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FEMAIL taste tests 25 supermarket mince pies in search of the best

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M&S Made Without 4 Mince Pies Rating: £2.50 for pack of four Despite my preconceptions about gluten free food, I found these were extremely tasty. The shortbread crust was delicious and very addictive, and the filling was fresh and tangy. – Jessica Rach Jessica was shocked at how much she loved this gluten-free treat Iceland … Read more

The mince pies that have almost all your daily sugar

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As supermarket shelves fill up with festive pastries, FEMAIL reveals the mince pies that have nearly your ENTIRE daily allowance of sugar Consumer experts Money.co.uk looked at mince pies from UK supermarkets Iceland’s offering topped chart with 82 per cent of daily sugar and 250 calories Waitrose had least sugary mince pie on the market … Read more

Asda and Iceland mince pies win a Which? Best Buy award in blind taste test

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Asda and Iceland’s 33p mince pies beat posh rivals Waitrose and M&S in Which? Best Buy survey (but ‘claggy’ Sainsbury’s come last) Budget supermarkets Iceland and Asda came out top in the Which? taste test Beat competition from M&S, Waitrose, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons and Co-op Sainsbury’s and Morrisons received the lowest scores and attracted … Read more

Drop a dress size by Christmas (while stuffing your face with mince pies)

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During the last lockdown, women everywhere reported increases in two things: Our alcohol intake and our weight. Almost half of Brits said they got fatter — the dreaded ‘corona stone’ — between late March and mid-June, according to one survey by Kings College London and Ipsos MORI. Meanwhile, in a different survey, by charity Alcohol … Read more

Mum wows the internet with her simple method for cooking mince meat evenly

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You’ve been cooking mince wrong this whole time: Mum wows with her VERY simple method for browning meat evenly and lump-free A mum has wowed hundreds with her method for browning mince meat well The NSW mum said using a whisk will brown it evenly and without lumps The method breaks up ground meat into … Read more

Budget supermarket chain Spar beats posh rivals to become this year’s best Christmas mince pie

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Budget supermarket chain Spar beats posh rivals to gain the honour of this year’s best Christmas mince pie in blind taste tests Spar had best mince pies in 2020 Christmas Taste Awards, costing just £2 Judges praised the ‘crumbly, buttery pastry’ and said the filling was ‘sweet’  M&S notched up eight wins including best vegan … Read more

Bolognese Brigade bought extra 10 million packs of mince during panic-buying

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British shoppers have gone on a minced beef ‘feeding frenzy’ and picked up 10million extra packets while panic buying through the coronavirus crisis as fears grew about UK food shortages, MailOnline can reveal today. Farmers have warned that they cannot keep up with demand as the so-called ‘bolognese brigade’ pushed mince sales up 60 per cent in … Read more