Help me choose loads of ready meals?

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I’m injured after accident or would cook. I need to buy ready meals for a poorly relative to help while they’re unable / not in mood to cook or think of foods.
I know I’m not BU really but traffic here is good. Please can you tell me best supermarket and meals? Traditional tastes so no spicy/ off the wall stuff please.
Thank you all!

Which supermarkets can you get to? Morrisons “The Best” range of meals are always really nice. Love their spag Bol, fish pie and paella

COOK meals are nice and they deliver

Judging by the age of the people will trollues full of ready meals at local M&S they seem to produce a decent product with a good range of meals. All the tradational ones such as cottage pie, quiches, fish and chips for one etc

Waitrose or M&S. Sausage and mash, fish and chips, chicken casserole with dumplings, lasagna, macaroni cheese, risotto, mini roast dinner.

What’s your budget like?

Cook or M&S especially as they do things like roast meals for one, fish pie etc

I am a philistine but I really rate Iceland for ready meals and other things which can be easily oven or microwave cooked - particularly the cottage pie, “Luxury” seafood linguine and curries. Have tried M&S and Waitrose before, expecting my tastebuds to sing with delight and just found them bland and uninspiring.

M&S ready meals are lovely, I buy my grandma them as she is picky and they are the only one's she likes! They do roasts/pies/loads of meals that taste just as good as being home baked, unlike your usual ready meals

You can get Pizza Express pizzas from most supermarkets too which are always nice and very easy. Those packs of tortellini/ravioli type filled pastas are good as you literally just bung them in some boiling water for 4 mins and microwave a sauce

Charlie bighams

Pricey but v good
Ingredients read like what you would put in yourself
I like the cottage pie 😊

I would go to Iceland to be honest. Is your relative expected to be ill for any length of time?

What about wiltshire foods, delivered to their home?

Supermarket would be M&S for me. Theirs are much nicer than all others (including Waitrose). Charlie Bigham is very nice but very expensive.

Charlie Bigham's? Bit pricier, but generally very good. The range includes fairly standard stuff like macaroni cheese, lasagne, fish pie and also has a chicken korma. Also Higgedy pies are almost a meal in themselves (or supplement with frozen peas or a bit of salad).

Hope you and your relative recover soon. I know what it's like not to be able to face cooking a meal.

Any of the supermarket finest ranges are good. I think ready meals taste better cooked in the oven rather than microwaved, if you've got a bit more time of course. Those packs of microwave veg are good too, only take a couple of mins.

Iceland do really delicious ready meals. Their fish ones are amazing and you can cook from frozen in 10 mins

Look What We Found - if you can find them . Harder to track down these days. But yummy.

The slimming world meals in Iceland are lovely they are £3 and a very good portion size x

Great ideas thanks. They have a good freezer size. They like m and s but it’s getting there that’s tricky. Iceland sounds like a good plan as a starting point for cottage pie etc
Thanks all - once I’m better I can batch cook for them. They’ve very plain taste folks when they cook but do like a salty/ fatty marks meal if on offer. It’ll hopefully not be a long term thing

Cook/M&S/Bighams. But if they like bland or simple then Wiltshire FF may do.

Do you have a local butcher.
Mine do ready meals that are fab, really reasonably priced and deliver to my nans door for her. Even putting them into the freezer.

I would have a look and see what is about locally?

just watch the saturated fat in the COOK meals. Friend of ours relied on them for a few months and had a horrific rise in his cholesterol that appeared to be totally down to them!

Wiltshire farm foods are a specialist company that deliver ready meals, they do special diets are well as standard and are aimed more at the taste of the older person ideal if this is likely to be longer term (they also have a paper brochure if your relative doesn't do internet). Otherwise all the supermarkets sell ready meals, however they have limited ranges of "traditional" dishes, Tesco probably has the biggest range but taste wise there's nothing really between the supermarkets, it's all a bit so so.