Is Heinz's Christmas dinner in a TIN tasty enough to serve at your festive feast? Femail tries the £1.50 can containing turkey, roast potatoes and pigs in blankets to find out
- Heinz UK have announced a limited edition Christmas Dinner tinned soup
- The £1.50 can contains turkey, roast potatoes, pigs-in-blankets in a festive sauce
- Only 500 have been released, more could be sold if the soup is a success
- One FEMAIL reporter put tinned meal to the test to see if it can really save day
With threats of turkey shortages worrying families across the country - many people will be searching for an alternative Christmas dinner meat ahead of December 25.
And many will opt for classic alternatives like chicken or beef, those hoping to cut back on time and money on Christmas day will be opting for a £1.50 tin of soup said to have all the flavour and trimmings of a Christmas meal inside.
The soup - which sold out in minutes - boasts 'big chunks' of turkey as well as sprouts and stuffing and Big Soup Christmas Dinner also has roasties, pigs in blankets and a gravy and cranberry sauce. Only 500 tins will be released this year, but Heinz has promised to sell more next year if it proves a success.
Femail reporter Claire Toureille gave the tinned Christmas soup a go to see how it stacks up against the real deal - but she was not impressed
The tinned soup boasts roasties including Brussels sprouts, and large chunks of Turkey as well as pigs in blanket and cranberry sauce
Anke von Hanstein, brand manager for Heinz Soups, told FEMAIL : 'We are so excited for the lucky 500 people to try this sensational seasonal addition to Heinz's Big Soup family. It is made for those with a big love for hearty festive flavours and tastes just perfect with a slice of warm crusty bread.
'Any soup that includes pigs in blankets and roasties is a winner in our eyes. and if these lucky few who managed to get their hands on it love it as much as we do, Heinz Christmas Dinner Big Soup might be back next year, bigger and better. Watch this space.'
So does is it worth ditching the traditional turkey and trimmings for a blended bowl? Or is it more of a dog's dinner? FEMAIL's Claire Tourielle puts it to the test, with VERY surprising results...
FEMAIL's Claire Toureille tries Heinz Christmas dinner in a can - with VERY surprising results
Claire admitted the soup was flavoursome, but she said it could never compete with a Christmas meal
Heinz claims their soup is the perfect antidote to long cooking times and promises to bring all the flavours of a perfectly executed Christmas Dinner in just one can.
But how does it work on the taste buds? FEMAIL journalist Claire Toureille puts the tin to the - taste - test!
Rating: 
Verdict:
It is hard to imagine that a tinned meal would ever compare with a homemade Christmas dinner, and the Heinz offer won't dethrone your parents' cooking ay time soon.
The soup is pleasant on its own.
While it looks wrong, it doesn't taste as bad as one could imagine.
The soup is brown and thick in consistency, with lots of veggies, meat and sausages all thrown in together.
Heinz delivers on its promise and the soup does include a generous amount of turkey as well as veggies, and two pigs in blanket.
The soup is easy to prep, and can be heated on the hob or in the microwave.
The mix is salty and rich in flavour, although apart from the turkey and Brussels sprout, who are easily recognisable, the rest of the soup could be described as salty mush and some ingredients are hard to distinguish from others.
The soup is a funny novelty meal, but it doesn't stack up against a quintennial British Christmas meal, and if it were a Christmas character, it wouldn't be Scrooge, but it'd definitely be the Grinch.
The soup is brown and thick in consistency, with lots of veggies, meat and sausages all thrown in together
The soup, pictured, is easy to prep, and can be heated on the hob or in the microwave. It has a big potatoes serving, plenty of veggies and some generous chunks of Turkey
