I don't by those premade foods either. I make my own - put simply and principally, to control the amount of salt. Those foods are way too blasted salty for me!!
For a husband and wife who are both working and have small children in school, they are often coming home in the afternoon to be with the kids and are most often in a rush trying to get dinner on the table so they usually resort to premade foods like Hambuger Helper, Banquet meals orRice-A-Roni, Banquet frozen fried Chicken, which all have tons os sodium and chemicals in them, not to mention transfats. Yuck!!