"Somebody's being killed over there..." "I think he's destroying his freeze, because he had to live a week on Iceland food..." I don't know which joke I prefer
What you found on day 1 was probably plastic. I had these ready meals at Uni and I noticed that the packaging was changed last year, making the container prone to breaking in the microwave.
It's a shame the chips and curry didn't come separate because I'm finding that oven fried chips and such actually turn out quite nice but you can't get crispy chips when they're slathered in a sauce.
For people wondering why he still liked meals even when he was sick and tired of eating frozen food and felt gross--I did basically the exact same thing for a while early in college, though about half of what I ate were Pizza Rolls. The thing is, Pizza Rolls are the king of frozen food, and they taste awesome. And you can put them with other things and they still taste awesome. But while it tastes good and fine in isolation, the lack of vitamins eventually gets to you--yes they still taste good, but you regret it more and more, feeling pasty lethargic in the head even if your mouth is content (if a bit numb from sodium drag) Not to mention, frozen meals tend to have a preservative flavor that tastes really samey in aggregate even if you can't pick it out in every individual meal. Eat your vegetables, kids. Even if you still smother everything in cheese, add some leafy greens, carrots, peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes, something! The cheese will cover up the flavor anyway!
to Mike J Thank you for making these videos, I have found them very interesting. I also feel that watching these videos may help to explain some things (like why I may wake up with a horrible headache after having a whole bag of salty snacks the night before). So thank you again. Also, as someone who lives in rural northern Canada, I am (as always) flabbergasted by how cheap food is, in other places in the world.
i can only speak for germany, but if you guys have the same stuff as here, aldi and lidl would be WAY TOO EASY, considering their quality is actually quite good. so you got my vote for poundland :D
8 лет назад+5
You didn't even eat the boxes! Well done mate, glad it's over for you.
Typically I get frozen sundries (chips, pizza's etc from Iceland) and tend to eat with a mix of fresh meat and veg from a butchers/grocers. I spend about £35 a week on food for 2 people and usually end up with enough left over that after one week shopping I get in what I call a "luxuries week" where I grab me some ice cream and good coffee. In general though, mixing the occasional ready meal with healthy eating doesn't do anyone any major harm and depending on your work patterns (I just recently finished working in pubs) ready meals can mean a big difference, working mainly nights, I could easily spend £5+ an evening on take-aways, but instead find a ready meal really helps save my wallet for something just as bad. A lot of people comment that it's hard to feed a large family, and granted it is, but I've learned eating smarter is the key.
"I may regret this decision but i'm going to put this one in the microwave, but I'm not going to wait the 45 minutes it takes, because I'm bloody starving." And that's why people don't put it in the oven. Goddamn I'm hungry. Fuck waiting 4x as long. :3
You discovered an important lesson about reheating food or reheating ready-meals: they're better on the stove or in the oven. The microwave has its place: thawing or defrosting, warming things up, and even cooking bacon pretty well. But the ready-meals are better done at half power on twice the time, for just this reason. You also don't have to let them cool quite as long, and the heating is more thorough. But also, the oven and stove do the work through thermal energy, not by using higher bandwidth energy to cause water molecules to vibrate. The extra weight was probably just water retention.
Things I learned this week: British people eat beans for breakfast and what Yorkshire pudding is. I'd say I thought this was interesting, but I'm afraid any positive reinforcement might lead you to doing similar stunts detrimental to your health.
Wow, it's only been a week, and I feel a strange sort of emotion. Like, holy hell, you made it. You made it and you didn't die of salt poisoning or anything. Congrats, man! Gotta say, you guys over in the UK have a lot of patience. 9 minutes is more than I've ever had to microwave something off the top of my head. I also don't think I'd have the patience to ever cook one of those things in the oven. 45 minutes for a legitimate dinner? Sure. 45 Minutes for something called a "ReadyMeal"? I'm too impatient for that.
as much as I like this as an experiment I don't think this is a fair representation of iceland. they do have a huge range of frozen veg etc. as well as fresh stuff like milk, eggs and bread, even a fresh fruit and veg section. if someone were only able to shop at iceland for some reason there is a lot of healthy stuff they could make
Weight gain is not surprising since the extra sodium in your system makes you retain water. Also does a number to your blood presure as well. Im glad you survived this ordeal.
