Is there a reason why chickpeas and red kidney beans in frozen bags have been removed from the range?
The dried products available as alternatives have to be soaked overnight, and the "quick" canned versions are not really convincing in terms of taste or ecology. It seems that real progress has been reversed after a short time...
Hello Migros_child, thank you for your contribution. We have removed these two items from our range again as demand was unfortunately too low. We ask for your understanding. We are sorry that you do not like our alternatives. We have already informed the relevant specialist department about your message. Kind regards, Luisa
I have already expressed my anger about this elsewhere here. Such a great product, especially the chickpeas, without the "Seikeli" flavor from the can or the tedious soaking and cooking. Instead, Migros is now delighting us with cauliflower in rice form and chickpeas already mixed with some "vegetables" and spices that make my hair stand on end. Well, our new generation of urban vegetarians and vegans also want to be served with trendy new products in hip packaging. And there's no room for both in the freezer:-(
I received a good tip, which I have already put into practice. Soak dried chickpeas for at least one night, boil them and then freeze them in portions.
Hello everyone
I love chickpeas myself and can recommend the jarred version from Alnatura for quick preparation:https://produkte.migros.ch/alnatura-kichererbsen-153990100000
Best regards
Kathrin
Hello Kathrin
The problem with this tip is simply that glass (565 environmental impact points) is even more ecologically questionable than metal (136 UBP). Plastic packaging (17 UBP) simply performs far better and even compensates for the additional pollution caused by deep-freezing (101 UBP).
@Bodenseeknusperli You can find a simple environmental calculator at http://ulme.ethz.ch/, where you can compare different types of production, packaging, transportation, storage and preparation. Contrary to all intuition, plastic performs relatively well as a packaging material - simply because the "ecological costs" of production are massively lower than for glass, for example, whose production is so energy-intensive that it could never be offset even by repeated reuse.
Hello everyone
Everyone has different criteria according to which they shop, which also makes it complex for Migros, but that's why decisions are made in response to demand or lack of demand, as in this case.
Without looking it up, I assume that the corresponding portion of home-soaked pulses has the best eco-balance. Even though I realize that we don't always think about it the night before in our busy everyday lives...which is why there are different convenience offers.
Best regards
Kathrin
Hello @Michi2000
We were also quite enthusiastic about these two products. Unfortunately, the demand for them was simply too small, so we decided to give other products a chance. No change is currently planned, but we will take your request on board and monitor demand.
Kind regards
Tamara
Quote from the Community Manager: " We have removed these two items from our range again as demand was unfortunately too low. We ask for your understanding. We are sorry that you do not like our alternatives. We have already informed the responsible department about your message.
This was probably mainly due to the fact that they were not advertised. I had no idea that the two products were available frozen! I would definitely have bought them!
Perhaps they deliberately didn't advertise them, only to take them out of the range again later on the grounds of "too little demand"... Sometimes it's simply a matter of calculation.
