People often start buying the ready-made foods when they have a baby.

A significant factor in ready-made food is that it makes people put on weight.

"Today they are like flight attendants serving ready-made food on a tray."

As an emergency, ready-made food is OK, but many people eat it all the time.

After all, throughout Europe, we have ready-made foods from these countries in our freezers.

Great ready-made foods, too, for the busy cook.

I don't want to use ready-made foods.

The ultimate reward is simple: to be relieved from labour and be served with ready-made food.

Well, unsurprisingly, when I am so hungry I prefer to have ready-made food too, don't you?

You can also pick up a pre-roasted chicken, a breakfast burrito, sushi or other ready-made foods at most grocery stores these days.

This DIY culture is underpinned by the arrival of ready-made food suppliers in hospitals.

Instead of taking ready-made food from their surroundings, they began to manufacture their own within their cell walls, drawing the necessary energy from the sun.

There are tons of quick-and-easy recipes that use lots of ready-made food products (sauces and the like) but they quickly use up the budget.

THE advertisements in Miami newspapers offered ready-made food baskets for $175: canned meat, sardines, soup, coffee, milk, chocolates.

By the late 1940s, milk bars had evolved to include not only groceries, but also became places where young people could buy ready-made food, non-alcoholic drinks and socialise.

A Field mill (carriage), a horse-drawn vehicle acting as a grinding mill used for supplying troops with ready-made food in premodern war campaigns

Sales of its traditional chocolate and confectionery products increased 1.3 percent, to $1.6 billion, while sales of ready-made foods and cooking aids rose 4.4 percent.

I am opposed to the ready-made food in supermarkets which contains yeast and sugar and chemicals (as preservatives) and is lower in nutrition that home-cooked food.

Banana leaves are often used as packaging for ready-made food or as steamer cups such as in ho mok pla, a spicy steamed pâté or soufflé made with fish and coconut milk.

A number of companies exist that sell ready-made food hampers or provide customers the service of compiling a custom hamper for them, which may involve company staff going shopping for requested specific items on behalf of individual customers.

But since Mexican-Americans cannot buy Mexican brands everywhere, and since more assimilated Mexican-Americans buy ready-made food for convenience, "American companies are increasingly advertising in Spanish" to win them over, Mr. Loretta said.

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1949 and received a Ph.D. in microbiology there in 1953, just when Pillsbury was looking for people like him to expand its line of ready-made foods, which were easily spoiled by bacteria.

He eschews ready-made food and hardly drinks, instructing all clients to forgo alcohol five days a week - which suddenly makes me feel for Mr Cameron, as Tony Blair is just the latest lodger in No 10 to admit in his memoir that the job drove him to drink.