First off: Congratulations on surviving the week! Now to the meat of the issue (hurr hurr hurr): This is how you know someone usually eat their chicken with some sauce or something that covers it. The reddish part is not blood (as if undercooked) but the part of the chicken that is closest to the bones, just to the side of the breast part. That's what's usually referred to as the "dark meat" of the chicken. The reason it is in the middle is because the chicken has been shredded and then rolled together again (which is only slightly better than the "nugget" version, which has been minced and then pressed together again).
hal lourious I think he meant some people can only afford this level of food. A few years ago I would go lol crap! These days however, due to the current UK's government's delight in treating the poor as the scum of the universe I would say his comment is entirely accurate. Plus working hours etc some mothers or fathers probably don't get home till 7pm weekdays. Plus so many single parent families lately in the UK that I doubt they have time or energy to do fresh food. I am sorry however as this was far too serious for this comment section. So i will say penguins to rebalance it.
Anna Zero I know what he means. It is still a stupid comment. It's like when people talk about how they liked a movie or a tv show and someone comes in and tells that children are dying in Africa. It's not wrong what he says, but it is still a nonsensical offtopic commentary. Besides this: This kind of food is NOT cheap. It's far more expensive than making it yourself with better quality. This is one portion of Chips and Sauce for what? 1 or 2 pounds. For 4 or 5 you could have bought enough credencials for three or four days (always depending what and where you are buying of course). In Aldi a chicken Sandwich costs roughly two pounds. Make it yourself and it costs you not even 50 ps.
You should do more weekly challenges. Fresh food, natural, home made, maccy d's, weightwatchers etc. Would be good to see how much you gain and lose just by eating differently. Really enjoyed your videos this week, hope you keep it up (:
I love microwaving. All the prep time, clean up of eggs... Vs. 75 seconds in the microwave. Also, oil / butter is expensive, Dixie bowls aren't. Very few things can't be microwaved.
It's not that we're wrong. It's that we had this thing, right after the revolution, where we wanted to be different from England. So, chips became fries. Biscuits became cookies, etc. :V
Further note, I don't know if your country sells the healthier meals or not, but here, you can get low sodium/salt meals so it's not so bad on the salt intake.
He was only showing the unhealthiest meals and when I looked at Iceland's website, I didn't see anything that looked like it had less fat or less salt. So, idk. It's not a question of "where do you come from?" It's a question of "why do the fat ass Americans offer healthier frozen food?"
+Roxie ღ Soccer as a term for the sport of football originated in London in the 1920's approximately. Can't fault the Americans for taking it, we took a lot of stuff from the British.
We call it soccer here because we changed some of the today's rugby is played, so we had to come up with a different name for it. When soccer came here we couldn't call it football, cause the name was taken already.
The reason yr feeling hungover is because when yr hungover, you lack water because of the alcohol. In this instance you had too much salt for your liver to handle and expended more water than normal,
There are people that eat stuff like this every day. I don't know how they stand it. It's ok sometimes but the salt in particular really catches up to you fast.
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think most people buy this kind of food to wait 40 minutes for a meal. Also some of them might be actually afraid of ovens. Who cares whether it's chips or fries? The reality is that there's a picture on the box, so no-one was confused as to what it was.
Sir Cookays Except they're not, and I'm not interested in a bunch of people being all arrogant about irrelevant differences between what different demographics call the same thing. Grow up.
I didn't figure out that Iceland was the name of a store until partway through the first video. Also, the "fries" vs. "chips" thing reminded me of when certain people wanted us to call French Fries "Freedom Fries". I never met anyone who actually did that, though.
