That would be a feast and a life saver in some parts of the world it just goes to show how lucky we all are living in this country where any kind of food is readily available
I saw that.. In Grimsby. Better value than this mish mash of mush 😂 I suppose if that's all you could afford, it would do. But then needs mushy peas adding. The fish is just offcuts of various fish bits reshaped. Looks OK but my instincts say meh.. I'm OK thanks.
We recently bought a pack of Young’s large fish, 2 in a pack, I was really looking forward to it as we like young’s haddock. Anyway to cut a long story short it was rank. I couldn’t chew it it was so dense not at all flaky, even hubby who normally eats anything wouldn’t touch it. Won’t bother again.
4 large cod pieces in bubbly batter (clubcard price) £4.00, so £1.00 per fish. About 30p for an oven chips portion, and 10p for a mushy peas portion. Total: £1.40....
@@tedthesailor172Tesco charge over the odds on a lot of things. Duracell batteries are a perfect example, 50% more than other places. What other products do then rip us off with?
@@1697djh Up until covid I was a Tesco fan. But since then they've ruthlessly pushed their profits back through the roof. Now, they're no longer competitive for anything. Dunno why anyone still goes there...
@@FART-REPELLENT I don't believe spicy stuff goes well with fish as it'll cover the taste of the fish, but I might try it. Where would I get it from? When I get fish and chips I only ever have mushy peas with it and never curry sauce as that hides the taste of the fish too.
Good afternoon, Gareth. I'm still in bed. I felt a bit off this morning. Your post has cheered me up, no end. Produ t looked better than I expected. It actually looked better than a piece I had from the chippy on Friday night. If you enjoyed it, that's a de ent recommendation.Though I'm still not convinced it was one fillet. Keep up the good work.😀
Hi Gareth, glad to see you're back to normal. I cannot understand how they can call it fillet when it's formed, in fact they can't, those are lots of different pieces of fish, and don't look at all appetising! I couldn't eat that at all, cod and haddock fillet are the only ones I'd have.
Thanks Gareth....normally if I see "formed fish" I would give it a miss but this seems to be flakes or off cuts compressed together and with it not just being coley and pollack, like most of these cheaper frozen meals are, it should be quite tasty...might be worth a try!
@@joewilliams840 that just means your eating a lottery. Its luck whether you get a basa or a cod or something else inbetween. And wtf is it warning against chicken bones???
Looks ok for a quick meal mate. I buy large packs of breaded cod loins from Costco. They’re huge chunks of flaky cod with a nice crispy breadcrumb coating. The best I’ve ever had to be honest. I think there’s about 10 of them in a pack. Delish! As you say, frozen chips are frozen chips - they’re all okay but never anything to write home about. Thanks for the review, and I’m glad to see you seem to have healed well after your recent ‘adventure’. Looking forward to your next review. 👍🏻 regards, Dave
It's a mixture of fish compressed to make into portions then formed into a portion size. I can do it cheaper from Lidl 4 portions of cod £2.49 chips about 20p and 8p for peas so it would cost me about 92p
You missed the Warning below the allergy advice: Whilst every careis taken to remove all bones from the CHICKEN, bones may remain.... So not just all the fishes in that!
its just copied and pasted from their other meals that contain chicken. they aren't deceiving you, they're just lazy. in the uk the ingredients list is what is in it. by law. or they'd get sued.
All the commenters clutching their pearls, "gawd knows what's in it!!!" Well, er, Gaz has generously given us a closeup of the ingredients list. 😂 The ones complaining about basa have more of a point, but 'muddy rivers'? Where do you think catfish come from? Crystal-clear coral reefs? Also, yeah, far eastern rivers are muddy. That's kind of their thing. Anyway, taking off my keyboard warrior hat: on the topic of salt and vinegar - ever tried Nando's lemon and herb sauce (or off-brand equivalent) on a fish supper? Pretty good. Maybe not as a permanent thing, but nice to have every so often.
