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McCain Smiles - Perfect for a Fussy Eater

Advantages: quick to cook
Disadvantages: none

...thing he does love is McCain Smiles. Packaging On the front of the red plastic packaging is a picture of a sunflower, when you look closely you can see that it is actually sunflower petals and in the middle is a smile which I think is very clever! When I took the smiles out of the bag they looked very pale in colour, they are round with of course a smiley face, there are holes for the eyes and a big smiley mouth. Cooking Instructions You ...
...the oven at gas mark 7 and they usually take 12- 15 minutes to cook. Once the smiles come out of the oven they will look golden in colour and look very inviting to eat! Ingredients Potatoes, Dehydrated Potato (contains Turmeric), Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Salt, Stabiliser (E464), Pepper Extract Allergens - None Each smile contains mashed potato, I can always taste a very light hint of seasoning. The coating of the smile is prepared with sunflower ...

lazytowner 24.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of McCain Smiles

Cheese & Ham toasties

Advantages: Quick, convenient, cheapish, nice cheese
Disadvantages: Hard bits, low quality ham, and just as easy to make from scratch.

...the ham was very chewy and tasteless in comparison. Overall i was not impressed with the changes that have quite clearly been made to toasties, and now avoid them as i do most mccain microwaveable products. The only ones i can stand now are their spicy chicken micro pizzas. ...

DarkDraiman 29.03.2005 · Read full review
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Review of McCain Micro-Toastie

Perfect With Egg And Bacon

Advantages: A very versatile potato product
Disadvantages: None

...The 700g pack of McCain hash browns has a very eye catching plastic bag, the background of rich red bag is adorned with a cluster of happy looking sunflowers that are smiling down at you, presumably the sunflowers are there to make you aware that the product has been prepared using sunflower oil. A good clean modern white font announces the contents of the bag and then sitting below the product name is a plateful of the glorious golden potato cakes. ...
...brings a different harvest. But McCain go to great lengths to explain that they only use the best of the crop to produce their hash browns. Take a wander along the freezer aisle of any major supermarket chain and you will find the frozen hash browns easily. Inside of the bag are the ready prepared hash browns, in their frozen state they don't look their best. Each potato patty is triangular shaped and two or three hash browns are usually adequate ...

Sarahjh1 13.05.2009 · Read full review
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Takeaway Quality - Excellent Value

Advantages: Reasonable Price
Disadvantages: None

...I decided to try the Iceland frozen brand "Indian Takeaway Pilau Rice", £1.25 for a very reasonable 350g portion and intended as an accompaniment to the Beef Madras from the same takeaway style product range that I reviewed earlier. http://www.ciao.co.uk/IcelandIndianTakeawayBeefMadrasReview5884179 Let one thing be made clear here, these are not the cheaper alternative that seem to be appearing everywhere wherby for around £1 you recieve a ...
...As with many other Iceland products these days, a front of box emphasis is placed on the healthy "benefits" of the product listed as NO hydrogenated fats, NO artificial colours or flavours and NO GM ingredients. To see this sort of statement on the front of the box is very important to some people in this day and age and also gives substance to the intended premium nature of the product. Maybe one downside that I do find with this range is the "Micro ...

darpor 15.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Iceland Indian Takeaway - Pilau Rice

The Spice Is Right

Advantages: Very Modest Price, Fantastic Taste & Ingredient Quality
Disadvantages: Poor Nutritional Value, High Fat & Salt Content

...I decided to try the Iceland frozen brand "Indian Takeaway Beef Madras", £1.50 for a very reasonable 375g portion, accompanied by Pilau Rice from the same takeaway style product range of which there is also an accompanying review to follow. Let one thing be made clear here, these are not the cheaper alternative that seem to be appearing everywhere wherby for around £1 you recieve a plastic tray with two compartments, one containing curry and one ...
...As with many other Iceland products these days, a front of box emphasis is placed on the healthy "benefits" of the product listed as NO hydrogenated fats, NO artificial colours or flavours and NO GM ingredients. To see this sort of statement on the front of the box is very important to some people in this day and age and also gives substance to the intended premium nature of the product. Maybe one downside that I do find with this range is the "Micro ...

darpor 14.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Iceland Indian Takeaway - Beef Madras