m an s ok in an emergency but generally they all taste the same and so expensive compared to DIY.Do people actually buy them as meals or just as an emergency thing?

I agree.

I bought some Sainsbos ready made pasta sauces - fresh, Taste The Difference, thinking it might be useful while we're a bit hectic following the birth of DS.

Yuk.

I don't know what they taste of, but there's some synthetic, processed flavour in there.

i use COOK a lot

a lot

maybe once a week

but i don't get out much atm

so can justify the £££

plus they are delicious

i prefer home cooked stuff. but if you work 60 hr weeks and hate cooking sometimes you just have to lump it or go hungry....

I like most of Waitrose's readies.

But they're pricey. Jacket potatoes and eggs are my mid-week standbys now we're trying to economise. And lots of pasta with grated cheese or ham for the children.

they are only good for things I couldn't / wouldn;t make myself

eg steak and kidney pudding

Yep.

Although sainsbos do some nice meatballs in a tomato sauce - they are OK for a lazy evening.

Otherwise we dont' buy them.

Couldn't contemplate like a pasta dish or cottage pie or anything <gag>

I like M&S stuff tbh, very rarely have it but sometimes I get their veggie stuff (veg mousaka etc)

their fishcakes are nice iirc not had them for years

used to live on them
went off them in first pgcy
now cannot stand them.
yuk!

only bighams are any good imho.
but then for the price you could just about pay for someone to come and cook it for you from fresh.

the cod ones are better

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they are far tooo dilly for me (not a dill fan)

because our fridge was on the fritz (fixed yesterday) we bought some M&S ready prepared food on Bank Hol Monday for supper .. salmon fishcakes (not really yer ready meal I agree)

I'm really not impressed

there was I thinking I was being economical cooking everything from scratch .. but really .. euwwww

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