£1:99 for fish and chips? That is a good find. Sadly it's a bit of a journey for me to get to Farm Foods. I did take a step back when you read the ingredients. So many types of fish involved. I was expecting a bunch of fish minced up to form into a portion. But no !! it looked like proper flakes of fish in batter. Sure, you need to add mushy peas and maybe some Tartare Sauce. But it isn't going to break the bank. This was a great find m8. There will obviously be those will be sceptical? but at the end of the day? If families on a budget can knock out a meal for this price? I say " go for it ". The question is? if Farm Foods can do it? Why not other stores? 👍👍👍.
As I live in the middle of nowhere it's eight miles to my local shopping town, if I wanted to go to farm foods it's over thirty miles away 😕 but thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
Have you looked into having your shopping delivered??? If they cover your area I pay £39 for an Asda annual mid-week pass. It works out 75p per delivery which is cheaper than going myself.
That’s looks very good for the price, I’m tempted to try. Only one mistake, vinegar has to be Sarsons I’m afraid ! Also, getting fed up with this vinegar on first malarkey, whatever floats your boat, either or. I tend to be a tripler, salt, vinegar, salt ! Good review 👍
Putting vinegar on first lets the salt ‘stick’ to the food that bit easier, instead of sliding off, also your not washing off the salt by adding vinegar last:)
Looks like a plan for £1.99! I always cook meals in my proper Gas Oven/Stove. No fancy Air Fryers for me! A tip Gareth...display your finished meals on a nice, pre-warmed, suitably sized, proper dinner plate, adorned with a Japanese Willow Pattern! The final layout on the plate makes for the final display for the Video! (I photograph all my meals!). Fish and Chips for my Tea...in a minute!....😊...😊....!
I'm wondering if the list of random fish is there on the basis to keep the costs to a minimum on what is excess fish of the day? ie you may get any one of those fish depending on availability and price rather than paying the high price of Cod or Haddock? I would think being that thick it was probably Hake (Of which used to be expensive)
Tbh I did expect the fish to be minced up for the price, but it's clearly a nice filet of fish.....Shall have to try it now.... I also like chips to have a lil bit of colour too... Great review as always....x
I have started eating meat again. Thanks for the review. Looks good to me! I don't care how to make things really cheap. That would suit my life style perfect. I have an condition called ataxia (no pity party), so I need to make a meal with little effort. To me that is handy, looks tasty and minimal effort. More than happy to make that!
I was really surprised at that fish and chips . It looked ok and the price was a bargain £1.99 great portion as well . Gary eats did a fish and chip review as well that was cheap from a chippy £3.99. Great review. 🤩🙏🏼❤️👏
Good to see you , keep clean my friend , as time passes the craving for drink vanishes and one day you will look back and think how could I have done All that rubbish, respect to you 👍
The Boston farmfoods didn't have this today. The freezer contained various other £1.99 air fryer meals in a bag, including the chips with curry sauce you also reviewed. But not the fish and chips.
I’m off to pay my dodgy Macedonian Doctor £200 to diagnose us with a chicken allergy. Then I’m gonna scoff one of these for my Tea. I can sue them on two fronts now 😉✅ thank you for pointing this out ❤ xx
Never heard of Farm Foods until I watched your channel. Just looked them up, the nearest 3 are all 25 miles away in towns the less said about the better.
We need a farm foods in oxford , my kids would like these meals , quick and easy as well. I say kids their teens . Unless its ready quickly they dont wanna know 😂
for £1.99 you can get proper fish and a portion of chips for less than that price. Heron 2 portion 200g fish £1.19. would not cook from frozen since by time centre is cooked outside is burned and dried out. and it extends the cooking time of any food.
You're being very generous in this review. Just the look of it is a little off-putting. Once again, you've helped me make a better choice. As other comments have shown it looks like you could get a better deal by buying frozen fish fillets (of less dubious quality) and a bag of slightly "posher" oven chips. You can cook pretty much anything in an air fryer. My favourite is a bloody Victoria sponge cake. It looks like companies are starting to market air fryer specific items to take advantage of those who aren't yet familiar with the thing. The only thing i haven't cooked in the air fryer is soup but i reckon it'd make a good job of tinned rice pudding. If you like it a bit baked like granny used to make it! Hope you are well and cheers for the heads up.