Mike, with regards to frozen veg vs "fresh", frozen are actually more fresh than fresh from the shops. Frozen retain more nutrients and degrade much slower than so-called "fresh". With regards to weight gain, in your case, all the salt caused water retention, which is where the weight came from. You probably lost half a pound of fat. With regards to calorie RDA, 2500 is for the average man. Sedentary men, such as office workers, writers and RUclips personalities need closer to 2000 to maintain a healthy weight.
I don't know if you can order them online but if you can, you should do a week on American store brand frozen foods and see how they compare. I'm guessing they'll be similar but perhaps higher in calories.
i dont think i could eat iceland food for a week i love my home cooking but you do get some good things in iceland milk 89p i love the cheesy adverts with peter andre haha :) well done dude for doing it if peter can do it everyone can thats why mums go to iceland
Alternative week - £12 - 4 portion of fresh meat, good for 2 days each. £2 - eggs for a week, £2 - milk for a week. £6 - veggies, £4 - Fresh fruit. £3 - cereal £6 - sandwich meats and other bits to make up meals. no one has any excuse to goto bloody iceland!
Crazy Hans Honestly speaking that's not true. He was buying only ready made meals so that is why it was so expensive and also why it was so unhealthy. Certain produce is better to buy frozen to avoid wastage due to rotting.
I spend anywhere from 11 to 13 dollars a day on food, which would be about 8 pounds. That's only one a single meal. 35 pounds is what I spend in about 3 days worth, so for a week, that's not too bad.
i would go as far to say "welcome back to food fullstop" i dont know if you live in the united kingdom but the duck pancakes and cheesecakes are the only redeemable things sold in iceland that resemble food
Mike Jeavons, I issue unto you the ultimate challenge. Use the rejuvenique mask for a week and document the result it has on your health. Also, congratulations on not becoming a shriveled up mass of carbon.
Le Science Timez! The weight gain, as you surmised, can probably be attributed to your increased salt intake. Your body is retaining more water than usual to try and keep you hydrated. Going consistently under on your calorie and fat intake may have some effect on the weight gain as well. It's basically telling your body "pickings may be lean right now. Hold onto everything you can get". The yucky lack-of-energy feeling is most likely the result of ingesting the MASSIVE amounts of additives and preservatives that nearly all frozen processed foods have. Prescribed regime is, again as you said, load up on the fruits and veg, get your calorie/fat intake back up to normal, avoid sodium, and keep drinking lots of water to help purge your body of all the salt and chemicals. Neat experiment! Thank you for punishing your body for our amusement! :p
BeeryGamer Wikipedia redirects "English Breakfast" to "Full Breakfast". Of course they also say that Americans frequently eat something called "scrapple" for breakfast, which I've never even heard of.
I used to work for Iceland, and can confirm that 99.99% of the stuff they sell is utter shit, and now iceland are struggling, as people realise they aren't that good value, and have a poor selection of food
Considering my diet is very similar to what youve been at all week i guess i can start to see why i often feel lethargic, drained and unmotivated so i think im gonna try changing things up.
I enjoyed those Iceland videos....brave you...lol ....your weight gain probably came from the amount of sugar in those foods....which you should have recorded....but well done....and glad you survived lol :-)
Why did you choose to only eat frozen Iceland food and on top of that mainly ready meals? Iceland also have fresh food (including fresh fruit and veg), and have some much nicer frozen food than you chose. You seemed to simply set yourself up to get ill.
I never thought I'd religiously follow a man eating microwaveable food 3 times a day for a week. Thank you Mike J.
A ready meal will save you from the brink of hunger, but it's a cursed lunch, a half lunch.
Good reason not to slay one then?
yeah he has faced ready meals 7 times and survived he is th chosen one prophesied to destroy convenience meals for the good mankind
Your voice reminds me of Jeremy from Peep Show so much.
Shazia Dar That's funny, 'cause Mike reminds me of Mark from Peep Show :D
Like a weird Mitchell and Webb lovechild...
