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heat-and-eat

heat-and-eat adjective: being a ready meal.

Adjective

heat-and-eat (not comparable)

  1. Being a ready meal.
    • Making foods from scratch also requires more time gathering ingredients than placing a container of heat-and-eat fare in your cart, but they'll taste better and be much more nutritious, making them well worth the extra time and effort.2013, Christina T. Loguidice, Maurie Markman, Carolyn Lammersfeld, Cancer Nutrition and Recipes For Dummies, page 112

Questions about heat-and-eat

What does heat-and-eat mean?
Heat-and-eat means being a ready meal.
What part of speech is heat-and-eat?
Heat-and-eat is an adjective.

Words near heat-and-eat in the dictionary

  1. heat treatments
  2. heat up
  3. heat vision
  4. heat wave
  5. heat waves
  6. heat-and-eat
  7. heat-labile
  8. heat-proof
  9. heat-ray
  10. heat-rays
  11. heat-resistant

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