Baxters Food Group Reviews 197

Even 1 star is too much. The soup was not as advertised in the picture fullness butter beans and carrot.
It barely had anything in it 😪😕
THE SOUP WAS LITERALLY WATER AND VERY VERY BLAND to the point it was worse than a budget brand soup. TOTALLY RUBBISH.
I emailed Baxters and phoned them up. On email I was fobbed off as its a matter of preference to which i replied to them its a matter of false advertising and selling people bland water with semi raw butter beans AT A PREMIUM PRICE!
They took details of the batch but refused to give a refund.
Trading standards need to investigate this company for.misleading adverts and pictures. The product is not fit for purpose or described.
It must be described as budget prison slop that is semi raw !!
The customer services were ridiculous 🙄. Just want the batch number thank you and BYE!
Why should people pay £1.60 for semi raw budget prison slop and then do Baxters own quality control job and telling them the soup was rubbish at customer expenses.
They don't even refund the money we wasted on this cheap watery slop!
They charge us to test their rubbish semi raw prison slop at PREMIUM PRICES.
WE TOLD THEM WE WOULD NEVER BUY THIS RUBBISH AGAIN!
WITH THE ATTITUDE AND PRODUCT EVERYONE MUST BOYCOTT THIS COMPANIES PRODUCTS.
SEE PICTURES OF BAXTERS SUPER BUDGET PRISON SLOP!!
Sorry could not add pictures of baxters super prison slop!
Your better off adding a stock cube to.boiling water than buying this watered down super budget super slop.
With quality like this and loads of others have made similar reviews.
BAXTERS MAY AS WELL SHUT DOWN AND NOT EVEN BOTHER TO PULL THE SHUTTERS UP TO CAN THIS TASTELESS WATERY SUPERCRAP.
Where is trading standards.
IS THE WATER USED IN THE SUPER SLOPPY SOUPS RECYCLED FROM THE DIRECTORS SWIMMING POOL !
MAYBE

The frey bentos pies pastry is amazing, cant rate it enough ❤️

Well Baxters ie fray bentos spent £3.50 on a meat pudding and basically it was thick pastry filled with grease sent to customer service to be told that three weeks to look into it finally got a response to be told that there were no issues with production for that day no apology or anything safe to say I won’t buy any products from this company again there products have gone rubbish for what they charge please just save your money

‘Cream of Asparagus’ proudly displayed on the tin, but the taste experience was neither creamy or even vaguely reminiscent of Asparagus. Instead I was on the receiving end of a watery bowl of cream coloured liquid, with a few pieces of Asparagus stalk floating around in it, the ‘soup’ was almost tasteless and impossible to eat with a spoon, being so runny and thin.

Fray Bentos Steak Pie. I was really excited about this pie which I remembered in my childhood. Judging by the reviews I assumed the quality had risen but alas I think it's sadly more a case of consumer expectation falling! If you remove the stodgy pastry you could probably drink the rest. Just flavoured gravy with a tiny amount of exceptionally small lumps of offal. Not one of my best experiences. You could probably find more meat in a can of dog food. Sadly I bought 6 tins @€10 each from a well known website because I live in france. Big mistake. I'd be better off with a plate of snails 🐌

It’s time to call your tinned pies gravy pies because I needed a magnifying glass to see the meat; virtually none to speak of. What a con! I bought one for nostalgic reasons, never again.

My last 4 tins of Baxters over priced soup.. Chicken Broth - rotten veg was found. Cockaleekie soup - soil grit found in the leeks because of the way they cut and prep the leeks. You are not supposed to cut them straight across, because they hold grit between the leaves. Next came another tin of Chicken broth which again had rotten veg and finally Minestrone Soup - again rotten veg. I've been posting pictures of the rotten veg on their Facebook page, but they couldn't even be bothered commenting, let alone try to provide any kind of customer service whatsoever. They're not even represented on Twitter like other brands, where it's easy to interact.