I thought it was just me yes his voice reminds me of Mark from peep show lol
"Somebody's being killed over there..."
"I think he's destroying his freeze, because he had to live a week on Iceland food..."
I don't know which joke I prefer
Extremely Moist second one
The salt made you hold more water weight essentially.
What you found on day 1 was probably plastic. I had these ready meals at Uni and I noticed that the packaging was changed last year, making the container prone to breaking in the microwave.
After the Iceland week "God, I'm gagging for a salad!"
After the diet week "God, I'm gagging for a Kebab Pizza!"
Congrats Mike ! You made it ..... Alive and well ! Next time do a 1 month long frozen food challenge !
Or a competition between you and Dr. Ashen on who can survive the longest on food from Poundland and the likes.
The tiebreaker could be a dog egg.
He could do a week just eating Swanson's Hungry Man Dinners what with their salt content being 60% of the daily requirement...per meal.
Hammerhead547
I had one of their breakfasts once (that I got for free with a coupon) that had 200% of the daily allowance of either calories or fat.
Jeff Jacobson Well, it *is* called "Swanson's *Hungry Man* Dinners"...
Bright Spark yep, they are designed for those who onlyt eat once or twice a day
It's a shame the chips and curry didn't come separate because I'm finding that oven fried chips and such actually turn out quite nice but you can't get crispy chips when they're slathered in a sauce.
For people wondering why he still liked meals even when he was sick and tired of eating frozen food and felt gross--I did basically the exact same thing for a while early in college, though about half of what I ate were Pizza Rolls. The thing is, Pizza Rolls are the king of frozen food, and they taste awesome. And you can put them with other things and they still taste awesome. But while it tastes good and fine in isolation, the lack of vitamins eventually gets to you--yes they still taste good, but you regret it more and more, feeling pasty lethargic in the head even if your mouth is content (if a bit numb from sodium drag)
Not to mention, frozen meals tend to have a preservative flavor that tastes really samey in aggregate even if you can't pick it out in every individual meal.
Eat your vegetables, kids. Even if you still smother everything in cheese, add some leafy greens, carrots, peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes, something! The cheese will cover up the flavor anyway!
to Mike J
Thank you for making these videos, I have found them very interesting. I also feel that watching these videos may help to explain some things (like why I may wake up with a horrible headache after having a whole bag of salty snacks the night before). So thank you again.
Also, as someone who lives in rural northern Canada, I am (as always) flabbergasted by how cheap food is, in other places in the world.
love British humor, 1 of a kind, keep the videos coming man
i can only speak for germany, but if you guys have the same stuff as here, aldi and lidl would be WAY TOO EASY, considering their quality is actually quite good. so you got my vote for poundland :D
You didn't even eat the boxes! Well done mate, glad it's over for you.
Just discovered all of your video series. Great work, love your humour.
Just imagine having to live on this food?!?!
Welcome to my life.
Rudimenery home cooking is really not that hard
If you don't have access to a kitchen, like many hidden homeless, it really is.
Yang Xiao Long then use your time on RUclips to watch some home cooking tutorials. Learning to cook is an *essential* life skill.
Simon Rushton I’m not being rude but if your homeless ,how would u have a microwave
This is a choice . You don’t have to eat this garbage even if you are homeless. P.s. homeless people don’t have microwaves 🤔🤔🤔
Mike,
You should do a week of health food only.
Thanks for the series.
Typically I get frozen sundries (chips, pizza's etc from Iceland) and tend to eat with a mix of fresh meat and veg from a butchers/grocers. I spend about £35 a week on food for 2 people and usually end up with enough left over that after one week shopping I get in what I call a "luxuries week" where I grab me some ice cream and good coffee. In general though, mixing the occasional ready meal with healthy eating doesn't do anyone any major harm and depending on your work patterns (I just recently finished working in pubs) ready meals can mean a big difference, working mainly nights, I could easily spend £5+ an evening on take-aways, but instead find a ready meal really helps save my wallet for something just as bad. A lot of people comment that it's hard to feed a large family, and granted it is, but I've learned eating smarter is the key.
