What did you have for dinner last night? We are increasingly eating a range of exotic meats eaten not in restaurants or collected from the takeaway but prepared in our own homes in a matter of minutes. Chicken Tikka, Chicken Madras, Mango Chicken curry, Chlcken Chow Mein, these are just a few of the wide range of ready-meals that are available in the chiller cabinets of our supermarkets these days. They offer high-quality, read prepared meals at reasonable prices. But it was not always so. Chilled ready-meals such as Chicken Tkka are a relatively recent innovation that only began to appear on our supermarket shelves in the early 1990s, pioneered initially by multiple retaller Marks Spencer Prior to the introduction of chilled food, ready-made meals were avallable in our super markets, but they came as frozen foods. Unllever's frozen food subsidiary Birds Eye introduced the first TV dinners as they were known in 1969. over the years, the freezer cabinets of Britain's supermarkets became home to a range of ready-meals. Social changes in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the increasing number of women working full time and the increasing number of single-person households meant a steady increase In the popularity of these kinds of products. Though the range of meals became steadily more sophisticated, the products themselves did not.They might look attractive, but when it came to eating them, most were nothing like the ready-meals we have today. As frozen