Woolworths Ready Meals

Not sure what area you're in but the guy at www.freefood.co.za makes excellent, healthy food, you can buy it ready-made and freeze it. It's vegetarian food but I think even meat-eaters will like it!
 
Mmmmm that GR steak video made my mouth water. Time to look at some of these recipes !
 
There are also I&J and Mcain frozen ready meals as well, so you can freeze them to eat when you need, so if you are late you don't have to stop at woolworths.
 
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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I'll eat a lot of salad... only if the salad is mostly feta and olives. Nothing like a plate full of feta and olives to go with a good steak :D
 
Cook two big meals a week, portion the up into 2-3 meals each and freeze.

Eat for the rest of the week by defrosting one portion and warming in the microwave each night.

Profit.

And Two Minute Noodles.
 
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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I have done this! And I had to change a bit :-) I ate their Chicken Korma/Butter Chicken/Tikka Chicken for about 6 days a week for a couple of months. Not healthy ... I had dark rings under my eyes as my liver started to complain. So I still buy lots of Woollies, but I try to get as much variety as possible and things are going great. I am pretty sure if you make sure you have lots of variety (including different veggies and fruit) you should be fine. Woollies actually makes it relatively easy to have 2 o 3 types of veggies and 2 or 3 types of fruit every day -- which is something that is very difficult if you have to cook for yourself (e.g. eating one half a carrot, one stem of broccoli, half a mango and eight of a melon does not work if you cook for yourself unless you are willing to throw lots of stuff out). I travel and stay in hotels and guesthouses a lot, and I must say that all things being equal, Woollies is probably a lot better than eating in restaurants everyday.

But I must admit that I also recently discovered that the entire "fresh" vs. frozen veggies argument is a bit of a sham*. So as backup I also keep frozen veggies and fish in the freezer compartment at home. Fast and easy to make.

Of course, given all of this - I am sometimes upset that I don't cook more. I think cooking your own food is probably the best thing in the long term, because the act of cooking makes sure you think more about food and therefore make more informed decisions. And it can be very satisfying hobby!

*The sham is that fresh actually means just picked. The "fresh" stuff you can buy in Pick 'n Pay and elsewhere is a couple of days old already , and nutritionally not that much different from frozen veggies. Frozen veggies lose nutrition because they are blanched before they are frozen, which is something that will happen pretty much anyway unless you eat everything raw out of the ground.
 
nice thread.
you could also try and break the mindset of having a heavy/cooked meal for dinner.
perhaps try making an effort to have a decent healthy lunch and then having a moderate dinner.
how about having breakfast or lunch for dinner?
toast and fishpaste or peanut butter. a tuna sandwich on low gi bread with corn on the cob done in the micro. some fresh berries with, plain yoghurt and muesli. a simple salad with smoked chicken slices.
i know it wounds silly, but the above don't involve cooking and are certainly a lot healthier than beer and chips.
 
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