The best frozen creamed spinach (or frozen cream spinach, depending on your style) is just like restaurant-worthy creamed spinach. It’s creamy (duh), savory, and just slightly bitter thanks to the spinach. You should feel like you’re still eating greens—but in the most indulgent manner possible. You should be able to go right from the microwave to the table without your guests knowing that the freezer ever entered the picture. If you’re looking for the best frozen creamed spinach, we did the work and tasted the top-sellers to find you the only five worth buying from the frozen aisle.
Creamed spinach is traditionally welcome at two select meals: Thanksgiving or a steak dinner. But it’s a perfectly delicious side and it’s a breeze to make—when you opt for frozen creamed spinach. Of course, it’s easy for things to go terribly wrong. Some brands are way too watery (a common mishap with frozen spinach). Some try to do way too much with extra cheese and ingredients. At its heart, creamed spinach is simple: spinach, butter, cream, cheese, and a little seasoning. During this taste test, I wanted a product that adhered closely to that—but I was open to brands adding a little indulgent flare, too. I also wanted to know I was actually eating spinach—not just pulverized green.
If you want easy creamed spinach, frozen is the way to go. Here are the five best frozen creamed spinach brands you should buy.
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- Green Giant Simply Steam Creamed Spinach Sauced
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The Giant has done his job well. This frozen creamed spinach puffs up in a little pouch over six and a half minutes in the microwave and pours into a bowl, sauced up and ready to go. It’s creamy, it’s savory, and there’s actual spinach in there—real leaves with real bite to them. It even has that touch of bitter astringency that spinach has, which helps balance out the richness. You can easily serve this in a bowl and fool your guests into thinking you made real cream spinach from scratch, if that’s a game you’re interested in playing. It’s the best frozen creamed spinach for any occasion and it’s also the cheapest on this list—so you really can have it all the time.
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- Birds Eye Sauced Creamed Spinach
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You know when you go to a steakhouse and you get that white and saucy creamed spinach? That’s what this one is like. Birds Eye’s frozen creamed spinach is made with full spinach leaves and a really creamy sauce. “It tastes like spinach is the focus in the good way,” said Sporked managing editor Gwynedd Stuart. It’s not ultra-salty, which makes it the best frozen creamed spinach to pair with a marbled, seasoned steak.
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- Sprouts Market Corner Creamed Kale & Spinach
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It’s not traditional but it’s damn good. This is the best frozen creamed spinach—plus a little something more. Sprouts adds bitter, toothsome kale to the mix along with umami-packed parmesan. It definitely looks different than other frozen creamed spinach brands—it’s yellow. But don’t hold that against it. With its punchy flavors, creamy texture, and peppery, garlicky bite, this is a great side for Thanksgiving when you need to shout to be heard amongst all the other flavors on the table. Plus, it comes in its own microwavable tray so you can save on dirtying a dish.
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- Signature Cafe Creamed Spinach with Asiago
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This frozen creamed spinach is so creamy it’s practically hot spinach dip. If baby food was heavily seasoned and mixed with cheese, this would be it. I gotta say, I loved this one. I could eat a lot of it. But it just didn’t have enough “spinach-ness” to earn it a place on the top of the list. If you want tasty mush, though, this is the best frozen creamed spinach for you. And, heck, if you want to dip a chip into it, it can do double duty.
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- Tabatchnick Creamed Spinach
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Now, this was some serious spinach puree. If you don’t want to see a single leaf, this is the best frozen creamed spinach for you (it also happens to be kosher). Made by a company that’s been in business since 1905, this is also the best frozen spinach for onion lovers. Where my onion lovers at?! The onion flavor is strong with this one, pureed in with the spinach in a cream broth. It’s definitely what I would categorize as cream spinach rather than creamed spinach.
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