Life can get hectic, leaving you with minimal time to cook. The result? You’re likely to head to your nearest takeaway spot or Uber in something that will crash your fitness and weight-loss goals. Thankfully, these ready meals will get you fed in the fraction of the time while keeping your macros on the money.
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Here is our selection of the best heat-and-eat fare available in SA:
1. Woolworths Mexican Style Chicken Booster Bowl
Swap oily fare for a filling lunch option that’s loaded with fibre, protein and flavour. Packing around 23g of muscle-building macros (and setting you back just 377 calories) this is a super bowl on every level.
2. Munch Measured Meals Teriyaki Pork Fillet
A honey-soy glazed pork cutlet features amid a medley of sauerkraut, beans and smoked chorizo. In other words, a near-perfect alchemy – and no ready meal has any right to taste this good. Pork will give you a heavy-handed portion of vits B6 and B12, both vital brain function and cell formation. Not keen to swine and dine? Take your pick from Munch’s extensive menu of heat-and-eat hits
3. UCOOK Meatballs Alla Napoletana
It’s Italian dining without the shlep. Plus, you know exactly what you’re wolfing down thanks to UCOOK’s in-depth nutritional info. Their meatball dish is a muscle-making hero, cramming 9.5g of protein for every 100g of fare. It’ll also lay the smackdown on your tastebuds. Not bad for just R88 a portion
4. Fit Foodz Men’s Lean Muscle
Catered to guys looking pack on power, Fit Foodz’s range of boxed, mike-ready feasts are the ultimate workout wingmen. Dishes keep calories to a strict minimum—most hover around the 400 mark—while serving up 45g of protein. Best part? Their kits also include similarly engineered desserts to sweeten the deal.
5. Woolworths Sesame Chicken Noodle
Dietary fibre is incredibly important: studies have found that getting an adequate supply won’t just pay off for gut health, but could also ward off certain cancers and even improve your mood. Loaded with this vital macro (it contains more than 12g), delicious AF and ready to eat in just shy of three minutes… need we say more
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