Sainsbury's vacuum packed mince.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Omg what the hell were they thinking.
Just tried making bolognaise with it. It's direct separate in the same way, and is just big lumps. 😬

I only buy from the butcher. I don't eat red meat, just fish and chicken, so it works out just only a little bit more. For chicken mince the butcher will use only what you request, I prefer breast for mince etc. We eat vegetarian meals for half the week so it really doesn't work out to that much more.

I often walk past the meat aisles at supermarkets and it always looks so grim.

We had it today, the texture was grim🤢

I use Aldi and mine have normal packs. Didn't like the look of the Sainsburys stuff and it has awful reviews

I agree it's awful. It's like cat food clumps. Tried it once never again.

The texture was absolutely grim. Unfortunately they had no other beef mince in normal
Packaging. 8 knew I should have gone to Lidl!

I have stopped buying it . The texture is revolting 🤢

I buy the frozen mince now. So handy to have in and it is nicely minced like pellets. So no big lumps.

Tesco sell properly packaged mince, we have some in the fridge atm.

Yes, I've actually swapped a lot of my shopping to other places just because of the horrible cat-food-like mince at Sainsbury's. Waitrose manage to have minimal, non-rigid packaging without turning it into meat sludge.

It's not great, is it! I chop it with a fork as soon as I put it in a pan to brown so I don't actually get lumps.
Think I need to revert back to buying from the butchers which always had less packaging than Supermarket original type packaging anyway.

I agree. Takes a bit more effort to break it up, but tastes fine to me!

Can't say I've noticed any difference apart from the breaking up.

It's disgusting.

It's not just affecting the texture, but the taste too. Whoever decided to do this must be a vegan.

I wish people could stop buying it full stop, then they'd have to change back.

It’s soggy and tastes like tinned mince 🤢

Same.

Me too, but we have now used both his legs and one arm and so are running out of options. He can still use the till, but slicing bacon is proving a bit more of a challenge.
May have to find a new (complete) butcher soon...

"tinned" mince? Is that a thing!

I posted this over a year ago ; -
www.mumsnet.com/talk/food_and_recipes/4779280-sainsburys-beef-mince

Lidl do it too now. I've gone back to the butcher for mince now because the texture is wrong and like a PP said you don't get the nice strands of meat. I hate when mince is lumpy but also when you have to break it into tiny tiny pieces to not have lumps. Horrible memories of the frozen mince DM used to use when I was a child and eating it felt like grainy gravy.

I’ve not found any problems with it either. It takes a bit more work to break it up but I would never have ended up with “strands” of mince however I cook it - I’d always simmer for ages to get it all soft and tender.

I gave it a try. Bloody hell it was hard work. I felt like I was repeatedly stabbing it with the wooden spoon and ended up pulling a muscle in my arm. It may as well have been meatballs. The kids didn't say anything but then again they've been trained to say thank you and not take the piss out of whatever is put in front of them.

I buy it frozen from Iceland

I stopped buying sainsburys mince because of this. I suprised they haven't rethought the packaging.

Yes to this being so much harder to seperate!

I gave up buying meat in supermarkets about a year ago and get it from the butcher now. Most supermarket meat is tasteless.