Taking a Break from Noodles

Although noodles will continue to be produced and millions of people will enjoy them every day, I won't be one of them - for a while anyway.

For a few years now I've been living with a condition called Fibromyalgia, It's a badly understood chronic condition that results in pain all over the body and it can be quite crippling at times. As the only thing doctors want you to do about is to get counselling to deal with it I thought I'd give myself the opportunity to see if I can shift it myself.

Recently I have been introduced to a concept that states that certain foods create inflammation in the body and unfortunately instant noodles contain a lot of them; processed wheat, sugar, MSG, etc... So, I'm going for a bit of a different diet and I'm going to document it all on, you guessed it, a blog.

As soon as I start the diet and the blog there will be a link to it HERE, until then I hope you find some use from this blog in your own noodle adventures.

Kind regards,

James

#70 - Kailo Beef Bucket Noodles

• Brand: Kailo
• Flavour: Spicy Beef Flavour
• Cost: £1.29
• From: Tesco
• Description: Beef Flavour Instant Noodles
• Weight: 120g (720g when hydrated)
• Allergies: Contains Wheat Flour & Soybean

A BEEF BUCKET??? Yes please!!! Never have I seen a packet of instant noodles of such a size - 120g and then you add 600ml of water - this is very exciting. The packaging is all something I've seen before but on a much larger scale. Unfortunately none of the packaging (from what I can tell) is recyclable, and there's a lot of it and there's a plastic fork in there - grrrr... The preparation is simple and seeing as you can eat it straight from the pot this product gets 1 out of 2 in round one of scoring.

How does it taste? The answer is lovely. The ingredients list is broken down into the constituent parts which include:

• Seasoning - sugar, salt, dehydrated soy sauce, artificial beef flavour, caramel colour, spices (chilli, Sichuan wilder pepper), MSG, tomato powder, maltodextrin, silicon dioxide and yeast extracts)
• Dehydrated Vegetables - cabbage, carrot, green bean
• Sauce Pack - Palm oil, wheat flour paste, chilli, Sichaun wilder pepper

There's not a lot there that makes you go "What?", if there are a couple of things you don't recognise just take a look at the glossary page. From these ingredients the main thing you pick up is the Sichuan wilder pepper and it's right up my street. They get 3 out of 4.

Does it remind me of a spicy beef dish? The answer is in parts. You see there is a hint of beef flavour but it's not huge, there is however a real spiciness to this product and it's doing wonders for my cold. Because it's a bit beefy and definitely spicy they get 1.5 out of 2.

How do I feel now I've finished it? The answer is stuffed, that's a lot of noodles. Also loving the chilli afterburn. One question though, I can see peas, spring onion and possibly coriander in there and they aren't mentioned on the ingredients list - how can this be? Even with that question, it's 2 out of 2.

Conclusion - Bigger doesn't automatically mean better but this is pretty awesome

Need 4 Noodle Rating: 7.5/10