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I never eat ready meals and my husband…
I never eat ready meals and my husband rarely does but recently, after hearing about your meals for the 1st time, we tried a couple. The fish pie is better than I have ever eaten in any restaurant.
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The best fish pie
We love Charlie Bigham's fish pie. As good as homemade without the faff. We need to try the macaroni cheese next!
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These are NOT “ready meals”
These are NOT “ready meals” So I stumbled across these in Sainsburys. I don’t usually buy pre-packaged meals because they are usually full of nasties. However looking at the ingredients I decided to try the cottage pie. I’m so glad I did! This has to be by far the best cottage pie I’ve ever tasted. It was so good I had it 3 nights running. I checked out their website and feel they genuinely care about producing good quality wholesome meals and not just mass producing sub standard food. I’m going to try them all!! Give them a go, you won’t be disappointed!
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Chilli con carne
I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the chilli con carne and rice meal! It was really tasty, a good level of spice but still flavoursome and not too overpowering. Thank you, look forward to trying more soon!
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Excellent ready meal and great…
Excellent ready meal and great alternative to getting take out. I’d highly recommend the fish pie, chicken tikka and lasagne.
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Thursday Night was curry night
I bought Charlies Chicken Jalfrezi from Sainsbury's last Thursday..it's possibly the best we've ever tasted..well done to the chefs for balancing the spices to perfection 👌
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Not having seen this brand in my local…
Not having seen this brand in my local Tesco and being disappointed with the Tesco Curries I Decided to give a Jalfrazi a try. What a good move it was awesome one of the best Curries I’ve over had, the Chicken was so tender and the sauce was sublime, Not to hot but just right(for me).I could definitely recommend giving one a try I don’t think you will be disappointed.Looking forward to my next one maybe a madras. 👍
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Very bad practices and customer services
In 2021 I bought some Meatballs Al Forno, having tasted some other meals in the range at my friend's house. However on this occasion I crunched on something hard which I spat out. It turned out to be a piece of hard plastic, no idea what it was. I was concerned as it must have got there as part of their factory/packing processes. I contacted them (with a photo of the item) but instead of being concerned, they obviously thought I was a crank, so they sent me various contradictory replies, then no response at all, and then, after multiple times of chasing this up, eventually fobbed me off with a few (two, I think) vouchers for their products. I am a well thought of long-serving member of my local County Council and not a crank - it was disturbing to me that they did not take this seriously or consider how this may have got into their processes. The administrative response was chaotic and totally at odds with their laid-back homely image. Very unimpressed, have never touched their products since. I am writing this now as I had a clear out recently and saw the piece of green plastic I had kept.
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Deliciously tender chicken in the Thai…
Deliciously tender chicken in the Thai chicken curry. Great sauce with a gentle spice. So easy to prepare! The ultimate fast food, but with excellent ingredients and fresh and tasty.
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Quality of chicken awful now
I have until recently been able to rely on Charlie Bigham to produce fantastic curries, with succulent fat free chunks of chicken. I’m afraid to say that the cuts of chicken that are now used are third rate. Hardly a piece without fat. I now have to throw away a good proportion of the meat, in order to be able to enjoy the curry. The quality has been going downhill for some time now, and I’m afraid I will no longer be buying Charlie Bighams. Great shame. They used to be the best.