Gareth, as a trained fishmonger I know exactly where basa fillets are from and how they are farmed. Its a poor quality waxy fish, suitable only for fish soups and gumbo. I feed it to my dog but it's not quality. For a cheap meal, it seems fine but I'd stay away from anything with "formed" in the description. This advice goes for meat products too.
FROZEN CHIPS: My Mam worked the evening shift for a frozen foods company, (which i think is now defunct) in the ‘60s I still remember the story of the chip line going in one end as chipped potatoes & coming out as mush the other end, apparently the bleach mix to make them white had been made up too strong, put me off frozen chips. When I was at catering College i also remember being shown around a factory, standing in the fishcake unit, the steamers were opened that cooked the potatoes out poured ‘mud’ i peered in & even IMO at that time, they looked like what we used to call ‘pig tatties’ needless to say, yet another product i have never eaten since. So god help us with the ‘new’ foods of synthetic protein, bugs & maggot milk thats incoming.
Well that fish looked not bad to me ,im a pensioner so it might come in handy if im lucky seeing as thing are not looking good this winter .Thankyou Gareth .enjoyed vid lovely lad .
It may be cheap, but it sure ain’t true fish fillet. It’s been pulped and reformed into something that resembles flakes of fish. Lord knows what’s in it. Not for me thank you.
Minced up scrag ends and unsellable mush from different species all processed and formed into what looks like a fish fillet 😮.I bet they make a tidy profit from that muck.Very interesting as usual Gareth.
Air fryer meals are a good idea tho you can put the fish and chip ready meals previously in the air fryer. Good tho for 2 quid. Air frying fish takes ages cooking inside frozen fish 😅
These are great for a quick meal. I also buy the £2.49 MJ's Diner Air Fryer All-Day Breakfast, 2 pork sausages, 2 gammon grills, 2 hash browns & 2 slices of black pudding. We call them the emergency breakfast, add a couple of eggs in the poacher & some toast goes down a treat. Couldn't find them in Farmfoods the past 2 trips but luckily they do them in Poundland for £2.39. As well as 10 ice cream cones for £2.50 😁
My dad loved fish and chips. I took care of him in his last days and every night for dinner he’d want fish and chips. Although I suspect it was just the tartar sauce he liked as he would drown everything with like a whole jar of tartar lol.
The people going on about reformed fish are correct but thats what fish fingers are and they can be quite good if you're not picky. Its basically a giant fish finger with oven chips for £2
You're right about the fish fingers, but, I would rather have this over a measly finger, and, people going on about reformed fish don't realise that it could be what you're getting at your local chippy and paying triple the price.
As soon as you said Basa I thought that's not for me. I don't want to eat a catfish that was wallowing in a polluted river then left on the bank for days before being gutted then washed in more dirty water before being frozen then shipped over here for a month.
I Think you had two pieces in one making it extra thick as it does say on the pack "portions" of fish which to me means two or more, probably better than it should of been and explained why to took so long to cook !
That would be a feast and a life saver in some parts of the world it just goes to show how lucky we all are living in this country where any kind of food is readily available
Gareth, did you see the 'Gary Eats' video yesterday? Fish, chips & mushy peas from a chip shop - £3!! Unbelievable price!
I saw that.. In Grimsby. Better value than this mish mash of mush 😂 I suppose if that's all you could afford, it would do. But then needs mushy peas adding. The fish is just offcuts of various fish bits reshaped. Looks OK but my instincts say meh.. I'm OK thanks.
How do they manage £3. What profit are other Chippy's making ? I watched the video , Gary paid £3.80 for a small portion of chips in London.
