Learn To Love Your Freezer.

Listen, there are times when it’s darned near impossible to find the time to bake a chicken pot pie for your family. (For the sake of this blog, let’s just go ahead and mentally swap each “you” with “Keely,” okay? That way I won’t feel so alone in my time management ineptitude and you won’t feel berated by a snacky blogger. Good? Good.)

Anyway. Chicken pot pie. Let’s be honest- you don’t even know how to bake a pot pie. Even if you had unlimited time and resources (which, again, you do not). This does not change the very simple fact that every single person in your household would lose their curly-headed minds in joy if you were to present them with chicken pot pies multiple times a week.

So you think to yourself- there’s gotta be a way around this. And you contemplate buying frozen. And you hem and you haw and then you learn that Healthy Choice and Marie Callender’s meals (which include honest-to-gosh gourmet chicken pot pies!) are made with fresh, real ingredients. Like, real real. Created with appealing and crave-worthy recipes. And, surprisingly enough, with over 80 meals coming in at fewer than 400 calories apiece, Healthy Choice and Marie Callender’s can be a smart option for a healthy, portion-controlled diet.

For which you promptly take yourself out of the running when you devour three pies in a row. Because they’re downright delicious. Your 3 year old, for example, calls the individual chicken pot pies “the dessert crust.” (Your husband, for that matter, just silently gives you the thumbs up while eyeing the baby’s slow progress on her own pie.)

Which is all you want in a mealtime, anyhow; culinary adoration and grateful requests for seconds.

You could learn how to bake that chicken pot pie. You totally could. Or, in the time it takes to prepare the flaky crust (hiding chunks of tender chicken and flavorful carrots), you could do something else.

Like thaw one of those insanely awesome coconut cream pies.  

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Healthy Choice and Marie Callender’s created a video that follows two women on the adventures of their daily lives, imagining how new technologies will impact their routines, especially in the grocery store. From apps that store your grocery list to recipe research on Pinterest, the landscape of shopping is quickly changing. With various resources available to consumers, they are now, more than ever, interested in learning where their food is coming from. And just in time for National Frozen Food Month (March), these brands are helping shoppers to predict the future of shopping for frozen food!

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ConAgra Foods frozen meals give families access to real ingredients like crunchy, freshly cut vegetables, homemade pasta and ripe fruit year-round. Just like most people blanch veggies before freezing them – ConAgra Foods does too – to help preserve color, texture and keep them fresh!

Give it a try sometime! Marie Callender’s hearty pot pies are filled with tender meat, freshly cut vegetables and Marie’s authentic golden, flaky crust. And Healthy Choice recipes use chef-inspired ingredients like, apples instead of sugar for tart sweetness and a splash of red wine for a punch of flavor instead of added salt.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ConAgra Foods.