Speaker 1: The pre made meal section is one of the fastest
Speaker 1: growing areas of the supermarket, with busy lifestyles relying more
Speaker 1: and more on time and cost effective options for both
Speaker 1: singles and families. Today we take a closer look at
Speaker 1: the lasagnas that are commonly available in the fresh and
Speaker 1: freezer section of supermarkets, and you may be surprised in
Speaker 1: the differences between different brands that we find. Hi I'm
Speaker 1: Susi Burrel and Emily and Wood and as two of
Speaker 1: us jay Is leading dieticians, we bring you the Nutrition
Speaker 1: Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on new products and
Speaker 1: old favorites you can find at supermarkets. Nelly and why
Speaker 1: little boys who are six love to eat lasagna? And
Speaker 1: in the good old days, I would sort of do
Speaker 1: a big cookout with my mum and we would layer
Speaker 1: a whole lot of vegetables and extra le mints and
Speaker 1: perhaps freeze it. But I can't even tell you the
Speaker 1: last time I've had time or energy to do that.
Speaker 1: But it can be a really nutritious, great meal to
Speaker 1: tack away if you do have time. But I guess
Speaker 1: in current times also not inexpensive when you take into
Speaker 1: account the cost of veggies and good quality meat to
Speaker 1: make a lasagna. So I haven't done it for ages
Speaker 1: and ages. What about you, guys? Are you regularly making
Speaker 1: your own? Are you more likely to pick up something
Speaker 1: at the supermarket?
Speaker 2: No, I never buy lasagna. I just don't find that
Speaker 2: that sort of satisfying. I'm not big into mints, and
Speaker 2: if I do, I have to buy the super lean
Speaker 2: type because I just I don't know. If I bought
Speaker 2: a lasagna in the supermarket. To me, I just wouldn't
Speaker 2: feel great after eating that. I just feel like it's
Speaker 2: a bit too sort of heavy and rich. So I
Speaker 2: am a fan of a zanni. We don't need a
Speaker 2: lot of pasture in my household with big potato rice,
Speaker 2: you know Mexican type people with me like you know,
Speaker 2: our tacos and that sort of thing. We don't need
Speaker 2: a whole lot of pasta. But if we do, we do.
Speaker 2: I do love to build my in lasagna. And you know,
Speaker 2: I put the lean mince shield, I put lots of legumes,
Speaker 2: and like some lentils, I love substituting the sort of
Speaker 2: what is it that bechamel cream layer for something like
Speaker 2: rocotta cheese or cottage cheese. And then of course I'm
Speaker 2: like you, I layer and a ton of vegguice real
Speaker 2: as well, and I always do a double bachelor of Zangnie,
Speaker 2: Like it takes so long to make that. If I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be here, I'm gonna make it. I'm going to
Speaker 2: make two or three serves, So I'll make two massive
Speaker 2: lasagna dishes. You know, might get out sixteen serves it
Speaker 2: or something and box it up and it all goes
Speaker 2: into the freezer. And that's something we might have occasionally
Speaker 2: on like a Friday night when we're just like, oh,
Speaker 2: can't be bothered cooking, but also we're like kind of
Speaker 2: want to keep our tails on track, won't get takeaway,
Speaker 2: I want to save some money. We'll pull out some
Speaker 2: frozen lasagna, hit it up like it with a side salad,
Speaker 2: and it's just a really easy quick dinner. We've always
Speaker 2: got some sort of lasagna or curry in the freezer
Speaker 2: that I've sort of meal prepped in advance.
Speaker 1: You're right, it is really time consuming. And I remember
Speaker 1: living with Italians that they would literally cook it for
Speaker 1: a day by the time that they did the sauce
Speaker 1: and got the flavor. So it can be amazing, and
Speaker 1: like you, I tend to prefer the quality of when
Speaker 1: you make yourself, because the meat contents tend to be
Speaker 1: much higher and much leaner. But I know that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who do need quick and easy options,
Speaker 1: and there's quite a number of different Lasaignians with quite
Speaker 1: a range of nutritional profile, so we thought it was
Speaker 1: a really good one to share today for busy families.
