I used to make a cauliflower, smoked ham, cheese bake which I came across in an American cookery book. It could easily be expanded with macaroni or similar pasta.
Wholesale pork prices are roughly 25% higher than what was a stable price for a few years. Some retail products are up between 50% and 250%. Big cans of PEK were on Rollback in Asda for £1 for literally years. Now they are around £2.50 in most shops. Spam is up more than 50%. Many stores and producers are taking the piss. Lidl and Aldi seem to be among the most honest but Iceland , Tesco and Asda are bending us over. There should be laws against opportunistic and predatory pricing.
Are you serious? The Brothers Lidl and Aldi most honest? People think because they used to sell beans for 19p they are always going to be the cheapest. Backhander big brown envelope to 'Which' and they are both now declared cheapest supermarket of the year? It's all Mafia stuff mate. They are price matching, if not, even more expensive than other supermarkets with far inferior quality products. I got half a dozen eggs from a M&S petrol station which were the same price in both stores. Their own brand bread is shocking quality. . Beans, chicken wings, lamb chops, cucumber, mixed peppers all cheaper in Sainsburys . Milk price fixed right across the board. It's a Cartel, all worked out on a golf course, where we can never become a member. Their cheap crappy cooking style chocolate is now only 10p cheaper than Cadburys and you don't run the risk of 2 days on the shitter with it. Cheapo crisps 6 pack are only slightly cheaper than Walkers. They have never had it so good mate, capitalising , selling shit to the gullible masses. Even their carrier bags are dearer than Asda. We are being muppeted from every angle....Don't believe the hype!
@@carbonsiliconnn 💯🥇 couple of weeks self catering in Germany earlier this year, we visited both Lidl & Aldi most days, the choice, quality, presentation was WAY above uk & the price was lower €1.89 for 500g of German grown Strawbs that actually tasted like they should. Yesterday popped in to a Lidl nr Blackpool, it was like a freaking jumble sale. But good enough for the despised peasants. Aldi take the p*ss with a breakfast cereal called Benefit
OK for a non-sharer, but those 3 mini-oinkers look a bit lost in a sea of macaroni cheese. Come on Aldi! Just one more wouldn't break the bank. Would it? I do approve of all the red traffic lights. It's the season for that sort of thing!🎉
Watching Gaz is so fascinating. He obviously knows how to eat sensibly & with moderation, but the crap our supermarkets sell helps to explain why we're catching up to the Yanks in terms of obesity levels.
There's 'crap' as you call it and there's also an unprecedented amount of healthy food to choose from in our supermarkets. The fruit and veg section alone is whole another world to what is was a mere 30 years ago. We also have gluten free, organic, low calorie and vegan options.All of which were pretty non- existent until recent years. If someone is obese it's due to there dietry choices, the supermarkets offer them ample opportunity to eat healthy food. If they choose to eat 'unhealthy food' that's their prerogative. Besides, overeating is the cause of obesity, not so-called unhealthy food
@@Coxy-b34 Hi there! Through no fault of your own, it looks like you're far too young to even understand the concept of healthy food. When I was growing up in a village in the 1960s, no one bought food at supermarkets; you went to the butchers, and the greengrocers, or even the local farmer, as needs be. Frozen food barely existed, let alone the now ubiquitous fast food joints. Hardly anyone was obese, no one was "gluten intolerant", almost everything was "organic" and if you were a vegetarian [vegan didn't exist], you just went about your business without preaching. I understand that times have inevitably changed, but trying to defend profit-driven multi-national supermarket chains is a bit rich, frankly.
Great review Gaz 👍🏆♥️ Now that's definitely one for my menu,🤤😋 the son can have the pigs in blankets 😂 My Dad was the same about hot food, he would say "germs in cold can't survive, germs in warm will multiple, germs in hot will truly die" 👍 Have a lovely day Gaz and family ♥️
There has to be salted caramel pigs in blankets with piri piri somewhere in iceland. "Squeezy cheesy peas" My Aunt's Christmas dinners have cauliflower cheese and it sounds weird but it's actually really nice as an option for a roast, the restaurant i used to work at did broccoli and cauliflower with 4 cheeses, that was so nice.
