Colman's Beef & Ale Sauce Mix

Having tried various other Colman's sauces (Colmans Chicken Curry being my favourite!) I decided to give the Beef and Ale Casserole sauce a go. Price and availability: -------------------------- They were on sale for 79p at my local Sainsbury's and you can find them in all good supermarkets. They often do 3 for 2 offers on the packet sauces too so look out for those. Packaging: -------------- It is a 45g packet that has a silver foil type lining to ensure maximum freshness of the product. Ingredients: ---------------- It is a dry mix, that has a combination of blended thyme, spices and ale. How ...  Read the complete review

The mix is very easy, the instructions are simple to follow.
However, as the casserole is cooking the dish smells like vomit. When finished the vomit like aroma disappears but the gravy/sauce tastes like vomit.
Basically its the ruination of a pound of beef + onion + mushrooms
I absolutely love beef in ale done correctly, this casserole mix doesn't do it correctly
I've given the casserole mix a star simply for simplicity of instructions and for the ease in mixing the casserole.

Having a 6 month old baby means I don't always have the time to cook really nice meals from scratch, I seem to be forever sticking chips and pies etc in the oven so I decided to buy some packets that would enable me to make some nice casseroles etc When I was looking through the available sauce mixes I spotted the Colmans Beef & Ale sauce, the picture on the front of the packet looked very nice so I bought one and cooked it that evening. The Packet The top half of the packet is brown with the Yellow and red Colman's logo, beneath the logo you have a picture of what the dish looks like (meat mushrooms in a sauce) then below that you have the ...  Read the complete review