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We eat more than 800 million ready meals in the UK each year. Charlotte Smith finds out what's in them and how much of the contents are from UK farms.
Ready meals are here to stay, whether you think it's the height of laziness or a way to feed a time-pressed population. We eat more than 800 million of them each year in the UK, and there is huge variety of them, from a basic frozen lasagne to a fancy risotto.
Charlotte Smith finds out who is now buying ready meals, what's in them and how much of the contents is, or could come, from British farms.
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- Sat 22 Aug 200906:30BBC Radio 4
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