Being a bit generous with one star even.have always bought their pea and ham. Just had a tin more like pea water.Will not buy Baxters again.
Barbara Robertson

I thought it would be impossible to be any worse than a fray bentos steak and kidney pudding but I was wrong. They ooze out before they finish cooking and then they collapse when you try and get them out of the can. Guess what. The pies in the tins are exactly the same. Filling oozing out over the oven floor before cooking has even ended. I wonder if there is a YouTube video on how to get these out of the tin in one piece. Or should you eat them directly from the tin , who knows. it's harder to think of a bigger waste of money and it's incredible that fray bentos as a brand are still going. I purchased a bundle from Fray bentos (Baxters) a few weeks ago so I have six steak puddings and five steak and gravy tinned pies left. They've all gone in the bin. I wouldn't even inflict these on a food bank.

We bought a can of Royal Game soup: something we had not done for many years due to its high price.
We were very disappointed: it had too much pepper, which numbed our mouths, and we found it to lack flavour and substance compared with our recollections from previous experience. Maybe that was because of the excessive pepper. Either way, we did not enjoy it and would not buy it again. We complained using their online form and received an acknowledgement. Since then, we have heard nothing.
We can only assume, therefore, that they don't care, and the lack of response to complaints on this site would support that view. Baxters has not featured in our shopping list very much during the last 20 years and now will remain permanently off.

I'm not sure why but Morrisons near me don't stock Baxters Lentil &bacon Soup anymore. It was my favourite. I thought I would try their lentil and vegetable variety but I ate half and rest went into the bin. What a waste of my money Urgh. Not to my taste at all !! Also 2years ago these soups used to cost 59p but now cost around £2 unless on offer. Mad.

I havent bought Fray Bentos pies in a while, but was disappointed to see that it broke 2 can openers. Never had an issue opening them before, but for some reason, this cannot be done anymore. They recommend 2 makes of can opener, but to be honest, this shouldn't be needed, any can opener should open them, or they should do somethig like a corned beef tin and have their own opener. Very disappointed. I contacted them and basically got we will pass this on to their internal quality team. I certainly wont be buying again, the 2 I bought went in the bin!

It is difficult to know where to start but maybe how a chowder should be: A chowder should be a thick creamy soup packed with flavour.
This however is thin and watery, I didn't find any fish in the soup just bits of half cooked potato, no onion, no sweet corn, that however is nothing when you take into account that it made me gag, as it smelt and tasted off and I couldn't eat it. I love the royal game soup they make but this was terrible

Can you explain why Garners Pickled onions which I understand you acquired are so expensive? £4 a jar is ridiculous. The only time I buy them is Christmas when they are reduced and on offer......the clues in the pricing! Make them a reasonable price and I'd buy them every week.

This once family favourite is now a no go zone for this household.
We used to love Baxters products, always a bit more expensive than other brands but worth it. Not any longer, we just opened a jar of beetroot, tried some and then threw the lot in the bin. It was like wood and totally without taste.

Extremely disappointed with this Baxters Hot Smoked Salmon Chowder Soup. It needs to be renamed to "potato soup" as potato seems to be the only ingredient you will find, floating in a watery soup. Will not be buying Baxters ever again and it's a complete rip off.

Scotch broth soup really awful. Tasteless and watery. AVOID. Stick to good ole Heinz

Baxter's own Fray Bentos Pies since 2011. I've been buying them for over 20 years, they've always been great value for money, plenty of lean meat, gravy and thick Puff pastry. Price hasn't varied much, £1-2/tin. I bought one earlier this week, now cost £3. It was horrible, an absolute rip off, a dessert spoon full of meat, no kidney, hardly any gravy, pastry so thin you could read the newspaper through it and it didn't rise 1mm. Obviously instead of maintaining the quality and increasing the price, they've cut the quality by reducing the meat content and changing the pastry ingredients. I shan't be buying these anymore and I suggest no one should waste their money on them

lots of potato chunks, tasted a bit like salmon but massive scam as there are no chunks of salmon in it at all as stated on the tin. watery for nearly 4 quid! it was a treat too so now i am sad.

What a sad state of affairs for a once great brand. I imagined that my review would be at odds with the majority opinion. Instead, I can only repeat what has been written more eloquently elsewhere.
Spicy Parsnip Vegetarian Soup a.k.a. peppery yellow water. A dreadful, overpriced experience.