The 'ready' meals such a pizzas (and I NEVER buy value ones) and breaded stuff with chips is for the times when I've got up at 8am on one Morning, gone to bed 10am the following morning, had about 6 (or less) hours of sleep and then have to cook dinner.......before going out to work again......and not getting to bed until 8am the next morning.
I'm afraid our family set-up doesn't give me all afternoon to be cooking pulses (having soaked them all night the night before) and chopping hundreds of vegetables (well not literally but obviously you know what I mean - dried pulses (as opposed to tinned ones do take a LOT longer to cook LOL) every single day. Much easier to stick an extra large chicken in the oven - leave it to get on with it, chop some broccoli and carrots and shove a few roast potatoes in the oven with the roast. And I can honestly say it doesn't cost me any different from my veggie bakes etc, than the majority of my 'meat' dishes.
DH will typicall eat a large bowl of fruit and fibre, a banana (or apple), and occasionaly toast for breakfast. Lunch he'll either cook a big omelette for himself, make himself a huge sandiwch (cheese, ham, coleslaw, lettuce, tomato, cucumber etc etc etc etc) or if I've got some spare sausages/bacon around have a 'mini' fry-up. And some more fruit, and a few glasses of fruit juice.
Then he'll have another big sandwich around 6pm,often with a banana, packet of crisps - anything that he can eat easily out of a packet/sandwich bag.
Then he'll come home and have dinner about 10pm - then he'll usually have another 'snack' - yoghurt, fruit juice and sometimes to keep his sweet tooth happy some icecream.
Veggie meals are allowed 2/3 times a week - maximum - and that's him being generous - he grew up on meat everyday! Even the DS's (who are too young to really grasps the 'pulses/meat' differences eat more of the pulse meals.