Today, September 10th, is National TV Dinner Day.

TV dinners, also known as ready meals, frozen meals and microwave meals, are pre-packaged meals. Although these can be both frozen and chilled, in the US it's now a generic that describes frozen meals purchased from a supermarket. Originally, "TV dinner" was a brand name of C.A. Swanson & Sons.

These days many meals of these type are designed to be cooked in a microwave and therefore come in a plastic tray.

Really, TV dinners can be quite appalling, with little nutritional value and yet they can still make you fat. Possibly a day that is best skipped - and, if you eat them regularly, start removing them from your diet and replacing them with cheaper, healthier food or, at the very least, check the nutritional information. Some newer dinners are much better for you, and you can always make your own by batch cooking and freezing food.

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