To eat ready meals each night?

[Buckinbronco]

DH has taken over food shopping as I'm too busy. We have 2 DCs who eat at nursery and we get home at gone 7.30. DH answer is to buy 5 scratch meals a week. They taste ok and take 5 mins to Bung in a pan and hardly any washing up.
Their nutritional content looks fine- low fat sugar and salt. They're normal meals like curry and pad Thai.

I am probably over thinking this but I am Just not sure about eating packaged food every week night night.
But, I have a tendency to take the hard way out of everything and worry and this is easy. Peasy. And I can't find anything wrong with the food...aibu?

It's these: m.tesco.com/h5/groceries/r/www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=286931301

On other threads about cooking curry from scratch I asked why using curry paste still was deemed "cooking from scratch" . Apparently it just is. Rules u just don't get :o

i just don't get

Stealth I think you've just summed up mumsnet at the moment

It seems to be cooked already, you just put it in a frying pan

Yes true. But on this thread people have been advocating cheese on toast (presumably from a block rather than pre sliced and from an intact loaf ) rather than chicken veg and sauce (which tbh I know nothing about so take your point on the sauce )

Yes and kit meals sound nutritionally preferable to supposedly 'scratch' meals made with jars ( ) too.

Id say they're more nutritious than cheese on toast or a omelette too actually.

Depends on how much veg is in the omelette, I guess, but I wouldn't disagree, if the kits are preservative-free.

YANBU They're fine. I'm still giggling about the "cooked some steak on the bbq and it only took 5 minutes" comment! Takes me an hour to light the thing!

I used to make all of our food from scratch. If we were having pesto pasta I would always make the pesto and often make the pasta. I had a mincer. Now I have a 2 year old and an 11 month old and we use dried pasta and ready minced meat. I'll occasionally galvanise myself to make pesto but we have jars of that too.

When dd was born we started to buy stir fry deal things there you get a sachet of sauce, some pre cooked noodles and chopped veg. I'll never bother boiling noodles again. These are much easier and they're nice. I made some roast veg on Sunday and chopped up too much pepper and courgette. I didn't think twice about putting it in the fridge and using it on Monday, despite the risk that all of the vitamins and nutrients will have leeches out over night!

H aha Nicky me too. Back in the book days I used to spend all my time in whole foods squeezing avocados and at food festivals and Artisan bakeries and cheese shops. Weekends following complex meals and knew the nigella how to eat book off by heart. So 2007.

I put loads of veg in omelettes. Chop it all with my own fair hands. Pick all the veg from the huge mixed veg tree in our garden.
ok the last bit is a lie

And the idea that the meat is heavily factory farmed?

Pick all the veg from the huge mixed veg tree in our garden.

Come to think of it my cupboards and fridge are full of processed food at the moment. I have tinned tomatoes, sweetcorn, kidney beans, cannelini beans, chickpeas, butter beans, baked beans, passata, tomato soup. In the fridge there's mustard, mayo, mint sauce, chorizo (I don't cure my own meat either!), picallily, Branston pickle, butter, cheese, yogurt.......A cheese and pickle sandwich is actually just an ensemble of processed food won't someone think of the children!

I'm not concerned about that right now Angel. Too busy. Got to prioritise.

Yes, the 20 min BBQ wait.... To make your steal carcinogenic

(We do BBQ a lot at weekends)

Though of course you can quickly grill or pan fry steak to cut down on the time and health risks.

OP: you know what you haven't got time to do? Fret and worry about pre cut kits.
Smile, relax and enjoy.

Cant get you link to work but if its like go fresh or something i cant really see much wrong with it you could stick and extra potato or some pasta and its hardly boil in the bag curry is it.

Pffbt, Kay

i like ready meals. They make it easy to count calories and mean i get to eat things that i couldnt be bothered to cook

www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Scratch-Michel-Roux-Chicken-Thai-Green-Curry-for-2/95611011?from=search&tags=%7C20000&param=scratch&parentContainer=SEARCHscratch

Blu I KNOW. What is wrong with me? Working mother guilt. You can see why, what with the responses on this thread

Blu I KNOW. What is wrong with me? Working mother guilt. You can see why, what with the responses on this thread

Possibly you needed to rule out slow/batch/cheap cooking in your OP as you clearly knew they are not to be considered, so as to focus on the issues which seem to be:

1. Is it healthy ? Read the nutritional label on the "scratch" meals which you could have.
2. I feel guilty. Your problem.

But then you wouldn't have had so many replies which could then be sneered at for trying to be helpful.

Aldi has a new frozen range of veg bean and giant cous cous- I checked the pack and they really don't have anything else in. I micro it and add drizzle of lemon juice/olive oil/ soy sauce- lovely and quick. Also similar bags of Thai type veg and one other. I use them for a quick healthy lunch on my own when I'm short of time. Too expensive to feed my tribe of teens though

Link worked cant see much wrong with those chicken veg sauce who honestly wants to stand and cook at 7.30 every night only thing is they might start taste samey after a while

Echt I didn't ask for help with quick meals. That's a totally different thread isn't it?