Leo also gives 'ready-to-serve meal' for Fertiggericht. The usual term (in UK, can't speak for anywhere else) is 'ready meal'. That's what the aisles of them are labelled in e.g. M&S, Sainsbury's, etc.
UK Google search for 'ready-to-serve meal' - 2 hits, 'ready meal' - 84,200.

Convenience Food umfasst Fertiggerichte und Teil-Fertiggerichte. Ich würde den Begriff in der Regel unübersetzt lassen.

Wissen.de sieht das anscheinend ähnlich:
http://www.wissen.de/wde/generator/wissen/res....

Xipolis dagegen hat für Convenince Food nur einen Verweis auf Fertiggerichte (Brockhaus Ernährung).

wissen.de kennt Fertignahrung nicht, bei Xipolis (PONS) ist Fertignahrung=ready-to-eat food, also etwas anderes bzw. eine Untergruppe von Convenience Food.

"ready-to-eat food" liefert in .uk 46.000 Treffer (google)
Wenn es um eine einzelne Mahlzeit geht und nicht um die Gruppe, dann ist "ready meal" offenbar gebräuchlicher.


Ich war immer der Auffassung, food sei unzählbar. In dem Moment, wo food für ein konkretes Gericht steht, ist der Plural ja vielleicht gerechtfertigt.

Es gibt aber mehrere Einträge in Leo, die einen Plural liefern:
convenience foods pl. die Fertiggerichte Pl.

(rest siehe Dictionary: foods)

Kann da mal ein native speaker draufsehen?

"take home foods" hat weltweit 604 Treffer, der erste ist dict.cc, den sollte man in jedem Falle streichen.

#1: The usual term (in UK, can't speak for anywhere else) is 'ready meal'.

I agree.

Then it will probably need a BE marking. There are several AE choices, in several possible combinations, but as far as I know 'ready meal' isn't one of them.

As AE alternatives I would suggest

ready-to-eat ...
ready-to-serve ...
ready-made ...
heat-and-serve ...
prepared ...
etc.

... meal
... dish
... food
... entree / main dish
... vegetable / side dish
etc.

Or if it's a frozen one-person meal,

frozen dinner
TV dinner (possibly now dated)

'Convenience food(s)' is probably what the entire category is called within the supermarket or food-service industry. But you wouldn't say that when you're going to the grocery to buy one.

In yet another parallel thread,

related discussion: Fertiggericht - ready meal ,

Raudona mentioned

prepackaged

That also sounds more or less okay, but maybe more for something in a box off the shelf, not either refrigerated or frozen.

Actually I'm not sure what we call the whole category in boxes that you have to add something to, like ground meat (Hamburger Helper) or milk or butter (macaroni & cheese, cake mix). Those are also convenience foods, but not ready-to-serve.

And here's another thread

related discussion: Er ernährte sich von billigen Fertiggerichte...

that helps confirm 'TV dinner' for AE. I guess if it's dated, it's no more dated than dude and WK and I are.

('Instant,' by the way, doesn't work for this; in AE it's only for things that come in powdered form to which you add water, like instant tea or instant coffee. Sometimes instant soup, but for things with more ingredients also 'soup mix,' 'hot chocolate mix,' etc.)