festive blog
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By Aldi. £1.99. For today’s lunch time offering, we’ve got a parsnip fritter with cranberry chutney and sage & onion mayonnaise on oatmeal and poppy seed bread. The price is good, I think £1.99 is very good, so i’m already feeling positive. The green packaging sets it aside from other sandwiches, much like the green
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By M&S. If given the choice, my meal deal choice would be a chicken & bacon sandwich, meaty crisps and an orange juice. I wouldn’t head straight for this, except I’m looking for festive goodies and this really caught my eye. So much so that I skipped over the standard sandwiches. I’m quite glad I
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By M&S. I wasn’t sold by the name, or the price (£5.25!). It was the 5% from this item will be given* to Shelter. …And it looked like a fish finger sandwich from first glance. It also sits upright on the shelf, so it almost juts out and makes you take notice. The item was
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My first festive pie review of 2024. Here we have paper bag, showing two golden pies just waiting for you to eat them. Not a lot to say other than that, but they’re certainly not pretentious. He’res the back of the bag as well. Luckily the price is here, because ASDA don’t add details to
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By Waitrose. First thoughts are that these Pies don’t look very inviting. Good evening! We’ve been to Waitrose! And purchased a number of their festive items. This review is for the Brown butter mince pies with cognac. Brown butter or ‘Beurre noisette’ is supposed to have a nutty flavour which should give the pies a
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By ALDI. My Thanks goes to Josh who took me to see what ALDI had to offer this year. There was a lot! And I took a few photos of some products I might come back and get at a later date. Everytime I think Lidl has a great offering, I head to ALDI and
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Iceland’s flagship pies. Hi, this is Mrs Phil Reviews Mince Pies having an attempt. I don’t have the same way with words as my husband, but I will give it my best shot. The box is nicely presented albeit quite simplistic. The mince pies are displayed on some slate. The mince pies look quite nice
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What a lovely neat package of pies these are. The pastry is a beautiful golden colour, which is ‘all butter’, and each pie wishes me a Merry Christmas. Or at least that was the intention. The lid of the pies is more bumpy than i’d expect for a pastry surface you were going to write
Phil Reviews Mince Pies 