Why Ready To Eat Meals Are Becoming Popular Day By Day?

With changing lifestyles and changing eating habits, ready to eat and ready to cook food products are becoming an ideal example of consumerism. Urban markets are witnessing a growth in demand and they are fast disappearing off the racks. Let us delve deeper and see why.

The ready to eat (RTE) food products, also called convenience food, are fully or partially cooked when packed. These foods are often refrigerated and have defined food handling guidelines. These foods were initially consumed by defense people, disaster victims, trekkers, hikers, and hunters, others who required food in short time and on the travel lines. But now, they have become popular with most of the busy people in modern cities.

• You blink and it is there. Ready to eat meal is fast, easy and convenient. You just need to heat and eat. Who wouldn't be tempted by the luxury that it lets you afford?
• Think you need to be a celebrated chef to be able to enjoy a popular recipe and savour an 'out of the world' dish but that is not the case anymore. Guess who's heard from you!
• You are worried you have to lay the table with a 3 course menu (and more) and have no extra hands to help. How about a pack of precooked meal to bali you out of your woes?
• You are starving and the LPG cylinder is almost over. The fridge is empty and there are unexpected guests to entertain. There is no way you can jump past them and go to the store. So what do you do? A pack of ready to eat food is your knight in shining armour then.
• It is raining cats and dogs and you just can't go to the bazaar and get the grocery. A pack of ready to eat meal can be your saving grace of the day.
• You have heard a lot about this particular dish and you want to try it out at home sans going to the restaurant or asking somebody else to prepare it for you that is. Ready to eat meals are 'the' thing for you.
• You're in the mood to have something fancy but without exercising minimum effort. Well, you know the answer.
• These foods never run out of stock as lot of companies have ensured efficient supply lines for good business.
•  They are convenient when you don't have a lot of time and are handy on the go. RTE Cereals are Healthy alternative breakfasts.
•  RTE food is safe enough to be consumed as the companies manufacture these foodservice products under well protected conditions and they are processed under the rules and regulations laid down by the government.
•  The RTE frozen fruits and vegetables can be carried to any place even where these fruits and vegetables do not grow at all. And as these fruits and vegetables are frozen, they do not lose their nutrition value.

RTE meals are useful for many people in different ways. For sick, old people who are unable to make food and travelers the RTE meal is a boon. Backpackers/Hikers traveling around remote areas find these meals a convenient method of storing, packing and consuming nutrient rich food.