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Ready Meals used to be cheap and cheerful - a quick fix when you were hungry and short on time. But there's a new breed of ultra-posh meals that make Marks & Spencer look like a bargain. Leading the charge is Charlie Bigham, whose fans think nothing of spending close to a tenner on a lasagna. And it's not just him - Cook and Gousto are also selling restaurant quality posh nosh at premium prices. But can a ready meal ever be worth such an inflated price tag? And can discerning palates really tell the difference between pricey and dicey?