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On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:56:46 PM UTC-8, wrote:
> The other day I took some frozen turnkey out of the freezer to thaw in the
> fridge. It's some I sliced up from our Thanksgiving bird. Yesterday I
> picked up some frozen vegetables because we were running low and I got
> some peas and carrots because I had not had any lately. So today I was
> thinking about making dinner and thought I'd make some mashed potatoes to
> go with the turkey and peas and carrots. It finally dawned on me I was
> recreating a TV dinner . . . sigh.
>
> I haven't made it yet, but I'm going to.

Get some of these metal mess trays to simulate the original aluminum
foil TV dinner trays:

http://www.amazon.com/Winco-6-Compar.../dp/B000UBBBEI

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I can remember making them when I was a kid. We saved the foil trays,
washed them out, refilled them and covered them with foil. I can't remember
now what we put in there but it was most likely leftover Thanksgiving food.
We rarely had leftovers in the house except for occasional planned things
like meatloaf or pot roast. At any rate, we only did it once. I think the
end result wasn't very good.