People think Slackers love convenience food. They’re wrong. (1) they’re expensive and (2) they’re inconvenient.

Inconvenient?

Slackers are addicted to cheap, quick food. Cheap doesn’t mean unhealthy. It means good food that’s cheap. A look at the cooking instructions and ingredients of two convenience foods explains everything that is wrong with them.¹

Sainsbury Pizza: £2:75 (turbo-charged bread and cheese!)

“A pizza base topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella and Cheddar cheese and a sprinkle of oregano and black pepper.”

1. Preheat your oven to the temperature below.
2. Remove all packaging, even out toppings (prep work), and drizzle with a little oil (more prep work and an extra ingredient, which you provide)
3. Place directly onto the top shelf of your pre-heated oven.
4. Cook in line with the timings below.
5. Remove carefully and serve. Enjoy!
200°C 16 mins, Fan 180°C 16 mins, Gas 6 16 mins Ovens are energy VAMPIRES

Marks and Spencer’s ‘Fiery Hot Chicken Tikka Masala’ £5:50

This is what you’re eating (good luck):

Smoked Chicken Breast (50%), Onions, Single Cream (Milk) (15%), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Paste (3%), Yogurt (Milk), Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Unsalted Butter (Milk), Lemon Juice, Salt, Coriander, Cornflour, Ground Coriander, Ground Cumin, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed), Honey, Turmeric, Natural Colour: Paprika Extract, Ground Garam Masala (Roasted Coriander, Roasted Cumin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Black Pepper, Green Cardamom, Cloves, Bay Leaves), Cumin Seeds, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Dried Garlic, Ground Cinger, Ground Paprika, Ground Smoked Paprika, Sugar, Naga Chilli Extract, Ground Cinnamon

Cooking time – 25 minutes. Most Slackers regard 25 minutes as an eternity not a convenient interlude before a meal hits the plate

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Addendum: Dominos pizza’s health ratings

A comprehensive analysis of their pizzas that is virtually unreadable and is published for food scientists with magnifying glasses.

C5 Corporate Nutrition Brief Pizzas Bases and Toppings.pdf (dominos.co.uk)

Note

1 The best analogy is looking at the insert in a box of pills. Even aspirin has side effects which include death.