Frozen meals and frozen ready meals

See what's really inside frozen foods

Frozen meals are some of the most innovative and exciting foods.

The opportunities are almost endless and you can benefit from using frozen meals in many ways because they save you time and money whilst retaining all their vitamins because the goodness is locked in!

Frozen meals and frozen ready meals allow you to offer a wider meal choice for your family
Frozen meals offer perfect portion control to help with managing your weight and your household waste, thereby protecting your finances
Clear nutritional messages are displayed on the packaging so you know what you're giving the family

Frozen meals are labour saving and time saving
They offer consistency of quality and presentation
Kids with their demand for food can be unpredictable and frozen prepared meals are easy to have on standby so your kids don't have to go hungry!
As individual frozen pre-packaged meals can normally be cooked straight from freezer, they are convenient and food wastage is minimised
Frozen meals are a convenient option when catering for large groups as they require very little preparation so having your children's friends round for tea, should not be a problem!

Posh Nosh those frozen meals – See how they are eaten only by those who can afford them!

Winter Warmer

Delicious recipe from frozen – Lancashire Hotpot

theNewIceAge kitchen has created the perfect winter warmer for you – all with ingredients from your freezer... and if you don't want to make it from frozen food ingredients just buy the frozen pre-packagd version and claim it as your own!

Lancashire Hotpot with sauted potatoes. Try our winter warmer recipe or frozen recipe meal idea.

Some pre-prepared frozen meals perform better than fresh as freezing and cooking from frozen ensures the integrity of the product. (eg. Chicken Kiev encourages the filling to remain within the product)
Pre-prepared meals can enable you to offer dishes with long cook times, such as lamb shank or beef on the bone. Lamb shank takes approximately six hours to cook from fresh, but using frozen ready prepared Lamb shanks only takes 30 minutes from frozen to table
Frozen meals can make healthy foods available to you and much more convenient. Now you can accommodate even the fussiest of eaters!

'Ready in 10'

Meals prepared in 10 minutes

This meal idea can be prepared in 10 minutes (with your kids help!) and is perfect for the busy Mum. Click here to see our kids meal ready in 10 minutes.

Magnificent 7

The award winning selection of frozen meals

Click here to see the UK's best frozen meals. From Iceland's 2 Sea Bass Fillets with Lemon & Parsley Butter to Aldi's 'Cook it. Taste it. Love it’ 2 Chicken En Croute with Mango, Chilli and Pak Choi – these are some of the best meals money can buy!
– Click here to see what to look out for when buying frozen fish and frozen ready meals

Behind the scenes

Frozen meals – where do they come from

Join us on board Dave Hurford's boat The Constant Friend catchingSardines, Sprats and Herring off the South Devon coast. Dave has fished off Brixham for many years and tells us all about catching the fish we all enjoy in frozen meals in our shops.

Meet Our Field Operatives

Come with us behind the scenes and see where your food really comes from

Here is where you can meet our Field Operatives and see where the contents of your frozen meals come from. Find out more about their site visits through watching their videos, viewing their pictures and reading their field diaries on frozen food.

Suzannah Archibald

See why Suzannah's wanted to see whats inside our frozen meals
Check out Suzannah's frozen food discoveries

Nick Adams

See why Nick wanted to see whats inside our frozen fish meals
Check out Nick's frozen fish discoveries

Are you our next Field Operative?

Come with us behind the scenes of frozen food!

Our Field Operatives are members of the public who freely volunteer their time to report on the fresh-to-frozen process. From farmers in Lincolnshire to fishermen in Grimbsby, our Field Operatives go behind the scenes of frozen food and discover what's inside our ready meals. They have access that would normally be hard to acheive and they pass their discoveries on to you here at this site. Perhaps, if you are interested in knowing where your frozen food comes from, you could sign up to become one too. To apply to be a Field Operative click here and share your discoveries of frozen meals!

See how it's made

Suzannah Visits a Frozen Food Factory

Join us behind the scenes at Pinguin frozen food manufacturers in Lincolnshire. Our Field Operative Suzannah finds out about how frozen meals are made. Perhaps you'd like to ask us a question about whats inside your food?

First Frozen Meal – all thanks to Clarence Birdseye

See when the first frozen ready meal arrived in the UK. A little known arctic surveyor who you might now know as the man behind fish fingers...
Click here to see the history of frozen food in the UK

Strapped for Time?

Try our extremely delicious frozen dessert recipe idea
– a couple of handy tricks and you can claim this one as yours!
– Click here for all our other meal ideas and recipes