I bought this Garden Vegetable Pie ready meal well before Christmas, when I had the voucher for £20 off an £80 spend at Waitrose and somehow managed to work spending that amount into my self imposed budget for the month. I didn't manage to eat it before the best before date so it was popped into the freezer. I fished it out one night last week when we returned tired and hungry from Mum's.
Now I didn't actually notice that it should have been thawed slowly in the fridge before being cooked after being frozen, so perhaps my review is slightly skewed as the mashed potato topping tasted very watery. Oops!!
The ingredients are pretty good, but there are just such a lot of them, which I guess is the downside to virtually all ready meals. Making this at home would mean using a lot fewer ingredients ... well it would if I made it.
Anyway it was quite tasty, a little bland, but definitely better than some of the ready meals that I used to eat 'back in the day'. Would I buy it again, possibly if I needed a ready meal for a specific reason and there was nothing else available. It was very edible and gets a 7/10. 😊
I saved the foil tray to use again as it was nice and sturdy.
Homemade ready meals are so much better. Vegetable curry with Basmati rice, cook once eat twice.
Sue xx
I'm a great fan of cook once eat twice!
ReplyDeleteBoth meals sound good. I think a homemade vegetable pie will be great, though.
ReplyDeleteHome made usually better (unless you have an off day!), and certainly fewer ingredients. I usually find the ready made meals rather disappointing and flavourless. I "treated" myself to a Tesco Chinese fried rice the other day -only because it was half price in the reduced section. The bits of meat were nice - the rest just boiled rice and a couple of peas.
ReplyDeleteI realised that some bean burgers I had bought said that they couldn’t be cooked from frozen so defrosted them and they fell apart. Needless to say, I ate them anyway but probably won’t buy again if they can’t be cooked from frozen. One thing that was cooked from frozen was an M and S sticky toffee pudding for four which I bought as a frozen product. We cooked it yesterday as a treat for my birthday and it was delicious with Greek yoghurt. The other half will be eaten cold today with some custard ( husband’s request) Catriona
ReplyDeleteI spent a couple of days in November doing a batch cook and putting things in the freezer. I love being able to pull out a meal and just warm it up.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Your curries always start me off on a curry craving 😀 Recently I bought frozen chickpea and squash curry from Tesco to keep in the freezer for a quick
ReplyDelete‘emergency’ meal. We tried them the other day, I made small flatbreads as a side and the curries were very tasty, surprisingly good for the price.
Alison in Wales x