Woolworths Ready Meals

DigitalSoldier said:
Some nights I will make myself a nice salad for dinner as well, and its R3 for English cucumber, R6 pack of tomatoes, R5 for lettuce and +-R20 for a bag of onions and you only buy onions about once a month. I am amble to make salad for about 3 nights with the above.
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Yea, i'm sure it's cheaper if you eat like that :). Just like replacing your Bread intake with Fruit intake is also alot cheaper :D

Anyway, here's another guy with some cool "bachelor" type of recipes , which i use when i don't feel like Woolies foods. Example is how to use [or abuse] 2-minute noodles into a proper noodle meal with the Teriyaki sauce and all :)

http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipes.php
Sam the Cooking Guy is about an everyday guy - me (ok, so I have 11 Emmys) who has found a way to make cooking casually understandable. With no fancy equipment and by speaking English instead of ‘chef-speak,' I'm sort of the everyman of television cooking. The show is shot right in my house – and I cook with my kids, dogs and neighbors occasionally around – just like we all do. There's no fois gras... no white truffle oil, no ‘Peruvian mountain-raised squab in sesame-lime-soy marinade stuffed with braised forest turnips and wild inoki mushrooms in a hand pressed plum and raspberry glaze'. I'm just a regular guy, using regular words showing how to cook easy, great food... Food that's ‘big in taste and small in effort'. It's a handful of ingredients and a few steps – that's it. This is a cooking show "for the rest of us," I like to say.
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What i like about him is, he actually thinks about all the mess it makes and extra food [and how to re-use it] and the practical stuff. Something these other chefs seem to ignore and they asume you actually have the time to create a dish consisting of 50 different ingredients [which you will never have].
 
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I buy their salads for after gym dinner, they're not bad but are rather overpriced, I havent had any of their microwave meals though I have tried their Chicken Roti, that was awesome!
 
Woollies' pre-prepared meals does not come close to home cooked food.

Try cooking in bulk once a week and freezing some of it for those days that you do not have the time/inclination to cook OR buy a one-pot dish cookbook :)
 
blunomore said:
Woollies' pre-prepared meals does not come close to home cooked food.

Try cooking in bulk once a week and freezing some of it for those days that you do not have the time/inclination to cook OR buy a one-pot dish cookbook :)
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That's what I do. Freeze some, or pack it in for lunch tomorrow :nom: :nom: :nom: :D
 
Slootvreter said:
I do that now and then, but it seems to work better ons gas stove than electric.
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Gas will warm the pan quicker, but otherwise it's the same.

Use peanut oil, not olive oil.
Watch G R's video.

The steak diane he makes, I've also made a few times. F..ing good.
 
Sure. WW readymeals are largely acceptable diet wise. A bit heavy on salt perhaps.

Just don't eat only the ready meal. i.e. Buy a ready made salad too.
 
i can't believe people rate salads as a meal ... a salad for me is < snack just somehting to nibble on ...

i hate salads unless they have crunchy carrot sticks ...
 
ryu said:
i can't believe people rate salads as a meal ... a salad for me is < snack just somehting to nibble on ...

i hate salads unless they have crunchy carrot sticks ...
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Yeah a salad on it's own is hardly a meal. But if you buy a 400g salad from Spar (or Woollies, mostly the same thing for the same price), and add two tins of tuna on top, you'll find it surprisingly filling.

* DO NOT forget the flourish of olive oil and balsamic over the salad! :love:
 
TheGuy said:
So seeing as I'm a bachelor, I've been thinking of switch all my meals to prepared meals. The reason is cooking is such a mission for one and most of the time I end up having no dinner at all. The food I buy monthly tends to go bad.

Will it be healthy if I do this and have anyone else done this?
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If you live close to an ISKON Temple with a restuarant, try buying your meals from there, cheap and healthy to boot as well.
 
ryu said:
i can't believe people rate salads as a meal ...
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It can be. If your a big bloke you just need a biiiigggg salad.

No but the salad suggestion wasn't meant as a standalone meal. My point was that if you eat enough salad then the salt in the rest of the meal doesn't fck with your system too much. Particularly relevant for people with high blood pressure.
 
Slootvreter said:
That's what I do. Freeze some, or pack it in for lunch tomorrow :nom: :nom: :nom: :D
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nom nom nom :p reminds me of the cooky monster hahahaha

Yeah dude just buy freezable food mate...like pizza...fish etc..all you have to do is turn on the oven...but yeah maybe have some canned veggies :D
 
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