[Review] Iceland Toad in the Hole £1 meal

I have been trying out Iceland £1 meals because they look legit but then frozen meals cost around £1-4 depending on portion size and ingredients.

Iceland's Toad in the Hole needed the oven so didn't try it until recently.

Basically, it is quite a big piece of Yorkshire so it is quite filling and gravy is definitely needed for that extra delicious factor.

When it was done, I was too lazy to make gravy even though gravy these days are instant by just adding water.
I had the Toad in the Hole with plum chutney which complemented it nicely and the pork sausages were as good as I expected.

[Review] Tesco 6 British Chicken Sausages 400g

I love pork sausages but decided to try chicken sausages for a change.
They come in a pack of 6.

In terms of taste they had the herbs that pork sausages have but the texture was a lot firmer and not as moist as pork sausages.

Overall worth trying.

Morrisons All Day Breakfast 395g £1.27

I really liked this can of All Day Breakfast by Morrisons because there was black pudding inside it.

The baked beans were tasty too infused with a sausage and black pudding taste with a hint of herbs from the Cumberland sausage.
The interesting thing is that on the product description it doesn't mention Cumberland sausages but they are Cumberland in the Full product description.

Although it was a little bit too salty, the sausages and bacon egg bites were actually tasty and the texture was good compared to other brands I have tried.
In the can, I found, two pieces of black pudding, two sausages and some bacon bites which I can't remember how many were there.

Product description:
With jumbo sausages, egg and bacon bites and black pudding slices, 1 of your 5 a day, Source fibre, No artificial colours

Full Product Name:
Baked beans, Cumberland sausages, bacon with added water and egg bites and black pudding in tomato sauce.

Morrisons link:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-All-Day-Breakfast/212041011?from=search&tags=%7C108397&param=breakfast&parentContainer=SEARCHbreakfast_SHELFVIEW

Video of the Morrisons All Day Breakfast 395g £1.27:

Golden pig sausages

As a Brit, sausages are a must have item on the plate but in Hong Kong you can't find decent sausages so you end up dining out for them.
Recently discovered this brand called Golden Pig from the UK selling delicious sausages and bacon.
https://www.facebook.com/goldenpighk

There are three flavours for the sausages:

Pork and apple:

Cumberland:

Jalapeno:

Unsmoked back bacon:

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Tried the pork and apple with bread and I really liked it because it was meaty and juicy without any elastic bits.

I used an oven to cook them and they tasted amazing without the need for any sauces.
If I had grilled them,  the crispy skin would have made them even more scrumptious.
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For the Cumberland sausage and Jalapeno sausage I had it with beautiful mash and caramelized onions made by a friend which complemented it nicely.
My favourite Bangers and Mash!

The Cumberland (First picture) was meatier than the pork and apple and the Jalapeno (Second picture) is not that spicy so if you want to try something different these two are good picks.
Personally I liked the pork and apple sausage.

They cost $60 per pack of six sausages or $160 for three packs which can be bought at the upcoming Sai Kung Market on the 19th or delivered free with orders over $500.

https://www.facebook.com/goldenpighk

Shineway Hot Crispy Sausage

Usually sausages are bought from the refridgerated section of the supermarket or in tinned cans/jars.

However, these sausages are ready to eat snacks.

There was so much MSG in these sausages.

Despite the English branding Shineway, they are made in CHINA!!!

Dragon Island Continental Spanish style sausage

They look like continental sausages, but they are actually from an Asian brand called Dragon Island.
I have only posted the uncooked pictures because they were a nightmare to cook.
They tasted disgusting and rubbery with chewy little unswallowable white pieces.

spinach and feta chicken sausages by Alfresco

If it did not have the smoked taste I would have liked it and I would have like more herbs too.

These dinner sausages were bigger than the breakfast rosemary ones.
They were oilier due to the cheese in it and the spinach couldnt be tasted, but bits of it could be seen inside the sausage.

Claiming to be Japanese sausages when it originates from China

Saw these Japanese sausages and there were three interesting flavours:
Fish sausage with Salmon
Fish sausage with cod fish roe
Fish sausage with sea urchin
[note that the labelling is grammatically wrong, the above was my interpretation, see the pictures for the real name, infact quite alot of the English on the label did'nt make sense such as keep away from sunbeam and out of frame!]
I tried to go to their website but it just got redirected to some site in China and the labelling mistakes seems more Chinglish than Japanese-English.
The one that tasted the best was filled with sea urchin, but of course don't expect real sea urchin.

The one shown on the picture was the cod fish roe because I thought the cod roe looked interesting!

Best Buy Baked Beans and al fresco chicken sausages

Felt like having a fry up, but I have to admit that THIS IS NOT TRADITIONAL because I have put rice in it as well.
I would have wanted it to be more traditional but I couldnt find any black pudding or proper rashers in the local Hong Kong supermarkets.
In the end, I decided to make it light cooking just baked beans, sausages and egg with some rice just as a filler.
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Baked Beans:
At the supermarket, the brands of baked beans available were Smedleys, Best Buy, Heinz, Ayam and Waitrose.
I didnt get Heinz because its the standard brand in UK. Smedleys looked too localised, there was so much chinese on the packaging, and Waitrose is an upper end brand similar to Marks and Spencers.
So in the end, I got Best Buy, a cheap brand imitating the No frills economic brand in the UK.
Next time I am going to try Ayam which is surprisingly a Malaysian brand!

Best buy baked beans
The taste of baked beans:
I was quite surprised it tasted quite nice, however perhaps it was over flavoured.
The tomato sauce was lovely and tangy which I appreciated yet it was really sweet at the same time. The sweetness was slightly artificial, the type of sweetness you find with saccharin and other artificial sweeteners.
They are navy beans according to the label and they are visually slightly bigger than the Heinz brand.
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Sausages:
For the sausages, it was hard to find the traditional British pork sausages, so I got chicken instead because there is less offal and chewy bits in it.
The rest on the shelf were frankfurter varieties and not pork sausages.
I bought the al-fresco brand of chicken sausages and it contained thyme and sage, which you could see beneath the transparent sausage skin.


al fresco chicken sausages
Sausage taste:
I didnt expect them to be spicy, but they were slightly spicy. Overall they were meaty in texture and the herbs in it resembled the ones in the pork sausage.
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al fresco chicken sausages

Chicken sausages with sage and thyme, after cooking them they were nice and juicy. However they were slightly spicy which was not expected.

Even more interesting, wild blueberries in chicken sausages!