Sainsbury's vacuum packed mince.

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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. 😬

Sainsbury's online deliveries are rubbish, last week the driver wouldn't even bring my order into the house and I have a disability.

Yes I found this. It's horrible!

Hate it. Don't buy it now. Buy from other places that don't have that silly packaging.

Tesco low fat mince is fine. 👍👍

You're right though my bolognaise ended up ok in the end. Might make reasonable burgers with that consistency

It doesn't look appetising in the packaging though. The Co-Op have done this too.

I thought it might!

It's also not easy to recycle the packaging as it's minging to wash and stays greasy

ive got chilli simmering and have been swearing at the mince. Really should swap to Tesco or Waitrose for this. 😡

Tesco don't have it

I've been using it for ages. It's fine - looks unappealing but ends up the same as normally packaged mince after you prod it with a spatula for long enough.

Its really not.
I had read it was different now the packaging has changed but thought that was proably rubbish until I tried it.
I don't know why or how but its definitely more mushy, totally different texture.

Iceland just swapped their back to normal packaging due to complaints. Saw an advert pop up on Facebook.

It really isn’t it’s 100% beef mince. Nothing else. The planet is burning we have to reduce plastic Your 100% mince is now vacuum packed, you’ll need to get used to it as supermarkets have to reduce plastic packaging. It’s going to go further and further. 50% fruit&veg having zero packaging is being mooted.

Sorry but you won't convince me its the same, DS also commented on it and he has no idea how it was packaged.
However, I only buy fruit and veg with no packaging and buy mince maybe once a month and other meat once a week if it makes you feel any better

Husband defrosted some meat he thought was mince. To make Bolognese. It was chuck steak so he chopped it up in the food processor. Omg the meat actually tasted of beef it was gorgeous. I'd given up on that vacuum packed pap.

I'm going to buy mince from the butchers in bulk and freeze.

Just this week after spending AGES poking and prodding and cutting at Sainsbury's mince did I decree that it will never again be bought!! It's so hard to separate and sits in clumps.

Omg hate it. It doesn’t separate properly and I hate that period pad it comes with.

Whatever but bellyaching about 100% mince still being 100% mince but a different texture is on a par with those whining about paper straws and wooden throw away cutlery- ridiculous when compared to the extreme weather and temperatures the planet is experiencing and only likely to get worse.

Honestly, it's fine for us. In fact it's a bit better as it takes up less space in our fridge freezer, and we like the chunks of mince.

Yep us too. Aldi have recently switched too. We don’t eat a lot of meat as too pricey and so bad for the environment. Can put up with hardship of bigger lumps. I love Sainsbury’s as they are introducing more and more environmentally friendly packaging. Can now get loo rolls in paper packaging- waits for posters to whine about it being less sturdy than plastic. 🙄

But somehow the taste is altered. We use a vacuum packaging machine sometimes when we have a glut of fish or meat. It doesn't alter the taste at all.

I’m surprised you can taste any difference after spices and other ingredients are added and it’s exactly the same product but maybe it’s the added freshness. Vacuumed packaging removes all the oxygen which causes spoiling . Maybe try to focus on the life your children are going to have in old age if we don’t reduce plastic consumption. Kind of puts it into perspective. 🙄

I prefer it. No air inside means it stays fresh. Less packaging clogging up my bin. You just use your spatula to break it up a bit as you fry it. I don't really understand how you are all having problems

Buy a mincer and mince your own. It's much nicer, and you know which part of the cow it's come from (ie no horns/hooves/stomachs etc)

They did have because i got it numerous times from them. Funnily enough, i havent seen it recently