Mushy vacuum packed mince

[likelysuspect]

Im not having a lot of luck with vacuum packed products lately

Ive never bought it in the new packaging until this week.

I was in Lidl and didnt have time to go elsewhere so bought it as it was, that squished up stuff in the vacuum pack

Its all mushy when raw and it doesnt have the same texture once cooked as normal packed mince

Im disappointed.

If that was the reason they would do it also for the minced turkey and pork. They don’t. But hey I’m glad you can use that tone and feel better about yourself.

Carbon foot as in packing and transporting
You’d get far more vacuum pack mince in a lorry
so less lorries less journeys and less packaging as in you’ll get more vacuum pack mince in 1 cardboard box

Waitrose offer a good compromise packaging solution here - no hard plastic trays, so the packs are smaller than those. The mince is in a plastic bag, but isn't vacuum packed, so no compromise of the texture or flavour.

On the pricier side of the supermarkets, though, of course.

We won't pay less though.

Ridiculous.why just the mince? And if the supermarkets bothered to keep the meat counters open then there would be less need for packaging full stop. But yeah blame the people who hate the manky mince ( I've stopped eating it at all now due to this)

It's better for the environment and it tastes just as good. I call that a win.

Well, 88% of people are saying it doesn't taste as good, and so many shop elsewhere to get the kind of mince they want. It's hardly win-win if they are driving further do dodge the cruddy mince.

Vacuum packed meat slurry.

I hate it with a passion, so have stopped using Sainsbury's and Lidl altogether.

M&S, Waitrose and Asda still do mince in a conventional tray, so I spend my £300 odd a month with them.

It's yet another case of making something worse on the altar of profit and green wash, like those ridiculous attached caps on plastic bottles so they don't go back on properly.

It saves plastic. That’s throws any possible negatives.

It’s disgusting and no amount of mashing and frying gets the lumps out. Sainsburys is the worst one for sure.

I think the vacuum packs are a drop in the ocean when it comes to reducing plastic waste. America, China and India are just a few examples of how much plastic waste there is. Changing a few packs of mince packaging is not going to make a difference. I have more going to landfill now with the new packaging which can’t be recycled

Sainsbury's mice is vile.

I complained bitterly in my review and they refused to post it.

As previous poster said it's slurry. Jamie Oliver showed us how it's created using a pressure washer on the cattle bones and some kind of catering concrete mixer. I won't buy it.

I honestly can't tell the difference once it's cooked, but I prefer that it has a longer date on it and it takes up less room in the fridge/freezer. I don't find it any harder to break up than the mince in a plastic tub.