You poms love those pigs in blankets. I wish our aldi in Australia had a smidgen of what u get. You're frozen food choices over there are plentiful. Love the reviews 👍
That looks nice, but I find the sauces in Aldi’s ready meals a bit watery. Just my taste, and as you say, you could mop it up with some garlic bread. Also a bit salty - I have been cutting down on salt lately (doctor’s orders) and now everything tastes over-salted to me. (You don’t live longer, it just feels that way, mumble, grumble!) I might try making some of my own, though. Good review, thank you. 😀
Mac 'n cheese by itself is tasty, so adding pigs in blankets has got to be a bonus. The factories now can churn out tonnes of pigs in blankets because they're everywhere nowadays. I've got to watch salt now. We are supposed to eat no more than 6 grams per day, but so much produced food contains a lot of it. Salt directly impacts blood pressure and high blood pressure forces the heart to work harder, and it may already be wonky like mine. So I am checking nutrition labels now with far greater interest in the salt content.
@@petersmith6974 Perfectly fine in moderation. It's that fat bloaters that consume vast amount of the stuff and zero fruit and veg that give are the issue not the food itself.
This is my kind of food 😆 If I make a macaroni cheese I often chuck some cooked bacon or ham in it anyway. I like my bacon crispy tbh so if I bought this I'd be turning them pigs over part way through👍
Hi Gareth, I've now learned from experience that your messages are well worth following up on. Thank you so much for reviewing the Home Bargains steak that you were also messaged by someone about. On your recommendation I went to Home Bargains and got two, and for £2.79 they were indeed lovely, so i've no doubt these will also be worth trying.
I made some pigs in blankets other day in air fryer at a fraction of cost . With butchers chipolatas and asdas cheap bacon £89p one . They were unbeatable.
Mac and cheese is sooo American. As for the Pigs in Blankets? Too few. I got 12 teh other day from Lidl and this breakfast ate all of them with my wife. We also had tinned plum tomatoes on toast. Very nice. PIBs are very 'in' this year.
Pigs in blankets flavoured Weetabix, yuk. If you have seen the cereal aisles in American supermarkets (on Florida theme park youtubers trips )they do every flavour under the sun cereal not sure about pigs in blankets though.
Oh Gaz! Pigs In Blankets have become 2023’s industry whipping boy. We’ve had them in Yorkshire Pudding, Pizza, A Pie, and now Mac & Cheese. I think every manufacturer is looking to find the most obscure method to serve this industry fave!! Leave it alone…we love Pigs In Blankets without the abuse from a partner! What’s next Chili Con Blanket, Blanket Carbonara, Shepherds Blanket….aaaarghh🫣🫣🫣. Great review, keep ‘em coming!
Been lucky again Gareth, another mouth watering goodie😅 I would have given it a stir after taking the film cover off. And i think most grown-ups could manage 4 pigs 😊 Not bad price wise. As a " not bloomin turkey left over's again snack" brilliant 😮 Keep 'em coming mate 😊Allan&Family
I used to like Kraft Dinner Mac and cheese. Was a cheap tasty deal. Usually get a box for .99c. Bought it once in England and was £s to buy. Add your own milk and butter after boiling the pasta.And add the cheese powder and mix. Usually throw hot dogs cut up in the pot too.
The Kraft product is over £1 in the UK but there are identical tasting equivalents for less than your dollar pricing. I know about Kraft dinner because I had a Canadian girlfriend live with me in the UK a few years ago. Her father shipped a box of Kraft dinner. I didn't realise till later that we had the same product here as well as cheaper clones. It doesn't have the same cult following here.
I expected to see the pigs in blankets cut into nice bite-sized chunks, and mixed through the pasta, or all arranged on top to crisp, (like with bacon or lobster mac n cheese...) not just thrown whole on top - a bit off-putting, and not fork-friendly... And more PIB chunks are obviously needed, too. 🤨😁
I got some superb Paldo Korean noodles in my local Heron's a couple of days ago Gaz! I reckon you should get in there and get some, they're only 79p for a four or five pack so they'll sell out really quick I reckon. There's four flavours, including the volcano chicken and jangmen! They're banging, best noodles I've had in a long time... 👍
We have the cathedral city version of this from Iceland quite often, based off of a recommendation from one of your old videos :) might have to give this one a try now
If your bob doesn't give our Bob the bob that your bob owes our bob. Our bob will give your bob a bob in the eye. Great review as always gaz.Keep them coming. When are you going to try Morrison's ribs of fire.????
