Do You Love Ready Meals? You know! The Good Old Microwave Job!!

oh boy i love ready meals! especially when i'm in a hurry or when i'm feeling lazy to cook or buy food or eat out.

I am a lazy person.I don't like to cook,so I often eat rice.With a pot of steamed rice cookers,I have enough to eat for three days.On the fitst day I rat rice and vegetables,On the third day and the next day I eat fride rice.To me,this is very convenient.

Sorry my friend I have to strongly disagree with you on this one! I hate ready meals in fact I detest anything microwaved, I don't own a microwave and probably never will, I have had a few meals in the past my ex has given me in the microwave, never ever again! It has a horrible taste to it and it's not always just the food, to me microwaving food is not proper cooking. I would much rather go without than have anything microwaved! I'll eat cereal, sandwiches, fruit anything but cook in a microwave, so not for me my friend. Has to be cooked in the oven or eaten cold, never microwaved!

I have eaten them. They are handy and economical, but they are certainly not the same as homemade. Right now my "fast food" is a microwaved potato with whatever I have left over as a topping. Chili and cheese is really very good. Frozen veggies microwave really well, and believe it or not, so do eggs. I do really enjoy having a microwave and the convenience it provides.

I can't afford ready meals on our food budget but I do make my own ready meals up for the freezer so if there is not a lot of time I cam pull a meal out of the freezer and re heat it. Some ready meals do taste nice and some don't.

Yes, I especially love those rice and pasta packages! Toss them into the microwave and make a quick salad. One complete meal. Last week, though, I finally bought a crock pot so I'm having fun with that too! Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

It is sometimes i like. when I am in a hurry and have to cook something in whisker. otherwise this is not my cup of tea.i like to make quick recipes for myself most of the times.

How i wish i could. Sometimes i get so lazy to do the cooking that i wish i could just do what you are doing but i can't. If it is just me and my girls and my father then i could do that. But i still, look after my sister's family, she is gone now and they have no one to look after them.Though, it is just the cooking that i do for them. How i wish i could serve them ready meals.

i am not a huge fan of ready to eat meals..i prefer preparing our food myself.. you know, ready to eat meals aren't that good for health as most of them are packed with preservatives..

I'm not a fan and they're not really as cheap here in the Philippines. The lunch-promo meals from fast food restaurants that are so accessible are just as cheap. But I guess I do know what you feel about loving food that you can just pop in the microwave and is ready for serving - I guess that's why my mom would send me left over meals packed nicely in microwaveable plastics :) Thanks for the response on my discussion!

The ready made meals tend to be high in salt and fat, so unless you buy the diet ones it is not a healthy alternative to real food. I do use them occasionally like you do when short of time, not feeling well or just lazy. What I do is say cook a roast or chicken and will eat for a few days, but the remainder goes in the freezer in individual portions. I will do that for mashed potatoes too accasionally. A bag of frozen veggies is fairly cheap so I do that on the stove top, it takes about ten minutes overall. Thus I microwave the meat and potatoes, cook the frozen veggies and I have a quick meal as fast as any premade and I control the salt. I also cook rice enough for two days. On the bed of rice you can put some vegetables and a few pieces of meat, could be anthing and use my favorite sauce over all.

ya i hate waiting for a lot of time after i order for the food. its really boring when we r totally hungry. but i dont want to eat some old food. i prefer waiting over having some bad old food. ha ha

i think ready meals are usually less healthy right? i mean it's all processed and all the preservatives that goes into it. On that note, over here in asian countries, we have the instant noodles which is a really popular type of food. it only takes 3mins to prepare( by just pouring hot water and waiting). It actually tastes really yummy but also unhealthy, cause it contains a lot of MSG.

I wouldnt eat ready meals personally because of a number of factors. -In terms of our budget here, ready meals do not offer us very good value for money. I can buy much better ingredients for the same price as a ready meal. -They are not a very healthy option...whether it is salt content or fat content or destroyed vitamins & minerals. -I can produce healthy, tasty, filling meals in the same time as it takes to make a ready meal. -If you were to organise your cooking and freezing of foods during a month, for example, you could store plenty of meals that you can microwave for convenience and have the peace of mind that the meal is homemade and nutritious. -Packaging waste. I hate all that packaging that gets thrown in the bin and then thrown into landfill. The cost of a ready meal is much more than just money. Andrew....why not keep some ready cooked noodles in the fridge, some easy to cook vegetables such as mushrooms, suger snap peas, baby corns, onion, peppers etc, and some steak and in no time at all you can make a very very healthy stir fry. I guarantee it will take the same time to make as the ready meal and it will be so much better for you. If you take a look round, youll find lots of similar suggestions....and you might find yourself never buying a ready meal again :-))

In a country like ours wherein we relish hot freshly prepared food, there is a considerable mindset issue against the readymade concept. Although it is catching on in some of the larger cities and towns people still have the tendency to go out and eat instead of going for the ready made meal. I for one have indulged in them very rarely.

It depends on what it is. Some I like,some I hate, and others I love. I bought a shrimp scampi Microwave TV dinner the other night and paid just $1.25 for it. It was delicious. Next best thing to Red Lobster. I will definitely buy it again!

yes sometimes.spacialy only single or 2 persons eating. its easy to do this way.last night we had bacon and rice fast and easy almos like "ready meals pack"

I can understand where you are coming from. Frozen meals and ready to go meals are pretty abundant these days aren't they? Well I guess you could call what I am serving tonight a real meal. I am making chicken and some other things along with it. Believe it or not we are going without a microwave in our house for now until we can afford one and it really hasn't hurt us too much by not having one. The microwave can come in handy to heat coffee though in which I miss doing.

oh yes Andrew the best and the easiest when you are in a hurry. I enjoy cooking, however and I love to cook should there be enough time but when I feel lazy and tired, I do the same, I rely on ready meals...

As for me,I prefer cook fresh meals for my family at home and ready meals when I'm alone.I think sometimes it implies your attitude towards life and your character.And I think it is enjoyable to cook whatever you want and you'll feel happy to cook for someone you love.So if you have time,you can cook meals instead of eating ready meals,it's very funny and feel proud of youself when you eat what you have cooked.