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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tom Hunt

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

Pots of curry on a red background
Nice spice: add a few veggies, a can of beans or some prawns or chicken, and dinner is ready. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food styling: Robert Billington. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins.

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.

One way I stopped ordering so many takeaways – post-pandemic, during which I ordered far 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.

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