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I tried supermarkets’ own-brand steak pies – the winner fed the whole family for £3
Nov 1, 2024
CAN you enjoy a good quality family meal for just a couple of pounds?
We decided to test all the top supermarkets' own-brand steak pies to find out which offer the best quality and most generous servings for the lowest price.
For the test, we compared own-brand family packs of frozen mince pies from Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Lidl.
We gave each product a score out of ten for taste and a score out of ten for value, based on the price you pay per 100g and the meat content – so, brands which skimped got a lower score.
Here’s how the steak pies scored out of 20...
Aldi Crestwood Family Steak Pie, £2.49 for 700g
This pie looked promising as it contained large chunks of meat, but the meat pieces were gristly, fatty and chewy.
The gravy sauce was also strangely sweet and the pastry was quite stodgy.
This pie also had the highest saturated fat content (7.2 per cent) of all the ones we tasted.
It was also the only one to use meat from outside the EU.
This was the cheapest pie, costing just 38p per 100g – but you’d be better off spending a few more pennies on something else.
Taste: 3/10
Value: 7/10
Total: 10/20
Morrisons 4 Steak Pies, £2.70 for 600g
These Morrisons individual steak pies included a decent amount of meat, which was tender to eat.
But the meat and gravy were bland and tasteless – and the pastry was too stodgy and thick. At 45p per 100g, they were the second most-expensive we tested and not worth the money.
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