Do you ever eat ready meals?

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Inspired by my lunch, just tucking into a weight watchers chicken lasagne that is delicious..
I rarely eat ready meals but the weight watchers range is quite tasty.
Do you eat ready meals and how often?

icedcoffees
Nonsense. Cooking from scratch is easy and it's people's laziness that means they choose to buy microwave meals full of unpronounceable ingredients instead of whipping up a healthy and nutritious family meal.

My children have never eaten anything that I can't trace back to the farm. If I can manage then everyone else can.

(Sarcasm, obviously)

@LolaSmiles

icedcoffees Nonsense. Cooking from scratch is easy and it's people's laziness that means they choose to buy microwave meals full of unpronounceable ingredients instead of whipping up a healthy and nutritious family meal. My children have never eaten anything that I can't trace back to the farm. If I can manage then everyone else can.

(Sarcasm, obviously)

You can only trace your food back to the farm? I can trace all the meat I buy back at least seven generations as I wouldn't feed them animals I didn't raise and slaughter myself

Why are you even talking about farms? Firstly, unless you’re growing it yourself on your own land (and if for some inexplicable reason you don’t have land just get an allotment - they’re very easy to come by - or use grow bags on your balcony) you shouldn’t be eating it, and secondly, you shouldn’t be eating meat at all, your eco credentials are shocking. Have you no concern for the future of the planet?

We practically lived in them at times when we were both working long hours and too exhausted to cook and too hungry to wait for a takeaway. When the kids came to live with us we started cooking more - mostly because it was out time for bonding as a family over a meal and also because there are no ready meals that can fill up a 15 year old boy.

Now we're living near my chef father and he tends to cook up a lot of meals for the freezer - he's contemplating setting up a ready meal business at that age of 80 🤦‍♀️ we're happy to be his guinea pigs.

There's nothing inherently wrong with them, as long as it's not every day or every meal. Some people on here are just snobby about food.

Please do update us in a few years and let us know how your baby is enjoying your home made pasta sauce

Even better, in 15 years time when McDonalds, Burger King and KFC are their preference over a nice stew

Yes, not that often , but I found that Tesco finest Mac n cheese was incredible , so it's a treat now and again when cba to cook one myself!

@SecretSpAD

Please do update us in a few years and let us know how your baby is enjoying your home made pasta sauce

Even better, in 15 years time when McDonalds, Burger King and KFC are their preference over a nice stew

So true

@shinynewapple21

Yes. We have frozen pizza and I buy some meat products ready made for DH as he doesn't cook and I don't eat them - so things like steak and ale pie or chilli . I'm happy to make a casserole as it does itself in the slow cooker . The other thing I buy is birds eye fish portions with a flavoured butter on them - they come in a little sachet you microwave (not the boil in bag ones !) I think they are really nice . I do them with fresh veg .

We also have things like burgers/veggie burgers .

Again, these are not ready meals.

@MilduraS

I don't eat microwave ready meals but used to as a teen and remember them being very mushy and tasteless (I was a vegetarian so we're talking mushy "vegetable" lasagne that was 50% tasteless white sauce and 10% overcooked veg). I do eat pre-prepared things like a shop bought tortilla, couscous or pasta salad pots, shop bought pies etc. I also secretly love those packets of cheese and broccoli pasta with powder that you add milk to.

Vegetarian ready meals still are mushy and tasteless! Veggie lasagne is one of the worst offenders still.

Even decent veggie convenience food is hard to get. I don't like pizza which knocks out the main contender. A slice is more than enough for me.

@FlatteredFool

I used to love the Tesco cheese and bean enchiladas but I don't think they have done them for about 20 years now Tesco's tomato and mozzarella bake was lovely until they altered the recipe. I can't remember the last time I had a ready meal now but I used to love them as a once a week or so thing.

OMG @FlatteredFool I thought I was the only person who remembers these!

If you're talking about something that is in a plastic tray that gets microwaved, hardly ever. On the rare occasions I do buy them, it would tend to be ones from M&S that have been reduced - and even then it would have to be a really decent reduction - 'cos I'm such a cheapskate.

It's not so much the taste of the food that bothers me, as some of them are ok, it's microwaving plastic - I just don't think that can be good for us.

I do like that m and a truffle cauliflower cheese as a meal

We love the roast dinner in a sealed tray option because it is just so easy after a long day and also, it's a proper meal as opposed to a sandwich or something that I would be arsed to make. It is fresh not frozen so tastes ok to us.

@minimecantrollerskate

We love the roast dinner in a sealed tray option because it is just so easy after a long day and also, it's a proper meal as opposed to a sandwich or something that I would be arsed to make. It is fresh not frozen so tastes ok to us.

Have to admit.. I love these 😂

Not ready meals as in microwave meals but freezer tapas / orange teas or pizza yes!!

Only when I forgot to bring my luck to dinner.

My children have never had ready meals.