“My partner got me the chocolate brownie cheesecake for my birthday. It was very disappointing that it all crumbled when we cut it up. The base was an inch thick. We felt like eating a giant cookie instead of cheesecake.”
“bought beef madras. literally awful. just tasted of cinnamon ..nothing else. total waste of £5.95 and portion size for an average 3 year old. please body swerve my friends!”
“Full of preservatives, looked at the back of the kids spaghetti and it’s full of emulsifiers, preservatives, acids and rapeseed oil etc, none of which I would put into the food I cook at home - so I feel it’s very misleading to say it’s home cooked food. If I wanted food with lots of preservatives, I can get it from the supermarket where it’s the same list of ingredients under processed food. Very disappointing”
“Have had the Chicken Dijon and Chicken Alexander recently. Awful!. Tasteless and very tough and inedible chicken. Utterly disgusting for the price and would never buy again or recommend to anyone”
“So we spent £150 on meals as we are trying to be healthy.
But each meal is tiny…. The packaging is misleading as they're the same size as anywhere else but once the food is cooked, whats left is tiny.
My mrs is 5 foot four and weighs 50kg. She would need a 2 person meal and a side to be full.
I thought a £4 rice would give enough rice for a side, unfortunately not. You are guaranteed to need to spend £8 on rice to get a portion. What an absolute rip off.
If you’re a 70+ year old their portion sizes might be sufficient but for anyone else I strongly recommend looking elsewhere for food…”
“Absolutely foul. Nothing tastes like it should. Way too many vegetables in everything. Overpriced and literally has no flavour whatsoever. I wouldn't even pay a quid for these. If you haven't already, don't bother. No where near worth the money. Bought for convenience, wish I'd never wasted my money.”
“Tried Cook nut roast, mouth burning, sweating, can’t taste anything but chilli. I do have an allergy, so should have checked I accept that, but as I am vegetarian and cooked thousands of nut roasts I have never felt the need to wreck it with chilli it didn’t occur to me it would have chilli in it. Why? Ruined a good nut roast”
“Bought the steak and ale pie which after two mouthfuls I descarded. The pastry was like thick cardboard, and the 4 pieces of meat was tough and the so called gravy was gluppy thick and had an odd taste. Complete waste of £5.00. I have bought other meals from Cook and found them to be of a good quality so don’t know what went wrong with this pie. Would I buy again, definitely no”
“Looks like muck, my dog rejected the food after myself, Mrs and both kids did. Soo bad we threw the remaining meals away be ause we didn't want anyone else to have to endure tasting them. The absolute worst food we have ever purchased. Do not waste your money on this companies meals.”
“This was the first time I bought Cook products, very disappointed with the Sweet Potato Katsu Curry. No taste or flavour at all, I didn't expect it to be "hot and spicy" but all my family agreed it didn't taste of anything - at £8.50 I won't be using Cook again.”
“Very salty. Mixed herbs in three different meals overwhelmed the taste.
Meat chewy no flavour my dog food looks more appetising.
Veg like leaks make flavoured sauce go runny.
Beef burgeon tastes very odd leaves a metallic taste.
I got because I had seriously I’ll and needed easy meals to help recovery. I ended up throwing them away after a couple of mouthfuls.”
“Have ordered 5 different meals , last night had the chicken and mushroom lasagna (for 2)
It was dreadful, we had 5 pieces of rather tough chicken between us and not a mushroom in sight!
It was awful, not to have a mushroom in a chicken and mushroom lasagna is unacceptable, not even evidence of mashed up one.
Going to try the fish pie tonight I hope that’s good I really want it to be as it’s convenient as I live walking distance from the cook in the Cheltenham, just hoping this was a one off bad experience we’ll see.”
“I had sweet potatoes katsu curry, It was tasteless, had loads of hard green beans, the rest was soggy & chewy.
Supermarket ready meals are better & cheaper”
“Ruined Christmas Lunch!!!
We ordered the Stuffed Turkey crown for 4 and it was appallingl!! Followed all the cooking instructions properly and when cooked after letting it stand for a while ,when carving it the turkey fell apart and crumbled the item was nearly all stuffing…what a sham, will never order from you again!!”
“If I could give 0 stars I would!
Our original order was mislabelled and we were sent someone else’s. Cool then resent our order but it never arrived. This was then resent AGAIN and never arrived!
All Christmas food, gifted by a relative. Obviously the couriers fault, but perhaps don’t book couriers who cannot fulfil deliveries…?
Wasted 2 days waiting in for orders that didn’t come, plus making countless phone calls to Cook. By the third reissue of our order, a lot of vegan/veggie items were out of stock anyway…”
“repulsive company
as a former employee I hugely recommend avoiding these meals. they put no care or effort into the production of these meals. I have seen some very questionable hygiene practices and ingredients and despite being insanely overpriced they keep employees at trainees month after month to pay them less than min wage. this is the third time of posting this review as cook keep trying to get ot taken down (says all you need to know). bullying of staff is rife. toxic man hating female run environment where abuse and bullying is rife”
“as a former employee I hugely recommend avoiding these meals. they put no care or effort into the production of these meals. I have seen some very questionable hygiene practices and ingredients and despite being insanely overpriced they keep employees at trainees month after month to pay them less than min wage. this is the third time of posting this review as cook keep trying to get ot taken down (says all you need to know). bullying of staff is rife. toxic man hating female run environment where abuse and bullying is rife”
