#24

M&S gastropub range is pretty great, but I’m always surprised how bad waitrose ones are, firecracker chicken is the exception

#25

Yeah the Katsu chicken is decent, as is the m&s one

#26

tesco finest ready meals, quite a few of them are fucking wicked

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#27

Do supermarket oven pizzas count as ready meals?

I think they should, but I fear this is a minority view.

#28

Its not a meal for one

#29

It absolutely is.

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#30

Id say a meal has to have more than one component. If it was half a pizza and salad or something then yeah

#31

I wouldn’t count a oven pizza as a ready meal, but I’m not 100% sure why. Just seems like a different type of thing (obviously a pizza is a meal for one though)

#32

So on this logic a microwave lasagne doesn’t count as a ready meal.

We’re in very dangerous territory. Already.

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#33

a pizza has more than one component. Bread + cheese + tomato (+ toppings)

#34

you know what I mean

#35

Hmmm very true. I’m going to withdraw my comments before we all say something we’ll regret

#36

I really don’t

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#37

^^^ Feel he only likes those born via C-Section

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#38

Just snobbery, innit?

The TL;DR musings:

I think the line is normally drawn at food that we consider ‘easy’ to make at home. Because of the necessity of proving dough, etc, bread-based meals usually take considerably longer even than something like lasagna.

(Possibly extra layer of snobbery there because readymade pasta is fine, readymade pizzabases aren’t seen the same way - but possibly just because of the quality of those foods?)

#39

M&S chilli crab linguine is :fire:

#40

Supermarket pizzas aside I can’t remember the last time I had a ready meal. We’re talking years.

Main reason is because I can’t be bothered to trawl through the labels looking for which ones don’t have offensive amounts of sugar and, sometimes, salt in them. I’d just rather not bother.

#41

I can tell you: it was when we were having our kitchen done a few weeks ago and only had a microwave. Some M&S ones. They were good.

But the main reason I don’t go for them is first the fact that vegetarians tend to be ill-served with variety and second they’re generally aimed at people who are watching their calorie intake. For me they are just far too small a portion so I’d just end up having to supplement with some sandwiches or something.

#42

Oh yeah I’m sure there are perfectly good ones - I just don’t have any need to eat them these days, I really don’t, so can’t be bothered to look.

I used to get a Macaroni Cheese one from Tesco and grate a shitload of extra cheese into it. Those were the days my friend.

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#43

For some reason, I draw the line at whether they can be cooked in a microwave, and not if they have to be cooked in the oven or on the hob.

I went through a period of working long hours in the office and it’s so annoying to find meals that look quite nice, but can’t be done in a microwave.

Sainsbury’s used to do a lovely roast vegetable and pasta dish with cheese and breadcrumb topping, which was my go to meal but they stopped selling it for some reason.