Ready meals - any favourites?

I have mobility problems and am housebound but have always enjoyed cooking and eating so recently decided to try ready meals. But never again. One look at the ingredients list was enough. Too much sauce pastry, sauce etc. I cannot strain saucepans of boiling water but manage very well with microwave, mini oven and slow cooker. I rely on Sainsbury deliveries and get frozen strewing vegetables, chopped onions, frozen mash, roast potatoes, chips etc. I have not thought about frozen jacket potatoes as fresh ones only take seven minutes in the microwave anyway. Use the slow cooker a lot.
I do miss fresh fish. Ordered some and found it had been frozen and thawed and processed in China! Also Young’s use a lot of Basa which comes from the Mehtong Delta in Vietnam which is polluted. Makes one think from whence the makers of ready meals source their ingredients.

We love Charlie Bigham meals and Waitrose Steak Pies…when they are in store. The shelves are always empty as they are popular and sell out quickly!

I am a great fan of Trescothick for instant meals...NOT the curries but I love their Crab and Chilli linguine with rocket !!Its delicious!! Should be TESCOS.

We like Charlie Bigham meals & Waitrose Steak pies when they are on the shelves. They are popular at our local branch and sell out quickly!

I particularly like the Slimming World ones from Iceland. So filling and delicious.

I found a macaroni cheese with ham hock on Lidl. I can make my own but if is very tasty for a quick meal if I’m late home from grandkid duties. I also agree the meal in a Yorker that M&S do is lovely. Also M&S again, their Indian menu butter chicken is very nice.

Co-op Indian range are not bad.

Love Charlie Bingham’s macaroni cheese. Nothing wrong with the occasional ready meal.

I eat Ready Meals not all the time but occasionally when I can't be bothered to cook anything separately. One of the ones I like best is Sainsburys Lamb with Dumplings.

Bijou Invest in an Air Fryer it can cook without any fat or with very little. It can cook fish and meat and vegetables and lots of other things. It cooks a lot quicker and more evenly.

I really like M&S ready meals. My absolute favourite is their vegetable moussaka which is so tasty and very low in calories. The SW meals from Iceland are good as well.
If any of you are in the north and have a Booths nearby, they have some amazing frozen meals. Sadly, I can't recall the name of them, but they are properly virtually home made. Quite expensive but worth every penny and in different sizes.
I am right now waiting for a Morrisons order with two beef stroganoff for tea tonight. Hope they are good, I am starving!

Very rarely buy ready meals (for one thing the portions are just far too small!). But we do like Lamb Henrys, in either mint sauce or red wine sauce; they really do taste homemade and the portions are big. I have tried both frozen and fresh ones, both delicious. I have bought them from Morrisons, Aldi and Sainsburys, no difference between them.

I recently bought three Cook meals from my local garden centre.
I often eat on my own and after cooking for 60+ years I have decided to give myself a break occasionally.
I have eaten the chicken pie and tonight had the chicken in a leek, tarragon,
cream and white wine sauce with new potatoes.
They were both delicious. Not cheap, about £4:75 each but worth it, so much better and cheaper than a takeaway and so enjoyable.
I shall buy more when I can.

I just saw this before I make my ready microwave meal - a packet of brown rice, and a packet of Heinz lentil curry. Big dollop of natural yoghurt and only one bowl to wash!

Only ready meals I buy for us regularly are Charlie Bigham's when they are on offer. They are expensive. Sainsbury's offer has been £6. I suppose other supermarkets do something similar. Favourites are the Fish Pie, Lasagne and Moussaka. The last two freeze well.

Lots of M&S favourites but rarely buy them. Nearest store is 45 mins drive away. I can't get delivery through Ocado either. They don't deliver to our area even though we live 5 mins from the main A road through Cornwall.

I batch cook too, but every now and again will opt for a ready made chilled meal, especially if we get home late and just want something to sling in the oven.

Sainsbury's Finest Cottage Pie with red wine is one of our favs. They also do quite a good moussaka and Beef Hash. They're often reduced to £5 for some reason, so not bad for a meal for two with some greens or salad.

My veggie friend has just strongly recommended Waitrose own Plantlife Mushroom & Lentil Bolognese Cannelloni. You have to add your own tomato sauce and cheese if wanted. I will try it soon.

For a quick cheap meal I like Heinz Creationz Lentil Curry with Dhal Spices & Tomatoes, maybe with some frozen Cauliflower rice or microwave rice. Or just some chunks of feta or goats cheese on top.

Charlie Bigham ready meals are really rather nice. Even my ‘I do not eat ready meals’ son agreed the fish pie was good! Tesco stock them. Waitrose also.

Sainsbury's do too!

Aldi’s chicken korma,chicken tikka masala, and onion Bajis all delicious. Cheap too !

I made my own moussaka for years. What a faff with so many layers to pre-prepare. I tried Charlie Bigham’s version and that was the end of home-cooked moussaka. The only other ready meal I buy is chicken Kiev from the Gastropub range in M&S.

Try Charlie Bingham meals. Delicious!

We like Tesco boxed curry meals from the chiller they are often on offer down from £7 to £4 . We tried " The Transformation Chef " mail order. The meals arrived partly defrosted as they did not use enough frozen blocks and were pretty trrible too . I forget the name of the other company we tried as a treat and they were not good either. We also like Charlie Bigham .

We’ve recently discovered www.cook food.net. Not the cheapest but as close to home cooking as you’ll find anywhere. We get ours from our local farm shop in Hertfordshire but they do deliver and their website will give a list of stockists.

We discovered Chef Akila curries in lockdown. Cooked by a mum whose doctor son advises on the recipe so that they’re as healthy as possible. They’re delicious, and a decent price too. They arrive frozen, so we keep a few in stock.

If we fancy being more indulgent, we have a local Greek restaurant that delivers the best moussaka and other lovely dishes, on weekends only.