On the last of my vegetarian taste tests Tasker in Yorkshire mentioned buying vegetarian pasties from a farm shop – “now that’s an idea” I thought and as I was near an ‘award winning’ farm shop when taking the Mustard Pot photo I popped in to see what they had.
This is what I found and really explains why farm shops in Suffolk are for people who don’t need to look at the price! and why I won’t be buying another from there.
Small Sweet Potato, Spinach and Feta pie. This was £3.65. – that seemed a lot for one small pie.
Made by a company called Country Pies from near Ipswich. Unfortunately their ingredient list is as long as a pie made in a big factory anywhere.
Here you go…………………….Homemade pastry(fortified flour(wheat flour, maize flour, calcium, iron, vitamin b1,vitamin b3) margarine (palm and rapeseed oil, water, salt, natural flavourings) water), puff pastry (wheat flour (calcium, iron , niacin, thiamine) margarine (palm and rapeseed oil, water, salt) water, salt, preservative e202, sweet potato 25%, vegetable stock (salt, modified maize starch, hydrolysed vegetable protein (soya colour e150), flavour enhancer e621, non hydrogenated rapeseed oil, sugar dried tomato, flavouring (contains wheat, barley) yeast extract, dried onion, dried spinach, colour e150c, pepper extract (salt, spice extract, herb extract) ground nutmeg, acidity regulator citric acid) béchamel sauce (modified maize starch, wheat flour, palm fat, maltodextrin, skimmed milk powder, sugar, salt lactose (milk), milk protein, yeast extract, sunflower oil, flavourings (milk) citric acid, onion) feta cheese (milk), spinach, pepper, salt, egg.
I nearly lost the will to live typing that!! so many parenthesis or are they brackets?
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It had more filling than the Lidl pies I tried but the overall taste was just pepper. I know many of the ingredients used are necessary for safety, but it still seemed rather a long list.
I’ve still got 3 home made vegetable bakes , that were made in January, in the freezer so I need to eat those rather than trying anything else from supermarket or farm shop! Then I’ll be making more of my own.
(Note to self – don’t get side-tracked into things by comments on the blog!)
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