What's your favourite ready meal?

[TomAllenWife]

Got Saturday night to myself (bliss)
Going to buy a dinner from M&S or Waitrose

I'm having pasta tomorrow

What would be your ultimate tv dinner to sit on the sofa with?

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M&S butter chicken is delicious.

I don't want your biscuit. I've just finished a massive salad.

It’s Charlie Bigham not Bingham - I was shocked at this but I love his cottage pie , husband doesn’t like cottage pie so it’s my treat

I'm not a huge cottage pie fan either or red meat in general!

Does he do a fish pie?
(Charlie Bigham)

The Thai fish cakes and bao buns sound delicious 😋😋

Oooooh, fish pie, bistro salad and baguette with good spread of real butter. My OH can’t bear the smell of fish pie so enjoy this on a weekend night to myself!

Charlie Bigham chicken & mushroom risotto or the chicken & ham gratin.

M&S curries are nice too.

M&S fish pie. It had gone "off", instant potato and lack of fish. Last couple of FPS I had were delicious if you don't mind salt.
Gourmet Pub Offer; Fish Pie, greens (lots of peas), starter or dessert for £12 is a good deal. Add nice wine and cheeses/chocs for later, feet up and good movie/series. Enjoy.

M&S king prawn bucatini or chicken arrabiata. Also very partial to Macaroni cheese.

The only ready meals I eat are Charlie Bigham’s. The Red Thai curry is to die for.

Tesco finest macaroni cheese. In their words...

"Cooked chifferi pasta in a cheese sauce topped with Red Leicester cheese and breadcrumbs.

Our creamy cheese sauce is made using tangy mature Cheddar. Blended with milk, cream and a hint of mustard until smooth and velvety. Finished off with a sprinkling of crumbled tortilla chips and Red Leicester cheese for a crunchy topping..
Cooked in a rich Cheddar sauce. Finished with crumbled tortilla chips and Red Leicester."

It's the best ready meal one I've ever had.

Charlie Bighams Spanish Chicken is delicious. It comes with a tray of herby potatoes.

Also Cook do lovely homemade frozen microwave meals, they have lots to choose from.

Enjoy your lovely peaceful evening!

This was me last week. I was so overwhelmed by the choice I left with nothing and had dippy eggs, soldiers and red wine, followed by a chocolate eclair.

Charlie Bigham's macaroni cheese, I could eat it until the cows come home

Charlie does the best fish pie

ALL of the rest have too much ruddy potato

He also does the best cottage pie

Charlie Bighams Moussaka - even though I pull some of the aubergine out as it looks like mangled rats

My DP works abroad quite a lot, and I often get ready meals then as I am lazy. I’ll usually do three nights of ready meals, one veggie stir-fry, one jacket potato/filling and salad, and a couple of egg/mushrooms/beans/toast type things.

He hates fish so we never have it at home, and my absolute fave is the M&S smoked haddock florentine. I add extra broccoli or another green veg, sometimes a poached egg on top. (The cat enjoys this one too.)

M&S do three “Italian” oven/micro things for £8 which tend to be good. The chicken and mushroom risotto is fab.

M&S mushroom and truffle pasta sauce with pasta
M&S Macaroni cheese
M&S Dirty fries
M&S pizza
M&S garlic bread slices
M&S chicken kievs

Charlie Bigham fish pie is delish. My go-to ready meal. It's the most expensive of the lot though 😣 otherwise I like the M&S gastro chicken Kyiv.

We have a Charlie B (as he's called here) once... Sometimes TWO times a week! The Thai or Indian are my favourites. With either prawn toast or samosas on the side!

M&S curry or sweet chilli chicken. The s c chicken not a microwave meal but does in about 15 minutes. Their egg fried rice is the best.

Chicken Cordon Bleu - like a Kyiv/Kiev but with cheese & ham on the middle. Serve with mash, sweetcorn & lemon butter sauce - cook butter until it frothes & goes golden then add lemon juice til it stops bubbling. Yum
Otherwise Charlie's fish pie or Cook pork akexander

That’s quite different.

The other poster pretended to have no idea what a ready meal could possibly be.

I'm another fish pie fan. Or chilli con carne, as nobody else in the family likes it.

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the m&s roast dinners inside a giant Yorkshire pudding. The chicken one is hands down the best ready meal ever!