Speaker 1: So the first one we're going to take a look
Speaker 1: at is one from AUDI. Now, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of the frozen food section at AUDI in general. I
Speaker 1: find they're really cost effective options and in general some
Speaker 1: very nutritionally sound options. Dumplings come to mind as one
Speaker 1: of my favorite products, and a lot of the veggies.
Speaker 1: But we've chosen the design here today obviously, and this
Speaker 1: is a four hundred gram individual section of a frozen
Speaker 1: variety which retails for just two dollars twenty five. So
Speaker 1: that is an extremely cost effective option. You know, you
Speaker 1: add some veggies to that and it's a filling, tasty meal,
Speaker 1: But how does it look nutritionally? So for the four
Speaker 1: hundred grams serving, it clocks in it just over five
Speaker 1: hundred calories or twenty two hundred and eighty kilodel, so
Speaker 1: quite a substantial load. As a reference, at least a
Speaker 1: dinner meal would be at least four five hundred calories
Speaker 1: for a female. It's probably a little bit small for
Speaker 1: a male. Twenty five point two grams of protein, which
Speaker 1: I have to say is a nice amount. Twenty four
Speaker 1: point eight grams of fat. Now it isn't a low
Speaker 1: fat food here. It's got six point two grams of
Speaker 1: overall fat. It would need to be less than three
Speaker 1: grams to be a low fat product. So saturated fat's
Speaker 1: pretty good though. You know, it's almost less than three
Speaker 1: percent saturated fat, which is suggesting the meat is reasonable quality.
Speaker 1: Fifty two point eight grams of carbohydrate per serving, six
Speaker 1: point four grams of sugars, which is actually pretty low
Speaker 1: for that gram so per percentage, that's almost less than
Speaker 1: one percent sugars, which is a good sign. Massive whack
Speaker 1: of salt in their twelve hundred milligrams, which is more
Speaker 1: than half hour recommended daily intake of sodium, so they're
Speaker 1: certainly not going light on the salt. If we look
Speaker 1: at the ingredients, and they're pretty long in a product
Speaker 1: like lasagna, so it's twenty four percent cooked pasta the
Speaker 1: sauce is coming in at twenty three percent SPECIML, which
Speaker 1: is the creamy sauce with a mixture of milk, some
Speaker 1: cream as well, a little bit of butter, some vegetable oil,
Speaker 1: so giving it I would say a reasonable taste in texture. Now,
Speaker 1: the number I'm always looking for on a lasagnie Leian
Speaker 1: is the percentage of meat in it, because ultimately that's
Speaker 1: what we're spending money on. And it is fourteen percent beef,
Speaker 1: which when we compare it to some of the other
Speaker 1: brands you'll see is actually pretty good. And as I said,
Speaker 1: I would infer the quality to be quite good since
Speaker 1: the fat of it is pretty good. Profile seven percent tomatoes,
Speaker 1: some ferming agent, tomato paste, some red wine, some cheddar,
Speaker 1: and then we go down the least onion, carrots, very thickeners,
Speaker 1: et cetera to fill it out. So it's quite a
Speaker 1: long list, but you would expect that from a mixed
Speaker 1: dish like a lasagna. Now, I have to be honestly,
Speaker 1: and I reckon it's pretty good for the price two
Speaker 1: bucks for fourteen percent beef. I would buy this product.
Speaker 1: You know, I would recommend this product. I think it's sound.
Speaker 1: I think for the price, you can't go wrong with that,
Speaker 1: you know. The sodium probably is the only thing that
Speaker 1: stands out to me is a bit of concern, Like
Speaker 1: that is really a lot, mind you, that kind of
Speaker 1: Italian food. It is going to be difficult to get
Speaker 1: it much lower than say eight hundred. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: certainly would be recommending it for my busy young guys,
Speaker 1: my women perhaps who needed a filling, carbohydrate rich meal,
Speaker 1: particularly if they teamed it with loads of salad or
Speaker 1: edge and pleasantly surprised with this Audi lasagna. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fifty to fifty like, I wouldn't call us.
