Are Charlie Bigham ready meals the best 'fresh' ones or am I wrong?
Are Cook the best frozen ready meals or am I wrong?
What's yer fave ready meal?
Mine changes over time but Bigham's Fish Pie is great. Hard to beat that when trying at home.
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Are Charlie Bigham ready meals the best 'fresh' ones or am I wrong?
Are Cook the best frozen ready meals or am I wrong?
What's yer fave ready meal?
Mine changes over time but Bigham's Fish Pie is great. Hard to beat that when trying at home.
Never eat ready made frozen meals myself. The grand kids like the Iceland roast chicken dinners though.
Are you posting this pissed by any chance? If not I would seriously consider....
(P.S. The aforementioned C.B. Is not frozen)
dont eat them now. Aldi used to do some excellent lowish cal ones with tons of fresh veg in but typically anything I like doesnt last long
YNWaN - Cook is a brand of frozen ready meals in case you didn't know and I identify Bigham's as 'fresh'. Does that help?:)
I see your a Waitrose shopper Justin. Whilst your in Waitrose, may I suggest the Pieminister pies ,they are excellent!
Yup they are. Sainsbury's do Bigham too.
The Bigham Steak and Ale is good you just have to buy two in one go for 50p more than two Pieministers. I have just eaten one two nights on the trot. And you get free Ramekins which are very useful for ham, egg and cheese bakes:)
we have a lot of ready meals and I find Sainsbury and Tesco make some lovely ready meals . as does the co-op
Who sells decent Scotch Eggs these days? Supermarket examples are disgusting! Rather partial to a nice one.
There's a Deli in Clifton Bristol that does amazing ones with all sorts of ideas for flavours in the pork. Harissa is my fave. Not much use though LOL.
Hmm. Not sure I'll be doing a five hour round trip for a scotch egg though. :D
Another thing that is a let down these days is Piccalilli mustard pickles. I really like a decent one, but can't find any. Haywards and Heinz are dire and supermarket own brands even worse.
Make your own, mate ;)
Ready meals? Spawn of the devil! :spew:
Marco.
Chop up some cold ham. Cheap super thin stuff is fine for this. Put in Ramekin and crack an egg or two in there and top with your fave cheese(s).
Bake it at 200 til it is done. About 10 mins but look at it and judge.
It is really good with some grilled toms and hash browns. Be careful not to overcook it.
You could add choppped toms as a layer. Hot sauce etc - whatever you think will work.
M&S do the best ready meals. I rarely have them, but sometimes grabbing a bag of rocket, a ready-made lasagne & some garlic bread is a cheeky way to get a nice family meal when time is tight.
Aldi do some decent ready meals. was in today and bought 2. some triple cooked chips, beer battered haddock and a haddock mornay. do some lovely sourdough pizza too. got caught at till again with ginger beer b4 10 am. such a stupid law and typical of Sturgeon
Cloughbane are nice, sold in Asda and most Spar shops/filling stations. Mix with fresh veg and bobs your uncle http://www.cloughbanefarm.com/
List of meals http://www.cloughbanefarm.com/cooked...nal-meals.html
I like to mix in mushrooms as well.
M&S Panang curry is IMO better than sex (whatever that is) It's a shame they don't do it with rice as it is a bit big for me alone. However it's the sort of stuff I could eat until I vomited. Highly addictive because it is (again IMO) so tasty.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/prod...x?id=293789614
this is quite nice
You want Tracklements - fab stuff! http://www.tracklements.co.uk/pickle...ish-piccalilli
Couldn't agree more! The only time Mrs. B and I ever experienced ready meals was in our last house when we had no kitchen for about 6 weeks whilst an extension was built. We opted for the supposedy 'healthy' ones and, to be fair, some weren't too bad in taste terms. However, we both put on weight, my eczema got worse and our shopping was costing us around 20-30% more than usual each week! Never again.
Try being without a kitchen for SIX MONTHS, currently in our case, lol! Lots of issues with it being an old house, workers letting us down, and the fact that we're having a bespoke design built from scratch...
However, we're lucky that my dad only lives 5 minutes away, so we've been using his kitchen and also going out a fair bit. But eating ready-meal shite? No! :nono:
What you describe above is symptomatic of the 'ready meal diet', which is all the more reason to make home-coked food. The problem in the UK, however, is twofold:
1) Folk don't have the time to cook because they're running around like blue-arsed flies, working round the clock, to pay a huge mortgage on their fancy big house, loans on their car, etc, (largely living beyond their means). Their work/life balance, therefore, has gone to pot! :doh:
2) Lack of (food) education and food culture in general runs deep, and is getting worse every year because of 1) above.
We need to get back to the situation of parents being brought up by their parents on simple (quality) fresh, home-cooked food, and passing the skills onto their children, and so forth, through generations (which is how I was brought up), but I simply can't see it happening; for me, it's more likely to get worse as the junk food/ready meal culture takes a greater grip with every passing day :rolleyes:
Marco.
hey, that junk is probably gonna be my dinner ;)
I agree with you that she presents better than most; more focussed, more articulate and more "grown-up". Unfortunately, though, politically she is just another new wave separatist/nationalist/populist totem - see Trump, Farage, le Pen, Wilders et al. Just "Braveheart" flavour this time . Not what I think we need to see these days (or ever, frankly).
IB
actually mostly make my own when able. when im not i get ready meals, but try to get decent ones . im actually a very good cook, but when your just on your own and my age it is sometimes difficult to do it for one and more expensive.
Sadly, I can't really share this one with you cozz even though I am from Grimsby, I hate fish. I do though adore curry type dishes so love the Sainsbury's ready meals especially the curry ones as they are really nice and thick and gloopy whereas the competition tend to be thin and watery. Could be of course that the Sainsbury ones are just more fattening and have a high oil content but after quite a few beers I couldn't bloody care less.
;)
Noted, Jez, but as a good Socialist, you are proudly internationalist in viewpoint. Why doesn't her brand of backward-looking, nostalgia-driven, "let's curl-up with ourselves" nationalism offend you? If it were an English politician we would call them a "little Englander" (and I would agree with you). Why not "little Scotlander"?
Gary.
Yes, but why not make your own curry? The (considerable) advantages are:
1) You know exactly what's gone into it.
2) Over time it's considerably cheaper than ready meals.
3) It's considerably healthier.
4) It's MASSIVELY tastier and more authentic!!!
:)
Doing otherwise is simply pure laziness and/or you're devoting too much time to other things, which ultimately matters MUCH LESS than eating well and healthily!
:exactly:
Marco.
Well I'm having haddock mornay tonight. An Aldi one. Should be delish old chaps
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with herby new potatos...yum
That was damn good.. and enough left to have again....lucky me as there is no one else here..lol