I love how every time you talk about the quesadilla you say a new thing. First you were saying fajitas and I was like those are weird looking fajitas. Then when you went to cook it you said quesadilla and I was like yes that makes much more sense and that’s how you cook them from fresh as well. Then after you ate it you kept calling it an enchilada, which is very different to a quesadilla too.
Grace's blue tongue when eating the lasagne really made me giggle - 😂 love the little bump - can't wait to watch all the videos where you talk about pregnancy etc we defo want all the baby content especially now Zoe Sugg has had Novie
As a former employee, I honestly like the prepared meals a lot but my favourite are the chicken salad/sheperd pie/lasagna and the fried noodles.Also the tacos kit is really tasty. Cheers
Loved loved loved this !!! I would really appreciate a Tesco ready meal taste test ! Maybe a week of Tesco ready meal dinners! Maybe an M&S ready meal week ! And also a cereal taste test because I’m getting bored of my go to granola but I’m also too scared to try something different…(cereal always looks nicer than it tastes …)♥️♥️♥️
Love how Mr Grack is joining in more. His voice was quite loud this time! I understand why he doesn’t but I truly wish he’d say hello to us all though!
In the States, the quesadillas are also served with guacamole. And the same concept of freezing the individual wedges as with the burritos also applies.
Awww your little bump is sooo beautiful 😍 you are most definitely glowing in this pregnancy. This video has come at the perfect time, I didn’t get to meal prep for postpartum so already planning my Costco run once I leave hospital 😂
Y'all... NEVER reheat your quesadilla's in the microwave. Stovetop with butter or oil like Grace did is best. Second best is the air fryer. I'm in the states (TX) so most of our ready made is Tex-Mex/Mexican inspired. I've never bought them but I like to get their rotisserie chicken and use it to make my own quesadillas, tacos, burritos, nachos etc. As soon as I get the chicken home, I slice the breasts off whole for a quick dinner protein during the week, then pull the rest off the bone and tear it into shreds.. I'll add taco or fajita seasoning to it, pop it into the air fryer and then add black beans, veggies, rice, cheese .... whatever and it's done in 10 minutes in the oven or air fryer. It's also nice to not season the chicken ahead of time, then you can add any kind of spice blend the portion you're heating up to get different style cuisines.
Been watching grace from the start I’m a 37 year old mum and the fact she is pregnant is now pregnant has made my whole year the binge watches have gotten even better 🎉❤
I'm in western Canada and the chicken pot pie from Costco was a staple at our house growing up. Super buttery crust and it was huge! Love your videos !
Most of the frozen prepared meal tastes seems to be the way they use beef specifically as the burrito, pies, and lasagna are all using the same ground beef. If they're the ready made and never frozen cooked meals then that beef may have still had to be cooked, then rapidly cooled before being added to anything. Chicken & Pork aren't as apparent when they go through that process as pork tends to render its fat out more during those high heat final cooks above 80C, and chicken is relatively lean. If you've ever cooked ground beef then portioned some out you weren't using before adding it to the final product/sauce/taco mix/whatever then it tastes kind of processed the next time you heat it up and doesn't absorb the seasoning as well the next time. (Personal opinion on the latter here, but I am a professional cook specializing in meat)
Here in the Seattle area, we've got Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans, a chicken taco kit, a chicken quesadilla kit, fettuccine Alfredo with chicken, penne with meatballs, a gyros kit, lasagna, Mac and cheese, and huge chicken Caesar salads. Of course, the pinwheel sandwiches and the roasted chickens are always a bit, too.
I loved the chicken tacos in canada! The cilantro crema is to die for. I also would get the butter chicken for my husband, wasnt duper duper "authentic" but im pretty sure butter chicken is for the west anyways haha. Lasagne was great too :)
For me the "ready meal taste" is a mix of 1) a kind of generic blandness that comes from trying to appeal to as many people as possible and 2) overusing vegetable oil instead of using the smaller amount people usually use at home, or using olive oil/butter
This was so interesting! Me and my boyfriend Loooove the Pulled beef burritos - especially with their broccoli salad omg yum - & also the ribs😍😍 - but we did Not enjoy the carbonara
This would be helpful as £9.50 to try something is too rich for my budget rn. I’m tempted by the Breton Chicken meal but I’ve never been able to catch it when it’s on sale.
