Kashi All Natural Frozen Entrées and Extra-Healthy Yogurts

This week’s mission: elegant frozen dinners and probiotic-boosted yogurts. (By James Norton)

Cheap, Good Frozen Lasagne

This week’s mission: Healthier breakfast junk food and decent frozen Italian entrées. (By James Norton)

Farm-to-Table Trend Hits Campbell's

This week’s mission: social-climbing canned soup and frozen burritos. (By James Norton)

Even Real Cooks Cheat Sometimes

This week’s mission: frozen food with highfalutin notions. (By James Norton)

Snack Time for Lazarus

This week’s mission: superfood bars and stovetop comfort-food kits. (By James Norton)

The Kitsch Value of Jimmy Dean

This week’s mission: frozen sweet-and-sour Thai food, and mini breakfast sausages wrapped in pancakes. (By James Norton)

A Better Bottled Coffee Drink

This week’s mission: fancy frozen pasta and bottled milky-coffee treats. (By James Norton)

Bogus Butter Bake-Off

This week’s mission: sticks of fake butter, and protein pimped by a famous doctor. (By James Norton)

Cheesy Italian-esque Hot Pocket

This week’s mission: doughy calzone-type treats and a desperate cranberry move. (By James Norton)

Toaster Pastries Fit for a Monk

This week’s mission: ready-made meals for gluten allergy sufferers and a healthier alternative to Pop-Tarts. (By James Norton)

Italian Chefs Won't Weep

This week’s mission: frozen Italian dinners and microbrewed sodas. (By James Norton)

Secrets of the Perfect Salsa

They wouldn’t give us the recipe, but that didn’t stop us. (By Helena Echlin)

Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries. (By Sara Dickerman)

Vegans Aren't Misanthropes

Chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz talks about her latest cookbook. (By Lessley Anderson)

Sort of Convenient

Nancy Silverton does quick her way. (By Sara Dickerman)