‘Genuinely authentic’: supermarket curry kits, tasted and rated

<p>We tested various curry kits and found they offer astoundingly good value compared with takeaways. Did somebody say just heat?</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2024/oct/20/if-you-pay-more-than-4-youre-being-ripped-off-the-fair-price-for-14-everyday-items-from-cleaning-spray-to-olive-oil"><strong>The fair price for 14 everyday items, from cleaning spray to olive oil</strong></a></p><p>Takeaways are so eye-wateringly expensive these days, they’re often even more costly than eating out. Delivery companies charge restaurants obscenely high rates, destroying profit margins, and add even more charges and cost to the consumer. Yes, they’re convenient (itself part of the problem), but I’d rather cook dinner myself and save my cash to eat out once in a while.</p><p>One way I stopped ordering so many takeaways – post-pandemic, during which I ordered <em>far</em> too many – was to tell myself that it’s quicker and cheaper to cook something simple, rather than order in. Sometimes, however, we all want something we haven’t cooked ourselves, right? And that’s where curry kits come in. They’re very quick to make up with the simple addition of a few veggies, a can of beans and/or some prawns or chicken from the freezer. OK, there’s still a little washing-up, but that’s a small price to pay.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/nov/08/best-supermarket-curry-kits-tasted-and-rated-tom-hunt">Continue reading...</a>