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The Best and the Worst ready meals you have ever had |
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The Best and the Worst ready meals you have ever had
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. |
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Best: Thai Green curry from LIDL
Worst: Sweet n Sour chicken from Iceland |
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Never had one and never will.
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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. |
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I lived 4 weeks without a cooker recently so became a bit of a ready meal expert
Best: Waitrose paprika chicken with cubed garlic potatoes Worst: Morrisons 'healthy option' duck with noodles. It was inedible. |
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Best: Weight watchers mushroom and broccoli potato wedge melt
Worst: Asda's curry and chips - YUCK |
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tescos old healthy living chicken and pasta bake was lovely. The new thing they have replaced it with is awful.
worst one ive ever had was another tescos healthy living cottage pie, ive never seen so many tubes eugh. |
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Best - still racking my brains.
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!!! |
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Worst; Well I don't think much of any of the ones that you heat up, i'm with orangebathwater on that.
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.
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Worst; Well I don't think much of any of the ones that you heat up, i'm with orangebathwater on that.
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. ![]() 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.
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tescos old healthy living chicken and pasta bake was lovely. The new thing they have replaced it with is awful.
worst one ive ever had was another tescos healthy living cottage pie, ive never seen so many tubes eugh. 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. |
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Best: Waitrose Salmon & Prawn Tagliatelle
Worst: A Lancashire Hotpot, can't remember where from, but the 'meat' was all gristle. |
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Best:Chicken Tikka Masala (M&S)
Worst:Chicken Tikka Masala (Morrisons) |
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Best= Birdseye Chicken Curry
Worst= Rustlers Burger(why i even picked it up i'll never know) AJxx |
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I don't have a favourite ready meal but I do have quite a few that I like and buy regularly. Mostly from M&S.
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. |
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Best: M&S Organic Chicken Casserole. Mind you, it does cost £4.09.
Worst: Anything containing Quorn. |
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Best: Bighams Individual Shepherds Pies from Waitrose - gorgeous tasty ragu topped with crushed potatoes in individual pottery ramekins to keep and use again. Costs more than a shepherd's annual salary.
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. |
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Ah, I've thought of a Best: Bombay Brasserie meal for 1 at £4.99 from Sainsbo's
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. |
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Best: Birds Eye Chicken Curry.
Worst: It's between the Sainsbury's Chicken Curry which gave me stomach ache, or the tight fisted Cooks Pie and Mash. |
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Spar frozen curries, they are really bad, the chicken one i got for me lunch one day, didnt have any chicken in it all
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Not a big fan of Ready meals athough Lasagne is always pretty edible.
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. |
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Another worst from me:
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. |
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Best: Icelands beef madras, at £1.50. [it's one of my greatest finds]
Worst: Anything with pressed chicken in it. [enough to put you off food for life] |
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Worst - mostly every one I've tried...particularly anything claiming to contain meat.
Best - I'm struggling but probably those fresh Asda curries which are not all terrible and can be improved with a little fresh coriander. |
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Best: Thai Green curry from LIDL
Worst: Sweet n Sour chicken from Iceland Worst I think was some tuna pasta bake thing from Tesco - watery, bland and just plain nasty. |
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