How social enterprises are disrupting the food system. Read this and you'll never eat a ready meal again. More than three billion ready meals were eaten in Britain in 2012They make up the biggest sector of the UK's £70 billion a year food budgetFood manufacturers carry out little or no preparation of raw ingredientsThey buy treated ingredients, mainly frozen or dried, from other companiesMeat, fish and vegetables are kept at sub-zero temperatures for monthsBut when the food is thawed and cooked it can be marketed as 'fresh'A ready-meal factory can churn out 250,000 portions a day using 70 different ingredients By Joanna Blythman Published: 23:26 GMT, 3 March 2015 | Updated: 01:00 GMT, 4 March 2015 When I was a child, I was desperate to try a ready meal.
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