Freakin' Steal!

Bertolli.

My friend Scot kept going on and on about Bertolli dinners for two in a bag, and I wasn't so sure - I mean, I've done the "frozen food" thing countless times but being a bachelor, I tend to stick to single portion meals (translation: tv dinners) almost exclusively. However, the guy just wouldn't stop talking about them. So, I finally tried them, and I have to admit - they are uniquely great! I say the term "uniquely" for a very specific reason - these bags of food are prepared in a special way. Rather than cooking everything and then tossing it into a box or bag, Bertolli had the stroke-of-genius idea to cook items separately, freeze them individually, then place them into bags. I can see the question mark above your head, so let me explain: let's say you have a bag of chicken, broccoli and sauce. The chicken pieces are cooked all the way through and are loose in the bag, separated (through freezing before combination) from other ingrediants as the broccoli is. The sauce? Well, there's the stroke of genius - it is prepared ,then frozen and cut into chunks, and finally placed in the bag. So, when you spill out the bag, you get individual chunks of frozen sauce and all the rest of the ingredients. Why is this important? Well, the pasta and other items aren't soggy from being cooked with the sauce! Also, everything heats up uniformly rather than having a giant ice cube of product to melt through!

It's freaking genius. I swear.

And, right now? Tom Thumb is having a special where if you buy $30 worth of certain frozen items (which seemed to be pretty much every frozen item), you get TWO FREE MOVIE TICKETS! Now, at $9 a pop here in Dallas, this is a huge value. Plus, Bertolli meals for two are on sale (with your Tom Thumb card) for $4.99! So, I bought 7 bags for $34.93 and got $18 of movie tickets for free! Now, even better, one "meal for two" actually lasts me three meals, so I basically got 21 high quality meals and 2 movie tickets for just $34.93.

That's a freaking steal.

And, if you to go www.bertolli.us, you can print out a coupon for $2.50 off a complete skillet meal for two, and save even more.

I absolutely, without a doubt, can tell you that these meals are worth trying even if you don't want to buy 7 bags like I did. Go to the website and see the menu choices - they are scrumptous!!!! Here's a pic from my phone of part of my haul:

FYI: I do not get paid by anyone for this opinion or links to Bertolli's site - I just wanted to share because I loved it so freaking much!