Yes Gary is very good isn't he 👌
@@macrook1961I paid for a medium McDonald’s fries £4.70 in Pisa airport last week. 1 normal portion
We recently bought a pack of Young’s large fish, 2 in a pack, I was really looking forward to it as we like young’s haddock. Anyway to cut a long story short it was rank. I couldn’t chew it it was so dense not at all flaky, even hubby who normally eats anything wouldn’t touch it. Won’t bother again.
I just find your videos interesting and relaxing and comforting, so thank you very much Gareth for all that you do.
My pleasure!
@@BaldFoodieGuy I love the homely, non-flashy manner of your videos.....and I have tried quite a few things because of them! Keep up the great work!
4 large cod pieces in bubbly batter (clubcard price) £4.00, so £1.00 per fish. About 30p for an oven chips portion, and 10p for a mushy peas portion. Total: £1.40....
Can't argue with that...
@@tedthesailor172Tesco charge over the odds on a lot of things. Duracell batteries are a perfect example, 50% more than other places. What other products do then rip us off with?
@@1697djh Do you do the Duracell Batteries in the Oven or the Air Fryer? Just asking!!
@@cliffboulton8763Brilliant! 🤣😂🤣👍
@@1697djh Up until covid I was a Tesco fan. But since then they've ruthlessly pushed their profits back through the roof. Now, they're no longer competitive for anything. Dunno why anyone still goes there...
4 chunky pieces of Cod or Haddock in Lidl and Aldi. Toss one in air fryer with a handful of chips. It works out a lot cheaper
Have you ever eaten Tandoori Fish?; if not then once you have eaten it you will never eat Fish made the way they make them in Fish & Chips shops.
@@FART-REPELLENT I don't believe spicy stuff goes well with fish as it'll cover the taste of the fish, but I might try it. Where would I get it from? When I get fish and chips I only ever have mushy peas with it and never curry sauce as that hides the taste of the fish too.
pollock! no thanks all cheap is not cod or haddock
@@wullieg7269 and it ain’t ten quid from chippy ❗️moneybags 👎🏻🤣😂🤣😂🤣👌🏻
@@FART-REPELLENT Be hard to tell if the fish is fresh with all the spices.
“I’ve just had a massive coughing fit and can hardly catch my breath”
Yep, the ideal time to do a RUclips video. 😂
He makes me giggle all the time with daftness! X
Aldi 4 chunky cod and a bag of Maris piper frozen chunky chips £2.89 does for me and the missus, lovely
Great for the price. I would put some baked beans with that, but I am strange😂😂 brilliant video, happy Sunday to you, and your family.
Thank you! You too!
Yeah those chips do seems a little dry, definitely need some sauce like beans or something
Good afternoon, Gareth. I'm still in bed. I felt a bit off this morning. Your post has cheered me up, no end. Produ t looked better than I expected. It actually looked better than a piece I had from the chippy on Friday night. If you enjoyed it, that's a de ent recommendation.Though I'm still not convinced it was one fillet. Keep up the good work.😀
Cheers Martin 😊 hope your okay 👍
"I've just had a coughing fit!" - Is that rhyming slang?!!
He might be saying it after eating that
😂
2:05 "whilst every care is taken to remove the bones from the "CHICKEN" , bones may remain ... 🤣🤣🤣
have you not heard of the lesser spotted chicken fish ?!! 🤣🤣
You do make me smile with your mannerisms and some of your military sayings xx you look really well xx
Thank you
Hi Gareth, glad to see you're back to normal. I cannot understand how they can call it fillet when it's formed, in fact they can't, those are lots of different pieces of fish, and don't look at all appetising! I couldn't eat that at all, cod and haddock fillet are the only ones I'd have.
Cheers Jenni
My goodness, I could buy 6 of those for the price of fish & chips at my local. That's going on my shopping list. Thank you Gareth 😊👌
Probably about the same nutritional value for six of those that there is in one portion from your local chippy.
@@DraftySatyrDifference between eating consciously and filling up your stomach on a budget with a bit of taste. The 2 don't like to mix.
Thanks Gareth....normally if I see "formed fish" I would give it a miss but this seems to be flakes or off cuts compressed together and with it not just being coley and pollack, like most of these cheaper frozen meals are, it should be quite tasty...might be worth a try!
