The microwave meals of scrambled egg, bacon, sausage and mushrooms were being sold for 20p.

And bite-assured these microwave meals offer the classic convenience without over-processed add-ins.

Frozen dinners and microwave meals are some of the biggest problems.

These dinners, also known as microwave meals, can be purchased at most supermarkets.

"College students and new graduates are products of two-income families who have been reared on fast food and microwave meals," she said.

My friend's Mum, who died last year at 88, was always fussy about food, and for a long time, frozen microwave meals were the best thing.

There was this sheepish-looking young man sitting at the table in an overcoat reading the festival program and waiting for his microwave meal to be ready.

British food does not translate to the microwave meal (and your hospital food is, at the end of the day, of the microwave variety).

Most of the time they ate microwave meals on trays in front of the television.

A nicer fantasy than the microwave meal on her agenda, she mused, but at the moment impractical.