{"id":2080,"date":"2012-06-16T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:42:09","slug":"two-cheers-tesco-free-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/two-cheers-tesco-free-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Two and a Half Cheers for Tesco Free From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/two-and-half-lemons.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"two-and-half-lemons\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2084\" \/>Have you spotted the gluten free ready meals from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesco.com\">Tesco<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n<p>We came across them almost by accident; I don&#8217;t usually go down that aisle in the store, because I don&#8217;t usually buy ready meals (too expensive to feed five of us on ready meals), and even if I did, I wouldn&#8217;t expect anything to be gluten free.<\/p>\n<p>But I found these when I placed an order online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free From three cheese fusilli pasta bake<\/li>\n<li>Free From chicken and bacon pasta bake<\/li>\n<li>Free From beef lasagne<\/li>\n<li>Free From beef and dumplings<\/li>\n<li>and Free From spaghetti bolognaise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I miss something? Or did these just sneak in without much publicity? I even chatted to the Tesco Free From brand people at the recent Free From Foods Awards event, and they were all about the Free From dairy-free products, and didn&#8217;t even mention these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No matter: we&#8217;ve tasted the first two on this list, and the beef lasagne is in the freezer (it was on special offer, yay!). And&#8230; she liked them!<\/p>\n<p>I probably won&#8217;t buy them very often, because of the cost, and because I prefer to cook a meal we can all eat. However, it is great to know that they are there, and they&#8217;ll be a good fallback for the occasional evening. Or, of course, if one of her friends wants to invite her round to eat, and needs something easy to feed her.<\/p>\n<p>So, two and a half cheers. Not three, because it seems to me that Tesco is struggling with communications. Not only was I not aware of these&#8230; why not, Tesco? You know that I buy Free From goods; you have my email address; you print out coupons for me when I go to the store. Where&#8217;s the message? A mailshot to all of those of us who buy free from products would be easy enough, surely.<\/p>\n<p>But also: when I visited our local store this week, there was a mysterious Tesco sign up on the Free From shelves saying &#8216;Visit our Bakery for more Free From products&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like the hint of new products to get me excited, so I trotted over to Bakery to ask them about it. Naturally enough, they said &#8216;no, we don&#8217;t do Free From in Bakery&#8217;. And customer services didn&#8217;t know anything about it; and nor did the deputy manager. &#8216;Come back next time&#8217; they said &#8216;we&#8217;ll find out&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So I went back (sign still there) and asked again. Still, nobody knew anything about it. &#8216;It must have been meant for a bigger store&#8217;, they said. 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