You're welcome 😊
6 types of fish?? Id hate to think of where they got those leftovers from. No thanks on that.
Especially the basa. It's farmed in Asia in the Mekong delta, one of the most polluted rivers on Earth. Stay clear of it if you value your health.
@@maritzarojasjerez4260 ...........& your life !!!! - Basa ! ☹
The lorry was hijacked en route to the Purina factory in Wisbech
It's not made up with 6 different types of fish it's fish that the bag may contain..
@@joewilliams840 that just means your eating a lottery. Its luck whether you get a basa or a cod or something else inbetween. And wtf is it warning against chicken bones???
Looks ok for a quick meal mate. I buy large packs of breaded cod loins from Costco. They’re huge chunks of flaky cod with a nice crispy breadcrumb coating. The best I’ve ever had to be honest. I think there’s about 10 of them in a pack. Delish!
As you say, frozen chips are frozen chips - they’re all okay but never anything to write home about. Thanks for the review, and I’m glad to see you seem to have healed well after your recent ‘adventure’.
Looking forward to your next review. 👍🏻 regards, Dave
It's a mixture of fish compressed to make into portions then formed into a portion size. I can do it cheaper from Lidl 4 portions of cod £2.49 chips about 20p and 8p for peas so it would cost me about 92p
Hi Gareth, Looks excellent value for £2, it is worth a try, great review on fish and chips, catch you soon, Enjoy
You missed the Warning below the allergy advice: Whilst every careis taken to remove all bones from the CHICKEN, bones may remain.... So not just all the fishes in that!
its just copied and pasted from their other meals that contain chicken. they aren't deceiving you, they're just lazy.
in the uk the ingredients list is what is in it. by law. or they'd get sued.
The electricity price to cook the fish is high, the UK average cost for an air-fryer is 50p per hour so 25p for half an hour. 🤣
All the commenters clutching their pearls, "gawd knows what's in it!!!" Well, er, Gaz has generously given us a closeup of the ingredients list. 😂
The ones complaining about basa have more of a point, but 'muddy rivers'? Where do you think catfish come from? Crystal-clear coral reefs? Also, yeah, far eastern rivers are muddy. That's kind of their thing.
Anyway, taking off my keyboard warrior hat: on the topic of salt and vinegar - ever tried Nando's lemon and herb sauce (or off-brand equivalent) on a fish supper? Pretty good. Maybe not as a permanent thing, but nice to have every so often.
£1:99 for fish and chips? That is a good find.
Sadly it's a bit of a journey for me to get to Farm Foods.
I did take a step back when you read the ingredients. So many types of fish involved. I was expecting a bunch of fish minced up to form into a portion. But no !! it looked like proper flakes of fish in batter.
Sure, you need to add mushy peas and maybe some Tartare Sauce. But it isn't going to break the bank.
This was a great find m8.
There will obviously be those will be sceptical? but at the end of the day? If families on a budget can knock out a meal for this price? I say " go for it ".
The question is? if Farm Foods can do it? Why not other stores?
👍👍👍.
At least they took care to try and remove all the bones from the chicken ..........
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Thank you kindly 👌
As I live in the middle of nowhere it's eight miles to my local shopping town, if I wanted to go to farm foods it's over thirty miles away 😕 but thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
You're welcome
Have you looked into having your shopping delivered??? If they cover your area I pay £39 for an Asda annual mid-week pass. It works out 75p per delivery which is cheaper than going myself.
@@sparsh415I use Asda for all my shopping but I'll have to look into that pass, thanks for the tip.
Knowing how big your plates are thats a decent portion and the fish did look really decent white fluffy flakes
That’s looks very good for the price, I’m tempted to try. Only one mistake, vinegar has to be Sarsons I’m afraid ! Also, getting fed up with this vinegar on first malarkey, whatever floats your boat, either or. I tend to be a tripler, salt, vinegar, salt ! Good review 👍
Putting vinegar on first lets the salt ‘stick’ to the food that bit easier, instead of sliding off, also your not washing off the salt by adding vinegar last:)
@@devonsteve2347it washes the salt down to the chips
Another fantastic review Gareth. A very cheap price for £1.99. It surely can’t go wrong.
