Twice as good as some which cost double
Slightly lacking in savouriness, so we always sprinkle salt on top before cooking. Otherwise, very good chicken-style pies for an excellent price. Also, if you're only eating 2 at a time, the innovative and very useful fold-down packaging is a freezer space saving bonus.
Terrible!
This was awful! The pastry case tasted so bad which makes no sense because there are so many vegan pastries that taste great. The ‘chicken’ pieces tasted like clumps of flour. I threw the cooked and still frozen pies in the food waste and went hungry.
How could they get it so wrong?
The worst meat free pie ever. It is so easy to make a tasty one- just can't see how Tesco's have got it so wrong unless it is just simply a lack of care. the pastry is ok but the filling...uh, awful. the meat substitute taste vile, the "sauce" is tasteless and there are hardly any veg. We literally could not finish it, it was that bad.
Disappointing Veg Pies
We didn't like these pies - they had a strange, almost bitter taste (which I think was the gravy). We also struggled to get the pies out of the foil tins. The texture of the filling was ok. We are not vegan or vegetarian, eating fish or chicken 1-2 times a week - however, we do like to reduce our meat intake. We do not expect veg-based food to taste like meat - we just like it to taste good. We have tried a lot of Tesco's frozen vegetarian/vegan range and have really enjoyed other items - however, we will not be getting these pies again.
Not as bad as everyone is making out.
Didn’t mind these at all actually, they’re not as bland as people are making out and they weren’t watery or measly. Polished mine off anyway. I don’t want it to taste just like chicken either so that’s not a gripe for me. I don’t know why people are moaning about these budget pies, you get what you pay for and cheap chicken pies are just the same. Spend more if you want more, but these are fine for a quick pie ‘n chips lunch.
Don't bother
My partner, who is a vegetarian, tried one of these and it was so unpleasant that we threw the rest of the packet away. Pastry is the main ingredient with a very brief filling consisting of three or four pieces of squidgy, flavourless "wheat based protein", 2 peas and two miniscule thin slices of carrot, no more than 1cm long, all swimming in a very strange tasting liquid. Looking at the ingredients the vegetables were listed in the middle of the ingredients with water at the top. Come on Tesco's put some flavour and vegetables into your pies as 2 peas and a couple of carrot slivers do not a pie make!!!
Bit of a disappointment
Not nearly so good as the Plant Chef No Steak pies, which I do like a lot. These have similar pastry - crisp flaky top, soft 'bottoms' - and plenty of filling. The veg are fine. But the 'no meat' chunks, which are kind of chickeny I suppose, are all but tasteless and lack much in the way of al dente texture. As usual with Plant Chef products, opinions of reviewers do differ very widely. But not something I would buy again, or recommend.
Great value, tasty gravy and filling 😇
Great value, tasty gravy and filling 😇
Stuck on foil bottom
Could get the pies out of the tin foil bottom, Ended with mush it's a shame because we have always like these. Will not buy again.
V good
V Good, liked the taste, but pity I just tried to order online but not available.