Ya know, I had never heard of eating beans for breakfast before you. Made my own “ all day breakfast” and it was DELICIOUS!
"I may regret this decision but i'm going to put this one in the microwave, but I'm not going to wait the 45 minutes it takes, because I'm bloody starving." And that's why people don't put it in the oven. Goddamn I'm hungry. Fuck waiting 4x as long. :3
blindey I read your post at exactly the same time I watched/heard Mike say it! Just saying! Yawn
Surprised how entertaining these videos are, hopefully you do some more like this in the future
You discovered an important lesson about reheating food or reheating ready-meals: they're better on the stove or in the oven.
The microwave has its place: thawing or defrosting, warming things up, and even cooking bacon pretty well. But the ready-meals are better done at half power on twice the time, for just this reason. You also don't have to let them cool quite as long, and the heating is more thorough. But also, the oven and stove do the work through thermal energy, not by using higher bandwidth energy to cause water molecules to vibrate.
The extra weight was probably just water retention.
Things I learned this week: British people eat beans for breakfast and what Yorkshire pudding is. I'd say I thought this was interesting, but I'm afraid any positive reinforcement might lead you to doing similar stunts detrimental to your health.
You are really missing out with Yorkshire puddings! Yorkshire puddings and gravy is to die for!
yeah its great to pile chicken, gravy, stuffing and potato into the little edible bowls and spill gravy while you eat it whole^^
Well I don't do it that way hahaha it doesn't have to be eat like that
well done mate. I work at Iceland, and even I wouldn't have done what you did all week. far braver then me.
Wow, it's only been a week, and I feel a strange sort of emotion. Like, holy hell, you made it. You made it and you didn't die of salt poisoning or anything. Congrats, man!
Gotta say, you guys over in the UK have a lot of patience. 9 minutes is more than I've ever had to microwave something off the top of my head. I also don't think I'd have the patience to ever cook one of those things in the oven. 45 minutes for a legitimate dinner? Sure. 45 Minutes for something called a "ReadyMeal"? I'm too impatient for that.
You might have also lost a few years on your life, luckily it's those shitty ones towards the end.
Frozen veg often contains more nutrients than fresh veg due to the nutrients not slowly decreasing before you buy it and cook it.
Really enjoyed watching all 7 vids :) cant wait to watch ur next food challenge :).... go get that salad you truly deserve it after that!!
Woo! British chips!
Maybe you didn't drink enough water to compensate for the salt assault.
Anyway good job on this surprisingly entertaining series!
as much as I like this as an experiment I don't think this is a fair representation of iceland. they do have a huge range of frozen veg etc. as well as fresh stuff like milk, eggs and bread, even a fresh fruit and veg section. if someone were only able to shop at iceland for some reason there is a lot of healthy stuff they could make
But this challenge wasn't about those types of products, it was a challenge about their range of frozen "tv dinners"
What a cool series of events. It makes me hungry for a TV Dinner, but only one, and no more. I don't want to have shriveled eyes like Mike's.
i kind of want him to do a follow up where he only putts things in the oven
you brave brave man. At least we know now to avoid iceland microwaveable meals if we can in the future.
So the freezer is where you keep your Dahmer Kebobs, you fiend, you!
Mikes challange for next week, a week without salt
I think you should have had some of Iceland's party food as you felt like celebrating after a week. Or try their £5 Chinese selection box.
Iceland do sell fresh and frozen vegetables.
'Bloody birds'
I am also British and I feel your pain.
Still, I hope you enjoy your real food, now.
Please extend this for a full month!
Weight gain is not surprising since the extra sodium in your system makes you retain water. Also does a number to your blood presure as well. Im glad you survived this ordeal.
First off: Congratulations on surviving the week!
