One meat two veg. Ireland has some of the most balanced ready meals in Europe. You couldn’t find simple but healthy food like this at this price in London or Paris.
by sonthonaxrk
One meat two veg. Ireland has some of the most balanced ready meals in Europe. You couldn’t find simple but healthy food like this at this price in London or Paris.
by sonthonaxrk
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They’ve really picked up in quality to be fair to most of the ready meals. It’s still better to cook at home but nowhere near the horrible quality that used to be on offer. A lot of the supermarket ones would be around the same quality as a cheap pub/hotel carvery.
Yes and a shout out to super value and raths in carlow for this too. Quality is actually really high and the price is fair. And also our delis are decent too. They don’t exist anywhere else as far as I can see.
And to be fair, they’re decent as well! I grab one the odd time from our centra. Always find it enjoyable.
I’ve noticed this year that there are definitely more healthy microwavable meals. For example, the ‘clean chicken curry’ or the ‘guilt free spice bag’ from Aldi. Centra is stocking overnight oats that are full of sugar, though, and other ‘clean’ meals that aren’t really healthy, so they can take advantage of peoples’ desire to eat clean and still sell you junk.
Out of curiosity, what’s the salt and sugar content?
‘balanced meals’
They’re very tasty and great value but they’re not really healthy. Absoutely full of salt and saturated fat.
Centra up in the north does a range of ready meals from a company called Slims Kitchen… Not sure if they have places down south but they have a few restaurants up here and have started doing ready meals. They’re awesome, full of crisp veggies and lean meat, with a balanced amount of carbs to go with it. The one round the corner from my office does them, they make a great office day lunch.
Better than it was but healthy?
Little vegetables and nothing green, I suspect high sodium and likely sugars, likely more processed than it first appears, portion size is not small either especially the starches…..
Hi Centra!
Salt and saturated fats. Sorry but nothing comes close to making your own food for health.
Dude, you should check out the options in Paris. Their supermarkets are excellent and the quality of ingredients is top notch.
Healthy? Maybe, Centra being cheap though…
I never get them personally, but our local Supervalu has a serious selection of freshly prepped ready meals..
Those sauces are prob full of sugar and salt. But generally yeah you could do a lot worse than that stuff.
Also, the Irish brand Fid do probably the best veggie, ready food I’ve seen anywhere. I use them camping, half the price of awful camping food and a proper meal.
Many of these have 75% of your total RDI Salt Allowance, so that they sit on the shevles for many days.
As a foreigner who visited the island, your petrol station pre-packaged food quality and meal balance was outstanding. I try to stay out of our stations as much as possible lol.
It’s garbáiste with little to no nutritional value, and if you think it’s good value for money you have been economically warped!
Some of the Delis near me do a proper fresh dinner as well with a roast, mashed potatoes, roast Potatoes and 2 veg, a s a half dinner which is honestly decent sized,.for 6-7 quid. It’s super fresh and lovely
I’ve worked in a supervalu and centra over the years. The single elderly people in the area lived off those meals. Older men whose dinners were taken care of by their now deceased wives. They wouldn’t be mad into experimental foods, a good roast dinner will do them.
Some craic my granny told me that’s stuck with me – I was asking her why she buys so many ready meals in her weekly shop, after she used to slag them off herself back in the day. She was saying that she takes them round to the old folk on her visits, as a lot of them aren’t arsed to cook properly for themselves but they’ll bang some mash in the microwave for 3 mins no bother
idk it changed my perspective on it a bit, I used to think “why wouldn’t you just boil some potatoes and chop some veg while they’re cooking”
It’s a lot better but I wouldn’t call this healthy.
This is the most depressing food I’ve ever seen. Please just learn to cook.
It’s not just the actual meal as presented without being processed to hell or having a bunch of chemicals added. But places trying to make a profit generally don’t need to care about your health and really only care that it tastes nice for the price to make. To that end you can just add tons of salt, cheap fats and sugars to whatever can take them to make it taste nice. It’s really not stuff you should have very often.
Until you heat that shit up in the microwave and you get a mouthful of micro plastics
One thing I do really like is in ireland eating healthier is cheaper than eating unhealthily, as it should be.
I spent a summer in canada and could barely afford a chicken breast but could’ve afforded Mac Donald’s every night
Not exactly cheap but.
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