Definition of "convenience food" [convenience food]

• A prepackaged food that can be prepared quickly and easily. (noun)

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• "My own mother, mom of four, was, like most fashionable housewives of the 1960s and 1970s swept up in the great processed-food sensation that swept the nation, offering housewives every conceivable convenience food from Tasty Baking Company’s Tastykakes to Oscar Meyer wieners."