name & shame shoddy food products

[Mrs Magpie]

I think then that sauces and pickles is the way to go. I do worry about the high salt content of ready-to-eat food. I'd guess that you're good about eating fruit.

 

[Greebo]

I don't have the energy for cooking these days, but I've only ever cooked rather simple and bland food.

If you have a lot of poor quality convenience food because you haven't got the energy to cook, you'll end up with even less energy. Higher in fat, salt, and sugars, while generally lower in nutrients because of the way a lot of it's been processed.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think then that sauces and pickles is the way to go. I do worry about the high salt content of ready-to-eat food. I'd guess that you're good about eating fruit.

I'm a lot better at that recently, and I drink too many smoothies not that it counts ..

 

[muvva]

The posh Italian style breads from M&S, the posh cheese type ones, they smell of sick when you open the packet. You won't get it near your mouth it's so vile.

 

[Geri]

We had a paella from M&S tonight. Whilst I wouldn't say it was shoddy necessarily, it was not particularly good. I think it had 4 prawns in it. Not as good as the one butchers makes.

 

[Greebo]

The posh Italian style breads from M&S, the posh cheese type ones, they smell of sick when you open the packet. You won't get it near your mouth it's so vile.

Open at arm's length near an extractor fan?

 

[Maggot]

Definitely Greggs veg pasties. Reminds me of trying to find veggie food in motorway service stations when on road trips in the 80's. Ginsters pasties were even worse back then; just a fatty pastry envelope half full of sick.
Motorway service station food deserves it's own thread.

I like Greggs veg pasties! They are mainly mashed potato with a bit of other veg, but they are a bit of a guilty pleasure.

 

[Maggot]

We had a paella from M&S tonight. Whilst I wouldn't say it was shoddy necessarily, it was not particularly good. I think it had 4 prawns in it. Not as good as the one butchers makes.

Of course the ready-made meals aren't gonna be as good as home-made. Were you seriously expecting to be?

 

[weltweit]

Tesco Pasta comes in a plastic packet which, when you try to open it, splits spilling pasta out all over the place. I hate this! why can't they have packaging that opens ok!!!! why !!!!

Heinz Tomato Ketchup in the new upside down squeezy containers, you can't get the last 1/4 of the contents out of the tube, why .. what a waste...

Waitrose French Stick bread: which tastes nothing like French bread, why can no one in Britain make French bread like the French! ?

 

[fredfelt]

Waitrose French Stick bread: which tastes nothing like French bread, why can no one in Britain make French bread like the French! ?

A French friend tells me that their baguettes are up to the quality baguettes from home - and just as expensive. However they also do 'Essential Baguettes', or what ever they call them, which don't come close to the real deal.

To answer your question this is industrial bread shaped into a baguette. Much cheaper but containing artificial preservatives and flower improvers - which is why most French bread from the UK is a pale imitation to the real stuff.

 

[fredfelt]

Shop brought cheese and onion sandwiches. YUK.

My only option for an emergency snack yesterday was either chocolate or a cheese and onion sandwich from a garage. The sandwich was disgusting - an ingredients list as long as my arm (why not just 'Cheese', 'Onion' FFS). Shit load of mayonnaise made from battery eggs. Massively high in fat and salt. That's the last time I buy that shit. Better to go hungry.

 

[weltweit]

Brie in cling film (Tesco): what is the point in wrapping something soft in cling film, you will never be able to get the cling film off in one piece leaving bits of it in the cheese which you don't want getting into your mouth. Why not, as President Brie does, have a foil like wrapper which can open easily and be used again and again as the brie gets depleted. What could the market leader know about packaging which the cling film users could not learn from them. Once again shoddy packaging which spoils the food!

 

[Greebo]

I like Greggs veg pasties! They are mainly mashed potato with a bit of other veg, but they are a bit of a guilty pleasure.

AFAIK some Greggs veg pasties are now sold uncooked & frozen in Iceland - Might be useful you're going to be coming in late.

 

[fredfelt]

Just as it has come up in this thread, I LOVE Greggs veggi pasties.
Yes they are crap. They are like salty baby food in flaky pastry but I love them and really crave them when hungover.

However, back to really shit stuff.
Asda own brand baked beans and spaghetti hoops are vile!!
They have a kind of fizzyness and taste of bicarb

I'm with you there. Greggs veggi pasties, not good food but does the job!

Until reciently there was a chip shop opposite to Greggs. They did very good cones of chips. I often wondered what had more fat and calories - cone of chips or a Greggs pastie.

 

[fractionMan]

Greggs pasties are wrong on lots of levels. Their cheese and bean slice? Now that's a thing of beauty. As is their £2 coffee and bacon butty breakfast deal.

 

[Geri]

Of course the ready-made meals aren't gonna be as good as home-made. Were you seriously expecting to be?

I expected it to be better than it was, although I did not expect it to be better than home made.