were all in pretty good shape, but all of them had their end panel flaps cut off. This is one of the original style of Swanson TV Dinner boxes, the design used when they launched in the 1950's. I've wanted one of these for some time, and this is the first one I've been able to find and acquire.

Rosarita is a brand I don't remember, but it may well have been a regional brand. Sporting a great little mascot, Rosarita looks to have produced a whole range of Mexican foods. This comes from the "Munktiki Collection", a large lot of consumer goods packaging saved and stored by Californian Paul Nielsen during the 1970's. A collection I recently acquired and will be documenting here. For more on Paul's current activities, check out www.munktiki.com.

Peel back the foil and dig into these beans, franks, crisps, peas, chopped meats and Twinkies. Did you ever eat a Libbyland meal?

Our Great 8 gathered for a fun and original theme of '60s Sitcoms TV Dinner Party with all the delicious flavors of the past!