@@PoppyCorn144 I think of Charlie Bigham meals are for a very specific occasion. When you want a special meal but you don’t want to cook or go out. i’ve only tried the fish pie for 1 which at £7 is pricey but it really did taste great, the portion size was good but it was moreish so i wish there was more. When you’re spending £10 on a ready meal as a special treat, the idea of it is high stakes, it would be good to see a video on wether it’s worth it for those little special occasions
I'm from the US, so ALL of these were different! Here we don't have a prepared lasagna, just two Kirkland brands in the freezer, one with beef, one with sausage and beef. So it was good to know it wasn't as good as it did look! (I don't feel so bad!). But the one of course I wanted to see was the authentic British Cottage Pie! Ours is called Shepherd's Pie and it is shaped like an actual big pie, like an apple pie and it has a crust on the bottom and sides like a pie with the mashed potatoes with some cheese I think on the top. The inside is just crumbled beef and some veggies, corn I think and a few others, peas maybe and scallions or onions, and although there is some juice or broth, there is no gravy, no brown gravy! It is pale inside. I had wanted it to have gravy! But it's good, very tasty, lots of herbs, just not what I wanted it to be. And the crust is very good. I was surprised. So very interesting to find the UK one is not great and again, I don't feel so bad. But you didn't show a shot of the cooked pie like you did with the others! TY for the video! Suggestion for what next -- some of the frozen entrees that are more unusual, like the fishes and other ones that are mostly only seen at Costco -- or the UK Asian frozen noodles or other entrees.
British person here! Shepherds pie and cottage pie are actually both British classics. They just have different ingredients. Cottage pie uses beef mince (or ground beef) and shepherds pie uses lamb mince (or ground lamb?) But interestingly it seems the us version is the wrong way round?
Upstate New York here...Mac & Cheese is always on point! I don't know if they'll sell this in the UK, but here they have a Detroit-style frozen pizza...MAN O MAN...DELICIOUS!!!! Their frozen pizzas overall are better than some pizza shops.
We don’t have any of those ones at our costcos, it’s usually chicken Alfredo, lasagna, fajita wraps kit, some sort of pita chicken wrap kit, chow mein with chicken and veg, stuffed peppers, and Shepard’s pie,
You are lucky to have some really great choices at your Costco ... at ours here in the USA, we don't have Indian or some of the pasta you have. Definitely not cottage pie. Here in Salem, Oregon our Costco currently has in the "ready meals" --- Several types of salad kits, chicken street tacos, stuffed bell peppers with beef and rice, meatloaf with mashed potatoes, Gyro kit, Rotisserie Chicken Enchiladas (using up the unsold $5 rotisserie chickens from yesterday), Mac and Cheese, Alfredo (chicken), Beef & Pork Meatballs with Pasta & Saucen and various other "American" favorites. The prices, however, are OUTRAGEOUS compared to what you paid! The rotisserie chicken enchiladas are over $25!!!! Ridiculous - especially since they're using the leftover chicken .... The best deal I can see is the mac and cheese, $12.50 for about 3 lbs.
I'm a tad sad you didn't have the Chicken Pot PIe. Maybe it's because it's not a summer-y meal - or because we're in the US - but it's really good. I had multiple friends recommend it, so it came with quite some expectation and I'd love to hear your input.
If I may make a suggestion, when having frozen meals you need to know what seasonings for each meal especially with Mexican food and Indian food and it will taste better. 👍
Really enjoyed this video! I’d also love to see more content around making meals yourself rather than eating out/supermarket meals, like trying to meal prep for a week (or ingredient prep, which I’ve seen seeing all over Instagram lately) - just feels like it’d be more relatable & useful content while still entertaining!!
you should listen to Aqcuired's podcast episode about costco - really interesting to learn about how the costco business model works and became so successful
Burrito=no Curry_ yes ok bog standard Fajita/quesadilla- yes recommend Carbonara - banging a must buy Mac cheese- v good not dry Wedges - good needs mayo/sour cream Lasagne - tastes more ready meal - pub lasagne ok Shepherd pie-ready meal taste, mash good, not as good as others
im barely 2 minutes into the video but if you managed to not pick up the missing mains the enchiladas are amazing and the only main ready meal ive had from Costco.