Speaker 2: I'm big on volume based eating, so you'd have to
Speaker 2: add a lot of veggies and salad onto the side
Speaker 2: of that. I think if you just would have warmed
Speaker 2: that up, I feel like it's a fair like a
Speaker 2: carbo hydrate. You know, fifty three grams of carbs that
Speaker 2: serves great protein twenty five grams and you know, five
Speaker 2: forty calories. It's pretty light for most people. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're small and you're not that active, it's probably
Speaker 2: a little bit too much. But for most of our
Speaker 2: you know, active, relatively average weight people and above. I
Speaker 2: think it's It's pretty good calorie wise, isn't it. But
Speaker 2: I'm just I don't know. It absolutely needs some more
Speaker 2: veggies and salad on the side, and the sodium, as
Speaker 2: you said, is kind of concerning if you're eating a
Speaker 2: lot of package based, pre made products, right, But if
Speaker 2: the rest of your diet it's pretty whole food and
Speaker 2: this is an occasional thing that you're going to keep
Speaker 2: in the freezer for just an occasional busy night where
Speaker 2: you don't want to cook. I think that's fine. But
Speaker 2: if you're having this multiple times a week, or you're
Speaker 2: relying on frozen meals heavily, I would probably rethink this
Speaker 2: from a sodium perspective, and even just a volume based perspective.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be that billing. I
Speaker 2: would think that if I heated this up, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be enough for me. I'd need some more, whether it
Speaker 2: was extra you know, veggies or salad on the side.
Speaker 1: Or something like that.
Speaker 2: But otherwise it's not it's not too bad overall. There's
Speaker 2: nothing in there, you know, as she said, ingredient list
Speaker 2: is pretty long and pretty hardy, but there's nothing in there.
Speaker 2: That's overly you know, would be overly cautious of put
Speaker 2: it that way, Like it's just the standard products that
Speaker 2: you'd make lasagni from pasta, cream, water, butter, milk, a
Speaker 2: little bit of red wine, tomato paste, some veggies and mince. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm like you, I would sort of give it
Speaker 2: maybe I don't know, six or seven out of ten.
Speaker 2: I'd hasten to think i'd give any sort of pre
Speaker 2: made lazangnia or ten. So six or seven is pretty
Speaker 2: good from my side of things.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I would agree. I would give it probably seven,
Speaker 1: maybe seven and a half. Because it is a process food,
Speaker 1: you know, it's certainly not as good as a homemade
Speaker 1: I think the reason I think it's quite good for
Speaker 1: the price. Yeah, the price is great, but it's a
Speaker 1: four hundred gram serve, Like that's quite a good whack
Speaker 1: of lasagna. Like if I was eating that on my plate,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd eat four hundred grams. So I
Speaker 1: think you're right, of course you need two three cups
Speaker 1: of salad or bitch with it. But for fifty grams
Speaker 1: a carb that I think for two bucks, like twenty
Speaker 1: five grams of protein, that's a pretty wide spend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in general, particularly when we have a look at a
Speaker 1: second some of the others which are a bit underwhelming.
Speaker 2: The cost is definitely a winner. And you're for twenty
Speaker 2: five grams of protein.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pause that thought for a second. We'll go on
Speaker 1: to the wo West beef lasagna. Now, they're about three
Speaker 1: or four different types of Woolies branded lasagna in supermarket.
