WEBVTT - TNC Review: Pre-made Lasagnes 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.760 The pre made meal section is one of the fastest 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.080 growing areas of the supermarket, with busy lifestyles relying more 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.799 and more on time and cost effective options for both 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.080 singles and families. Today we take a closer look at 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.720 the lasagnas that are commonly available in the fresh and 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.840 freezer section of supermarkets, and you may be surprised in 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.120 the differences between different brands that we find. Hi I'm 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.439 Susi Burrel and Emily and Wood and as two of 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.160 us jay Is leading dieticians, we bring you the Nutrition 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.560 Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on new products and 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.120 old favorites you can find at supermarkets. Nelly and why 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.360 little boys who are six love to eat lasagna? And 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.320 in the good old days, I would sort of do 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.040 a big cookout with my mum and we would layer 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.239 a whole lot of vegetables and extra le mints and 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.519 perhaps freeze it. But I can't even tell you the 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.199 last time I've had time or energy to do that. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.360 But it can be a really nutritious, great meal to 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.120 tack away if you do have time. But I guess 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.720 in current times also not inexpensive when you take into 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.920 account the cost of veggies and good quality meat to 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.520 make a lasagna. So I haven't done it for ages 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.240 and ages. What about you, guys? Are you regularly making 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:04.800 your own? Are you more likely to pick up something 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:05.600 at the supermarket? 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.200 No, I never buy lasagna. I just don't find that 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.000 that sort of satisfying. I'm not big into mints, and 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.880 if I do, I have to buy the super lean 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.680 type because I just I don't know. If I bought 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.720 a lasagna in the supermarket. To me, I just wouldn't 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.400 feel great after eating that. I just feel like it's 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.440 a bit too sort of heavy and rich. So I 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.840 am a fan of a zanni. We don't need a 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.160 lot of pasture in my household with big potato rice, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.399 you know Mexican type people with me like you know, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.160 our tacos and that sort of thing. We don't need 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.240 a whole lot of pasta. But if we do, we do. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.280 I do love to build my in lasagna. And you know, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.600 I put the lean mince shield, I put lots of legumes, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.280 and like some lentils, I love substituting the sort of 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.480 what is it that bechamel cream layer for something like 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.080 rocotta cheese or cottage cheese. And then of course I'm 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.000 like you, I layer and a ton of vegguice real 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.240 as well, and I always do a double bachelor of Zangnie, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.600 Like it takes so long to make that. If I'm 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:52.960 gonna be here, I'm gonna make it. I'm going to 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.919 make two or three serves, So I'll make two massive 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.680 lasagna dishes. You know, might get out sixteen serves it 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.200 or something and box it up and it all goes 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.680 into the freezer. And that's something we might have occasionally 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.400 on like a Friday night when we're just like, oh, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.800 can't be bothered cooking, but also we're like kind of 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.560 want to keep our tails on track, won't get takeaway, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.000 I want to save some money. We'll pull out some 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.079 frozen lasagna, hit it up like it with a side salad, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.480 and it's just a really easy quick dinner. We've always 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.760 got some sort of lasagna or curry in the freezer 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.480 that I've sort of meal prepped in advance. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.639 You're right, it is really time consuming. And I remember 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.840 living with Italians that they would literally cook it for 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.880 a day by the time that they did the sauce 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.520 and got the flavor. So it can be amazing, and 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.960 like you, I tend to prefer the quality of when 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.880 you make yourself, because the meat contents tend to be 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.040 much higher and much leaner. But I know that there's 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.200 a lot of people who do need quick and easy options, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.600 and there's quite a number of different Lasaignians with quite 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.440 a range of nutritional profile, so we thought it was 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.840 a really good one to share today for busy families. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:46.760 So the first one we're going to take a look 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.040 at is one from AUDI. Now, I'm a big fan 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.480 of the frozen food section at AUDI in general. I 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.400 find they're really cost effective options and in general some 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.800 very nutritionally sound options. Dumplings come to mind as one 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.840 of my favorite products, and a lot of the veggies. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.320 But we've chosen the design here today obviously, and this 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.000 is a four hundred gram individual section of a frozen 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.600 variety which retails for just two dollars twenty five. So 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.440 that is an extremely cost effective option. You know, you 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 add some veggies to that and it's a filling, tasty meal, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.840 But how does it look nutritionally? So for the four 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.320 hundred grams serving, it clocks in it just over five 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.639 hundred calories or twenty two hundred and eighty kilodel, so 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.160 quite a substantial load. As a reference, at least a 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.680 dinner meal would be at least four five hundred calories 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.240 for a female. It's probably a little bit small for 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.000 a male. Twenty five point two grams of protein, which 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.040 I have to say is a nice amount. Twenty four 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.200 point eight grams of fat. Now it isn't a low 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.040 fat food here. It's got six point two grams of 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.000 overall fat. It would need to be less than three 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.960 grams to be a low fat product. So saturated fat's 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.080 pretty good though. You know, it's almost less than three 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.520 percent saturated fat, which is suggesting the meat is reasonable quality. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.480 Fifty two point eight grams of carbohydrate per serving, six 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.920 point four grams of sugars, which is actually pretty low 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.080 for that gram so per percentage, that's almost less than 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.880 one percent sugars, which is a good sign. Massive whack 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 of salt in their twelve hundred milligrams, which is more 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.120 than half hour recommended daily intake of sodium, so they're 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.320 certainly not going light on the salt. If we look 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.680 at the ingredients, and they're pretty long in a product 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.520 like lasagna, so it's twenty four percent cooked pasta the 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.960 sauce is coming in at twenty three percent SPECIML, which 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.440 is the creamy sauce with a mixture of milk, some 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.880 cream as well, a little bit of butter, some vegetable oil, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.720 so giving it I would say a reasonable taste in texture. Now, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.039 the number I'm always looking for on a lasagnie Leian 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.960 is the percentage of meat in it, because ultimately that's 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.960 what we're spending money on. And it is fourteen percent beef, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.840 which when we compare it to some of the other 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.640 brands you'll see is actually pretty good. And as I said, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.840 I would infer the quality to be quite good since 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.920 the fat of it is pretty good. Profile seven percent tomatoes, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.119 some ferming agent, tomato paste, some red wine, some cheddar, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.600 and then we go down the least onion, carrots, very thickeners, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.080 et cetera to fill it out. So it's quite a 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.599 long list, but you would expect that from a mixed 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.320 dish like a lasagna. Now, I have to be honestly, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.880 and I reckon it's pretty good for the price two 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.719 bucks for fourteen percent beef. I would buy this product. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.679 You know, I would recommend this product. I think it's sound. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.760 I think for the price, you can't go wrong with that, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.400 you know. The sodium probably is the only thing that 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.440 stands out to me is a bit of concern, Like 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.440 that is really a lot, mind you, that kind of 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.400 Italian food. It is going to be difficult to get 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.400 it much lower than say eight hundred. But yeah, I 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.400 certainly would be recommending it for my busy young guys, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.200 my women perhaps who needed a filling, carbohydrate rich meal, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.080 particularly if they teamed it with loads of salad or 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.440 edge and pleasantly surprised with this Audi lasagna. What do 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:45.840 you think? 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.120 Yeah, I'm fifty to fifty like, I wouldn't call us. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.040 I'm big on volume based eating, so you'd have to 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.160 add a lot of veggies and salad onto the side 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.559 of that. I think if you just would have warmed 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.839 that up, I feel like it's a fair like a 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.720 carbo hydrate. You know, fifty three grams of carbs that 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.279 serves great protein twenty five grams and you know, five 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.039 forty calories. It's pretty light for most people. I mean, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:06.720 if you're small and you're not that active, it's probably 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.280 a little bit too much. But for most of our 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.359 you know, active, relatively average weight people and above. I 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.719 think it's It's pretty good calorie wise, isn't it. But 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.279 I'm just I don't know. It absolutely needs some more 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.520 veggies and salad on the side, and the sodium, as 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.960 you said, is kind of concerning if you're eating a 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.520 lot of package based, pre made products, right, But if 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.160 the rest of your diet it's pretty whole food and 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.200 this is an occasional thing that you're going to keep 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.960 in the freezer for just an occasional busy night where 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.480 you don't want to cook. I think that's fine. But 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.440 if you're having this multiple times a week, or you're 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.200 relying on frozen meals heavily, I would probably rethink this 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.280 from a sodium perspective, and even just a volume based perspective. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.039 I don't think it's going to be that billing. I 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.480 would think that if I heated this up, it wouldn't 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.159 be enough for me. I'd need some more, whether it 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.640 was extra you know, veggies or salad on the side. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:50.080 Or something like that. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.159 But otherwise it's not it's not too bad overall. There's 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.960 nothing in there, you know, as she said, ingredient list 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.600 is pretty long and pretty hardy, but there's nothing in there. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.960 That's overly you know, would be overly cautious of put 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.200 it that way, Like it's just the standard products that 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.680 you'd make lasagni from pasta, cream, water, butter, milk, a 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.960 little bit of red wine, tomato paste, some veggies and mince. Yeah, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.360 so I'm like you, I would sort of give it 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.640 maybe I don't know, six or seven out of ten. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.680 I'd hasten to think i'd give any sort of pre 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.240 made lazangnia or ten. So six or seven is pretty 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:21.320 good from my side of things. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.480 Oh, no, I would agree. I would give it probably seven, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.200 maybe seven and a half. Because it is a process food, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.080 you know, it's certainly not as good as a homemade 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.080 I think the reason I think it's quite good for 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.600 the price. Yeah, the price is great, but it's a 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.280 four hundred gram serve, Like that's quite a good whack 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.640 of lasagna. Like if I was eating that on my plate, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.560 I don't think I'd eat four hundred grams. So I 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.960 think you're right, of course you need two three cups 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.000 of salad or bitch with it. But for fifty grams 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.720 a carb that I think for two bucks, like twenty 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.080 five grams of protein, that's a pretty wide spend. Yeah, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.920 in general, particularly when we have a look at a 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.560 second some of the others which are a bit underwhelming. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.160 The cost is definitely a winner. And you're for twenty 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.120 five grams of protein. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.680 Yeah, pause that thought for a second. We'll go on 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.880 to the wo West beef lasagna. Now, they're about three 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:13.280 or four different types of Woolies branded lasagna in supermarket. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:14.680 And the reason I know that is that I recently 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.320 bought one for the family, so I spent quite a 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.120 lot of time going through them. So there's the frozen one, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.120 and then there's kind of the gourmet one, and then 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.400 there's the quick and easy one. So this the best 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.160 way to describe this one is the family sized pack, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.480 which you know, I think it is packaged a just 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.120 kind of a premium product, and so when I have 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.719 a look at it, I have to be honest, I'm 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.640 a bit disappointed. So the first ingredients water twenty two 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.800 percent pasta, and the reason I'm so disappointed is that 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.200 the beef is only sitting at nine percent, which is 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.679 incredibly low for a product that you would say is 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.520 heavily meat based. Tomato pays seven, so that's compared to 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.840 the Audi which was what was that fourteen percent? And 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.600 we'll look at the price points in a second. So 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.959 tomato pays seven percent, tapioka flower, carrot butter, and ya 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.200 celery milk dried whole milk. So the labels better. It 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.520 gives us a lot greater insight into what's going into 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.480 it than we can infer from Aldi's. Is it clean, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.480 I don't know it's I don't think it's that much cleaner. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.120 It just looks at the way they've written it. But 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.559 wheat flour, texted vegetable protein, so that's got some sort 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:25.280 of bulking agent there. Canola oil, onion, seasoning, beef powder, garlic, salt, sugar, propica, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.840 natural preservative. So even though it looks like a cleaner list, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.040 when you actually take a closer look, the actual strong 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.120 ingredients are much lower overall, and that is inferred by 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.920 the nutrition. So the serving size recommended here is one 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.280 undred and fifty grams, so that gives you just over 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.680 four hundred calories, So you have to kind of do 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.360 the maths a little bit in your head with that, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:57.079 but basically it's giving you quite a lot of calories 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.280 for a lot less nutrition. So we're getting on twelve 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.679 grams of protein perserve. Now, admittedly the ALDI say four 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.920 hundred and you're getting twenty five, and this is two fifty. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.800 You're only getting twelve, So still less protein overall, similar fat, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.600 I should say, three percent of that traded fat as well, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.480 thirty grams of carbs, three grams of sugars a little 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.640 tiny bit more, three grams of fiber, sodium five sixty three, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.160 So it is lower in sodium than the AUDI product. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.280 But I'm just underwhelmed ley and in general that it's 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.400 sort of a significant like a third less meat in 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:35.800 that product that you're getting. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.360 Yeah, but you know what they've done. Tell me, I've 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.319 swift that what they've done. So that textual vegetable protein 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:42.959 that you know, how you ever seen that in the 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.480 vegetarian section, Like you add water too and it fluffs up. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.160 It sort of looks like minced meat, like it's a 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.280 vegetarian protein alternative. So the protein content is actually quite high. