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.
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
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 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.
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...
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.
£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? 👍👍👍.
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.
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.
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!....😊...😊....!
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
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
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:)
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!
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
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. 🤩🙏🏼❤️👏
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
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 👍
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
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 😁
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.
I'm sure you done one of them airfryer meals before? Or am I just imagining things. Anyway, not too bad, but I wouldn't call it convenient if it took double the time. Be ok as an emergency freezer standby. Nice on Gareth. 👍👍
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 !
Not good with a long list of fish like that, well which one is it?...minced offcuts definitely bud I reckon. Well is it only £1.99, what can we really expect these days. Good luck, it's Farm Foods, bit of a lottery with that place. What it needs...it needs to be one fish species really, not a mash of fish and catfish (Basa). They sure find ways to sell the enders don't they. All the best bud.
