The Best Ready Meals

[Macca]

Scotland is lucky to have such a superb politician as leader.

She's all heat and no light.

She only looks good because of the dismal standard of the rest of the UK politicians.

[Puffin]

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.

[struth]

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/prod...x?id=293789614

this is quite nice

[Beobloke]

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.

You want Tracklements - fab stuff! http://www.tracklements.co.uk/pickle...ish-piccalilli

Ready meals? Spawn of the devil!

Marco.

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.

[Barry]

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.

That's because ready meals are full of salt and sugar, and overall are poor in nutrition. Best avoided along with all 'fast food'.

[Marco]

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!

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!

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

Marco.

[struth]

hey, that junk is probably gonna be my dinner

[Infinitely Baffled]

Scotland is lucky to have such a superb politician as leader.

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

[Marco]

hey, that junk is probably gonna be my dinner

Yes, but you've got an excuse. And, you also make your own stuff sometimes (rather nice soup and bread, for instance)!

Marco.

[struth]

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.