Afternoon Gareth! With thems ingredients - wots not to like? .Unfortunately, the nearest Aldi is too far these days, what about a pint of Worcester sauce over top? VBW x
I've never had a premade Mac & Cheese that impressed, I'd rather scratch cook Mac & Cheese, and the number of the pigs in blankets is a bit on the skimpy side. It’s worth noting that ‘pig in a blanket’ means something different in the US, where it refers to a cocktail sausage wrapped in croissant-style pastry. Recipes for ‘pig in a blankets’ could be found in the late 1800s up until the early 1900s, but the name was used interchangeably to describe both the oyster version and the meaty alternative, with some UK recipe books beginning to tout a sausage-based pigs in blankets as early as the 1920s. There are variations found across Europe, in Germany they are called Würstchen im Schlafrock (aka ‘sausage in a dressing gown’), and it also comprises of a sausage wrapped in puff pastry, which cheese often added into the mix.
Gotta doubt the amount of actual real cheese used in premade Mac n Cheese. I also make by own and the amount of chedder cheese I put into it would be at least £1's worth.
@@Coxy-b34 Agree, I tend to use a cornflour/plain flour mix too. Love it heavy and thick. Only pre-made mac cheese I've ever found good quality were at Farmfoods, they did some "signature" mac cheese and bacon, wasn't cheap at 3 for £10 but handy to keep in the freezer just in case...
Bless you but for those who like the processed foods with not as much goodness in them as you should like I say not for me. I like real food to be reviewed by yourself. I respect we do have a choice. Still prefer all my own from scratch cooking.
Whilst earlier ancestors of pigs in blankets can be found in Germany, where they wrap sausages in puff pastry, the idea to wrap sausages in bacon seems to have originated in the UK. The term "pigs in blankets" was coined in the US, but - like their German/Czech counterparts - these were sausages wrapped in pastry, basically what we call "sausage rolls". Earlier American recipes for "little pigs in blankets" had oysters wrapped in bacon, which are also known as "angels on horseback".
HI GARETH DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES Asda should be paying you everytime you mention those plates as you are basically advertising them free of charge, so they must be loving you as they do not need to pay an expensive advertising company to do it. And just for your information here in Wales FFWRN MEICRODON (pronounced VRUN MICRODON) MICROWAVE in Welsh is, "MEICRODON" or "POPTY PING". It is a literal translation of microwave, MEICRO being the Welsh for MICRO and DON is Welsh for WAVE. Going a little further, a FFWRN MEICRODON (or a POPTY MEICRODON) translates as a MICROWAVE OVEN. 1 Nov 2023
Don’t understand why there are always so many ingredients for ready meals. Mac and cheese is literally pasta milk flour butter seasoning cheese and mustard powder if your feeling jazzy. I make stuff like that all the time and freeze it for months without any issues
These mac and cheese type meals seem to be just another way to overcharge customers. Mac and cheese is cheap (you can get a frozen ready meal in Tesco for 85p). Three pigs in blankets ain't exactly generous. £2.49 seems a bit over priced. I guess the ingredients might be better than the frozen versions.
I ain’t sure about this Gaz, although I will eat Mac and cheese very now and again, I’m really not sure about this combo! Great review though Gaz …. Smithy
Say it's very nice but 2 or 3 more pigs would be required for me. Pig's in blankets are not common in the west of Ireland , from what i see. I saw a Chef on UA-cam doing Pigs in blankets and he used Butter and Maple syrup on them i must find it again and try it as it looked superb.
looks like the cheese to pasta ratio is a bit off. like most things like this tend to be with way more sauce than meat. Definitely think i'd add some broccoli and some chipotle paste 😋
Looks a bit 'gloopy'. I DO recommend "Halls Macaroni cheese with ham hock" though - Around £2.75 (three for £7.50 from ASDA). An easy meal for 1 in a bind.