Thanks
The gov has given the go ahead for synthetic meat to be sold in the uk without it being described or listed as such.
"It's crying out for salt and vinegar.......AND IT'S GONNA GET IT RIGHT NOW"! Classic Baldy!
Looks like a plan for £1.99! I always cook meals in my proper Gas Oven/Stove. No fancy Air Fryers for me! A tip Gareth...display your finished meals on a nice, pre-warmed, suitably sized, proper dinner plate, adorned with a Japanese Willow Pattern! The final layout on the plate makes for the final display for the Video! (I photograph all my meals!). Fish and Chips for my Tea...in a minute!....😊...😊....!
Making my mouth water, especially when you put the salt and vinegar on…yum. 🇬🇧
I'm wondering if the list of random fish is there on the basis to keep the costs to a minimum on what is excess fish of the day? ie you may get any one of those fish depending on availability and price rather than paying the high price of Cod or Haddock?
I would think being that thick it was probably Hake (Of which used to be expensive)
I wouldn't say a chunk of fish but more chunks of different fish. the Basa would be a concern unless specially farmed. You can you tube it.
What's the best vinegar for fish n chips?
Tbh I did expect the fish to be minced up for the price, but it's clearly a nice filet of fish.....Shall have to try it now.... I also like chips to have a lil bit of colour too...
Great review as always....x
Thank you Luise
A very mixed bag of fish, maybe even a bit of goldfish in there as well 😆 Not bad for £1.99
Thank you GARETH 😊
@@colinbrigham8253 you're welcome 😊
Fantastic ❤and Spot On 🤣
I have started eating meat again. Thanks for the review. Looks good to me! I don't care how to make things really cheap. That would suit my life style perfect. I have an condition called ataxia (no pity party), so I need to make a meal with little effort. To me that is handy, looks tasty and minimal effort. More than happy to make that!
I work late hours and this would fit the bill when you need your fish & chips 'hit' and can't be bothered to 'cook' at that time.
I was really surprised at that fish and chips . It looked ok and the price was a bargain £1.99 great portion as well . Gary eats did a fish and chip review as well that was cheap from a chippy £3.99. Great review. 🤩🙏🏼❤️👏
Love all air fryer meals g8 video thanks
Good to see you , keep clean my friend , as time passes the craving for drink vanishes and one day you will look back and think how could I have done All that rubbish, respect to you 👍
That looked very tasty
Excellent price
Best wishes gareth
All the best Kizzy 👌
The Boston farmfoods didn't have this today. The freezer contained various other £1.99 air fryer meals in a bag, including the chips with curry sauce you also reviewed. But not the fish and chips.
Looks ok for price
Why does it say in the ALLERGY ADVICE: Whilst every care is taken to remove bones from the chicken, bones may remain? Is it chicken or fish?
probably a template they use and then just change it to whatever product they're making, this clearly got overlooked during the process
Ha pretty poor that got printed
I’m off to pay my dodgy Macedonian Doctor £200 to diagnose us with a chicken allergy. Then I’m gonna scoff one of these for my Tea.
I can sue them on two fronts now 😉✅ thank you for pointing this out ❤ xx
Gary I just got a Air fryer so I am looking for meals to do in it.
Any one of six types of fish? Just what they had to hand?
Theyre all in it together, look at the layers on the close up:)
Never heard of Farm Foods until I watched your channel. Just looked them up, the nearest 3 are all 25 miles away in towns the less said about the better.
Good value ! I would have to have peas too . Thanks for review . 😊😊😊
We need a farm foods in oxford , my kids would like these meals , quick and easy as well. I say kids their teens . Unless its ready quickly they dont wanna know 😂
I think that was good value, this would make a meal along with peas bread and butter, in today’s cost of living crisis it’s not bad. Cheers Gareth❤
That’s great value to be honest! With some mushy peas it would be spot on 👌
Wow, I thought I liked salt.🤣 Nice review mate, looks pretty good value.
