Will it stop you buying frozen ready meals

Cheapskate

We all seem to be thinking along the same lines, don't we? It's the trust issue that has everyone I know annoyed - it's ok if you want to eat processed, frozen food, possibly with additives in, but the list of ingredients should be accurate! I've been saying "I told you so" to DH and my friends since this broke (I have previously bored them all rigid with what's wrong with processed food for years! :rotfl:), but am also sad to be right IYSWIM. I wonder if there's more to come?

I heard something on the radio on this subject. People were commenting on different countries eating horse or donkey where we don't, some European countries don't eat lamb or mutton where Brits do, etc., each nationality pulling faces at others' food choices. I can't stand lamb or mutton, like rabbit, not keen on pork, love chicken and beef and most fish, would try horse or venison - so much of this is very subjective.

Does anyone think/wonder if this will be some sort of turning point? Maybe a wake-up call to more people about how food's produced? Will people begin to buy and cook "real" meat/fish more? Am I living in cloud cuckoo land? :rotfl:

Lots of food for thought...and yes, pun intended, sorry!

A xo

Peggybabcot

I'm assuming the horse meat has been substituted for beef to increase their profit margins even further and if they've done this without labelling it as such what other ingredients have been allowed into their ready meals for shareholders greed? I've eaten horse meat in France and not had a problem with this BUT if I buy beef I want to eat beef! If I was a big ready meal consumer (which I'm not thankfully) I'd be more concerned about what other things were being allowed into our food chain and not just the horse meat.

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added rats, cats, dogs, once mushed they will all look the same. This `scare` is only the tip of the iceberg. Fish from vietnam is next

Honeythief

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

I don't understand - people eat other meat so why not horses?

I have absolutely no problem with eating horsemeat provided that I know I'm eating horsemeat. The idea that not only might I be eating some unknown substance in my ready meal or burger, but that the manufacturer of the end product I bought might also not know what is in it, fills me with disgust. It's not the ingredients, it's the lack of control and information.

I don't live somewhere that has a good selection of frozen ready meals but you can bet I'd be thinking twice about them now if they were still on our menu.

Softstuff

I don't eat ready meals, mostly since in Australia they're ridiculously priced. As regards horsemeat I'd eat that, frankly though there isn't much meat-wise I wouldn't eat. It should indeed have been labelled as such.

What I don't get though is why someone would pass off horsemeat as beef. The only possible reason would be that horsemeat is cheaper, but as a vet friend says horses are very temperamental healthwise and hard to keep healthy, and I would have thought have less meat on them, so surely beef is cheaper to produce?

Pitlanepiglet

It's likely that the horses weren't produced for food, very probably they were simply used as a food product

Lilyplonk

Very rare that I buy 'ready meals' - occasionally if I see an 'Extra Special one at whoopsied price' then I might get tempted.

Like most posters on here, I would have no objection to horse-meat being offered in any meal, or butcher's cut, but it MUST be labelled correctly.

There's far more rubbish stuck into our processed foods today that would get me 'hot under the collar' :mad:.


One of my 'main bug-bears' is to find 'smoked flavourings' added to so many things - when the product is not labelled as 'smoked'. I hate the taste of 'smokiness' and can smell it the minute I open the packaging - then I usually find, somewhere on the rear label 'smoked paprika / di/tri-phosphates / smoked flavouring' .



There is also a similar tendancy with 'fish products' - how many times do you see something labelled as containing 'white fish' without specifying what exactly the 'fish' is ..............


Food suppliers have to respect the 'end customer' and customers need to have confidence in THEM and the Supermarkets that we can buy with confidence that we're getting what we've chosen to buy .................. and NOT 'something we didn't bargain for'.

kezlou

Were not big fans of ready meals, we prefer home cooked food.
I used to live off findus macaroni cheese when i was younger, 3 mins in the microwave. Perfect when you have hour between uni and rushing like mad into work.

We buy frozen burgers, pizzas and chips, when we found out about the horse in aldi burgers. My OH and DS1 said oh that why they taste better! then asked do have any horse burgers left

My own opinion is not that it had horse meat in, it about products being mislabelled. Who knows what else is in there, echoing what others have said about pork or items which could cause a massive allergic reaction.

My DS1 and OH love sausages and they know fine well what goes in them but they CHOOSE to eat them. The problem i'm facing now is ds2 keeps asking if bread as horse meat in, nightmare if you have just bought a loaf of bread for quickness.
So yesterday he refused to eat the sandwich i made him as the bread was processed.

I have eaten horse before in a arabic restuarunt in the uk before, its a bit chewy but fine.

craigywv

When i was in town yeaterday kfc was chocca block while burger king had not 1 person in it................speaks for itself. xxx

BabyBoots

I do buy ready meals, usually a curry or paella - maybe two or three times a month, when we're short of time/energy, or there's just one person at home for dinner. I do also batch cook for the freezer for homemade ready meals, and this scandal has reminded me of all the junk in processed food. i did also see an undercover documentary a few years ago of poor hygiene standards in food factories, which put me off.

It's not just meat products either - read the ingredients for a salmon and cucumber sandwich from Tesco - it sure isn't just salmon and cucumber!

This has made up my mind to avoid processed foods further. I will still buy ready made curry and pasta sauces in jars though, I don't make many of them from scratch. Hopefully there's not anything too horrible in them!