All Chilled foods articles – Page 75
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Gluten-free Cornish pasty goes into Asda
Free-from specialist Dietary Specials is introducing a Cornish pasty into Asda to capitalise on the gluten-free market. The pasties will arrive in stores later this month (rsp: £2.99 for two).
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Picture This... Gü velvet: the dark side of puds
Gü debuted on TV this week with a darkly sensuous ad straight from a David Lynch film. A woman out walking her dog follows some eerie music coming from a house.
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Tesco rolls out Rowe’s hot food counters
Tesco is rolling out hot food-to-go counters next to its sandwich chillers, following the success of Cornish pasty counters in its south west stores. Rowe's bakery in Cornwall said its range of pasties, steak slices and sausage rolls was...
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Focus On Microwaveable Foods: Four to watch
Last year, Young's set out to tackle the problem of soggy microwaved fish fingers. The brand launched Micro Fish Fingers, which have a special coating that prevents moisture from the fish entering the crumb and packaging that reduces the build-up of steam to ensure the fish fingers come out crispy.
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Quality Test: Steak & kidney pie
As a pie connoisseur, I'm looking for flaky pastry, generous filling and viscous gravy. Sadly, each of these pies failed on at least one count.
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Focus On Microwaveable Foods: Rise of the micro snack
Scratch cooking is cost-effective, but microwave meals are convenient. And shoppers aren’t about to give them up just because times are hard. Vince Bamford reports
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Focus On Microwaveable Foods: Pots stand out from crowd
One packaging format growing its presence on supermarket shelves is the microwaveable pot with big names such as Innocent adding critical mass to a format that a number of smaller players have been using for some time.
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Morrisons trials fresh cream cakes
Morrisons is trialling a premium fresh cream cake counter in Kirkstall in Yorkshire, as part of a wider revamp of Market Street.
The cakes are 99p each or four for £3.60, and are displayed in a separate counter next to its cheaper, boxed… -
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Quality Test: Fresh cream eclairs
There was a clear winner in this test, but there was little to differentiate the others.
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Campaign Trail: Ginsters scares up a new ad
A giant scarecrow is leading the charge in a £3.5m TV push designed to highlight Ginsters' local ingredients.
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Focus On Meat-Free: Four to watch
Holland's Pies became an unlikely entrant into the meat-free sector last year, with the launch of the first vegetarian pie in its 157-year history.
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NewsFocus On Meat-Free: Meat-eaters try veggie
“Monday, Monday, no meat that day... ” With no little thanks to a certain Beatle, meat-free sales are looking rosy. But it’s not the vegetarian community that’s driving most of the growth. Beth Phillips reports
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Cuisine Africana creator takes plunge into retail
The owner of a range of authentic African-style ready meals has come up with an innovative solution to flagging sales leasing vacant shop space in a London shopping centre.The five-strong range of Cuisine Africana-branded dishes was...
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Revamp for Budgens ready meals
Musgrave Retail Partners GB has relaunched its Italian and traditional ready meals for its Budgens fascia.
Six products from Budgens’ mid-tier range have been relaunched under a new ‘Italian’ sub-brand, including lasagne, spaghetti… -
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Double the bubble as R&R unveils Aero ice cream in NPD drive
It may be cold outside, but R&R Ice Cream is gearing up for the heat with a raft of new products under Nestlé's Aero, Caramac, Nesquik and Kit Kat brands.
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M&S launches high protein ready meals
Marks and Spencer has launched a high-protein range of prepared meals, sandwiches and salads aimed at dieters.The 40-strong Simply Fuller Longer range, which includes Chargrilled Chicken & Vegetable Noodles with Savoury Miso...
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Focus On Hot Desserts: Marks & Spencer rules in hot puds
We eat more than 4.9 billion desserts a year in the UK and 1.4 billion of these (29%) are hot. The hot-served chilled desserts market has grown 11.4% to more than £150m over the past year. Growth has been driven by an increase in buyers...
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Picture This... Holland’s hits a bullseye with Bowen
In the week that Gatorade ditched Tiger Woods as brand ambassador, Holland's Pies has unveiled a backer who prefers a bit of Bully to a bit of the other. Mr Bullseye himself, Jim Bowen has been recruited to highlight its new online shop that gives...