Description: Medium pre-sliced pizza with mild and spicy pepperoni that’s touted as having a “restaurant taste”

Preparation summary: Bake at 425 degrees on middle oven rack for 17 to 21 minutes.

High points: Pizza comes with a burn-resistant cardboard baking tray, so there’s no mess involved. Cheese is gooey, meaning it’s real. And the pepperoni produces just the right amount of tasty grease puddles to convince you that it just flew out of a high-heat restaurant oven.

Low points: The crust is flaccid – think Papa John’s.

Average Retail Price: $6.39

Availability: Major grocery stores

Description: Beef chunks in burgundy wine sauce with brown rice and vegetables from the manufacturer’s line of “spa cuisine”

Preparation summary: Microwave on high for four to five minutes.

High points: Want the body frame of an anorexic supermodel? Consume this scantily portioned dinner for a couple of weeks and you’re there.

Low points: (See highpoints.)

Average Retail Price: $3.49

Availability: Major grocery stores

Description: Thin square “chips” made of rice flour, potato flakes and dried apples contained in a six-ounce bag. Made by Frito-Lay Inc.

Preparation summary: Ready to eat

High points: Hardy apple flavor closely matches that of dried apples. The chips are pleasantly light in texture and provide traces of minerals and vitamins.

Low points: Granulated sugar coating leaves you with sticky fingers

Average Retail Price: $2.99

Availability: Major grocery stores

Description: Refrigerated 10-ounce tub of chicken salad prepared with cubed breast meat, dried apricots, almonds, lemon juice and rosemary

Preparation summary: Ready to eat.

High points: A fantastic blend of sweet and spicy flavors that also gives way to scallions, celery and black pepper. Chicken is tender. And the lemony mayonnaise binder is used sparingly, resulting in only 130 calories per half-cup serving.

Low points: None

Average Retail Price: $3.99

Availability: Trader Joe’s