"New improved recipe" vent.

paulpud

Kim_13 wrote: »

Asda Curry Sauce and Chips is another "improvement" that is actually worse. The chips are now thicker meaning there is far too much sauce for the number of chips; some don't even look like chips and seem like the rejects/ends of bags and even the sauce used to be really nice but is now tolerable at a push.

I wonder what nasty surprise I'll have when I next get a Chicken Tikka Masala/Chicken Korma. They reduced them to clear and now have a new package. Probably less curry and a changed recipe then.

I used to really like the Asda curries, in particular the 'Scorching Hot vindaloo' and the Chicken Madras.

The vindaloo really was amazingly hot, but then they changed the recipe, really toned it down and took out the baby onions.

The madras was really tasty with nice coconut flavours but the last couple I've had are totally different and couldn't taste less like a madras.

peachyprice

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Apparently no more than two eggs a week, and not a lot of cheese. 80% of our meals tend to involve one or the other, so back to the drawing board.

Sigh, where will it all end?

And yet eggs improve sperm quality and consistency.

pulliptears

Pot Noodles aren't exactly haute cuisine, but after they took the salt out they tasted even worse. If you chuck in a liberal sprinkling of salt now they taste just like they used to.

New 'Improved' Dolmio Spaghetti Sauce with extra onion and garlic. YUK. absolutely vile. Overbearing garlic and totally ruined what was a nice sauce.

Tassimo Costa Latte and Cadbury Hot Chocolate. Again 'improved'. Latte is now weak and watery and tastes disgusting and the chocolate I find to be undrinkable. Their Facebook is full of complaints, Tassimo are continuing to bury their head in the sand. When my bulk supply of old style latte's are gone the machine can go.

Goldiegirl

THX758 wrote: »

Sorry but, as you said, without salt everything is bland and tasteless, why would I want less salt in my food.

I've got Menieres Disease, and I control it by eating a low salt diet.

Since I started this diet, I've never eaten so well and feel great. I cook from scratch and flavour my food with herbs and spices. My diet isn't bland of tasteless at all, it's full of colour and flavour.

Maintaining your health is a powerful reason to reduce salt in your diet.

Kim_kim

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

My OH is a vegetarian, so that cuts out many things that I could feed him on.

You make him sound like your son.
I guess you have very traditional roles in your house.

THX758

Malthusian wrote: »

Everything? If every possible combination of food tastes bland to you then you have a serious salt addiction problem. It's the same problem as someone who complains that life is boring if they're not drunk or high. Food is not bland and tasteless if you haven't destroyed your tastebuds with salt. Cut down and they'll soon heal and be able to taste actual flavours again.

Most foods already contain salt and sugar. You can use a wider variety of ingredients and herbs/spices to make it taste nice rather than chucking a load of table salt in. Boiling pasta and rice with salt is fine, but it's completely unnecessary to add salt when making sauce.

I don't have a salt addiction problem, but as long as my body can take it I will eat salt as normal, as food with salt tastes better.
And my tastebuds are fine.

My indian work friend sometimes bring me some food she had done.
She is doing very tasty food, full of spices. But lately I did notice that some salt was lacking. I knew then that she was trying to lower the salt in her cooking, but a bit more salt made it perfect.
If you have to lower your salt intake for medical reasons, fair enough, but if not I don't see why you should stop enjoying salted food.

vuvuzela

peachyprice wrote: »

And yet eggs improve sperm quality and consistency.

Only for men :mad:

Bogof_Babe

Kim_kim wrote: »

You make him sound like your son.
I guess you have very traditional roles in your house.

Haha, no not really, but he is a very strict veggie, I (or he) has to check all the small print on labels, and even then if there is no green tick "suitable for vegetarians" he won't risk it. It annoys me a bit, as he wasn't veggie when I married him, and it's not as if accidentally straying would harm his health. He's an animal lover, so if he doesn't want to eat them that's his choice. Sometimes I have something with meat or fish for my own meal, but more often than not it's easier to both have the same.

Despite my stupid user name I am mid-60s and he is almost 70, so I suppose "traditional roles" were the norm from the start of our 40+ year marriage. We get by .

szam_

Malthusian wrote: »

Why not just open a bag of Tate & Lyle and chuck a couple of teaspoons in?

It's still loaded with same amount of sugar as previously. They just changed the general recipe, when I tried it, it was completely overpowered by garlic and was noticebly more "spicy" (I mean, I'm a chilli head who loves his hot food, but this didn't need it), probably because the chilli seeds and pieces of garlic are actually visible in tiny chunks whereas before it just looked like a thick liquid.

I suppose it's a good thing I went off the new version, I'm trying to lose a bit of weight anyway.

Ian011

THX758 wrote: »

Why do they keep changing recipes of perfectly tasty food, just to make them worse?

After several years of more and more 'improvements', you'll find one day they revert to "original recipe"...