Children's TV Dinners and Carcinogens?

I don’t think they are. They have to be made cheaply so the packaging doesn’t cost so much. Ever try to heat one up a second time. It becomes soft. To me that says its melting. So you figure some of that stuff has to melt into the food.
Might as well let the kids drink a little bit of the stuff in your bathroom cabinets.
Best to put it on a plate and then heat it in the microwave. Best to be safe than sorry.

Why are you feeding your children TV dinners at all?

I’d worry more about what kind of crap is in the food. Can’t those TV dinners also be cooked in the oven? That would solve the problem of the tray, but check out the nutrition information on one of those dinners sometime, not to mention the ingredients list.

Anyway, I avoid putting food in the microwave if it’s in or covered by any kind of plastic. I transfer it to a regular plate or bowl first.

Depends on what you mean microwave safe? Read the box info as it should tell you what you need to know but that IMO is only a part of the story….the story that “allows” for cheap mass packaging of cheap mass packaged food product.

Anything plastic will give off “gases” of monomers when heated…none of which IMO are good for you in any quantity. The food packaging industry for years embraced epoxy based coatings in cans and bottles and 5 years ago BPA has become the voodo child of all things evil for contact with what we consume. I make epoxy, I know chemicals, I know what they don’t want you to know. I avoid heating in anything plastic, especially foam take home cartons as you will cook off a veritable chemical soup when you do. Believe what works for you, I believe in what I know and I almost wish I didn’t know!

I don’t think they are either, i don’t like mirowaving or heating any sort of plastics with food in it. Even what they deem as “safe” according to FDA standards or whatever, does not necessarily mean that it is 100% safe, they usually always allow for small amounts of toxins to be considered “safe” to ingest. That’s nonsense. Take it out of the box and put it in a glass dish, that’s what i do. Rather be safe than sorry. :)