Making Prefab Food Good

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Do you ever buy the cheap frozen pizzas or the packaged mac n cheese mixes? Do you eat them as they come? They never seem very good that way to me anymore. I like to add to them and make them as close to homemade as I can. I'll add fresh toppings to my frozen pizza like bell peppers, pepperoncinis, extra pepperoni, olives (I like both black and green on my pizza) and extra cheese. Now, I really get creative with the mac n cheese mixes. I'll add real cheese but what I like to do is throw the powdered stuff away, take the real cheese and mix it with a cream soup like cream of mushroom or cream of chicken and heat it up on the stove till the cheese melts before adding it to the mac. Of course, you don't have to have the package...this will work with regular pasta, too. Sometimes I'll use the cheese powder to spice things up a little and add a little extra flavor to the mix but not the whole package, you know? What kinds of variations do you put on your prefab food?