As a sad and lonely man (have I mentioned this before?) much of my diet consists of microwave meals for one, in fact the microwave becomes your second best friend when you've been single as long as I have even if operating it is so torturous eating broken glass seems like a more inviting prospect and probably more flavoursome compared to all the ready meals I've previously eaten.
But a big problem with such ready meals are the portions, we all know they aren't very generous, but why is it that there is barely any carbohydrate and far too much protein? You'd expect it to be the other way, god knows how poor the meat has to be if it works out cheaper than rice or potato and I certainly don't want anybody to tell me where it comes from.
Take a microwave curry as an example, you'll get 3 grains of rice in the 'rice' compartment and 2 dozen flocks of chicken in the 'curry' compartment. That's hardly a balanced meal, so I'm sat there already depressed because I'm alone eating a ready meal trying hard not to wonder where they found a square chicken from which they can carve the perfect 1" cubes of meat while carefully rationing my last grain of rice as 90% of my meat curry is still on the plate. Perhaps it is all a ploy to increase the sales of Naan bread, you'll certainly need a score of them to mop up the bounty of curry sauce because you obviously won't be able to do so with all that rice you didn't get. Don't even get me started on a microwave chicken chow mein that will contain all of 2 noodles and a slither of cabbage.
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