i know people (and you) will be looking for a type or specific food product. but no, it's the Microwave oven! so easy to just heat somethink up, and it kills the taste of any food. if it wasnt for the Microwave oven, maybe there wouldnt be any 'ready meals,' and people wouldnt have lost the will to COOK!

I too am a big fan of home cooking firstly because it tastes so much better and secondly because i know exactly what is in it.

Good quality ingredients are getting harder to come by but i dont blame supermarkets for this i blame the public.

People have become lazy and forgotten how to cook.....supermarkets wouldnt stock so much pre-packed rubbish if people didnt buy it. The culture in the uk has become one of microwave meals and i think it is really really sad.

It's not just the supermarkets to blame but also the education system. When i was at school we were taught basic cookery for a double lesson each week and anyone of us could make pies, cakes, bread, a roast dinner and evaluate the nutrition. Not everyone is a brainbox but we all need to eat and this basic cookery didn't create differences between the really brainy pupils and those who were better with their hands - in fact it gave them a good meeting ground as some of those less accademically inclined were better with practicalities. This has all flown out of the window now and what passes for domestic science is rubbish. Too many generations of girls have grown up without this knowledge until we have got to the point where very few of them can cook a meal from scratch. I was also taught by my mother and i have taught my three children who now have their own homes and cook proper food. I could not live without fresh herbs! It's so easy to have them growing on your window sill even in these gloomy days and they add a lovely smell to your home that is better and certainly much healthier than anything out of an airosol.

I still prefer home cooking. I like to know exactly what is in my food. I don't like supermarkets. I prefer to purchase from the local butchers, bakers and fruit and veg shop. Much fresher.
While convenience foods seem cheap the supermarkets make their money with a high mark up on other items like toiletries. I could survive with no herbs nothing wrong with just salt and pepper.

far from it .you can get items that you only saw on `posh` menus fresh/frozen and tinned to use in your `home` cooking.at reasonable prices