Torben Hansen (2000) presented a paper on buying decisions for frozen food products. This paper tests the ability of two consumer theories—the theory of explanatory action and the theory of pre-planned behavior—in predicting consumer frozen food buying intention. In addition, a variance based comparison is conducted between the two theories. Data was extracted from two web-based surveys of American (n=2743) and Canadian (n=2398) consumers using likert-based questionnaires. These results suggest that the theory of planned behavior (with the inclusion of a path from subjective norm to attitude) basically meaning that pre-planned decisions were seen as majority and hence this provides the best fit to the data and explains the highest proportion of variation in frozen food buying intention.