Speaker 1: And the reason I know that is that I recently
Speaker 1: bought one for the family, so I spent quite a
Speaker 1: lot of time going through them. So there's the frozen one,
Speaker 1: and then there's kind of the gourmet one, and then
Speaker 1: there's the quick and easy one. So this the best
Speaker 1: way to describe this one is the family sized pack,
Speaker 1: which you know, I think it is packaged a just
Speaker 1: kind of a premium product, and so when I have
Speaker 1: a look at it, I have to be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: a bit disappointed. So the first ingredients water twenty two
Speaker 1: percent pasta, and the reason I'm so disappointed is that
Speaker 1: the beef is only sitting at nine percent, which is
Speaker 1: incredibly low for a product that you would say is
Speaker 1: heavily meat based. Tomato pays seven, so that's compared to
Speaker 1: the Audi which was what was that fourteen percent? And
Speaker 1: we'll look at the price points in a second. So
Speaker 1: tomato pays seven percent, tapioka flower, carrot butter, and ya
Speaker 1: celery milk dried whole milk. So the labels better. It
Speaker 1: gives us a lot greater insight into what's going into
Speaker 1: it than we can infer from Aldi's. Is it clean,
Speaker 1: I don't know it's I don't think it's that much cleaner.
Speaker 1: It just looks at the way they've written it. But
Speaker 1: wheat flour, texted vegetable protein, so that's got some sort
Speaker 1: of bulking agent there. Canola oil, onion, seasoning, beef powder, garlic, salt, sugar, propica,
Speaker 1: natural preservative. So even though it looks like a cleaner list,
Speaker 1: when you actually take a closer look, the actual strong
Speaker 1: ingredients are much lower overall, and that is inferred by
Speaker 1: the nutrition. So the serving size recommended here is one
Speaker 1: undred and fifty grams, so that gives you just over
Speaker 1: four hundred calories, So you have to kind of do
Speaker 1: the maths a little bit in your head with that,
Speaker 1: but basically it's giving you quite a lot of calories
Speaker 1: for a lot less nutrition. So we're getting on twelve
Speaker 1: grams of protein perserve. Now, admittedly the ALDI say four
Speaker 1: hundred and you're getting twenty five, and this is two fifty.
Speaker 1: You're only getting twelve, So still less protein overall, similar fat,
Speaker 1: I should say, three percent of that traded fat as well,
Speaker 1: thirty grams of carbs, three grams of sugars a little
Speaker 1: tiny bit more, three grams of fiber, sodium five sixty three,
Speaker 1: So it is lower in sodium than the AUDI product.
Speaker 1: But I'm just underwhelmed ley and in general that it's
Speaker 1: sort of a significant like a third less meat in
Speaker 1: that product that you're getting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what they've done. Tell me, I've
Speaker 2: swift that what they've done. So that textual vegetable protein
Speaker 2: that you know, how you ever seen that in the
Speaker 2: vegetarian section, Like you add water too and it fluffs up.
Speaker 2: It sort of looks like minced meat, like it's a
Speaker 2: vegetarian protein alternative. So the protein content is actually quite high.
Speaker 2: When you look at the ALDI product, right, that is
Speaker 2: per serving four hundred grams. This is perserving two fifty grams.
Speaker 2: If you match that four hundred grams and four hundred grams,
Speaker 2: the protein's actually nineteen point two, so it's a lot higher,
Speaker 2: like it's only you know, five grams less than the
Speaker 2: other ones. Although it's very low beef. They've actually added
Speaker 2: in textured vegetable protein to boost the overall protein. That's
Speaker 2: what they've done. And the fiber is a little bit
Speaker 2: better as well, because the texted vegetable protein has some
Speaker 2: good fiber in it. So they're giving you a relatively
Speaker 2: like nineteen grams per serves. You know, it's pretty good
Speaker 2: for a frozen meal. They're giving you a relatively higher
Speaker 2: protein based product. But they're saving themselves money because they're
Speaker 2: adding less beef and they're using some vegetable protein to.
Speaker 1: Top it up.
Speaker 2: So from a wolf's perspective, I think they've done quite well.
