Revolting Ready Meals!

[EcclesCake]

I have a throat lined with barbed wired and am coughing like a good 'un, and I'm home alone.

Cooking for just for me is not filling my heart with joy while I'm feeling grim so I picked up a ready meal.

As my throat is sore anything abrasive doesn't appeal. I had a fancy for spinach & ricotta cannelloni......what a mistake.

Once I'd got it onto the plate it looked like a plate of sick, hmmm appetising.

I have been unable to discern any particular flavours.

The overwhelming experience has been of eating raw flour in the cheese sauce.

In future I will make sure I freeze the odd single portion of home cooked food, supermarket stuff is duff!

I'm in two minds wether I should send a grumble to the supermarket or just accept that ready meals are pants?

[Peter Pedant]

Oh my lady !

you sound as tho you tried the Lords subsidized canteen against advice

[jno]

goodness, what supermarket was that?

Heston's lasagne from Waitrose (ony the bigger ones, I think) is lush and very filling, you won't need another meal for days.

[pastafreak]

Which supermarket was it from? The last/and possibly only time in my mature adult life,that I got a ready meal,it was from M&S.I thought they'd have to be good....hah!!! I was so wrong. It just served to remind me why I never buy them.

[DTCwordfan]

Charlie Bigham or whatever his name is - his are not bad - steak and ale, fish, mac-cheese - Waitrose or Sainsbury. Not cheap though at £6-7.....

[horseshoes]

Ready meals are the work of the devil! If you're not feeling too grand, what you need is a nice big pan of lob scouse! Lovely and warming, and easy on the throat. Plus mega easy to make. Hope you're feeling better soon Eccles. X

[jno]

we get lots of meal deals from Tesco and M&S - two mains, two sides, two desserts and a bottle of wine for £10 or so is the usual. Most of the menu options are chicken but there's usually something edible in there, and most of the ones I've had taste fine. Cheaper than DIY at that price.

[EcclesCake]

This was from Waitrose. I am astounded that there were no discernible flavours, just goopy texture.

I can cope with that, to some extent, but eating raw flour is pretty lousy.

[pastafreak]

Send an email off to them. I'm sure they will treat your opinion seriously....maybe a voucher?

[jno]

I'm surprised, Waitrose are usually better than the rest, and dearer. They usually have two or three different lines, though, so if one doesn't work try another.

You're sure being off colour hasn't hit your taste buds?

[Peter Pedant]

and did one wear one's tiara as one put the goop intothe microwave ?

one laydee complained that she had been served a ramekin of god-knows-what masquerading as good veg fare
so I am certain you have been to the same place.....

[B00]

Can't be only me who can't make head nor tail of PP's posts can there?

Anyhoo, being a peasant I quite like some ready meals, granted they aint gourmet nosh,but they usually do what they say on the tin (or usually box) and that is fill you up.

Hope ya get better soon Eccles :-)

[EcclesCake]

I'm happy to accept that my sense of taste may be wonky but detecting raw flour is more of a physical reaction than sensory.

It's difficult to explain but it isn't just about taste.

[DTCwordfan]

As Pasta says, whip them an e-mail with your comments and a hint of your professional capacity......maybe a voucher or a wad of flowers....though I'd push for a vino-voucher!

[EcclesCake]

I'm sorry to say that I find it easier to ignore PP's posts as I can rarely fathom what they're about.

I'm not totally against ready meals. I'm frustrated as to why dishes that should suit the ready meal model are so pants.

I hope I feel better soon too, another night of disturbed sleep is not desirable :-(

[snags]

''you won't need another meal for days''

That'll be the Norovirus:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550252/Dinner-Hestons-food-bug-shuts-AGAIN-At-10-reports-poisoning-chefs-Michelin-starred-restaurant.html

[EcclesCake]

Freezer has plenty of home cooked stuff in it. Seems a waste to defrost a meal for two when there is only me to eat it.

[woofgang]

I find some of waitrose meals grim indeed. I know we should all eat less salt but I suspect that someone in the menu control department has taken it too far. Having said that...spinach and ricotta canneloni????? bleurgh at the best of times. JNo and I disagree over Heston's lasagne I find it way too oily and rich.
their curries aren't bad although I prefer m and s

[trt]

## Freezer has plenty of home cooked stuff in it. Seems a waste to defrost a meal for two when there is only me to eat it. ##

Cant see any probs with that, the remainder can be kept in the fridge for 2/3 days to eat!

[emmie]

ready meals or most of them i have on the occasion tried are not pants, just crap