Shoppers across the country are well aware of the skyrocketing prices offoodwhen they are in the supermarket. Prices for several household essentials, from Lurpak butter to olive oil, have skyrocketed recently.
Later, shoppers got another hit after a box of Birdseye frozen fish fingers at Sainsbury's turned out to be £30 for him and a whopping £7 for him. The latest staggering price increase has baffled shoppers, with one saying he "kneeled" when he saw it.
According to a reporter in The Manchester Evening News because he found that his 30 packs of frozen food were priced at £7.50/£7.49. , it's not even the highest price. At Asda, Tesco, Morrisons. The Birds Eye brand is even more expensive at Ocado priced at a premium £7.90.
Diane Bourne admitsnever paid more than £2 or £3 for finger box fish normally before cost of living crisis. Mission to find the best budget option.
Including an expert opinion of his six-year-old son, who is "obsessed" with fish fingers, Diane visited Aldi, Riddle, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrisons, Checked how it stacks up against Birdseye. This is how she rides.
Prices
For a fair comparison, I used each supermarket's own I purchased a packet of 10 of the brand cod fish fingers.
Birds Eye 10 packs can be found in various supermarkets at various prices - I purchased from Morrisons for £3.60. It was £3.60 at Asda and Tesco, but £4 at Sainsbury's. The cheapest supermarket deal for a branded box I found this week was at Waitrose for a special price of £2.95 instead of the regular price of £3.70.
As you can see from the prices below, most supermarket own brand versions were up to half the price of Birdseye her version. I arranged them from cheap to expensive.
Aldi - £1.55
Liddle - £1.65
Morrisons - £1.80
Tesco - £1.85
Asda - £1.85
Waitrose Essential - £2.20
Sainsbury's - £2.25
Birds Eye - £3.60 (purchased at Morrisons)
Cooking
All fish fingers are boxes said it could be grilled, oven-cooked, or fried--exclude Lidl's, which suggested oven cooking. But to make this experiment easier, they were all going to get a good grill.
Indeed, it was a little confusing in my little head that they all looked the same. So I devised a sophisticated system of writing on tin foil so that I could keep a close eye on which finger was which.
All boxes had her recommended grill time of 12-15 minutes, except for the Tesco finger that said 10 minutes. It started to erupt. Tesco's was certainly ready first, and that orange skin started to crumple the earliest, so it didn't work.
Sainsbury's finger and Waitrose' finger soon followed, both of which began to wrinkle. Everything else was ready in about 15 minutes and I thought I was still toned and handsome.
Birdseye looked like it needed cooking even after her suggested 15 minutes had passed. This is probably due to its paler appearance compared to its bright orange fish-like cousin.
Most were fairly sturdy, but the Tesco's fingers were the hardest to cross and seemed to crumble in the middle when moving from the grill to the plate. Birds Eye also had a surprisingly floppy feel.
Lidl, Asda and the Morrisons' comrades were probably the toughest troops after cooking.
Taste test
With fish figures like golden fish on the plate, dig in and compare all the flavors. let's
Aldi immediately stood out to me. It was delicious with a fresh tasting white fish interior. Unfortunately the Riddle stuff wasn't a big deal for me. The entrails tasted slimy and looked a bit gray while the outside was the brightest of bright orange.
To be fair, I tried baking Lidl's fish fingers in the oven for her second time (according to package recommendations). But this never improved the taste for me.
Sainsbury's fish fingers felt good to me, but they were Tesco fingers. It was a little more floppy than I would have liked, but delivered a very distinct fishy punch with a thin membrane that was tastier than the rest. Other - I found it very unusual and delicious.
Asda's and Morrisons' fingers were okay, often without a particularly noticeable flavor, but both were good examples of the genre. Perhaps the biggest shock to me was that the Birdseye original didn't stand out too much either. I expected to blow the opposition away.
But the best part is that they all passed a child's taste test. He was happy with almost all food items. Believe it or not, the only thing he dimly pointed his thumb down was Birdseye's finger.
said that his "favourite" was Aldi's fish fingers. I could have gladly given him a fish finger high five at this point - considering it's the cheapest one and that's what he eats under my roof for the rest of the time.
Here you go. He couldn't taste any difference in any of them.
So it's a no-brainer to stick to the supermarket's own brand fish he fingers in the future. It costs significantly less than the branded version.
How to evaluate fish fingers
So my little boy named Aldi's fish fingers the winner (and they are also the cheapest). ), but for me the winner of the taste test was Tesco. And hey, I'm someone with 40 years of experience eating fish fingers, so I'm right.
I am really happy that the more valuable fish fingers were actually the tastiest in our tests. However, as mentioned earlier, my young uncle would have been happy to provide almost all of these many.
Here is my full assessment:-
1) Tesco - £1.85 : 5/5
2) Aldi - £1.55 : 5/5
3) Sainsbury's - £2.25 : 4/5
4) Birdseye - £3.60 : 4/5
5) Asda - £1.85: 3/5
6) Waitrose - £2.20 : 3/5
7) Morrison - £1.80 : 3/5
8) Lidl - £1.65 : 2/5
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