Haha cheers mate
for £1.99 you can get proper fish and a portion of chips for less than that price.
Heron 2 portion 200g fish £1.19.
would not cook from frozen since by time centre is cooked outside is burned and dried out.
and it extends the cooking time of any food.
Hi Gareth, good to see you bonny lad.
My daughter Phoebe will be moving in to her new house in Grange this Tuesday.
Take care my old friend.
Cheers Keith
You're being very generous in this review. Just the look of it is a little off-putting. Once again, you've helped me make a better choice. As other comments have shown it looks like you could get a better deal by buying frozen fish fillets (of less dubious quality) and a bag of slightly "posher" oven chips. You can cook pretty much anything in an air fryer. My favourite is a bloody Victoria sponge cake. It looks like companies are starting to market air fryer specific items to take advantage of those who aren't yet familiar with the thing. The only thing i haven't cooked in the air fryer is soup but i reckon it'd make a good job of tinned rice pudding. If you like it a bit baked like granny used to make it! Hope you are well and cheers for the heads up.
Gareth, as a trained fishmonger I know exactly where basa fillets are from and how they are farmed. Its a poor quality waxy fish, suitable only for fish soups and gumbo.
I feed it to my dog but it's not quality.
For a cheap meal, it seems fine but I'd stay away from anything with "formed" in the description.
This advice goes for meat products too.
The gov has given the go ahead for synthetic meat to be sold in the uk without being listed as such
@@xzitall2 messed up, they're putting bugs in food now also
@xzitall2 Good job I'm a trained butcher too lol
I buy my meat straight from the farm shop and butcher it myself.
Quality over quantity every time.
Looked good that fish Gareth, what would you give it out of 10?
Remember folks he does so we don't have too ❤
Well Done Gareth, another good Vid
You're welcome 😊
Anyone pick up the line Chicken bones on the packaging?!
I did, very strange 🤔
Yes.Frankenstein food!!
And socium carbonate.
I reckon letting it defrost for a while would help it cook better. Looks ok though. Im in Spain, we don't have such stores here. Enjoy!
For £1,,99 it's great value and looks good,spot on ❤
FROZEN CHIPS:
My Mam worked the evening shift for a frozen foods company, (which i think is now defunct) in the ‘60s I still remember the story of the chip line going in one end as chipped potatoes & coming out as mush the other end, apparently the bleach mix to make them white had been made up too strong, put me off frozen chips.
When I was at catering College i also remember being shown around a factory, standing in the fishcake unit, the steamers were opened that cooked the potatoes out poured ‘mud’ i peered in & even IMO at that time, they looked like what we used to call ‘pig tatties’ needless to say, yet another product i have never eaten since.
So god help us with the ‘new’ foods of synthetic protein, bugs & maggot milk thats incoming.
How do they milk a maggot, it must be a very small machine. 🤣
Yeah I’m late to the party as usual but great review my bald friend! 👍
Will have to try them it looks good thanks Gareth
You're welcome 😊
Seems good value Gareth. Thanks Tim. 😊
I generally put something like that on 160 for half an hour. Seems to work.
Well that fish looked not bad to me ,im a pensioner so it might come in handy if im lucky seeing as thing are not looking good this winter .Thankyou Gareth .enjoyed vid lovely lad .
I like to use balsamic vinegar and Himalayan Sea salt on my fish and chips. Give it a try. You won't look back 👌💯👍💚💛❤️
Brilliant Gaz... drop a bit and kick it under the units... fantastic.😂😂 👍🏴
Looked OK, then I saw it contained Basa, I remember some time ago, you found an 'object' in some Basa fish
Can they claim FILLET and then put FORMED?? just curious 🤨
It may be cheap, but it sure ain’t true fish fillet. It’s been pulped and reformed into something that resembles flakes of fish. Lord knows what’s in it. Not for me thank you.
