The Incredible Edible Veggie Loaf

Call me white trash, but I like TV Dinners. I'm a man of convenience. What I ask you could be simpler than popping a little aluminum tray into a 350 degree oven for an hour and pulling out a fully cooked meal. Ok, maybe the microwave ones are easier, but they also taste like crap. I grew up on the real shit. Swanson Salisbury steak and Banquet Chicken TV Dinners. Ok for you sophistos who don't know what a TV Dinner is you can check out their Wikipedia page located here -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tv_dinner, and just so you know I think you're pathetic. Not to mention unamerican. But I digest, having become a vegetarian several years back I had to give up my slovenly TV Dinner ways. Until recently that is. Enter Amy's Veggie Loaf Dinner.

I picked one up at Target for $3.14. I wasn't sure what to expect(the actual veggie loaf on the front of the package looks suspect), but I was pretty hungry. To my chagrin this particular "TV Dinner" was sans the aluminum foil of old, instead choosing to clothe itself in more modest chipboard drapings. Personally I like the old aluminum dinners. They always seemed somehow futuristic to me. Like what eating dinner on the moon might be like. Or eating dinner prepared by a robot. Anyway I opened the box and took a look at the frozen dinner inside.

It looked somewhat promising, consisting of a melange of corn and peas, mashed potatoes(no butter), and the veggie loaf itself in some sort of a tomato sauce. I followed the directions to a T, baking at 400 degrees for 50 minutes.

The veggie loaf was incredibly moist and the tomato gravy was quite good. The mashed potatoes tasted almost exactly like the ones I remember from the Banquet Chicken dinners even without the butter. The peas and corn tasted like peas and corn. Also unlike a lot of Amy's dinner and lunch meals I was actually somewhat full when I was finished. The whole nostalgia of the dinner brought a tear to this lonesome cowboys eye. Amy's will you marry me?

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