Hi Gareth from Spain. That is totally misdecribed; it is not the other way round. I like my own macaroni and cheese but commercially produced ones kinda lack something, usually decent cheese.
So it's mac and cheese with essence of pigs in blankets😂 very enjoyable and your a bit of a hero, for all the abuse you put your body under for our entertainment. Top man Gaz.
I used to make a cauliflower, smoked ham, cheese bake which I came across in an American cookery book. It could easily be expanded with macaroni or similar pasta.
Wholesale pork prices are roughly 25% higher than what was a stable price for a few years. Some retail products are up between 50% and 250%. Big cans of PEK were on Rollback in Asda for £1 for literally years. Now they are around £2.50 in most shops. Spam is up more than 50%. Many stores and producers are taking the piss. Lidl and Aldi seem to be among the most honest but Iceland , Tesco and Asda are bending us over. There should be laws against opportunistic and predatory pricing.
The Lawmakers will probably have investments and business interests in the Food Industry, though..
All meat eggs milk butter .. all the good stuff basically !
Are you serious? The Brothers Lidl and Aldi most honest? People think because they used to sell beans for 19p they are always going to be the cheapest. Backhander big brown envelope to 'Which' and they are both now declared cheapest supermarket of the year? It's all Mafia stuff mate. They are price matching, if not, even more expensive than other supermarkets with far inferior quality products. I got half a dozen eggs from a M&S petrol station which were the same price in both stores. Their own brand bread is shocking quality. . Beans, chicken wings, lamb chops, cucumber, mixed peppers all cheaper in Sainsburys . Milk price fixed right across the board. It's a Cartel, all worked out on a golf course, where we can never become a member. Their cheap crappy cooking style chocolate is now only 10p cheaper than Cadburys and you don't run the risk of 2 days on the shitter with it. Cheapo crisps 6 pack are only slightly cheaper than Walkers. They have never had it so good mate, capitalising , selling shit to the gullible masses. Even their carrier bags are dearer than Asda. We are being muppeted from every angle....Don't believe the hype!
@@carbonsiliconnn 💯🥇 couple of weeks self catering in Germany earlier this year, we visited both Lidl & Aldi most days, the choice, quality, presentation was WAY above uk & the price was lower €1.89 for 500g of German grown Strawbs that actually tasted like they should. Yesterday popped in to a Lidl nr Blackpool, it was like a freaking jumble sale. But good enough for the despised peasants. Aldi take the p*ss with a breakfast cereal called Benefit
@@carbonsiliconnn great post .
OK for a non-sharer, but those 3 mini-oinkers look a bit lost in a sea of macaroni cheese. Come on Aldi! Just one more wouldn't break the bank. Would it?
I do approve of all the red traffic lights. It's the season for that sort of thing!🎉
🥇👍🏻😆
Funnily enough a general rule in catering is that odd numbers look best on a plate hence 3, 5, 7 ,9 etc!
@@johnlocke6506 That’s a universal law that applies to so much, 3&5’s or 5&7’s are used in gardening to create natural balance
Watching Gaz is so fascinating. He obviously knows how to eat sensibly & with moderation, but the crap our supermarkets sell helps to explain why we're catching up to the Yanks in terms of obesity levels.
There's 'crap' as you call it and there's also an unprecedented amount of healthy food to choose from in our supermarkets. The fruit and veg section alone is whole another world to what is was a mere 30 years ago. We also have gluten free, organic, low calorie and vegan options.All of which were pretty non- existent until recent years.
If someone is obese it's due to there dietry choices, the supermarkets offer them ample opportunity to eat healthy food.
If they choose to eat 'unhealthy food' that's their prerogative.
Besides, overeating is the cause of obesity, not so-called unhealthy food
@@Coxy-b34 Hi there! Through no fault of your own, it looks like you're far too young to even understand the concept of healthy food. When I was growing up in a village in the 1960s, no one bought food at supermarkets; you went to the butchers, and the greengrocers, or even the local farmer, as needs be.
