What's your favourite ready meal?

For the ones having a go at people who eat ready meals, try stepping down from your pedestal. Yes, some people eat them out of laziness, but others like myself that normally have food laid on for them as part of our jobs also work weird shifts, where we have no option but to buy microwaveable food. We don't have the luxury of real a kitchen of our own to make meals in.
 
I stopped eating them as have the time to cook properly at the moment and they invariably taste like crap. I did eat a bunch of M&S cook stuff last year which is half ready meal, but it's expensive and can make it from scratch with 5-10 minutes extra time.

Prepared food also is subject to 20% VAT.

I will say the local Budgens has some really good curry that you can warm up.
 
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I think it was Sainsburys that used to do a really nice Chicken and Chorizo Paella, the chicken was uncooked, so you just fried it off with the chorizo added the rice and veggie bits (peppers etc).

Not 100% a ready meal, but a very tasty quick dish none the less.

As a student many years ago I would eat all sorts of ready meals, and the best one was a chow mein thing that came with those crispy noodles (in fact its this one - http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/tesc...ternational_Cuisine/Vesta_Chow_Mein_161g.html), now i mainly cook from scratch, but will buy Quiches, Pizza, Pies etc that are pre made.
 
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over-priced.
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Yup, well over priced for what they are. Especially the curries as of recently. Tesco korma is about £3, for that you can buy 2 fresh chicken breasts and a pot of korma sauce, cook some rice, which no doubt every home already has and have a curry for 2 people for about the same price. It will taste a million times nice and not actually take much longer. A bit more effort involved though, especially when you include washing pots and pans and what not.

I had some Tesco Lighter choices meal last night. Beef in a red wine sauce and mash with bits of cabbage in it. Was very nice. Mash was obviously nowhere near as nice as freshly made mash, but the beef in red wine sauce was very nice.

IMO most ready meals are OK, but you do get some which are ghastly.
 
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Yup, well over priced for what they are. Especially the curries as of recently. Tesco korma is about £3, for that you can buy 2 fresh chicken breasts and a pot of korma sauce, cook some rice, which no doubt every home already has and have a curry for 2 people for about the same price. It will taste a million times nice and not actually take much longer. A bit more effort involved though, especially when you include washing pots and pans and what not.

I had some Tesco Lighter choices meal last night. Beef in a red wine sauce and mash with bits of cabbage in it. Was very nice. Mash was obviously nowhere near as nice as freshly made mash, but the beef in red wine sauce was very nice.

IMO most ready meals are OK, but you do get some which are ghastly.
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Its 2 for £6 on the "Finest" curries just now. I find them quite tasty tbh. As you say, you could make a cracking curry from scratch for that, or even some chicken, rice and a jar of sauce but i guess the whole point of the ready meal is paying for the convenience of not having to do that! Horses for courses and all that! (Im sure ive probably had horse as a course in a couple of the cheaper meals!!!!).
 
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