answer:The frozen dinner has (or more than likely has) added salt, sugar and other ingredients which you would not have added during your own cooking. Those include food coloring dyes, “stabilizers” and other ingredients that only appear for appearance and to induce you to buy more of the same product (especially the sugar and salt) because of the “great taste”. Look at the ingredients list on the prepared dinner, and then look at the ingredients list on the steak. While you may feel that the raw steak has additives and components that you don’t want (such as fat and cholesterol, to be sure), “processed meats” are pre-cooked and also have salt and nitrates added for taste and preservative properties. Raw steak doesn’t have that. This is not to say that your frozen dinner may, after all, be a healthier choice. They aren’t all made the same, after all, and the portions are smaller and there’s probably less fat and cholesterol in your choice. But it’s not as good a choice as, for example, a salad with raw vegetables and simple vinegar and oil dressing.