Frozen food barely existed, let alone the now ubiquitous fast food joints. Hardly anyone was obese, no one was "gluten intolerant", almost everything was "organic" and if you were a vegetarian [vegan didn't exist], you just went about your business without preaching. I understand that times have inevitably changed, but trying to defend profit-driven multi-national supermarket chains is a bit rich, frankly.
@@ianm2170 Yup, you got it bang on.
On a cold snowy night in front of the fire the mac and cheese with pigs in blankets would be more than welcome. Comfort food at its best 👍
"Comfort food at it's best"
Lol, are you sure 😏
@@Vanosphereindeed 😂
That looked yummy and always love your seal and peel test!!
Thank you 😋
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I have just shopped at Sainsbury's £22 I didn't buy mutch Mac cheese pig in blankets lovely good video
Pigs in blankets with everything these days. I’m looking forward to pigs in blankets ice cream!
😂
Prefer to make my own mac and cheese as I like it extra cheesy. Good review thanks and loving the Santa hat x
Haha you're welcome 😊
Kraft do a three cheese Mac n cheese. Not gourmet but brilliant for hungry young students with limited skills
Great review Gaz 👍🏆♥️ Now that's definitely one for my menu,🤤😋 the son can have the pigs in blankets 😂 My Dad was the same about hot food, he would say "germs in cold can't survive, germs in warm will multiple, germs in hot will truly die" 👍 Have a lovely day Gaz and family ♥️
You too and thank you 😊
There has to be salted caramel pigs in blankets with piri piri somewhere in iceland. "Squeezy cheesy peas"
My Aunt's Christmas dinners have cauliflower cheese and it sounds weird but it's actually really nice as an option for a roast, the restaurant i used to work at did broccoli and cauliflower with 4 cheeses, that was so nice.
You poms love those pigs in blankets. I wish our aldi in Australia had a smidgen of what u get. You're frozen food choices over there are plentiful. Love the reviews 👍
Cheers pal
OH dear me, looks awful, but bought the festive pie off Aldi today 🙂🙂
That looks nice, but I find the sauces in Aldi’s ready meals a bit watery. Just my taste, and as you say, you could mop it up with some garlic bread. Also a bit salty - I have been cutting down on salt lately (doctor’s orders) and now everything tastes over-salted to me. (You don’t live longer, it just feels that way, mumble, grumble!) I might try making some of my own, though. Good review, thank you. 😀
Cheers Wee
Mac and cheese with pigs in blankets and garlic bread a winning combination I Like
Mac 'n cheese by itself is tasty, so adding pigs in blankets has got to be a bonus. The factories now can churn out tonnes of pigs in blankets because they're everywhere nowadays. I've got to watch salt now. We are supposed to eat no more than 6 grams per day, but so much produced food contains a lot of it. Salt directly impacts blood pressure and high blood pressure forces the heart to work harder, and it may already be wonky like mine. So I am checking nutrition labels now with far greater interest in the salt content.
Prepared foods generally have high salt,fat and sugar content. The things that people like but are bad for you.
Hope you're well mate
@@petersmith6974 Perfectly fine in moderation. It's that fat bloaters that consume vast amount of the stuff and zero fruit and veg that give are the issue not the food itself.
Great review Gaz the only thing is I like my pigs in blankets nice and crispy 👏👏👍
Needs more pigs in blankets, apart from that it doesnt look bad.
the rump steaks with pigs in blankets butter are lovely 😋
Yes seen that one cheers
This is my kind of food 😆 If I make a macaroni cheese I often chuck some cooked bacon or ham in it anyway. I like my bacon crispy tbh so if I bought this I'd be turning them pigs over part way through👍
Thanks Gareth. You inspired me to buy one and try it. I loved it!
That looks tasty, think I'd want extra sausages, and maybe some mixed vegetables to add a bit of colour and bulk it out a bit.
Hi Gareth, I've now learned from experience that your messages are well worth following up on. Thank you so much for reviewing the Home Bargains steak that you were also messaged by someone about. On your recommendation I went to Home Bargains and got two, and for £2.79 they were indeed lovely, so i've no doubt these will also be worth trying.
My pleasure!
