Bread sauce
Marks & Spencer
Fresh Bread Sauce
400g, £3
I love the consistency – it is perfectly balanced. It has a good flavour too but could be spiced up a little more.
★★★★★
Selfridges
Truefoods Bread Sauce
250g, £3.49
The consistency really lets this down because it has a great flavour, with the spiciness of nutmeg and clove. It would be fantastic with any class of fowl.
★★★★
Tesco
Finest Bread Sauce
300g, £1.50
Lovely consistency but doesn't pack its punch on flavour.They need to stop being mean with the spices.
★★★
Waitrose
Heston from Waitrose Bread Sauce
200g, £2.99
The poorest here – lacking attention to detail. The flavour is very poor. It's nice and bready, just not refined.
★★★★★
Stuffing
Copas
Stuffing
150g, £3.99
Very nice consistency – crumbly, bready – but lacks a bit of individuality. Some zest of orange, lemon and cranberries wouldn't go amiss!
★★★★
Ginger Pig
Pork and Prune Stuffing
£11.50 per kg
Really nice chestnut feel but it's a bit too firm – I like stuffing a little looser. I also miss the fragrance of parsley and thyme softened in butter.
★★★
Sainsbury's
Taste the Difference Pink Lady Apple Stuffing
110g, £1.39
Slightly damp in texture. Quite flavoursome but low on salt, which is unusual. A good one for the health conscious!
★★★
Harvey Nichols
Warm Spiced Apple Stuffing
125g, £2.95
Too strong on dried herbs. Stuffing just needs a fresh white loaf, country butter, zest, onions and herbs wrapped in a back rasher.
★★
Cranberry sauce
BEST BUY
Copas
Cranberry Sauce
227g, £4.49
Someone who cares made this. Very generous with fruit. Great with venison, mutton or guinea fowl. I wish all cranberry sauces were like this.
★★★★★
The Co-operative
Truly Irresistible Cranberry Sauce
190g, £1.49
Really nice texture, and hasn't gone into jam-like consistency. Could've done with more spice for Christmas flavour.
★★★★
Harrods
Cranberry and Orange Sauce
210g, £4.25
I like the sweet and sour. It would go well with fowl. The base recipe is good – it just needs less colouration.
★★★
Marks & Spencer
Cranberry and Port Sauce
400g, £3
I like the bitterness, but it's slightly too sharp. Cranberry sauce is the wrong name for this – it's more of a jam. I'm not getting enough fruit.
★★
