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Favourite ready meals, anybody?

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Witzend Sun 18-Sept-22 22:06:48

We hardly ever have ready meals, but after a night flight home from hols this morning (a bare 2 hours’ sleep) not much food in, and a lot of shops closed tomorrow, dh went and bought (among others) 2 Waitrose Nasi Goreng - recommended if you like SE Asian food. He became very keen on NG during a year working in Indonesia.
He just added 2 fried eggs to his, but I’ve had mine plain.
What are your favourites, if any?
(I do nearly always cook from scratch, so don’t need any ‘worthy’ comments, thanks.)

Prentice Sun 18-Sept-22 22:14:25

No worthy comment from me, at times ready meals are a wonderful thing.My favourite one is by M&S and I find it delicious, it is sweet and sour chicken in batter with egg fried rice and peas.I do confess I could eat this several times a week but of course I do not.

Callistemon21 Sun 18-Sept-22 22:21:47

I'll look out for that, Witzend
Having spent time in Singapore, DH does like Nasi Goreng and used to make a good version himself.

I like Charlie Bigham's fish pie.

crazyH Sun 18-Sept-22 22:26:51

I like Nasi Goreng - the best one was from Lidl - I don’t know if they still do it.
I even like the reconstituted packets of pasta with mushroom sauce - just for the odd emergency

kittylester Sun 18-Sept-22 22:31:48

Another Charlie Bigham fan here. Just wish he would go Moor gf ones.

Callistemon21 Sun 18-Sept-22 22:32:53

crazyH

I like Nasi Goreng - the best one was from Lidl - I don’t know if they still do it.
I even like the reconstituted packets of pasta with mushroom sauce - just for the odd emergency

Yes, they do, DH bought himself one last week.

Charleygirl5 Sun 18-Sept-22 22:33:21

Waitrose has recently;y started to sell their own Indian meals and the latest I had was Keralan Inspired Chicken Biryani which was very tasty and only 345 calories.

I also like macaroni cheese. These dishes are handy when I cannot be bothered to cook anything from scratch.

I do not like sweet and sour anything.

sodapop Mon 19-Sept-22 17:57:45

When I lived in UK I loved M&S Cumberland pie. Don't know if they still do it.

SueDonim Mon 19-Sept-22 18:06:34

We had an excellent frozen fish pie from Waitrose this week. I’ve really gone off fish in recent years but this wasn’t too ‘fishy’ tasting and was beautifully creamy with lovely mash.

Katyj Mon 19-Sept-22 19:28:49

Prentice. I also love M&S sweet and sour chicken too, haven’t found another to match it. Also like their vegetable lasagne.

Enid101 Mon 19-Sept-22 19:33:16

M&S veggie lasagne is delicious. Aldi fish pie is also good.

Oopsadaisy1 Mon 19-Sept-22 19:42:32

Tesco make an excellent Chicken Byriani, comes complete with rice, I keep 2 in the freezer ‘just in case’.

GrandmaRosie Tue 20-Sept-22 20:41:58

Anything from the Waitrose Levantine Table range is good, although the mains aren’t really big enough to serve two! Also love the M&S £12 Gastropub Dine in range, especially chicken parmigiana ?

nadateturbe Tue 20-Sept-22 21:36:03

I too like Charlie Bigham pies but they've shot up to £9, quite expensive.

However my favourite if I don't want to cook is fish fingers and crinkle cut oven chips. Cook together in oven. No work involved.

Blossoming Tue 20-Sept-22 22:03:19

I like Morrisons Tastes of the World range. The bare burrito bowl is my favourite and easy for me to prepare when Mr. B is out.

Daisymae Tue 20-Sept-22 23:08:14

We have a COOK shop now a reasonable distance. They stock frozen meals that are excellent. Not cheap but actually better than eating out in some instances. Have veggie and vegan options. As for the desserts........