Chilled Ready Meals

On my travels I have read many things but my list of reading material now includes endless food packets for in my quest for low calorie meals I have spent many hours reading the boxes of many different products. There is nothing more exciting than finding a "normal" microwave meal that, in my books, is low in calories; just to be clear my definition of "low calories" is a microwave meal that is under 500 calories.

Finding these meals took me some time as to start with I was just buying ready meals from healthy ranges, it wasn't until I started to get bored of these meals that I spread my wings and discovered that in fact quite a few other options are open to you if you take the time to read the labels of products in the supermarkets, fortunately supermarket own brands tend to have nutritional information printed prominently on the front of their packaging with a traffic light system of Green = Low, Amber = Medium and Red = High.

I though it may be of interest to readers if I shared some of the meals I've found and it may save you a bit of in shop investigation time as well!

So lets get started with Tesco:

• Braised Beef & Mash: 438 calories
• Chicken & Mushroom with Rice: 475 calories
• Chicken & Redwine With Potatoes: 396 calories
• Tesco Chicken Gratin & Stuffing: 387 calories.
• Tesco Chicken Roast Dinner: 373 calories.
• Liver Bacon & Mash: 491 calories.
• Meatballs & Mash: 491 calories.
• Minced Beef & Mash: 392 calories.

These ready meals are usually in a multi buy offer which is very handy and a special mention goes out to the meatballs and mash as well as the Chicken Gratin & Stuffing which are two of my favourite ready meals as they taste fantastic and are filling.

Next up is Sainsbury's:

• Cauliflower Cheese: 332 calories.
• Classic Liver & Bacon With Mash: 497 calories.
• Sausage Pasta Bake: 497 calories.
• British Classic Minced Beef Hotpot: 471 calories.
• British Classic Lancashire Hotpot: 482 calories.
• Tomato & Mozzarella Pasta Bake: 495 calories.
• Spaghetti Meatballs: 458 calories.
• Chicken In White Wine With Mash: 493 calories.

Finally it's Morrisons turn:

• Italian Chicken Margherita Melt: 489 calories.
• Italian King Prawn Linguine: 440 calories.
• Liver & Bacon with Mash: 463 calories.
• Minced Lamb Hotpot: 367 calories.
• Braised Beef & Mash: 440 calories.
• Vegetable Moussaka: 401 calories.
• Vegetarian Sausages & Cheddar Mash: 488 calories
• Steak & Ale with Cheesy Mash: 406 calories.

The chilled ready meals that I've listed from Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons really are a god send as they make counting the calories much easier, add to this using the MyFitnessPal app and it truly does become a supermarket diet as you will always be drawn to items and products that have barcodes.