#17 - Beef & Tomato Pot Noodle

• Brand: Pot Noodle
• Flavour: Beef & Tomato
• Cost: £1.00
• From: Tesco
• Description: Noodles in a Beef and Tomato flavour sauce with vegetables and a little sachet of tomato sauce.
• Weight: 90g (305g when prepared)
• Allergies: None listed
  
  
                                                                          One of the oldies, still a goodie

I think this was probably my first ever instant noodle product which I would probably have eaten around 1985 - #ohmygodiamold. Back then they looked huge and could probably fill me up for a week, these days they look about normal size and their only purpose to is to fill me up until dinner.

As usual the vast majority of the packing is recyclable which I think is great. There isn't much more to say apart from this is my 2nd beef and tomato flavour this week (after the Tesco Everyday Value I had on Monday) and I have a third waiting for me in the cupboard.

“How do they taste?” The answer is good. They're a lovely warming mouthful of a bit of sweet, a bit of umami, and all noodley goodness. I particularly like the peas and pieces of tomato floating around as they add a great bit of texture and little taste explosions when you sink your teeth in to them.

“Do they remind me in any way of a beef and tomato dish?”  The answer is no, no, no, no, NO! There is a taste of tomato, of course there is though as there's tomato all the way through it. There's 8% actual tomato in the pot and there's tomato sauce, which contains tomato paste, in the sachet. There is no beef anywhere - I'm not going to go on about it, I'm just going to stop this paragraph.

“How do I feel now I’ve finished it?” The answer is not bad at all. It's a good flavour, the consistency is great and I'm ready to go at the afternoon.

Conclusion – A joy to prepare, to eat and to recycle. I really just wish the manufacturers would stop picking a random protein and telling us their product tastes of it when it doesn't. Another plus for me is that you recognise nearly everything in the ingredients except for a couple of flavour enhancers, MSG & disodium 5'ribonucleotides - check the glossary for a breakdown of some of the not-so-delicious-sounding common ingredients in our processed foods.

Need 4 Noodle Rating: 7/10