Speaker 2: But if you're paying more for it compared to the
Speaker 2: ALDI one, you're not paying for the beef, So you know,
Speaker 2: Wolworst is done all right. They're saving themselves some money,
Speaker 2: and nutritionally it's not too bad, Like you're right. The
Speaker 2: ingredient list is probably oh, it's a little bit cleaner
Speaker 2: than the Aldi one, but nutritionally I don't think it
Speaker 2: stacks up quite as well, and price wise, I think
Speaker 2: it's a little bit more expensive, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm just doing the numbers now in it.
Speaker 1: So it's about so the Woolies for two kilows, so
Speaker 1: it's a big tray retails at thirteen dollars fifty and
Speaker 1: so the equivalent amount, so five hundred grams times four
Speaker 1: is giving you about nine dollars. So it's actually cheaper
Speaker 1: to buy four audis for better nutritional profile and no
Speaker 1: fillers that it is to pay thirteen dollars. You're going
Speaker 1: to say five four dollars by doing that, and you're
Speaker 1: getting better nutritional quality and more meat, significantly more meat
Speaker 1: than the Williese brand, which to me is a bit horrifying.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I'm not happy with that at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say the perks of the
Speaker 2: worst one would be if you're actively trying to cut
Speaker 2: down the amount of animal product you have, or like
Speaker 2: the saturated fat profile is lower as well, that would
Speaker 2: be a benefit. But I like the Aldi one because
Speaker 2: it is single serve and portion controlled as well. Right, Like,
Speaker 2: it's better if somebody if you had a big trailers
Speaker 2: on you in front of you and you cut it
Speaker 2: up into I don't know what eight ten twelve slices,
Speaker 2: and you kept going back for more and more, just
Speaker 2: putting your spoon through, and you know, just you know
Speaker 2: how you do. It's on the counter. You just have
Speaker 2: another spoon and another spoon and another spoon. Then you've
Speaker 2: not only eaten a serve, you've eaten like a serve
Speaker 2: and a half because you keep going back for more.
Speaker 2: I do like that the Audi one is preportioned as well.
Speaker 1: I do, and I like it comparatively. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: if I was buying or when I bought a lasagna,
Speaker 1: the only thing I went for was the percentage of meat.
Speaker 1: I basically paid for the product that had the highest
Speaker 1: proportion of meat overall, and I think I ended up
Speaker 1: getting like an individual sort of gourmet one in the
Speaker 1: front of the supermarket rather than any of these family
Speaker 1: packs because I was underwhelmed. So it's really I'm finding
Speaker 1: this really fascinatingly, all right. So the third one we're
Speaker 1: going to take a look at is the Cole's Kitchen
Speaker 1: Beef Lasagna. Now, Leanne and I've had to get our
Speaker 1: mats out because the way the label is listed is
Speaker 1: a little bit on the confusing side. So we think
Speaker 1: we've got the numbers right for you now. So this
Speaker 1: is an individual portion pack of four hundred grams, so
Speaker 1: it's slightly less than smaller in size than the AUDI one,
Speaker 1: and it reach outs for seven dollars eighty. So certainly
Speaker 1: the AUDI was four hundred. It was the auty four
Speaker 1: hundred size. Yes, yeah, it's the same size or not
Speaker 1: five hundred. Okay, So the cost of the AUDI is
Speaker 1: or like eleven dollars but still cheaper. Sorry, but this
Speaker 1: is certainly positioned as more of a gourmet you know,
Speaker 1: this is in that section of the supermarket at the
Speaker 1: front where the individual meals are sold at premium prices.
Speaker 1: So this is seven dollars eighty, which is, you know what,
Speaker 1: three times what you're paying for the AUDI. Amount of
Speaker 1: a lasagna certainly looks very beautiful on the label per serve,
Speaker 1: certainly not low calorie. So it's two thousand, two hundred killogels,
Speaker 1: which is again over five hundred calories per serve, so
Speaker 1: not insignificant. Thirty five grams of protein, so that would
Speaker 1: be suggesting that there's a good amount of meat in that.
