Food Cheats

How good are frozen ready meals? This week I decided to shop at Asda and try out some of their frozen ready meal range. These ready meals are

I’m a huge fan of these frozen meat feast pizzas, the Carlos Generously Topped Meat Feast Pizza from Aldi. Selling for a budget busting 79p for a huge

When you’re without milk, this slow cooker bread pudding is easy to put together with cupboard staples. It’s a great way to use up bread if you’re not

When I’m asked how I make my Chinese curry sauce I always say “I make Mayflower curry”, using the powder to make the curry sauce. I’m then usually

If your freezer is small, you might find it difficult to buy and freeze many items – especially those you find in the reduced section and hadn’t expected

Want battered fish portions, but the oven’s on the blink? In a hurry and can’t wait? It seems a waste to turn on the oven just for this

Any good? I didn’t set out to buy the Lidl chicken, leek, wholegrain mustard pie, but there it was on the shelf, luring me in – so I

Using an easily found supermarket pack of ready folded wraps, this is a simple and quick snack meal that I’ve eaten when I’ve only had a kettle and

Yazoo added chocolate orange milkshakes to their range at the end of March 2021 and I tried to resist them, thinking they’d not be great – but I

Can you microwave a whole chicken? How? Is that a thing? Some people do still microwave a whole chicken – it was one of the popular dishes promoted

Can you microwave frozen chicken dippers or chicken nuggets? How do you microwave frozen chicken dippers or nuggets so they aren’t soggy? Sometimes “needs must”, as they say

Naan bread pizza is a simple snack, or main meal, you can put together using any naan bread and all your favourite toppings. I like to buy vacuum