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Coco and Lucas’ Kitchen Spaghetti Bolognese | Chewsday Review

Spag bol or spag bog? Ah the great family debate. Whichever you call it, the charm of a ready-made meal is hard to resist. Let’s see if the Coco and Lucas’ Kitchen spaghetti bolognese will pasta the test.

Ingredients

Bolognese Sauce (56.8%) (Tomato Passata (Tomatoes (99.5%), Salt), Beef Mince (30%), Water, Celery, Brown Onion, Carrot, Tomato Paste, Corn Starch, Canola Oil, Roasted Garlic, Salt, Sugar, Spices (Nutmeg, White Pepper), Herb (Oregano)), Cooked Spaghetti (40.9%) (Durum Wheat Semolina), Shredded Cheese (from Milk).
At first glance, this looks like an ingredients list that is very similar to a home-cooked spaghetti bolognese!
Allergens: Gluten.
May contain: May contain traces of Soy, Tree Nuts, Egg, Lupin, Fish, Crustacea, Sesame and Sulphite due to shared equipment.

Positives

It’s a very convenient meal to have in the freezer and can be ready to eat in under 4 minutes!
This spag bol is low in sugar (1.4g/100g) and saturated fat (1.8g/100g) which is nice to see in a ready-made meal.
Containing 30% beef, it has a lot higher meat content than other bolognese products on the market, for example, Annabel Karmel Bolognese Pasta Bake has just 10% beef. This also means that Coco and Lucas’ Kitchen is high in protein (17.2g/100g). A serve will provide 123% of your toddler’s daily protein needs, and 86% for your school-aged kids.
The iron content isn’t listed on this product, but from my super sleuthing, there is about 2.7mg of iron which provides about 28% of your child’s daily iron needs.

Negatives

Marketing

“Lovingly handmade”. I checked out the ‘About’ section on the Coco and Lucas’ Kitchen website, and it looks like the meals are made in a commercial kitchen with the aim the replicate homemade meals. I wonder if there are rules about how handmade something has to be!
“No artificial preservatives, flavours or colours”. This one gets a tick.
“Made from at least 90% Australian ingredients”. While the specific Australian-sourced ingredients aren’t clear, this claim is regulated and follows strict standards, so it earns a tick!

Alternatives

The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.