I made some pigs in blankets other day in air fryer at a fraction of cost . With butchers chipolatas and asdas cheap bacon £89p one . They were unbeatable.
Do like the crunchy bits thx for sharing 🍻🍻🎄🎄
Glad you like them!
Lovely Jubbly. Merry Christmas guys.
Same to you!
Mac and cheese is sooo American. As for the Pigs in Blankets? Too few. I got 12 teh other day from Lidl and this breakfast ate all of them with my wife. We also had tinned plum tomatoes on toast. Very nice. PIBs are very 'in' this year.
It literally looks like something my dog did when he had his gastric disorder 😂🤮
Gareth cracks me up when he says cheeeeeeeeeeeese
Just sat down with some nice Scottish black pudding to watch this review, cheers 👍
Oh enjoy your black pudding yum 😋
Its pigs in blankets with everything this year! what's next pigs in blankets in mince pies!!😝
You'll be giving the food technologists ideas! Pigs in blankets in *savoury* mince pies...😋😊@@Ifitwerks
@@danmyers7827 It could increase the meat content!
Pigs in a blanket is in practically every meal, they’ll be putting them in cereal next. Plus looks like they’ve started selling small rations again.
Pigs in blankets flavoured Weetabix, yuk. If you have seen the cereal aisles in American supermarkets (on Florida theme park youtubers trips )they do every flavour under the sun cereal not sure about pigs in blankets though.
Oh Gaz! Pigs In Blankets have become 2023’s industry whipping boy. We’ve had them in Yorkshire Pudding, Pizza, A Pie, and now Mac & Cheese. I think every manufacturer is looking to find the most obscure method to serve this industry fave!! Leave it alone…we love Pigs In Blankets without the abuse from a partner! What’s next Chili Con Blanket, Blanket Carbonara, Shepherds Blanket….aaaarghh🫣🫣🫣. Great review, keep ‘em coming!
Cheers pal
Been lucky again Gareth, another mouth watering goodie😅 I would have given it a stir after taking the film cover off. And i think most grown-ups could manage 4 pigs 😊 Not bad price wise. As a " not bloomin turkey left over's again snack" brilliant 😮 Keep 'em coming mate 😊Allan&Family
Spot on Gaz could have done with a another 3 pigs in blankets making 6 for the top, it's sort of semi festive 👍🎅🌲⛄😉
Great honest review Gareth again. Can't see them naughty little elves 😂😂
Great review mate , will be giving these a try .Cheers
Hope you enjoy
I used to like Kraft Dinner Mac and cheese.
Was a cheap tasty deal. Usually get a box for .99c.
Bought it once in England and was £s to buy.
Add your own milk and butter after boiling the pasta.And add the cheese powder and mix. Usually throw hot dogs cut up in the pot too.
The Kraft product is over £1 in the UK but there are identical tasting equivalents for less than your dollar pricing. I know about Kraft dinner because I had a Canadian girlfriend live with me in the UK a few years ago. Her father shipped a box of Kraft dinner. I didn't realise till later that we had the same product here as well as cheaper clones. It doesn't have the same cult following here.
I expected to see the pigs in blankets cut into nice bite-sized chunks, and mixed through the pasta, or all arranged on top to crisp, (like with bacon or lobster mac n cheese...) not just thrown whole on top - a bit off-putting, and not fork-friendly... And more PIB chunks are obviously needed, too. 🤨😁
I got some superb Paldo Korean noodles in my local Heron's a couple of days ago Gaz! I reckon you should get in there and get some, they're only 79p for a four or five pack so they'll sell out really quick I reckon. There's four flavours, including the volcano chicken and jangmen! They're banging, best noodles I've had in a long time... 👍
Those pigs & blankets should of gone too the market 😂
Looks like what you find in an alley after being sick lol
Looks nice but they were a bit tight with the pigs😄🎄🎄
I use the Tesco Packet macaroni cheese for about 65p a bit of milk in and water lovely
Pigs in blankets definately just an xmas sales thing, that said, bacon however you like to cook it goes so well with mac and cheese.
