fast food Inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly. ready meal is the food already cooked and ready to eat any where at anytime most of this food has preservative that last for long it was place in can or tetra pack. cowboy...

Hello Ivy, Fast food refers specifically to the food of a restaurant, café, etc.that requires little preparation before being served. A ready meal is a meal cooked and bought at a shop but taken somewhere else, often home, to be heated and eaten.

Hi Ivy, I'd just like to add that often fast food often contains more fats and calories than a ready meal eg KFC, McDonalds, Hungry Jacks etc. You can buy ready meals in the frozen food section of supermarkets and they only need a short time in the microwave.

Fast food: hot food that is served very quickly in special restaurants, and often taken away to be eaten in the street. Ready meal: a meal that you buy already prepared and which only needs to be heated before you eat it.