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The Best and the Worst ready meals you have ever had
Victoria Sponge
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I do love food, and though nothing beats home cooking or a good restaurant meal, I do rely on a lot of ready meals for the sake of convenience.
I would like you to all recommend/warn me against the best/worst ready meals you have ever had, to help me with my ready meal diet.
I'll talk about mine first though. The best one I have had is the frozen chicken madras and pilau rice from Asda. For value, taste and fat content this is my fave all-rounder. The rice is so fragrant and tasty and the chicken is spicy and delicious. I drain off about 5g of oil which brings the total to about 15g fat, which ain't too bad. And it's dirt cheap too, less than £1.50 if I remember.
The worst one was the Tesco Light Choices chilled macaroni cheese. Bland as hell, I took one mouthfull and chucked it away.
I would like you to all recommend/warn me against the best/worst ready meals you have ever had, to help me with my ready meal diet.
I'll talk about mine first though. The best one I have had is the frozen chicken madras and pilau rice from Asda. For value, taste and fat content this is my fave all-rounder. The rice is so fragrant and tasty and the chicken is spicy and delicious. I drain off about 5g of oil which brings the total to about 15g fat, which ain't too bad. And it's dirt cheap too, less than £1.50 if I remember.
The worst one was the Tesco Light Choices chilled macaroni cheese. Bland as hell, I took one mouthfull and chucked it away.
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Worst: Sweet n Sour chicken from Iceland
Duck with noodles in hoi sin sauce or orkney crab linguine from M&S.
Worst:
Parctically anything from Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainburys etc - all salt, sugar and preservatives and no flavour.
Best: Waitrose paprika chicken with cubed garlic potatoes
Worst: Morrisons 'healthy option' duck with noodles. It was inedible.
Worst: Asda's curry and chips - YUCK
worst one ive ever had was another tescos healthy living cottage pie, ive never seen so many tubes eugh.
Worst - cheapo Sainsbury's Chinese takeaway box containing revolting luminous red jam-like goo with chewy unidentifiable balls in it, soggy/oily 'veg' spring roll and rice that was like grit.
Bleurgh!!!
Best; I don't know if it counts but the trays of sushi from M&S are bloody lovely!
Life is definitely too short to fart about making different types of sushi.:p
Why Thanky
You can make your own and freeze them up, much better.
Agree with you about sushi, but there is a great Japanse place at the end of our street for that. If really lazy they deliver.
~Heaving online..........The chicken healthy eating one is bearable, less likely to get tubes and other horrors, but I doubt the chicken is all breast meat, rather minced and then bleached to look like the best bits.
Worst was some burgers, supposed to be 100% beef, but they sprouted growth like things when they were cooked, I nearly fainted into the grill.
Worst: A Lancashire Hotpot, can't remember where from, but the 'meat' was all gristle.
Worst:Chicken Tikka Masala (Morrisons)
Worst= Rustlers Burger(why i even picked it up i'll never know)
AJxx
I think the worst I ever had was a low fat lasagne that was tasteless and had a horrible watery consistency. No idea where I got it though.
Worst: Anything containing Quorn.
Worst: Roast Lamb Dinner from Iceland - unspeakably nasty. It was made for me with the best of intentions and I had to pretend to enjoy it, a great feat of acting that I think I just about managed to pull off before I had to go to the toilet and bring it back up.
Bevheth - I think I've had that Roast Dinner too! It was indeed horrid. I swear if I'd put a strip of the cardboard packaging picture side down in the gravy it would have been hard to distinguish from the meat.
Another worst from me: I can't remember which less-than-supermarket it was from, but it was a great big puffy pastry steak and ale pie which, when you cut into it, was all puff (ie steam) and a thin greyish-brown gruelly layer of slop at the very bottom.
Worst: It's between the Sainsbury's Chicken Curry which gave me stomach ache, or the tight fisted Cooks Pie and Mash.
Best: Chinese Stlye Beef Curry from Farmfoods (Can't remember the manufacturer) Almost as good as the local takeaway.
Worst: Some Healthy Options Low Fat Rice & Chicken Curry. It's some sort of joint venture between Iceland Bird's Eye and was awful but their Healthy options deserts are lovely.
Budgens Thai green curry (not sure if it was own brand).
It looked like last night's left over washing up water and tasted of soap, and not in a good way.
Worst: Anything with pressed chicken in it. [enough to put you off food for life]
Best - I'm struggling but probably those fresh Asda curries which are not all terrible and can be improved with a little fresh coriander.
I agree about the Thai green curry from Lidl, it's delicious and sometimes on special offer down to £1.39. The red one isn't so great, but the various Indian ones are nice too.
Worst I think was some tuna pasta bake thing from Tesco - watery, bland and just plain nasty.
Worst: (Does this count) Heinz Vegetarian Ravioli (in a can). MINGING!!