What is the make and model of your small oven that does everything. Cheers Paul
Sage
BFG, another classic! Ben from Aus x Can’t wait for the next
Cheers Ben
"its a ping meal" 😂 typical saying from us brits 😂 love it ❤
That looks a lovely meal for 4 Gareth thank you for another great review
Cheers pal
I'd get that for a lazy quick ping meal for times when I'm late getting home.👍
Good review Gareth,sausage and bacon always marries up well with a cheesy pasta dish,some crusty bread to mop up too and we’re in heaven 😂😂😂
Cheers Mark
I also have a pack of 12 pigs in blanket to go with it. Should be lovely
Cheers Kerry
The amount of times you have said you got those plates from Asda they should have a given them to you,
Soggy Grape Nuts with jersey Top milk!😂
Bah that has made me feel sick!! Some of these Christmas concoctions really are silly aren’t they?!.
Keep saying I'll try Aldi sometime, I'll try when I get back from Blackpool 👍
We have the cathedral city version of this from Iceland quite often, based off of a recommendation from one of your old videos :) might have to give this one a try now
If your bob doesn't give our Bob the bob that your bob owes our bob. Our bob will give your bob a bob in the eye. Great review as always gaz.Keep them coming. When are you going to try Morrison's ribs of fire.????
Oh yes well have a look this week cheers
Nice winter food to warm your insides, but you are right. it's much better to make your own. another great food review, pal.😁👍
Thanks 👍
Afternoon Gareth! With thems ingredients - wots not to like? .Unfortunately, the nearest Aldi is too far these days, what about a pint of Worcester sauce over top? VBW x
Haha could try it mate lol
Doesn't look too bad for a ping meal...going to see if Aldi still stocking when I do my next big shop 😋
Nice little snack for the money!
I've never had a premade Mac & Cheese that impressed, I'd rather scratch cook Mac & Cheese, and the number of the pigs in blankets is a bit on the skimpy side.
It’s worth noting that ‘pig in a blanket’ means something different in the US, where it refers to a cocktail sausage wrapped in croissant-style pastry.
Recipes for ‘pig in a blankets’ could be found in the late 1800s up until the early 1900s, but the name was used interchangeably to describe both the oyster version and the meaty alternative, with some UK recipe books beginning to tout a sausage-based pigs in blankets as early as the 1920s.
There are variations found across Europe, in Germany they are called Würstchen im Schlafrock (aka ‘sausage in a dressing gown’), and it also comprises of a sausage wrapped in puff pastry, which cheese often added into the mix.
Gotta doubt the amount of actual real cheese used in premade Mac n Cheese.
I also make by own and the amount of chedder cheese I put into it would be at least £1's worth.
@@Coxy-b34 Agree, I tend to use a cornflour/plain flour mix too. Love it heavy and thick.
Only pre-made mac cheese I've ever found good quality were at Farmfoods, they did some "signature" mac cheese and bacon, wasn't cheap at 3 for £10 but handy to keep in the freezer just in case...
Massive respect to you Gareth, that looked delicious. 🎄🎄🎄👍💯💥✨️
Delicious? Each to their own I guess
Cheers pal
Prob b betr with less cheese and less salt; for the size, the traffic light system is way too high.
I wonder how long and which store will bring out pig in blankets in spaghetti Bolognese?.
your videos are great pal
keep them coming 😊😊
Thanks, will do!
Bless you but for those who like the processed foods with not as much goodness in them as you should like I say not for me. I like real food to be reviewed by yourself. I respect we do have a choice. Still prefer all my own from scratch cooking.
With all this weird Christmas food they release I’m hoping for Brussel sprouts pizza with bacon. lol
Look at you getting all chefie, that my boxing day meal, add stuffing as well. Lush
It needs a good six pigs in blankets in my opinion!
That looks surprisingly tasty, thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
So good
It does look very tasty will have to try it, merry Xmas 🎄
Hope you enjoy, Merry Christmas 🎅
Should try pigs in blankets ice-cream.
OK Gaz sold. Great video
Nice one
Sick on a plate isn't the " eating with the mind" stimulus that does it for me. Who come up with these ideas... Hang on.. is it my old boss......
Looks Vile
Just because it's nearly Christmas they put pigs in blankets with everything !....what's next !?..pigs in blankets in mulled wine !