Speaker 1: Twenty six point eight grams are fat and very similar
Speaker 1: overall fat profile to both the Audi and woollies from
Speaker 1: what we can infer of the meat in terms of
Speaker 1: relatively low saturated fat for bees, thirty three point two
Speaker 1: grams of carbohydrate land so that's actually would suggest a
Speaker 1: lot less carbohydrate or pasta in that product compared to
Speaker 1: the Audi which is coming in at fifty So you
Speaker 1: would assume perhaps less past and more meat in this product,
Speaker 1: getting six point four grams of fiber, which is interesting,
Speaker 1: that's actually really high for lasagna, and the sodium is
Speaker 1: incredibly low at four hundred and eighty and that is
Speaker 1: incredibly low. So certainly if one of your goals is
Speaker 1: to reduce sodium intake, this would be the product for you. Now,
Speaker 1: this is where we're getting a little bit confused, so
Speaker 1: we're going to do our best to get these numbers
Speaker 1: right for you. So it's listed as the bee fra
Speaker 1: goose sauce is fifty four percent of the overall product,
Speaker 1: the bescher more sauce, so the creamy sauce is twenty
Speaker 1: four percent and the lasagna just twenty nineteen percent, which
Speaker 1: is why that carbohydrate load of this Lasagni is much
Speaker 1: lower than the AUDI product. And then we've got cheddar
Speaker 1: cheese beefra goose sauce which contains thirty two percent Australian beef.
Speaker 1: Now we are then taking that to be thirty two
Speaker 1: percent of fifty four percent, which we worked out coming
Speaker 1: in at ten percent meat, which is still lower than
Speaker 1: the AUDI product, A tiny tad bit higher than will
Speaker 1: It's not much still for me, lean a little bit
Speaker 1: on the law low side, Tomato City Regulator, mineral salt, water,
Speaker 1: Tomato past regulators, sery, onion, carrot, red wine, canola oil, cornstars, crush, garlic.
Speaker 1: Very similar ingredients that we're seeing across the board in
Speaker 1: terms of a baseline lasagna, beef, flavor, salt, time, oregano,
Speaker 1: vesteraal source, et cetera, et cetera. Now I am struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe I'm not seeing something. To see
Speaker 1: how this product has got thirty five grams of protein
Speaker 1: per four hundred grams, which is a huge amount more
Speaker 1: than the Woollies brand, which came in at just twelve MND.
Speaker 1: You the serving size is small, but still even double
Speaker 1: the serving size, it's still significantly less. And the AUDI product,
Speaker 1: which comes at at twenty five grams with that meat
Speaker 1: load at ten percent, maybe we're not calculating it right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 2: I think thirty two percent of the beef Frogo saurce,
Speaker 2: which is fifty four percent. Like if you go fifty
Speaker 2: four percent timeser point three too, it's seventeen percent. I
Speaker 2: think the bee for seventeen percent, not ten pers seventeen,
Speaker 2: and that would make much better sense for me. I
Speaker 2: think it's better quality bea. Look, it's no Australian, it's
Speaker 2: no hormone added Austraian beef versus the Ali one is
Speaker 2: just beef, so I think, but I think it's just
Speaker 2: a bit better quality beef as well.
Speaker 1: And you would hope solely, and you're paying a lot
Speaker 1: more for us. You're eight dollars like you would want
Speaker 1: it to be. And certainly in the past when we've
Speaker 1: looked at these meals, Coals have come up time and
Speaker 1: time again. And this podcast isn't sponsored by Coals. We
Speaker 1: will be always very transparent if we are sponsored on
Speaker 1: any episode about products. So but we have time and
Speaker 1: time again found that in these pre made type meals
Speaker 1: that Coals are outdoing the market in terms of what
Speaker 1: they're offering quality wise. So you know, seventeen percent is high.
Speaker 1: You're getting what you pay for. The carbs are much lower.
