IN REFERENCE to your front page article ‘Back to the dark ages’ (Oxford Mail, March 17), when will the trusts – like Oxford Health – realise that ready chilled meals are horrid and are not what the patients deserve?

They are full of additives and are cooked twice, reducing the essential nutrition for recovery.

Ready meals are more expensive and do not provide the flexibility.

Who wants fish and chips regenerated or a rubbery omelette?

MIKE DUCKETT MBE Grafton Road Worcester Park, Surrey