Ready Meal Easy Peel Film Iid. Have You Found An Easy Peelable Brand? Or Share Your Peeling Secret

binao

The instructions say peel-off film lid on ready meals. Most just disintegrate when you try to peel them off. Have you found an easy peelable brand or have you found a way of peeling off the unpeelable ones What is the secret.

p00hsticks

We find Iceland frozen ready meals always peel back really easily

binao

Thanks. We will give  Iceland a visit. Just round the corner from our maison 

maman

Do you mean those that say you should open them to stir in the microwave part way through but then they won't go back?

 Then there's the packaging (not ready meals) that are allegedly resealable but aren't.

I generally poke them with a sharp knife to get them started. 😁

Personally I'd be more interested in the taste and food value of the meal than the lid. 🤔

binao

maman said:

Do you mean those that say you should open them to stir in the microwave part way through but then they won't go back?

 Then there's the packaging (not ready meals) that are allegedly resealable but aren't.

I generally poke them with a sharp knife to get them started. 😁

Personally I'd be more interested in the taste and food value of the meal than the lid. 🤔

Thank you.

Taste and food value are paramount.

My problem Is with instructions that say peel but are unpeelable and need stabbing, leaving shards of plastic round the edge.  

E.g. Cottage Pie

Microwave stirrers half way, I remove the plastic completely. 

LIDL removed microwaving etc from Salmon in plastic, it was said, due to carcinogenic scares.

Such a common problem, but so few responders. Iceland it is then.

Farway

I had a Co-op one the other day, my first, and it peeled back easily to stir halfway. I've had the type you mention from elsewhere and it leaves a rim of plastic

Not that it matters round here, council does not take the food trays anyway, clean or not, coloured or not, just unwanted along with yoghurt & marge tubs

MysteryMe

End up stabbing 90% of them.

sammyjammy

Marks & Spencer are pretty good

maman

Farway said:

Not that it matters round here, council does not take the food trays anyway, clean or not, coloured or not, just unwanted along with yoghurt & marge tubs

Around here, the soft plastic lids are recyclable in Sainsburys and the Coop. Applies to all soft plastic like bags and packaging that pings back when crushed. It all helps. 😊

Donostio

I don't bother peeling back because of the tearing problem. I just shake to mix, holding it flat on the surface and shaking sideways. 

DCFC79

Don't have ready meals often but the lids do not easily peel off, one I have found that does easily come off is the Wasabi range of foods available in Sainsbury's.