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One of my favourite foods is no more

Advantages: Takes about 10minutes to nuke
Disadvantages: Changed recipe from an exceptional basic curry, to an average Jalfrezi / Rogan Josh sort of style curry

For years, the BirdsEye Chicken Curry was one of my favourite foods (with my Dad having quit stocking my previous favourite curry, The "Vesta Beef Madras" I think it was).... a nice basic curry with a bit of a kick to it. From what I recall there was 2 bags... one with rice, the other with Chicken, Curry sauce + raisins / currants if memory serves me correctly (and it was sodding impossible to get the stains from it off the breadboard if you splashed ...
...to that in their "Roast Chicken Dinner" once you'd sucked off the curry sauce. Sometime around 2003/2004 they brought out a new "improved" (my arse) version..... whether it was because they'd got a new person in charge of the curry range, or to keep the food fascists off their back.... or just a result of the restructuring from parent company Unilever I don't know. The new curry comes in a two part plastic container (which has a tendency to break ...

duck1979 22.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Birds Eye Chicken Curry and Rice

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Weight Watchers Curry - OK but not exciting!

Advantages: Easy way to satisfy cravings!
Disadvantages: Takes nearly 10 mins to cook, small portion

...a bikini by May, Weight Watchers products have crept back into my life. I find the system easy to follow and an easy way to track what you've consumed in a day. Having had a cereal bar for breakfast (yum!) I was craving something hot for dinner so nipped home and bunged in a Weight Watchers by Heinz Chicken Curry - points value 4.5. First down side - it is not exactly "fast" food. 5 minutes on full power followed by another 4 on Defrost setting. ...
...if you want to lose weight portion control is a major factor but this just felt too small. I had two pieces of Weight Watchers bread with it to bulk it out (0.5 points each so a further 1 point added to the meal) The flavour is a generic curry taste (think chip shop curry, slightly ambiguous without a distinct flavour) but still pleasant. There were plenty of chicken pieces which were small and tasted fine. A warning though - half an hour later and ...

Amyp1986 14.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Weight Watchers from Heinz Chicken Curry

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I'm reviewing a curry. Yes, I am bored.

Advantages: Tastes even better than posh currys
Disadvantages: Not enough of it

...you consider that you could vomit blood from your eyes free of charge. But anyway, it's a lovely, lovely curry. I also reccommend eating it with Tesco spring rolls, which cook in the oven so they take a bit longer, but are a right treat dipped in curry. ...

badongism 23.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Tesco Chicken Curry with Rice

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Tasty Little Treat for One

Advantages: tastes good and cheap and easy to heat
Disadvantages: none

...I decided to try an Asda Ready Meal the other day. It cost £4 and I picked the Chicken Curry with Rice (you can get them in prawns or beef) but I thought that if it was naff I could always feed it to the cat (and he prefers chicken). It says it has less than 5% fat and has 400grams in a box so I thought as it only takes 8 mins in the microwave, this sounded just the job. It was quick and easy to heat - just pierced the lid with a car key and shoved ...
...and hey presto! It smelled loveley and the cat kept miaowing for some so I figured it must be okay. I reckon I should have let it cool first though as it burned the a hole in the roof of my mouth. There was a decent amount of chicken a mild curry flavour (but I like mine hotter) and the rice was nice and light and fluffy. It needed extra salt on the rice as it was a bit bland. The sauce was tasty. It made me thirsty so I had a couple of beers and ...

pantyliner 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Asda Chicken Curry with Rice

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Think I'd have preferred the scabby horse!!!

Advantages: Quick to prepare, really cheap
Disadvantages: Stringy chewy meat, not much in the pack,

My exams start next week and I went out with a load of mates last night to 'celebrate'. We all got slightly (or very, in my case) inebriated and when I rolled in the back door at around 12.30am this morning I was so starved I could have eaten a scabby horse. I really was in too much of a state to faff around making anything which took too much concentration so was really pleased when I found some Asada microwavable ready meals. Mum had bought a pile ...
...stop to choose any one in particular - I just needed food, and FAST, so I grabbed the one at the top of the pile from the freezer drawer, quickly scanned the 'cooking instructions' and popped it into the microwave for ten minutes on 'high' and waited for the ping. I then rushed to the loo, quickly put my PJ's on and by that time the meal was almost ready. The instructions said that after ten minutes I had to remove it from the microwave, stir and ...

pennywa 10.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Asda Beef Curry with Rice

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