The frozen food aisle is a wild mix of promise and letdown, filled with glossy packaging that swears dinner will be amazing in five microwave minutes. But not every frozen meal delivers on that dream.

This week’s edition of Bits & Bites starts with an adventure. I teamed up with Baltimore-area Instagram influencer Samantha Stern, of @BaltimoreFoodScene, last week to embark upon an epic food crawl ...