Feeling lazy and hankering some comfort food, I nipped into Tesco and bought the Tesco Finest Lamb Moussaka. I naively thought it would marry well with the Potato Gratin from the normal Tesco range but I choose poorly. Both were tasty but sadly not together – I swear I could almost hear my arteries clog up.
Unbearably uncomfortable, I decided to have a look at the ingredients. Shockingly; a half portion of the Moussaka is 42.6g of fat which is a massive 61% of your recommended daily fat intake and the Potato Gratin, which has 20.9g of fat – equates to a whopping 30% of your guideline daily amount.
The ingredients are good with no added artificial preservatives, flavours, colours or hydrogenated fat but the double cream and really cheesy béchamel sauce make it unnecessarily heavy. In fact, I don’t think the dish needs cream at all and I should have made the effort to make my own Moussaka.
Just goes to show how important it is to read the label and avoid discovering you have eaten 91% of your daily fat intake in just one meal.
Do you always read the label?
I’ve heard all the reasons for customers to dislike supermarket’s buy one, get one free offers. They can make us buy things we don’t really want or need. They can encourage us to overspend on products we’ll never get to eat. They’re often on perishable goods, and a lot of the food ends up in the bin, causing environmental damage and leaving a heavy carbon footprint. And don’t get me started on the pressure they can put on food producers to take the hit during these special offer promotions.
An interesting email arrived from our reader Wendy Cullinane this morning:
A random recommendation: Aldi’s “Liskeel” organic probiotic natural yogurt. I picked some up last week and they beat similar offerings from Lidl, Rachel’s, Glenisk and even the delicious 
It’s back again from Thurs-Sun this week, bargain fans. Full selection after the jump. One of the (many) things that I like about this offer is that you can get healthy choices – you can have salmon, veggies or salad and fruit salad. Or you can pig out and have cottage pie, wedges and millionaire’s shortbread. It’s all good.