What's your favourite ready meal?

You can use 20 mins on a ready meal but don't have time to make one?

Mumtaz have teamed up with the Co-op, they do some cracking ones. Sainsbury's curries are good too, and are for sale at £5 for two curries with rice and a side :)
 
As said sometimes you can't be bothered and although it might take 2mins-30mins. You don't have to do anything at all and can be doing other things.

But usually just prefer to do something else just as easy.
Bung giant Yorkshire and some sausages in oven, microwave bag veg, and make a cheat gravy.
 
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Tesco's macaroni and cheese or Asda's pepperoni pasta :D

Tesco used to do a great rigatoni and meatballs which doesn't seem to exist now :(

Curry ready meals are always very good and most like the real deal.

Sainsburys Thai Red curry is another good ready meal!
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Don't do the mac and cheese in the microwave. I did once and i had to throw it away. Just became a sloppy hot mess and tasted worse than it looked.
 
Do people think frozen food that you just bung in the oven is better or worse than ready meals that you bung in the microwave?

I'm of the opinion that unless you make your food from stock ingredients then it is all as 'bad' as each other.

I had an old housemate who was cooking chicken nuggets and curly fries try to mock me and talk down to me for eating a microwave meal, i laughed in his face as we compared nutrient info and mine was 'healthier' than his.
 
About equal I would say, depending what you have. Obviously the standard oven chips and chicken, is going to be worse than a ready meal, from a nutritional sense.
 
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Do Rustlers burgers count? :p Add some proper salad and toast the bun instead of microwaving it, and you actually have a pretty tasty burger. Great when they're on offer for a quid. :D

Chilli con carne ready meals are usually alright. at least the mid-range tescos ones. Not the cheapo ones.
 
McIntosh Stovies or McIntosh Haggis, Neeps & Tatties.

Has to be microwaved though. If I have time to oven cook it I have time to just make something myself.
 
Morrisons used to do a stuffed crust pepperoni pizza which was lovely, but I haven't seen it for a while.

Has anyone had the Pizza Express pizzas. They are superb. Real quality pizza. Only trouble is they are quite dear at a fiver, but sometimes the supermarkets have them on special at £3 each or 2 for a fiver. Snap them up when they do.
 
I don't tend to buy ready meals, but I make my own if that counts? :P I just make extra amounts of whatever I am making, portion it into bags and freeze. Just a microwave away :)

I have found these work well: Cottage / shepherds pie, lasagne, bolognese sauce (to go with pasta, bread, baked pots, chips etc), fish pie, ragu, any curry (but I omit the rice and eat it with bread / potatoes) and basically any stew.

I might actually try my hand at a homemade, frozen toad in the hole ready meal. I appreciate it takes no time at all to make anyway, but would be a challenge. I guess I could just mix up the batter. Line a baking dish with butter (freezes better?), add batter and sausages. Cling film then freeze. Bake from frozen. Hmmmm...
 
I very rarely eat ready meals, but when I do I normally go for something that is hard to get wrong, such as curry or lasagne.
 
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