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

we eat more frozen ready meals than any other type because it's more convenient and I've decided they need less preservatives than ready meals from the fridge section.

Some nights I'm completely exhausted and broken with tiredness after a full day's work and commute so to provide a selection of interesting meals throughout the week for my family I will cook frozen ready meals. ( I never get takeaways because I object to those as being very lazy and expensive)

I'm not a 50's housewife stuck indoors all day with no modern appliances so I shop from a supermarket and put some items in the freezer for my convenience.
I decided after watching those TV shows where families go back in time to the 40's 50's and 60's that we are lucky to have the convenience of ready meals and that I was damn well going to make use of them in my modern lifestyle.
We do however quite often go continental style in the evenings and eat a selection of hams, cheeses, salad vegetables, pickles, houmous with a selection of bread, wraps, pitta bread and crackers.
I do bizarrely make my own bread every few days but that is quick and easy for me and I make muffins for the kids as snacks or for their lunch box, which takes seconds for me, just mix and chuck in the oven.
I do love cooking and will do so at the weekend. Sometimes I batch cook but very seldom. Sometimes I really just hate the idea of cooking yet again and other times I really enjoy it.

Forgot to add, I also cook a lot of stir fry.
Easy peasy.
Chicken or beef, veg, noodles or rice with garlic and soy sauce and a dash of sweet chilli pepper or whatever takes your fancy.

Ok suggests he cooks then. You were whining that people were suggesting that you cook at the weekend.

Sheesh, other people's lives.

Who is whining? I cook at the weekend to eat. Not spending hours arranging things to do with mince for the freezer. That isn't even what I asked about. Do you not think I could think of batch cooking myself? I was asking about nutrition as has been said LOADS OF tIMES. Stop getting annoyed because I'm not just doing what you say.

I just put a Charlie Bigham chilli con carne in the oven, it's going to be delicious. Couldn't see anything weird on the ingredients list either.

I know I could have killed the cow myself, but I really couldn't be arsed.

What can happen to minerals? Where do they go, if left sitting around in pre-cooked meat and veg? I know some vitamins can somehow be lost, but minerals?

These look great! I'm not actually that busy but I'm tempted to give them a go for the couple of nights DC have after school activities. The only drawbacks I can see are the price and the fact that they're a little low on calories (423). I guess you could have some fruit and yogurt if you were still hungry though.

YANBU but only if you have nothing better to do... They are surprisingly expensive if you eat loads of them. You could get a slow cooker or check out some easy recipes or any of these modern easy cooking alternatives. If you have to make sure you check nutrition levels really carefully but definitely not every night

" I guess you could have some fruit and yogurt if you were still hungry though."
Or in fact any other food. There are no food police.

Why not every night pizza?

YANBU but only if you have nothing better to do.

The snitty comments just keep on coming...

The whole point is that I do have better things to do than cook

Mind you that said just frying tonight's which is totally past is best despite having a best before date of today which I think a few reviews had also highlighted. I will get a refund from mr ocado

Or in fact any other food. There are no food police.
Indeed. I was just thinking about what I would have, although I'd be just as likely to go for a Magnum if we had any .

Noble Are you seriously suggesting OP and her DH eats those £7 meals every night? That would be £98 a week just food shopping. And a lot of the people here (maybe not you op) seem like to get these meals just because they can't be arsed to chuck some ingredients in a pan. I mean, seriously?

If that's what they want to spend money on why not? Surely we don't all have the same budgets

How would it be £98 a week? It's £30 a week

Angel, I can't see anywhere in my post where I suggested the OP buy anything.

Besides, they serve two so it would be £49 per week not £98.

And no, I couldn't be arsed to chuck some ingredients in a pan, I fucking hate cooking. It is not unheard of for me to not eat at all rather than actually cook something.

If you've got a big budget but not much time hire some really great fresh meal company to cook up meals for you and bring them to your door but damn, why choose ready meals- waste of packaging!

Buckin, I'll say it again - you are overthinking this. Your DH is In charge of food shopping and cooking. Neither of you have the time to cook and have better things to do than cook. You found something that works for you, why the angst? If someone were to say that it is not nutritionally the best, would that cause you to change your food options? Probably not.

I'd say that the solution lies in the near future when your DC are in school and you get a nanny - s/he can prepare laborious home cooked suppers for all.

If you've got a big budget but not much time hire some really great fresh meal company to cook up meals for you and bring them to your door but damn, why choose ready meals- waste of packaging!

So angels it sounds like you're suggesting that OP should get takeaways rather than these meals as I don't know any"fresh meal" companies that deliver cooked meals.

All these gasps of horror over the meals, and quick suggestions for "scratch" cooking (scratch is one of my least favourite words) seem a bit sexist to me. OPs DH is doing the providing of the evening meals as OP is working, therefore suggesting she should spend her weekends making pots of bolognaise seems almost to suggest that the cooking is her job and providing nutritious meals is her responsibility.

Mom I think I'm over it now just getting irritated by the daft responses

Have you considered cooking in batch and freezing?

But so much time to post

What's batch cooking stealth? Does it take long?

It Doesn't take much time to post. Why should I spend my MN time cooking? Because I'm a little woman?