Chicken bones apparently !
The fish equivalent of mechanically reclaimed chicken and we know how bad that stuff is
It probably contains bits of the factory workers who threatened to tell the media what goes into it.............
@@mightymike2192 it all adds to the flavour buddy
@@RustyBanner mmmmm, factory workers 🤤😆
Minced up scrag ends and unsellable mush from different species all processed and formed into what looks like a fish fillet 😮.I bet they make a tidy profit from that muck.Very interesting as usual Gareth.
Air fryer meals are a good idea tho you can put the fish and chip ready meals previously in the air fryer. Good tho for 2 quid. Air frying fish takes ages cooking inside frozen fish 😅
Hi found grease paper liners for my air fryer and they wok perfect I buy them from my local market 50 for £2
You should get a Capstan Full Strength for than cough.
I only ever smoked 1 of those, never again, one of our pubs regulars used to smoke a couple of packs of them a day!!!
@@devonsteve2347 Dead now then?🤣
Thanks😂
Looks good value Gareth!
Wouldn't eat that rubbish if they paid me!
Scraps glued together along with palm oil. Definitely not.
Unfortunately people do, guessing youve never had to.
The packaging is probably more expensive to make than the detritus inside.
I'd say the right portion for a pensioner.
That meal looks good. Price wise good value. Strange about all the fish listed in the ingredients. Enjoy xx
Hi Gareth, Your fish & chips looked so nice glad you enjoyed them better than your curry pasty thanks for sharing 👍🙂 all the best Lin
These are great for a quick meal.
I also buy the £2.49 MJ's Diner Air Fryer All-Day Breakfast, 2 pork sausages, 2 gammon grills, 2 hash browns & 2 slices of black pudding. We call them the emergency breakfast, add a couple of eggs in the poacher & some toast goes down a treat.
Couldn't find them in Farmfoods the past 2 trips but luckily they do them in Poundland for £2.39. As well as 10 ice cream cones for £2.50 😁
No beans, is that legal. lol
@@sparsh415 Oh I've always got a small can of beans in the pantry for everyone else but not for me.
Not a bad price for the amount. And like you I would put some mushy peas on the plate and have it all with some well buttered bread. :)
My dad loved fish and chips. I took care of him in his last days and every night for dinner he’d want fish and chips. Although I suspect it was just the tartar sauce he liked as he would drown everything with like a whole jar of tartar lol.
How many different fish?
Have you seen McCain's Air fryer chips Gaz as they're absolutely delicious 😋 mate ? Xx
Yes I have cheers
I use Birdseye jumbo fish with wedges and cooked in air fryer for 20 minutes @ 180 degrees C
My life's s**t enough already and i'll be damned if i'm going to eat like it.
The people going on about reformed fish are correct but thats what fish fingers are and they can be quite good if you're not picky. Its basically a giant fish finger with oven chips for £2
You're right about the fish fingers, but, I would rather have this over a measly finger, and, people going on about reformed fish don't realise that it could be what you're getting at your local chippy and paying triple the price.
Looks nice and great value, but worrying their instructions were 15 minutes out.
Loads of salt and vinegar is a must
As soon as you said Basa I thought that's not for me. I don't want to eat a catfish that was wallowing in a polluted river then left on the bank for days before being gutted then washed in more dirty water before being frozen then shipped over here for a month.
Are you calling Gareth a dirty basa? Ach, you’ve got to be north of Manchester to get this kind of patter 😂❤🏴
So you didn't get that job at the Basa Promotions Board then?😂
I Think you had two pieces in one making it extra thick as it does say on the pack "portions" of fish which to me means two or more, probably better than it should of been and explained why to took so long to cook !
Iceland haddock in batter are really nice, you get four in packet.
It would be better if you take out the fish and leave on a plate to thaw out for half an hour so it cooks at the same time as the chips
Noah's Arc for fishes, all minced & mashed to perfection.
Your chips are 'straight cut' while in the US it is called 'steak cut' chips. Some lemon juice and tartar sauce is good as well.