Now to the meat of the issue (hurr hurr hurr): This is how you know someone usually eat their chicken with some sauce or something that covers it. The reddish part is not blood (as if undercooked) but the part of the chicken that is closest to the bones, just to the side of the breast part. That's what's usually referred to as the "dark meat" of the chicken. The reason it is in the middle is because the chicken has been shredded and then rolled together again (which is only slightly better than the "nugget" version, which has been minced and then pressed together again).
A week on Iceland food is a challenge? Should try being working class now n again.
Jason Watson How do you feel about that comment? Do you want to try again?
Being working class is a challenge? Should try bein a crash test dummy now n again.
(you see how dumb this sounds?)
hal lourious I think he meant some people can only afford this level of food. A few years ago I would go lol crap! These days however, due to the current UK's government's delight in treating the poor as the scum of the universe I would say his comment is entirely accurate.
Plus working hours etc some mothers or fathers probably don't get home till 7pm weekdays. Plus so many single parent families lately in the UK that I doubt they have time or energy to do fresh food. I am sorry however as this was far too serious for this comment section. So i will say penguins to rebalance it.
Anna Zero
I know what he means. It is still a stupid comment.
It's like when people talk about how they liked a movie or a tv show and someone comes in and tells that children are dying in Africa.
It's not wrong what he says, but it is still a nonsensical offtopic commentary.
Besides this: This kind of food is NOT cheap. It's far more expensive than making it yourself with better quality. This is one portion of Chips and Sauce for what? 1 or 2 pounds.
For 4 or 5 you could have bought enough credencials for three or four days (always depending what and where you are buying of course).
In Aldi a chicken Sandwich costs roughly two pounds. Make it yourself and it costs you not even 50 ps.
Anna Zero
"I am sorry however as this was far too serious for this comment section."
Exactly what I meant ;)
You should do more weekly challenges. Fresh food, natural, home made, maccy d's, weightwatchers etc. Would be good to see how much you gain and lose just by eating differently.
Really enjoyed your videos this week, hope you keep it up (:
My favourite thing from Iceland are the hot and spicy chicken fillet strips. I can eat a plate full of them with bbq sauce for dipping
I love microwaving. All the prep time, clean up of eggs...
Vs. 75 seconds in the microwave.
Also, oil / butter is expensive, Dixie bowls aren't.
Very few things can't be microwaved.
It's not that we're wrong. It's that we had this thing, right after the revolution, where we wanted to be different from England. So, chips became fries. Biscuits became cookies, etc. :V
Further note, I don't know if your country sells the healthier meals or not, but here, you can get low sodium/salt meals so it's not so bad on the salt intake.
"if your country sells healthier meals or not" where do you think we come from? mars?
He was only showing the unhealthiest meals and when I looked at Iceland's website, I didn't see anything that looked like it had less fat or less salt. So, idk. It's not a question of "where do you come from?" It's a question of "why do the fat ass Americans offer healthier frozen food?"
After all this, there's only one thing you need to do. Sing the BBQ song.
DillonFox
It's gonna be mega nice!
You say football, I say soccer
You say chips, I say fries
Chips
Fries
Soccer
Football
Oh, let's call the whole thing off.
+Rikunius999 Who calls a hot dog a sausage and vice-versa? I always thought they were different.
BRATWURST!!! :D
only In America do people say socer
+Roxie ღ Soccer as a term for the sport of football originated in London in the 1920's approximately. Can't fault the Americans for taking it, we took a lot of stuff from the British.
We call it soccer here because we changed some of the today's rugby is played, so we had to come up with a different name for it. When soccer came here we couldn't call it football, cause the name was taken already.
The reason yr feeling hungover is because when yr hungover, you lack water because of the alcohol. In this instance you had too much salt for your liver to handle and expended more water than normal,
This type of food is kind of marketed to university students who don't always have an oven. That's why they have microwave directions.
glorious ending to a depressing series
Grats Mike! *gives you a salad* There you go man, you earned it!
0:34 Evil Dead, like the Iceland food lol
I love the duck thing, it is good!
Surely it needs to be"what I found in the skip today" series? Can't be any worse than some of that God awful foods you had.
Iceland. Food you can trust. Just ran across one of their stores on Google Maps at New Cross Rd. & Goodwood Rd. I doubt I want to trust that food!
There are people that eat stuff like this every day. I don't know how they stand it. It's ok sometimes but the salt in particular really catches up to you fast.
yeah i persoanlly cant stand meals made where i cant see the process so as a result i make nearly all of my meals from scratch
Why did you buy sweet and sour chicken if you don't like the sauce??
Lucius Kesake Was thinking the same!!
because he likes the balls
Because he's a whiner.
cause who can say no to chicken?
Well done Mike!
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think most people buy this kind of food to wait 40 minutes for a meal. Also some of them might be actually afraid of ovens.
Who cares whether it's chips or fries? The reality is that there's a picture on the box, so no-one was confused as to what it was.
Because Americans are wrong in their naming and it must be explained.
Sir Cookays I take offense to that. I know what you people call things as do most of us Yanks.
Sir Cookays Except they're not, and I'm not interested in a bunch of people being all arrogant about irrelevant differences between what different demographics call the same thing.
Grow up.
Christ thats the last time I jokingly guess at what a stupid comment in a video means.
Samael Barghest Whatchu mean you people????
maybe it's just me, but the morning shots the background looks like the same background in your UK area
I was hoping this was all leading up to the launch of you new home cooking channel! Congrats on surviving then.
I didn't figure out that Iceland was the name of a store until partway through the first video.
Also, the "fries" vs. "chips" thing reminded me of when certain people wanted us to call French Fries "Freedom Fries". I never met anyone who actually did that, though.
is it bad that i'm watching this while eating an iceland pizza pie - four cheese flavour?
The pancakes that look like wet paper are exceptional? Chinese or not, what kind of pancakes do you get in the U.K?
Mike, with regards to frozen veg vs "fresh", frozen are actually more fresh than fresh from the shops. Frozen retain more nutrients and degrade much slower than so-called "fresh". With regards to weight gain, in your case, all the salt caused water retention, which is where the weight came from. You probably lost half a pound of fat. With regards to calorie RDA, 2500 is for the average man. Sedentary men, such as office workers, writers and RUclips personalities need closer to 2000 to maintain a healthy weight.
I don't know if you can order them online but if you can, you should do a week on American store brand frozen foods and see how they compare. I'm guessing they'll be similar but perhaps higher in calories.
Wow mike used to have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Is baked beans for breakfast a thing there?
Sadly yes. As a Brit, I cannot stand them!
Wanker comment.
David Maclennan loooool
Sadly it is yes but not for me 🤮
i dont think i could eat iceland food for a week i love my home cooking but you do get some good things in iceland milk 89p i love the cheesy adverts with peter andre haha :) well done dude for doing it if peter can do it everyone can thats why mums go to iceland
When the best description you can use to sell your frozen meals is "cooked" .... isn't that a bad sign for what's to come?
Alternative week - £12 - 4 portion of fresh meat, good for 2 days each. £2 - eggs for a week, £2 - milk for a week. £6 - veggies, £4 - Fresh fruit. £3 - cereal £6 - sandwich meats and other bits to make up meals.
no one has any excuse to goto bloody iceland!
Looks about 1.5x as expensive, actually. Also I think people predominantly eat this kind of food out of laziness/apathy as much as $$$.
seigeengine It's seriously not cheaper to buy frozen shit; you get more value out of the fresh food.
Crazy Hans Evaluation is a subjective venture.
Crazy Hans
Honestly speaking that's not true. He was buying only ready made meals so that is why it was so expensive and also why it was so unhealthy. Certain produce is better to buy frozen to avoid wastage due to rotting.
Jobs and housework tend to put a pin in your healthy food idea. Try living a normal life and find time to cook.
So just curious, what are what the US calls potato chips called in the UK?
