Gourmet Foods - For the cooking lovers
Gourmet style ready meals from FoodSeries are ready meals in individual trays for single-person consumption as a main meal or to share as a starter. They’re ready to heat and eat, made with natural ingredients and no additives, with a good nutritional profile, a source of protein, and inspired by delicious gourmet recipes from top international chefs.
Enjoy eating varied meals again with HSN! If you struggle to balance eating tasty dishes, switching up recipes throughout the week, and eating healthily with the right protein content, without too much fat and with quality carbs, you don’t have to worry anymore—gourmet foods are here to solve your problems.
You’ve got 5 different and delicious options, so you can mix up what you eat on busy days or when you don’t feel like cooking. Easy and quick.
Recipes for every taste
At HSN you’ll find a wide variety of ready meals, grouped into 3 different recipe types depending on their goal: Fit, Gourmet, and Veggie.
Within the Gourmet meals, those prepared with more exotic ingredients and from high standing cuisine, you have 5 different options to switch up depending on what you feel like eating each day; plus, thanks to the excellent nutritional profile of our ready meals, you can eat them daily without worrying about missing out on essential nutrients, as these are nutritionally balanced recipes, prepared traditionally with natural ingredients.
The gourmet meal options you can choose from are:
- Pasta with chicken in honey sauce.
- Buckwheat with chicken and mushrooms in cream sauce.
- Pasta with chicken in mustard and cream sauce.
- Pasta with chicken in tomato and paprika sauce.
- Pasta with chicken in herb cream sauce and green peas.
As you can see, the recipe bases are classic: we choose wheat as a source of complex carbs through pasta and buckwheat; and use chicken as a source of lean protein. This is a classic combo, super easy to adapt to different sauces and tastes for all kinds of people.
However, the sauces offer an interesting contrast, because unlike the common base of carbs and protein in gourmet ready meals, their sauces are unique and have very distinct personalities, so you can pick what you feel like eating each day and enjoy different and exotic flavors every meal, so you don’t get bored or have to repeat.
Who said dieting had to be boring and monotonous?
Perfect for when you’re in a rush
Not every day do you have the time or energy to cook your healthy meals, because eating deliciously and sticking to your diet isn’t as simple as boiling rice and chicken. Eating just boiled rice and chicken breast is the routine many athletes fall into, which makes them hate their diet.
To cook healthily and enjoy varied, tasty meals, you need to pick good, fresh ingredients, chop, peel, wash veggies; prepare sautés, sauces, sauté the meat with the carb source once boiled... All that takes time.
HSN’s gourmet meals save you the hassle, as they’re prepared following traditional processes, like you’d do at home, so you just have to heat the tray in the microwave and enjoy a delicious high-level cuisine meal, with healthy recipes and a good macro balance.
Preparation is super quick—just 2:30 minutes and you’re ready; you only need to pierce or remove the tray’s film to pop it in the microwave (or pour contents into a pot to heat slowly).
Ready to eat varied and delicious meals every day, without breaking your diet, even when you don’t have time to cook.
A common issue with ready meals, especially for people who like to have them handy for eating out, at work, for example, without needing to carry and wash tupperware at home; or for those who save them for days when they don’t have time to cook their own recipes, is the amount of fridge space they take up.
Our ready meals, whether gourmet, veggie, or foods, have an advantage over other brands’ recipes: thanks to their thermal sterilization process + protective atmosphere packaging, they stay in perfect condition for months without needing refrigeration.
You can store the ready meals in your pantry, kitchen cabinet, or drawer; just don’t damage the film that creates the tray’s protective atmosphere, and the meals won’t need cold storage—they stay good at room temperature.
This is way more practical, since the fridge space they take up can be a dealbreaker for many who can’t afford to fill a shelf completely just by storing 4 or 5 trays. With our ready meals, you don’t use up fridge space and can store them anywhere in your kitchen, pantry, or cupboard. Easy and practical.
HSN recipes, unlike practically any other option on the market, contain no additives—they’re only made with top-quality natural ingredients.
The reason our meals don’t have additives is because we don’t need them: thanks to the protective atmosphere in which our meals are stored, no preservatives of any kind are necessary.
Plus, we don’t use thickeners, flavorings, colorings, or any other additives, or any “weird” ingredients you wouldn’t use in a recipe you’d make at home; our ready meals are cooked traditionally to help you enjoy a delicious, convenient, and quick meal, while also supporting your nutrition with a good calorie balance, proper macro distribution, and quality natural ingredients.
Portion sizes are very personal, but at HSN we’ve carefully analyzed the amount of food we wanted in our trays, because we don’t want to contribute to food waste, but we’re clear we don’t sell ready meals for people to stay hungry, so:
Our trays contain around 400 g of food, an ideal amount for individual consumption. How to know your ideal portion?
- If you have a moderate appetite or follow a normocaloric diet: it’s a main dish for one meal.
- If you have a big appetite or follow a hypercaloric diet: you can pair it with a second dish, like veggies and lean protein sources, such as a vegetable salad with natural tuna.
- If you have a small appetite or follow a hypocaloric diet: you can split the tray in two, to share or eat in two sittings, though ideally we recommend pairing it with at least one more light meal portion.
