Will it stop you buying frozen ready meals

taplady

JackieO - how are your cooking lessong going with your grandson? x

Living_proof

I wonder what a small donkey chop looks like? Or minced pony? Would I recognise a rolled boned joint of horse do you think? I have moved to an area where there is a covered market but my impressions are that there are a lot of packs of imported chicken breasts, pork loin etc. promoted as British or English when they may have just been packed here. I hope someone can put me right!

Pee

I sometimes eat ready meals. Not very often, mainly for convenience when I would like something hot for lunch or to avoid bread. I appreciate I can also take leftovers to microwave at work, and I do this too and my OH's lasagne does beat any of the frozen ones hands down. It is pretty cheap but must average out at £2 or more a portion. I will still buy ready meals, but I would rather choose if and when I eat horse or more worryingly pork...

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taplady wrote: »

JackieO - how are your cooking lessong going with your grandson? x

Very well he is really getting interested in cooking ,even more so now this news has come out.I am hopeing by the time he does fly the nest he will be at least able to feed himself without living on takeaways.mind you he is a sensible young man and no ones fool when it comes to cash. I am goning to induce him to art of slow cooking shortly and show him how much food and good meals he can get from a nice chicken. A good Oakham one from M&S's might be a little dearer but the flavour is well worth it

p00

This will probably be a good thing in the end. More people will learn to cook and stop buying these junk meals. Who knows whats really in them?

Personally we never buy these - we have in the past a few years ago - but I dont object to eating horse meat if thats what it says on the label.

Surely manufacturers are legally obliged to test meat they buy before using it.

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taplady

JackieO - that is excellent:T - well done to you on passing on your skills. It's such a shame so many young people have nobody willing or able to teach them how to cook and a shame that it's not an important part of school anymore.

In my opinion budgeting and cooking should be taught everywhere rather than a lot of useless information that is forgotten once the exams are over.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Those supermarkets who can genuinely state that their entire meat supply chain can be summarised as: UK farmer

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> to shelf have a massive free PR coup here, and I'm surprised they're not making more of it with big campaigns.

The only ready meals I buy are the Quorn cottage pies, as an occasional weekend lunch treat. I don't own a microwave though, and I think that reduces temptation considerably.

I remember a uni mate being severely ill after buying some frozen Tesco Value Cornish Pasties. I saved so much money being a vegetarian student!

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also now testing chicken for introduced fillers, lamb, pork. Testing for horse isn`t enough, rat cat dog and human (lets not be squeamsih this is coming from back alleys and via the murfia)

Popperwell

JackieO wrote: »

I can understand why and for what reason folk use ready meals and good luck to them its just not for me.I live alone and have for nine and a half years yet I still cook for myself from scratch as its the way I have always cooked.when I get too old to cook hopefully one of my Dds will make soem frozen stuff for me as ,especially the youngest one is a smashing cook.But fingers crossed that is a long way off yet :)

As long as dementia doesn't get me I hope I can always cook. Its not too difficult if I can use gadgets to help more as dexterity decreases. And most meals even from scratch is a combination of veg and/or meat.

And as we seem too eat less/smaller portions if preparing veg is a problem I guess it helps that a lot of veg is available now to avioid that step. And smaller pots and pans are available.

tina_malteser

SeaHorse in Fish Fingers :rotfl: