A Heat&Eat meal, also called TV dinner (Canada and US), pre-packaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal, is a packaged frozen meal that comes portioned for an individual and requires very little preparation other than reheating. A TV dinner usually consists of a cut of meat, usually beef or chicken, with a vegetable, such as peas, corn or a potato, and sometimes a dessert, such as a brownie or apple cobbler. The entrée (main course of a meal) could also be pasta or a common type of fish, such as Atlantic cod. Rice is a common side item. Another form of convenience food, which are merely chilled and require less time to reheat but expires sooner, is popular in the UK. Chilled ready meals are intended for immediate reheating and consumption, although most can be frozen by the consumer after purchase and some may have to be fully defrosted before reheating. The freezing process tends to degrade the taste of food and the dinners are almost always significantly less nutritious. These type meals are rather common under: Business people – As for business people usually work long hours during the day and don't want to come home to have to cook a whole meal. By having these meals that only need to be heated before eaten would be appealing as they are quick and effortless after a long day. Teenage generation – Our current teenage generation is considered as 'lazy'. By having meals at an easy access that only need a quick heat up in the microwave before being consumed would appeal as for it is once again effortless. 3. Large families – This would appeal to large families as for it won't make a large mess that is left to clean up later and it requires time to cook a meal for a large amount of people.

Supper was originally a secondary lighter evening meal. The main meal of the day, called dinner, used to be served closer to what is known as lunchtime, around the middle of the day, but crept later over the centuries, mostly over the course of the 19th century. When dinner was still at the early time, eating a lighter supper in the evening was very common; it was not always the last meal of the day, as there might be a tea later. Reflecting the typical custom of 17th century elites, Louis XIV dined at noon, with a supper at 10p.m. Even when dinner was in the early evening, supper was served at a ball, or after returning from it, and might be after other evening excursions. At an English ball in 1791, supper was served to 140 guests at 1:00 a.m. They would all have had dinner at home many hours earlier, before going out. Other, grander, balls served supper even later, up to 3:30 a.m., at a London ball given in 1811 by the Duchess of Bedford. The modern usage of "supper" varies considerably; sometimes supper is still used to describe a light snack or meal in the evening, either after or instead of dinner, but often it replaces dinner as the term for the main evening meal.