Sainsbury's meal deal - new 'mince pie porridge' option

MSE_Laura_F

MSE James spotted that Sainsbury's is offering mince pie porridge as a meal deal 'main' option.


Anyone tried it? 

Would you give it a whirl, in lieu of a sandwich?

Tigsteroonie

Real sherry or just sherry flavour?

Don't think my employer would like me having the former ...

Rosa_Damascena

I knew that Christmas had officially started when I saw 4 houses decked to the nines last week. 

I have no idea how this tastes but I cannot imagine it would be bad. The same effect might be achievable with a bag of generic oats a spoonful of jar mincemeat stirred in prior to cooking.

pumpkin89

Tigsteroonie said:

Real sherry or just sherry flavour?

Don't think my employer would like me having the former ...

Real sherry, but it only makes up 0.5% of the product (1.5g).  Most sherry is around 20% ABV so that's 0.3g of alcohol (a unit of alcohol is 8g).  Probably no more than you would get from the vanilla extract in a vanilla porridge!

Full details are here - strange that the main ingredient is yogurt rather than milk.  I'm not sure how I feel about hot yogurt 
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-on-the-go-mince-pie-porridge-300g

njm123

Rosa_Damascena said:

I knew that Christmas had officially started when I saw 4 houses decked to the nines last week. 

I have no idea how this tastes but I cannot imagine it would be bad. The same effect might be achievable with a bag of generic oats a spoonful of jar mincemeat stirred in prior to cooking.

Generic oats and a spoonful of mincemeat to flavour the porridge works fine.   I used up a couple large jars of mincemeat that way,  when they were heavily reduced post Xmas, makes a change from the dried fruit/seeds/banana/cinnamon variations to flavour the porridge.