The goodfoodAU team has been taste testing all the Christmas exclusives from Australia's big three supermarkets. From more than 100 products, they've whittled the list down to the good, the bad and the 'what were they thinking?'christmas c...
Phew, we made it. For the past four weeks, the Good Food team has been taste testing all the Christmas exclusives from Australia's big three supermarkets. Our blood alcohol level is now .05 per cent pudding brandy and every day presents a new challenge to use leftover ham and prawns .
Overall, the quality of Christmas supermarket foods this year is the best we can recall and we hope the trend of using Australian ingredients such as Davidson plum and lemon myrtle continues – all the better if they're sourced from more Indigenous-owned businesses in the future too. Here's our last-minute guide to supermarket shopping this week.
A bone-in full or half leg ham is a Christmas Day essential, but there's a lot to recommend about a smaller porker for satellite events around December 25. With a subtle beechwood smoke flavour and appealing natural grain to the meat, this was heads and shoulders above the other boneless hams tasted, which too often have the texture of a boiled rubber band. That glaze isn't half bad either, made with a generous amount of Australian honey and Davidson plums harvested in northern NSW.