I spend anywhere from 11 to 13 dollars a day on food, which would be about 8 pounds. That's only one a single meal. 35 pounds is what I spend in about 3 days worth, so for a week, that's not too bad.
That’s insane. Our weekly food budget for a 2 person household is between £50 and £60 total.
Welcome back to good food, Mike. :)
i would go as far to say "welcome back to food fullstop" i dont know if you live in the united kingdom but the duck pancakes and cheesecakes are the only redeemable things sold in iceland that resemble food
Mike Jeavons, I issue unto you the ultimate challenge. Use the rejuvenique mask for a week and document the result it has on your health.
Also, congratulations on not becoming a shriveled up mass of carbon.
salt makes you retain water, so i'm thinking maybe all that extra weight is just water weight from all the sodium?
I wonder why stone is the go-to unit of weight measurement for the UK. Especially when they just use regular pounds as well
why not use what the rest of the civilized world uses? Kilos and Grams.
Because pounds are edgy and cool!
Dr. Forrester We use stones because its 14 pounds to 1 stone. Like how there is 1000 grams in a kilogram.
I wonder the same about Fahrenheit and the US.
Le Science Timez! The weight gain, as you surmised, can probably be attributed to your increased salt intake. Your body is retaining more water than usual to try and keep you hydrated. Going consistently under on your calorie and fat intake may have some effect on the weight gain as well. It's basically telling your body "pickings may be lean right now. Hold onto everything you can get". The yucky lack-of-energy feeling is most likely the result of ingesting the MASSIVE amounts of additives and preservatives that nearly all frozen processed foods have.
Prescribed regime is, again as you said, load up on the fruits and veg, get your calorie/fat intake back up to normal, avoid sodium, and keep drinking lots of water to help purge your body of all the salt and chemicals.
Neat experiment! Thank you for punishing your body for our amusement! :p
Would love to see your first proper meal after this!
The chips and curry looked like poutine
Chips, French Fries, who cares? Nobody is right, nobody is wrong. Every country has it's own thing.
+TMoney9961 I think he was joking in fairness.
Enjoy this series a lot more than you enjoyed the food thanx mike
Sausages and beans are a breakfast where you live or is that just your only option since there is no frozen milk eggs and cereal?
It's a breakfeast in the UK.
Sausages an' beans are a common part of an English breakfast, yes.
KipAU1 . Full Breakfast is not the same as an English breakfast, the full keeps out the beans!
BeeryGamer
Wikipedia redirects "English Breakfast" to "Full Breakfast". Of course they also say that Americans frequently eat something called "scrapple" for breakfast, which I've never even heard of.
I used to work for Iceland, and can confirm that 99.99% of the stuff they sell is utter shit, and now iceland are struggling, as people realise they aren't that good value, and have a poor selection of food
chipsin curry sauce look pretty nice actually
mind you I m typing this before the point you tried it in the video :P
Asda basic range ?
Jesus good on ya sir.
diet time, Mike! I challenge you to try the "tape worm diet"
(yes, thats a thing, maybe you can try it for infomercialism)
Considering my diet is very similar to what youve been at all week i guess i can start to see why i often feel lethargic, drained and unmotivated so i think im gonna try changing things up.
Water retention is a hell of a thing.
1 week of poundland next! After you have seen your doctor of course.
I enjoyed those Iceland videos....brave you...lol ....your weight gain probably came from the amount of sugar in those foods....which you should have recorded....but well done....and glad you survived lol :-)
WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU MICROWAVE CHIPS?😣😖💀
Good work Mike!
Why did you choose to only eat frozen Iceland food and on top of that mainly ready meals? Iceland also have fresh food (including fresh fruit and veg), and have some much nicer frozen food than you chose. You seemed to simply set yourself up to get ill.
Nonisa not to mention this kind of food isn't really supposed to be eaten for all 3 meals. I don't know anyone that would do that.
I had sweet and sour battered chicken yesterday.
WELL DONE you Didn't die after all (CLAP CLAP CLAP)