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.960 When you look at the ALDI product, right, that is 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.480 per serving four hundred grams. This is perserving two fifty grams. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.000 If you match that four hundred grams and four hundred grams, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.200 the protein's actually nineteen point two, so it's a lot higher, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.520 like it's only you know, five grams less than the 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.720 other ones. Although it's very low beef. They've actually added 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.200 in textured vegetable protein to boost the overall protein. That's 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.000 what they've done. And the fiber is a little bit 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.400 better as well, because the texted vegetable protein has some 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.120 good fiber in it. So they're giving you a relatively 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.640 like nineteen grams per serves. You know, it's pretty good 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.480 for a frozen meal. They're giving you a relatively higher 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.680 protein based product. But they're saving themselves money because they're 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.199 adding less beef and they're using some vegetable protein to. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:30.679 Top it up. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.880 So from a wolf's perspective, I think they've done quite well. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.360 But if you're paying more for it compared to the 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.120 ALDI one, you're not paying for the beef, So you know, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.440 Wolworst is done all right. They're saving themselves some money, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.440 and nutritionally it's not too bad, Like you're right. The 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.960 ingredient list is probably oh, it's a little bit cleaner 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.440 than the Aldi one, but nutritionally I don't think it 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.480 stacks up quite as well, and price wise, I think 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.880 it's a little bit more expensive, isn't it. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.760 Yeah, So I'm just doing the numbers now in it. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.880 So it's about so the Woolies for two kilows, so 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.480 it's a big tray retails at thirteen dollars fifty and 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.080 so the equivalent amount, so five hundred grams times four 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.160 is giving you about nine dollars. So it's actually cheaper 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.480 to buy four audis for better nutritional profile and no 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.400 fillers that it is to pay thirteen dollars. You're going 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.319 to say five four dollars by doing that, and you're 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.959 getting better nutritional quality and more meat, significantly more meat 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:32.000 than the Williese brand, which to me is a bit horrifying. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.079 I don't like it. I'm not happy with that at all. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.200 Yeah. I was going to say the perks of the 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.280 worst one would be if you're actively trying to cut 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.840 down the amount of animal product you have, or like 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.320 the saturated fat profile is lower as well, that would 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.559 be a benefit. But I like the Aldi one because 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.160 it is single serve and portion controlled as well. Right, Like, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.520 it's better if somebody if you had a big trailers 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:51.760 on you in front of you and you cut it 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.880 up into I don't know what eight ten twelve slices, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.760 and you kept going back for more and more, just 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.560 putting your spoon through, and you know, just you know 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.480 how you do. It's on the counter. You just have 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.920 another spoon and another spoon and another spoon. Then you've 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.760 not only eaten a serve, you've eaten like a serve 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.520 and a half because you keep going back for more. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.000 I do like that the Audi one is preportioned as well. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.800 I do, and I like it comparatively. And to be honest, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.600 if I was buying or when I bought a lasagna, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.640 the only thing I went for was the percentage of meat. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.079 I basically paid for the product that had the highest 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.040 proportion of meat overall, and I think I ended up 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.120 getting like an individual sort of gourmet one in the 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.440 front of the supermarket rather than any of these family 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.079 packs because I was underwhelmed. So it's really I'm finding 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.600 this really fascinatingly, all right. So the third one we're 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.199 going to take a look at is the Cole's Kitchen 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.280 Beef Lasagna. Now, Leanne and I've had to get our 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.400 mats out because the way the label is listed is 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.559 a little bit on the confusing side. So we think 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.760 we've got the numbers right for you now. So this 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.640 is an individual portion pack of four hundred grams, so 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.040 it's slightly less than smaller in size than the AUDI one, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.880 and it reach outs for seven dollars eighty. So certainly 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.559 the AUDI was four hundred. It was the auty four 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.120 hundred size. Yes, yeah, it's the same size or not 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.920 five hundred. Okay, So the cost of the AUDI is 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.959 or like eleven dollars but still cheaper. Sorry, but this 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.120 is certainly positioned as more of a gourmet you know, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.120 this is in that section of the supermarket at the 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.880 front where the individual meals are sold at premium prices. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.000 So this is seven dollars eighty, which is, you know what, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.480 three times what you're paying for the AUDI. Amount of 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.400 a lasagna certainly looks very beautiful on the label per serve, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.240 certainly not low calorie. So it's two thousand, two hundred killogels, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.560 which is again over five hundred calories per serve, so 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.360 not insignificant. Thirty five grams of protein, so that would 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.480 be suggesting that there's a good amount of meat in that. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.120 Twenty six point eight grams are fat and very similar 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.520 overall fat profile to both the Audi and woollies from 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.760 what we can infer of the meat in terms of 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.000 relatively low saturated fat for bees, thirty three point two 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.120 grams of carbohydrate land so that's actually would suggest a 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.600 lot less carbohydrate or pasta in that product compared to 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.000 the Audi which is coming in at fifty So you 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.840 would assume perhaps less past and more meat in this product, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.400 getting six point four grams of fiber, which is interesting, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.400 that's actually really high for lasagna, and the sodium is 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.880 incredibly low at four hundred and eighty and that is 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.240 incredibly low. So certainly if one of your goals is 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.200 to reduce sodium intake, this would be the product for you. Now, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.320 this is where we're getting a little bit confused, so 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:18.800 we're going to do our best to get these numbers 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.040 right for you. So it's listed as the bee fra 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.120 goose sauce is fifty four percent of the overall product, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.920 the bescher more sauce, so the creamy sauce is twenty 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.000 four percent and the lasagna just twenty nineteen percent, which 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.840 is why that carbohydrate load of this Lasagni is much 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.560 lower than the AUDI product. And then we've got cheddar 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:41.920 cheese beefra goose sauce which contains thirty two percent Australian beef. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.400 Now we are then taking that to be thirty two 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.880 percent of fifty four percent, which we worked out coming 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.760 in at ten percent meat, which is still lower than 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.600 the AUDI product, A tiny tad bit higher than will 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.720 It's not much still for me, lean a little bit 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.160 on the law low side, Tomato City Regulator, mineral salt, water, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:09.280 Tomato past regulators, sery, onion, carrot, red wine, canola oil, cornstars, crush, garlic. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.240 Very similar ingredients that we're seeing across the board in 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.480 terms of a baseline lasagna, beef, flavor, salt, time, oregano, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.200 vesteraal source, et cetera, et cetera. Now I am struggling 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.840 a little bit. Maybe I'm not seeing something. To see 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.520 how this product has got thirty five grams of protein 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.560 per four hundred grams, which is a huge amount more 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.680 than the Woollies brand, which came in at just twelve MND. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.240 You the serving size is small, but still even double 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.920 the serving size, it's still significantly less. And the AUDI product, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.760 which comes at at twenty five grams with that meat 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.360 load at ten percent, maybe we're not calculating it right, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:50.320 I don't know, what do you think? 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.320 I think thirty two percent of the beef Frogo saurce, 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.320 which is fifty four percent. Like if you go fifty 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.200 four percent timeser point three too, it's seventeen percent. I 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.880 think the bee for seventeen percent, not ten pers seventeen, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.480 and that would make much better sense for me. I 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.800 think it's better quality bea. Look, it's no Australian, it's 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.359 no hormone added Austraian beef versus the Ali one is 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.439 just beef, so I think, but I think it's just 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.160 a bit better quality beef as well. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.040 And you would hope solely, and you're paying a lot 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.520 more for us. You're eight dollars like you would want 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.880 it to be. And certainly in the past when we've 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.480 looked at these meals, Coals have come up time and 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.800 time again. And this podcast isn't sponsored by Coals. We 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.200 will be always very transparent if we are sponsored on 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.439 any episode about products. So but we have time and 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.040 time again found that in these pre made type meals 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.679 that Coals are outdoing the market in terms of what 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:41.200 they're offering quality wise. So you know, seventeen percent is high. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.840 You're getting what you pay for. The carbs are much lower. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.520 Can you're getting Astraian beach. Is it a low calorie meal. No, 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.679 But for someone who's active or not actively trying to 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.720 lose weight or adding plenty of salad or vege with 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.879 a sodium of just four hundred and eighty, this is 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.040 a great product. This is you know, I would give 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.879 this an eight nine out of ten as a Lasign 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.000 your product, with the exception of ideally you'd sort of 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.560 serve it with plenty of veggies. But for me, this 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.080 is a standout in terms of a family product. If 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.520 you are going to buy Lasign, you're pre made, you're 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.200 much better to spend and get this, or head over 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.879 to Aldi and get something that's much more cost effective 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.800 because you're basically getting good quality beef and a much 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:22.960 lower sodium content. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.320 Yeah, I really like this one. I mean the price 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.520 is a lot more like seven dollars already compared to 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.480