Speaker 1: Can you're getting Astraian beach. Is it a low calorie meal. No,
Speaker 1: But for someone who's active or not actively trying to
Speaker 1: lose weight or adding plenty of salad or vege with
Speaker 1: a sodium of just four hundred and eighty, this is
Speaker 1: a great product. This is you know, I would give
Speaker 1: this an eight nine out of ten as a Lasign
Speaker 1: your product, with the exception of ideally you'd sort of
Speaker 1: serve it with plenty of veggies. But for me, this
Speaker 1: is a standout in terms of a family product. If
Speaker 1: you are going to buy Lasign, you're pre made, you're
Speaker 1: much better to spend and get this, or head over
Speaker 1: to Aldi and get something that's much more cost effective
Speaker 1: because you're basically getting good quality beef and a much
Speaker 1: lower sodium content.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like this one. I mean the price
Speaker 2: is a lot more like seven dollars already compared to
Speaker 2: two dollars, which, if you're resting the money happy you
Speaker 2: spend for quality, this one is far better because okay,
Speaker 2: we've got Australian beef for one, we know it's coming
Speaker 2: from it's Aussie, whereas the beef coming from. In the
Speaker 2: ALDI product, we don't know. It just says beef. I
Speaker 2: would assume it's overseas. It's no hormone added. As well,
Speaker 2: when you look at the regulations within beef with an
Speaker 2: Australia compared to the rest of the world, they inject hormones,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of antibodic use and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Austraian beef is very tightly regulated. I really wouldn't be
Speaker 2: recommending beef or meat from anywhere else but Astraya if
Speaker 2: you can buy it. And also if you look at
Speaker 2: SUSI the protein is so high. Look at the chetta
Speaker 2: cheese amount. You've got ingredient lists be fragu sauce, besha
Speaker 2: maal sauce design its sheets, then cheddar cheese. It's pretty
Speaker 2: high up the ingredient list, whereas in the Aldi one
Speaker 2: it's only three percent of chetta cheese. So I think
Speaker 2: there's a larger percentage of cheese in this one as well,
Speaker 2: which would boost up our protein as well. And I'm
Speaker 2: just having a look to see if you can buy
Speaker 2: it as a family pack at coals. I know there's
Speaker 2: a larger vegetable lasagna in that coal's kitchen range. I'm
Speaker 2: not finding online a family variety that's larger, because if
Speaker 2: you had to feed a family with this, like, you know,
Speaker 2: that's going to be what thirty two dollars worth of lasagna,
Speaker 2: that's not going to be affordable for many families, So
Speaker 2: much better suited as a lunch meal or for a
Speaker 2: singles as opposed to feeding a family. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: you get the this sounds terrible, Maybe you get the
Speaker 2: more expensive one for mom and dad, and you get
Speaker 2: the kids the two dollars one from Audi.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I think if you're looking at clinical health conditions,
Speaker 2: if you have heart disease or failure, if you're looking
Speaker 2: at the sodium content, you definitely want this coals be
Speaker 2: it's a beef ragu lasagna. I'll make that specific as well.
Speaker 2: And also if you're looking at you know your carbohydrate distribution,
Speaker 2: you're insulin resistant, you're a type two diabetic or a
Speaker 2: type one diabetic. The carbohydrate content, so per hundred grams
Speaker 2: of the coals beef ragu one is only eight grams
Speaker 2: per hundred grams compared to the Aldi one is thirteen
Speaker 2: grams per hundred grams, so you're getting an extra four
Speaker 2: grams per hundred grams, and by four hundred you know what,
Speaker 2: an extra sixteen grams basically for the same serving size.
Speaker 2: So it's about a serving of carbohydrates extra. And that
Speaker 2: reflects in the ingredient lists, where the cook pasta is
Speaker 2: twenty four percent in the Aldi one compared to only
Speaker 2: nineteen percent in the pasta in the Coals one. So
Speaker 2: I think overall, better ingredient lists, better macronutrient distribution, but
Speaker 2: the price point is a bit of a kicker. I
Speaker 2: would ditch the wil West one. I probably wouldn't even
Speaker 2: go near that. I'll ever recommend that. And honestly, SUSI,
Speaker 2: if you look at it, I wouldn't. I wouldn't touch
Speaker 2: it with a ten foot fold. It looks horrible to me.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't buy that. It doesn't look appealing whatsoever. Whereas
Speaker 2: I think the Aldi and the Coals one are far
Speaker 2: better presented, at least in the front of packeted package
Speaker 2: serving size sort of thing. So I think coals would
Speaker 2: be number one for me Thanaludi.
