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Work cat.: Chilled ready meals, 2000: p. 1 (The essential requirements for a product to fall within the ready meal category
are, first, that there has been some element of recipe input on the part of the manfacturer, and second, that the product
is already prepared and part-cooked to the point where it need only be heated)
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The Oxford dictionary of English, 2003 (Brit. a meal sold in a pre-cooked form that only requires reheating)
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Wikipedia, Jan. 30, 2007 (redirected from Ready meal. TV dinner is a prepackaged, frozen meal which usually comes in a flat
cardboard box. It requires very little preparation and contains all the elements for a single-serving meal. The TV dinner
is a good example of a convenience food)
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Food industries manual, 1997: p. 475 (Ready meals: These products include ready plated, precooked frozen whole meals and ambient-stable
microwaveable meals which only require thawing (if frozen) and a short time of reheating prior to serving.)
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Google search, Feb. 27, 2007 (heat and serve meals, ready to heat and serve meals, ready to heat meals)
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Web.3; Amer. heritage dict.
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Here are entered works on meals sold in a pre-cooked form that only require reheating.
