0 a meal cooked and bought at a shop but taken somewhere else, often home, to be heated and eaten --
1 a meal that you can buy from a supermarket that has already been prepared and cooked, so you only need to heat it: --
The food industry offers products that fulfill many different needs: e.g. fully prepared ready meals that can be heated up in the microwave oven within a few minutes.
They sell a range of products, such as books, magazines, tobacco, ready meals, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks such as beer and cider, excluding wine and spirits.
Since 2003, he has led the company from a staple food company to a company capable of producing value-added products, namely high-quality ready meals based on rice.
This vast number of ready meals was transported on some 375 pallets and weighed 187.5 tons.
The wafer-thin chicken delicatessen product and the frozen chicken pies and ready meals offer customers a cheaper alternative.
Ready meals have multiple ingredients, thereby opening up a large aspect of the labelling issue.
Ready meals are increasingly popular, and are fast and easy.
Although "healthy eating" ready meals often contained a little less salt than the standard versions, the differences were small.
