For the love of God - DO NOT BUY ASDA SMART PRICE FROZEN MINCE

ses6jwg

As above - DO NOT buy it.

From now on I will always buy premium frozen mince or fresh mince and just freeze it on day of purchase.

It is absolutely FOUL.

You cook it and all congealed white saturated fat spreads itself along the bottom of the pan.

When cooked it smells like you are burning human flesh - I am not squeamish in the slightest I have eaten chicken hearts whilst in France, But the smell of this mince cooking actually made me gag.

The texture is awful its like mushed up toilet paper and the aftertaste is foul!

I am NOT a food snob, I always stick to value brand where possible and shop at Lidl and Aldi often - but please DO NOT buy this.

wannabepennypincher

Right there with you! We decided to downsize our shopping right down to see what was good etc and when I cooked the mince I thought it smelled like dog food and couldn't take more than a bite. The one I use now is the asda own frozen one that had a red banner (can't remember whats it called) that I keep in there for when I forget to take out something to defrost. The tuna is not so good either- even my cats refused it.

In fairness to asda a lot of their smart price stuff is pretty decent and even though we can afford to do non-smart price shopping we still choose some of the smart price stuff we know is ok.

ses6jwg

wannabepennypincher wrote: »

Right there with you! We decided to downsize our shopping right down to see what was good etc and when I cooked the mince I thought it smelled like dog food and couldn't take more than a bite. The one I use now is the asda own frozen one that had a red banner (can't remember whats it called) that I keep in there for when I forget to take out something to defrost. The tuna is not so good either- even my cats refused it.

In fairness to asda a lot of their smart price stuff is pretty decent and even though we can afford to do non-smart price shopping we still choose some of the smart price stuff we know is ok.

Yep, the Asda Smart Price Tuna Flakes gave me raging diarheoa for 3 days.

I will stick to non-value meat and fish from now on.

mittenkitten

ewwwwww i try to be as frugal as possible, but draw the line at cheaper than cheap mince for this reason, sometimes a bargain is not a bargain...

ses6jwg

mittenkitten wrote: »

ewwwwww i try to be as frugal as possible, but draw the line at cheaper than cheap mince for this reason, sometimes a bargain is not a bargain...

I always try the value brands of each product at least once.

But yes you are correct here!

dizzybuff

Mice and tuna for me are butchers and fishmonghers... barginins and fresh

julietiff

dizzybuff wrote: »

Mice and tuna for me are butchers and fishmonghers... barginins and fresh

I draw the line at mice

But yes this mince is only fit for pet food

Charliezoo

I bought the Asda Smart Price Instant Custard once and it was absolutely foul. I'm not that fussy usually but it was slighlty thicker than water and just tasted stongly like Canderel, nothing like custard.

Never again!

pelirocco

I'm sorry , but why are you surprised ? stuff is cheap for a reason

ses6jwg

pelirocco wrote: »

I'm sorry , but why are you surprised ? stuff is cheap for a reason

Ridiculous assertion.

A guy my mate knows used to work in a digestive factory they all come off the same conveyor belt some into branded and some into own-brand packets.

But with regards to meat I would agree.

savemoney

Its false economy buying cheap meat. The cheap burgers, mince are full of fat/muscle/tissue, scraps etc you wouldnt eat it if you knew what they shoved in them mechanical machines that get every ounce of meat from bone