Best supplier of ready meals.

Wilshire farm will also, by arrangement, phone a regulator customer if need be, to remind them that they may want to order, if they haven't heard from them.

If you want fresh ready meals, rather than frozen. Charlie Bighams are good but you need to cook them in the oven.

We purchase wiltshire farm foods for an elderly relative and they like them but find the portion size too big (but they eat it all anyway )

M&S for me. Good quality. All calorie counted. I like the wide range of meals available and also that they do small sized ones. They were ideal for my MiL as she got older.

My mum quite liked the Oakhouse meals, because quite a few were cheese sauce, pasta type, and she thought they are best for microwaving.

JaneJudge

If you want fresh ready meals, rather than frozen. Charlie Bighams are good but you need to cook them in the oven.

We purchase wiltshire farm foods for an elderly relative and they like them but find the portion size too big (but they eat it all anyway )

Charlie Bighams fish pie is to die for 😋

Another shout out for Charlie Bingham, can be purchased from Sainsburys and Waitrose so deliveries available. Lots of good optiosn as well as the delicious fish pie, cottage pie, lasagne,macaroni cheese, red thai curry so name a few - many options. The only ready meals we like.

Charlie Bingham-good choice, good quality and best of all when they’re reduced in price because they’re due up the next day.

I’d rather recommend MS ready meals seem to be good ingredients and nutritional and they have good variety.

Wiltshire farm foods are really good. My late mil loved them and they used to be so helpful putting them away.

Yes M&S are good too. I used to buy her these then top her up with Wiltshire foods.

Ok, some time ago now, but my mother used WFF for several years. They weren’t exactly exciting meals - I sometimes had one when visiting - but they suited her very well, and the service was excellent. Must say I was amazed at the huge choice in the catalogue - not just different dishes, but portion sizes, as well as various dietary requirements.

My daughter used Cook for a big family party over Christmas. I found the lasagne was tasty but a bit heavy, not as good as I make! the Lemon cheesecake was absolutely delicious. whatever, it saved anyone doing a lot of cooking. Cook generally have a good reputation, but expensive.

I also think if there is a table full of people they take more notice of each other and the conversation than the food! so you can be a little bit less discriminating.

I often used to take an M&S ready meal, though - a salmon and broccoli pasta one used to go down well (she was a very fussy eater!) and I still make my own version of that, with a little cheese and a splash of white wine added.

I’ve tried Wiltshire foods and they are not good. Too small portions and disgusting soft mashed potato. I would rather get a takeaway. Does being elderly mean you can’t enjoy a nosh up, a good potion of chips and a large fish (yum). I’ve never met an elderly person who doesn’t eat much.
If you are home all day then nothing wrong in cooking from scratch

Btw I had a friend who used to say that if anyone brought her/delivered a ready meal she would throw them back. She was a stroke victim with limited capabilities but like to make her own as far as pissabke

My late MIL liked Wiltshire Farm Foods and so did all the others in her retirement flats complex.

We like Charlie Bunghams and Cook ourselves plus M&S own brand.

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I don’t know what I will have when I no longer cook as can’t stand ready meals, especially M and S. Think as long as I can manage a toaster it will have to be something in toast or Heinz soup, not as good as mine but I can eat it. My late fil lived for 12 years on Iceland ready meals, I thought they were awful but he enjoyed them as my mil was a very bad cook. We used to take him home cooked meals for his freezer and he really enjoyed them, his puddings were always canned rice or tinned fruit and evaporated milk.

OCADO deliver M&S food and ready meals, and lots of other things! I'm struggling with walking, especially around supermarkets, so have signed up to their delivery service (£3.99 a month) and get everything from them now. with a shop every two weeks. Drivers are friendly and helpful, they come on time, and bring the shopping in.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned Donald Russell. Their ready meals are excellent, the quantities are good and the food’s delicious. My Sister in law is no longer able to cook for herself and has a small appetite, so she orders frozen ready meals, desserts, etc., from DR. When I go to stay we both eat them and they are excellent.

I don't know why but I have recently gone off cooking after a life-time of being considered quite a good cook.
It might have been after having lunch with a friend and our husbands. She cooked a wonderful meal and yes we loved it but I realized that I no longer wanted to produce four course gourmet meals which took hours of standing up and many techniques . I am keener on having simple meals now and have started trying out the various types of ready meals a couple of times a week. We like Cook, Charlie Bigham, Waitrose, M&S and also Asda 's sliced roast beef in gravy. That is really cheap but with fresh veg, frozen yorkshire and or frozen roast potatoes it makes a nice midweek meal with almost no effort. I don't know if this is just a phase I'm going through but for now I am happy with it. My daughter at first saw it as a sign of me 'giving up' but now realises that as I have lots of interests, committees etc. on the go that I am not giving up but simplifying things to free up time.

Don't understand why you 'can't stand ready meals especially M&S ones'. They have a massive range of types of meal from classics like cottage pie to pretty exotic vegan curries and all points in between. Have another look at M&S.

Another shout out for Oakhouse Foods. I get them for my dad and, although definitely not the cheapest, they are decent portions and I think are good value for money.

Ethelwashere1

I’ve tried Wiltshire foods and they are not good. Too small portions and disgusting soft mashed potato. I would rather get a takeaway. Does being elderly mean you can’t enjoy a nosh up, a good potion of chips and a large fish (yum). I’ve never met an elderly person who doesn’t eat much.
If you are home all day then nothing wrong in cooking from scratch

Isn't mashed potato supposed to be soft? My inlaws would never dream of having a takeaway - neither could manage to eat a huge portion of fish and chops. Although they are both at home all day, neither is now capable of cooking meals from scratch. I do make soup and meals and take them to them whenever I can, but the Wiltshire foods (which are our local 'meals on wheels' service) have proved very useful in between times.

I've never met an elderly person who doesn't want small meals.