Bowyers 95% Fat Free Sausages

...local farm shop preferably or Bowyers sausages. Bowyers are the only sausages I will buy for myself from the supermarket as I detest the taste of all the others.

As there is no picture here I can tell you that Bowyers sausages are easy to locate amoungst the huge array that is offered these days in our supermarkets as the external packaging is mostly green with the main wording on the packet saying 'Less Than 5% fat' with the 5% being ...
.../> The sausages themselves are nothing unusual to look at, they are sausages after all and not something invented in a laboratory, they have a slightly darker pink look about them compared to Walls sausages and a nice sausage meat aroma when you initially open the packet.

Inside my packet I have eight sausages which for a family of four is a nice size, 2 each with nothing left over, there is nothing I hate more than having more than ... more

When it comes to sausages I am really fussy which is most unlike me as tend to like most things but sausages, they have to be just so, not gristle or fatty bits - yuk. My sausages have to be either hand made in my local farm shop preferably or Bowyers sausages. Bowyers are the only sausages I will buy for myself from the supermarket as I detest the taste of all the others.

As there is no picture here I can tell you that Bowyers sausages are easy to locate amoungst the huge array that is offered these days in our supermarkets as the external packaging is mostly green with the main wording on the packet saying 'Less Than 5% fat' with the 5% being in the largest font.

The sausages themselves are nothing unusual to look at, they are sausages after all and not something invented in a laboratory, they have a slightly darker pink look about them compared to Walls sausages and a nice sausage meat aroma when you initially open the packet.

Inside my packet I have eight sausages which for a family of four is a nice size, 2 each with nothing left over, there is nothing I hate more than having more than you actually need.

Cooking the sausages, again there is no mystery, grill, fry, barbeque or throw them on your George Foreman grill, for those who aren't sure there are cooking instructions on the back of the packet, particularly useful I feel for those who have just left home, students and the like who have never really done that much cooking as as with most meats you really need to ensure that your sausages are cooked right the way through to prevent food poisonings. I generally cook mine on my George Foreman and can confirm that very little fat drained into the drip tray, in fact out of the whole eight sausages you would have been lucky to fill a teaspoon which is excellent as there is nothing worse that seeing the amount of fat that comes out some food items.

I few points worth noting, joyfully these sausages only contain 73 calories for those calories counters amongst us but they do container wheat and gluten so not good if you suffer from some food allergies. The calorific value is based on grilling your sausage not frying them in oil or worse.

Once cooked you may notice that this sausage is a lot more firm to the touch and does not fall apart whether grilled, fried or BBQ'd and the skin does not end up all split, well at least this has not happened to me anyway. Slicing through your sausage you are greeted by a nice firm packed filling with no gaps where the fatty bits of meat have melted during the cooking process.

The all important taste, delicious, nice and meaty but not chewy and both my daughter and I really enjoy these either on a sandwich with either bacon or egg, however, my hubby prefers the fatty sausages to these so as you can see he misses out when we have sausages or we have to buy some Walls for him.

Overall I enjoy these and currently they are on offer in ASDA 2 for £3.00 and they are suitable for home freezing so an ideal time to have a few in stock for when there is too much month left at the end of the money as can happen at this time of year. Would I buy them again, yes and I have on many occasions when I have been unable to get to my nearest farm shop who actually make the most divine sausages but these are the next best thing that I have come across so far.

Having checked around I have found out that even the premium sausage ranges that our supermarkets offer us these days are not necessarily lower in fat than the standard sausage (yes I have been reading the back of the packets in ASDA again) and even higher in some cases.

Remember though, if you cut into your sausage and the middle is pink - its not cooked and you need to through it back under the grill or on the BBQ until the inside is all the same colour. 

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