ready-prepared

Fatty take-away meals and ready-prepared foods heated in the microwave were the diet, together with almost constant snacks.

Our Big Problem 2010

Regulation of the sugar and fat content of ready-prepared and fast foods is likely to be proposed and perhaps eventually accepted, though not without a very fierce rear-guard action by the food industry.

Our Big Problem 2010

● Cook more than you need and freeze leftovers, so you have a supply of ready-prepared meals, saving you time in the kitchen

Time to escape 2010

Where was Mr Prothero's ready-prepared lecture on ingratitude?

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

They expected the crew to eat ready-prepared food.

Space Platform Murray Leinster 1935

Himself gave them the charge relative to their future conduct in life; extending the hand of fellowship and welcome to the table of our Lord after baptism, in the presence of the ready-prepared communion-table, the members in their seats and the newly-born and baptized all standing.

The First Colored Baptist Church in North America Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors. James Meriles 1888

It is the same kind of thing that leads working people to pay for having meat badly cooked at the baker's instead of cooking it cheaply and well themselves; that leads them to buy expensive, ready-prepared suppers at the pork butcher's and the fried-fish shop, instead of tossing up an equally good and very cheap supper for themselves.

Thyrza George Gissing 1880

By means of its twining and theftuous roots it imbibes automatically its nourishment ready-prepared from the body of the crab.

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

Heaping up provisions and erecting partitions are an invariable feature of the Xylocopa's programme; no circumstance can release the mother from the duty of providing for the future of her family, in the matter both of ready-prepared food and of separate compartments for the rearing of each larva.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Perhaps some ready-prepared banquet awaited him on the morrow.

Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864