Haven't bought a proper ready meal in years but like EB above, do use tins of tomatoes and the odd on of beans etc if I haven't got time to soak. Don't think this is too bad as it's not like the processed rubbish you can buy in the cooler sections. Oh yeah and occaisionally buy a pie or something at the farmers market but am not too worried about that either. Am pleased that we've not bought any bread since we bought our bread machine too.

My brother in law doesn't really eat anything that you can't ping and is getting a right gut on him, has bad skin and is always suffering with some complaint or other. OK, probably unfair to put this totally down to his diet (he doesn't do any exercise either) but it really can't help. You only have to look at the ingredients to make you worry and goodness only knows what they put in them to make them keep "fresh" for so long. And finally, if that's not enough, any I've tried tasted foul also! Sorry about the rant, it's one of my pet subjects.

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