HSN ready meal portions are balanced, perfect for all kinds of people, allowing comfortable eating even if appetite isn’t huge, but also balanced enough for those who eat more to feel full or simply pair with an extra protein or veggie source.
Flavors for every taste
HSN Gourmet recipes come in 5 delicious options.
Pick your favorite—each is prepared traditionally, with quality, cutting-edge ingredients, no additives, and a good protein and carb content.
Choose based on the sauce you feel like eating the most—delicious!
The sauces in HSN ready meals are the distinctive characteristic elements of the different gourmet options available at HSN.
All are made with creamy bases from 18% cream; even the tomato and paprika sauce recipe contains cream to add that extra creaminess that gives the sauce a gourmet touch.
Enjoy all the gourmet recipes, try the delicious sauces of HSN meals, and surprise yourself every day.
Balanced supply of calories, protein, and carbs
Although the main focus of HSN gourmet recipes is enjoying an incredible and delicious flavor from the best ingredient selection and their combination, their nutritional contribution is also something we’ve kept in mind.
Gourmet ready meals provide an adequate carb content, enough to satisfy you and enjoy the pasta and buckwheat base in good quantity, while not being excessive for non-athletes who maintain a diet with a more moderate carb content.
The chicken base is present—not a tiny amount like in some other ready meals—you see juicy chicken pieces on the plate and can savor them, enjoying high-quality meat prepared carefully to avoid drying out. This chicken contributes to a good protein content.
If sauces worry you, don’t stress—they’re prepared lightly, with reduced calories so you can enjoy all their flavor without worrying about calorie intake.
Gourmet Fit meals, ready in 2.5 minutes—got it all, right?
Why do HSN meals have rapeseed oil?
Rapeseed oil is a seed oil that has an unfair bad reputation, as it was involved in a pesticide contamination scandal decades ago affecting the safety of oil from that batch, which ended up on the black market. However, outside that event, rapeseed oil isn’t unhealthy; on the contrary, it’s loaded with polyunsaturated fatty acids like omega-6.
Our ready meals are prepared by specialist chefs in Poland, following our guidelines, and among the cooking oil options available was rapeseed oil, one of the main unsaturated oils used in the country thanks to its good nutritional profile, heat resistance during cooking, and versatility. It’s considered the “olive oil of the north.”
Rapeseed oil is excellent for preparing our ready meals because it doesn’t add a strong flavor, is a base that doesn’t go rancid thanks to its good stability, and provides heart-healthy fatty acids—perfect for healthy cooking.
Great for people who don’t like spicy
Love spicy? Then Fit meals are definitely for you.
But if spicy isn’t your thing and you prefer flavors with low pungency or no spicy taste at all, gourmet meals are for you.
Only the Pasta with chicken in tomato and paprika sauce recipe has a spicy taste, since paprika (pimentón) is dried red pepper (chili) with a mild to moderate pungency level, noticeable in the dish but not extremely intense. It’s slightly less spicy than the 'Fit Rice With Chicken In Indian-Style Curry Sauce' and could be rated about 2.5/5 on the spice scale.
The rest of the gourmet recipes have no spicy taste, and any pungent spices used are in such small amounts that they don’t add spiciness to the dish, making them ideal if you usually prefer low-spice meals.
Gourmet recipe sauces have creamy cream bases, with mild flavors like honey, mustard, or fine herbs; all flavors that aren’t spicy but naturally mild.
Why don’t they need refrigeration?
You might find it confusing that HSN ready meals, being healthy, natural recipes like you’d make at home, allow something you can’t achieve with homemade dishes: once prepared, they keep without refrigeration for months. How is that possible?
This is thanks to the thermal sterilization process and protective atmosphere packaging, which requires meticulous industrial control to achieve, and while it’s a natural preservation improvement, it can’t be done at home.
Thermal sterilization isn’t strange or harmful; the process is simple: you need to raise the meal’s temperature above 100ºC once prepared, then immediately cool it down very quickly; this not only ensures the best recipe preservation but also prepares it to last for months in good condition.
Once thermal sterilization finishes, in an aseptic environment, the film covering the ready meal tray is sealed, creating a protective atmosphere that keeps the food fresh without refrigeration for a long time, as the tray’s interior environment is controlled and maintains the preservative properties of thermal sterilization.
Our ready meals are natural, of course, but this is possible thanks to the preparation process. If you open the tray’s film and release the food’s protective atmosphere, it behaves like a recipe you’d make yourself and should be consumed the same day, storing it in the fridge if needed.
Gourmet, Fit, and Veggie—which one’s yours?
At HSN we offer different types of ready meals, divided into '3 lines' based on recipe types, preparations, and usage goals:
You already know Gourmet, we just introduced it. There are also Fit meals, which are rice and chicken recipes in international sauces, characteristically spicy, with high protein content, especially aimed at athletes. And Veggie, meals made with plant-based ingredients, whole grains, and vegan protein sources like legumes; aimed at vegans.
Plus, you can try our latest creation: Nutry Bowls, dehydrated ready meals, ready to add boiling water to rehydrate, and ready to eat in 3 minutes. They make a complete meal along with an extra portion of veggies and a piece of fruit for dessert.
Enjoy taking care of yourself in a convenient, quick, healthy, and delicious way with HSN.
