Ready meal

A ready meal is a meal that requires very little preparation and contains all the elements of the course in one package.

An example might be a chicken tikka masala where the rice, chicken and all other ingredients are prepackaged in a plastic tray and require a few minutes in a microwave oven to prepare.

Such meals are criticised as being unhealthy since they lack fresh ingredients and are often very high in salt and fat.

The UK spends £5 million a day on ready meals, it is the largest consumer of ready meals in Europe.

Lasagne is the most popular ready meal in the UK, Sainsburys sells 26 a minute.

At one place where ready to eat meal is very popular in western countries mainly because people are very busy there ,but it's not the case in asian and african countries here people are still found of fresh food but as the life style is slowly changing they have also started to except ready to eat as a concept as this really saves the time required for cooking 

External links

• BBC News Online – Choose your ready-meal carefully
• The Times – Britain is the ready-meal glutton of Europe