As good as homemade?
PHOTOGRAPH: STUART WEST. STYLING: MARTINE TINNEY
…well, maybe not quite, but everyone needs the odd ready-made Christmas timesaver to slot in among the home-cooked goodies. Here’s our pick of the best in supermarkets
HOW WE TEST
We conduct our tests without packaging, so our expert tasters don’t know who produced each product or how much it costs. And to prevent one tester influencing another, the panel aren’t allowed to confer (or groan or grimace!) during the tests, so the results you read below are unbiased.