Speaker 1: True, and I've just had a look. See they've got
Speaker 1: the large one point TiO quilo vegetable coals kitcheners. I
Speaker 1: knew that retails for twelve dollars, so again quite affordable
Speaker 1: for families. I'm not seeing the family size of this
Speaker 1: same profile for Coals Kitchen, so hopefully they may consider
Speaker 1: bringing it into a larger serve that's more family friendly.
Speaker 1: You know, even if it was retailing for say fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars for the family, that's a really affordable, nutritionally rich meal.
Speaker 1: But that may be preventing them doing it. They can't
Speaker 1: do it cheap enough for supermarket pricing with the quality,
Speaker 1: and hence they're just keeping it as a standalone and
Speaker 1: all those factors come into play with supermarkets, what they
Speaker 1: can sell for and whether people can actually afford it,
Speaker 1: and they may have found that they can only run
Speaker 1: it as an individual serve.
Speaker 2: I would just say, yeah, a family size would be
Speaker 2: like thirty five dollars.
Speaker 1: Certainly a lot of benefits there. So for me, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be giving it an eight or nine. For a
Speaker 1: Lasagnia product, I'd give the Audi you know, seven seven
Speaker 1: and a half purely just from a cost perspective and
Speaker 1: what you do get. But yeah, I would buy the
Speaker 1: Woollies one either. I'm pretty disappointed in that and yeah,
Speaker 1: we can only try and encourage our supermarkets to be
Speaker 1: making better quality food and have that available at affordable
Speaker 1: prices for Australian families. But I thought this has really
Speaker 1: certainly been very eye opening for me todayly and looking
Speaker 1: at these because I, as I said, spent a significant
Speaker 1: amount of time getting dinner for my family and couldn't
Speaker 1: believe the differences in some of these products.
Speaker 2: And I just want to bring home the point about
Speaker 2: when we're saying, you know, nine out of ten, seven
Speaker 2: out of ten, I want people, I just want to
Speaker 2: reiterate what SUSI said. For a lasagna. We're not saying
Speaker 2: that this product is a nine out of ten and
Speaker 2: it beats a salad pack or making some salmon and
Speaker 2: veggies by yourself. Absolutely not. But when we're comparing just
Speaker 2: you know, frozen pre made lasagnas with a fresh or
Speaker 2: frozen from only the lasagne section pre made ones, we're
Speaker 2: giving it a nine, and we're giving it a seven,
Speaker 2: and we're giving it a six. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: overrule this product is a nine out of ten from
Speaker 2: a health perspective. It just means that based on all
Speaker 2: of the lasagnas within range, that we looked at this
Speaker 2: is one of the better ones. So I just want
Speaker 2: to make that very clear people going away, saying Susan
Speaker 2: Leanne said that eating lasagna for dinner's a nine out
Speaker 2: of ten choice. It's not it's definitely an occasional option.
Speaker 2: It's probably not a great thing for health if you're
Speaker 2: going to do that really regularly, but definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: once a week or a couple of times a month
Speaker 2: or something, it's absolutely okay to do as part of
Speaker 2: a balanced, you know, family meal. I just really wanted
Speaker 2: to make that clip.
Speaker 1: And certainly better than any kind of takeaway or fast
Speaker 1: food option, much much better than that when you're getting
Speaker 1: deep fried and fast food meal deals. So that's another
Speaker 1: good way of looking at it, and probably more cost
Speaker 1: effective too. All right, Well, that brings us to the
Speaker 1: end of the Nutrition Couch product review for another week.
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