Warning Morrisons O'kane chicken kievs worst kievs ever

ALIBOBSY

Now on the whole I try to cook most of our meals from scratch, but kids being kids they like to have the odd chicken kiev or nuggets.

Over the years we have tried quite a few different varieties and obviously the quality varies-and not always according to price. Recently we have been eating Aldi and Lidl kievs and nuggets that are both made with chicken breast and although they are still the reformed type they taste pretty good and actually have the texture and taste of chicken breast-as they should. Aldi do 4 frozen ones for £1.50 and Lidl do a 2 pack of chiller ones (which are a bit bigger) for £1.40, these fairly often are on the weekend half price offer for around 70p so we stock up then and freeze them.

However my lovely MIL shops and always had shopped at Morrisons, we stopped a few years back although we still occasionally bob in. When she does her shop she always looks for bits she can buy for us to help us out, we have tried telling her its fine we can manage. But she had 4 children herself and it gives her pleasure to pick up what she sees as little bargains to help her grandchildren. So she picked up 3 packs of the O'Kane chicken kievs from Morrisons last week. These are chiller packs of 2 and currently on offer at £1 each.

We had them for tea and they are so awful noone could manage to eat them. The texture and indeed taste was like wet tissue paper, you wouldn't even have known it was chicken. It was awful.

I ended up chopping them up and putting them in the cats bowls and even the CATS are refusing to eat them. I hate wasting food, but the last pack which I froze is heading for the bin tomorrow.

Can't take them back as I don't have the receipt and it wouldn't be worth the trip just for that and MIL is of and age and type that won't complain and told us to just bin them. But I wanted to post to let other shoppers know to avoid these like the plague, they are worse than those reformed cheap meat nuggets they used to sell cheap everywhere a few years ago, just soooooo awful.

Ali x

bluebeary

i hate to be nit picky but please dont give anything garlic related to your cats

http://www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/pet-health-toxins/Garlic-Toxicity-and-Pets.aspx

thanks x

hollydays

Is there such a thing as a good chicken Kiev though? Unless it's homemade?
I couldn't eat reformed meat .. The thought of it....

mrL_2

Hi can't believe it we have just cooked these for r tea taken one bite each my partnrr and I and we had to spit the food out it was the worst taste n texture ever, we have had these many times before and they have never tasted like that, tomorrow I will be contacting the wholesalers tomorrow, can I ask where in Lancashire you bought these as im from kirkham near blackpool?

ALIBOBSY

bluebeary wrote: »

i hate to be nit picky but please dont give anything garlic related to your cats

http://www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/pet-health-toxins/Garlic-Toxicity-and-Pets.aspx

thanks x

Thanks for the link, I had previously heard of garlic being put in animals food for flea prevention, but never used it.
TBH a decent keiv wouldn't have much garlic and these didn't taste of garlic of chicken lol. As it happened the cats wouldn't touch it so it went in the bin anyway. But interesting to know.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

hollydays wrote: »

Is there such a thing as a good chicken Kiev though? Unless it's homemade?
I couldn't eat reformed meat .. The thought of it....

Well yes the best kievs we have are homemade or the ones from our local butcher/farmshop which are free range and a whole breast, but there are 6 of us so it gets expensive. TBH most of the "chicken breast" products are not reformed meat in the way it used to be. They put chicken breast in a sort of giant washing machine drum, add a little water and spin it, in a way a bit like making a chicken breast mousse, not like the days when they used to crush up bones and/or blast the meat off bones.

The aldi and lidl ones taste like finely chopped chicken breast, these didn't even have a hint of chicken flavour and the texture was wet and like tissue paper, world of difference between one and the other.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

mrL wrote: »

Hi can't believe it we have just cooked these for r tea taken one bite each my partnrr and I and we had to spit the food out it was the worst taste n texture ever, we have had these many times before and they have never tasted like that, tomorrow I will be contacting the wholesalers tomorrow, can I ask where in Lancashire you bought these as im from kirkham near blackpool?

These were from the Preston branch of Morrisons, I posted this on the Morrisons site and to be fair they have contacted me and asked for the batch numbers. Given what you say I would say either there has been a big problem with a few recent batches OR they have changed the recipe to make it cheaper and it has gone badly wrong.

Ali x

System

Meat products is one of the few items I economise on.

jm2926

hollydays wrote: »

Is there such a thing as a good chicken Kiev though? Unless it's homemade?
I couldn't eat reformed meat .. The thought of it....

Sainsbury's sell whole chicken breast chicken kiev's. Think they're £4.50 for 2, although in my local often yellow stickered to £1.99

ALIBOBSY

jm2926 wrote: »

Sainsbury's sell whole chicken breast chicken kiev's. Think they're £4.50 for 2, although in my local often yellow stickered to £1.99

TBH we rarely go in Sainsburys as the nearest is about 20 mins drive away so wouldn't be able to pop in and check for yellow stickers, but worth bearing in mind on the occasion we pop in thankyou.

I would say 90% of our meat comes from a local butchers/farmshop where all the meat is high welfare or free range and local, they do their own free range whole breast keive for £1.60 each and I have to say they are lovely, its just handy to have some occasional freezer stuff. I have had some health issues over the last year and during periods where I was unable to cook OH tend to fall back on the freezer lol.

Thanks for all the replies guys.

Ali x

hollydays

My kids didn't always eat " wholefood" , and I don't want to take the thread off topic but if something is made with chicken breast , how would you know if it's a small amount of poor quality chicken breast and a lot of " dross" , that's why I try to avoid processed food, not always successfully, because it's a way of hiding low grade stuff within the product?

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