The Truth About Your Luxury Ready Meal

THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR LUXURY READY MEAL delves into the expanding world of premium ready meals, a trend that has captured the attention of time-strapped consumers seeking convenience and restaurant quality food at home. This documentary brings together a panel of experts, including nutritionists, food critics, and industry analysts, to provide a comprehensive view of this market.

Focusing on chilled and frozen ready meal sectors, the program highlights the key players dominating this space and pits the tastes of the gourmet options against their budget rivals.

The show gains access to a premium frozen ready meal manufacturer, Cook, and takes an exclusive look at how these high end meals are made by hand while exploring misconceptions surrounding frozen food, its quality and health benefits.

However, quality does not come cheap and with some of the luxury ready meals costing over ten pounds, are they value for money.   The show will delve into the potential mark ups of a high end ready meals, comparing the cost of making something at home to buying one off the shelf.

The documentary also shines a light on the health profiles of these  higher end meals, comparing them to the cheaper value options, revealing that many of the price options also come with worse nutritional profiles.

Finally, as consumers increasingly demand more from their food, the program explores the rising popularity of recipe kits. With behind-the-scenes access to Gousto, a leader in the recipe kit market, the show reveals how they deliver thousands of meal boxes weekly and considers whether recipe kits represent the future of convenience dining.