Pigs in blankets in brandy sauce
My thoughts exactly
Totally agree - getting ridiculous now.
Totally agree - getting ridiculous now.
Why not…
Whilst earlier ancestors of pigs in blankets can be found in Germany, where they wrap sausages in puff pastry, the idea to wrap sausages in bacon seems to have originated in the UK. The term "pigs in blankets" was coined in the US, but - like their German/Czech counterparts - these were sausages wrapped in pastry, basically what we call "sausage rolls". Earlier American recipes for "little pigs in blankets" had oysters wrapped in bacon, which are also known as "angels on horseback".
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@@thetruthwillout9094 Not at all. Those were all my own words, summarising a fair bit of research using different sources.
HI GARETH
DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES
Asda should be paying you everytime you mention those plates as you are basically advertising them free of charge, so they must be loving you as they do not need to pay an expensive advertising company to do it.
And just for your information here in Wales
FFWRN MEICRODON
(pronounced VRUN MICRODON)
MICROWAVE in Welsh is, "MEICRODON" or "POPTY PING".
It is a literal translation of microwave, MEICRO being the Welsh for MICRO and DON is Welsh for WAVE.
Going a little further, a FFWRN MEICRODON (or a POPTY MEICRODON) translates as a MICROWAVE OVEN.
1 Nov 2023
Cheers Debra 😊
With any cheesy pasta dish I buy, I put some Primula cheese with jalapenos in. Makes it extra cheesy and gives a little kick.
This gets a piping hot 9 ummmms🎅🏻🤩
Don’t understand why there are always so many ingredients for ready meals. Mac and cheese is literally pasta milk flour butter seasoning cheese and mustard powder if your feeling jazzy. I make stuff like that all the time and freeze it for months without any issues
These mac and cheese type meals seem to be just another way to overcharge customers. Mac and cheese is cheap (you can get a frozen ready meal in Tesco for 85p). Three pigs in blankets ain't exactly generous. £2.49 seems a bit over priced. I guess the ingredients might be better than the frozen versions.
I ain’t sure about this Gaz, although I will eat Mac and cheese very now and again, I’m really not sure about this combo! Great review though Gaz …. Smithy
Nice crack of black pepper on that would be my call to knock down the salt taste a tad.
It looks yummy enjoy it
So good
Say it's very nice but 2 or 3 more pigs would be required for me. Pig's in blankets are not common in the west of Ireland , from what i see. I saw a Chef on UA-cam doing Pigs in blankets and he used Butter and Maple syrup on them i must find it again and try it as it looked superb.
Cheers John
A good dash of Franks Red Hot would work for me.
looks like the cheese to pasta ratio is a bit off. like most things like this tend to be with way more sauce than meat. Definitely think i'd add some broccoli and some chipotle paste 😋
I frozen this as for side dish with Christmas dinner
have you tried the Fabulous Christmas Pie or the Delish Festive Slices from asda
Yes mate look in my pie playlist
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I’ve just brought this, hope it’s lovely
Enjoy
Looks a bit 'gloopy'. I DO recommend "Halls Macaroni cheese with ham hock" though - Around £2.75 (three for £7.50 from ASDA). An easy meal for 1 in a bind.
Pulled pork with mac and cheese in m&s is nice, if they still do it.
Hiya! Three pigs in blankets don't sell it for me. At least four maybe five would be more acceptable. It does look good 😋
I'm glad you didn't opt for an even number, which would have felt quite wrong.
Hi Gareth from Spain. That is totally misdecribed; it is not the other way round. I like my own macaroni and cheese but commercially produced ones kinda lack something, usually decent cheese.
So it's mac and cheese with essence of pigs in blankets😂 very enjoyable and your a bit of a hero, for all the abuse you put your body under for our entertainment. Top man Gaz.
Good lord 111% on saturates and half the daily salt, far too risky for me but jeez I bet its tasty.
Coming soon:
Christmas pudding "with pigs in blankets".
In gravy.
Are you reading my thoughts? I told the missus yesterday about an RAF cook that used to make us Mac-and-Cheese with bits of sausage and bacon in it.
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