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Katherine Heslop

This Morning's Holly and Phil hold no punches as they review supermarket Xmas sarnies

Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield got in the festive mood on This Morning as they tried out an array of Christmas food, with Phil slamming one pie as "bland".

The pair tasted sandwiches and pies from supermarkets and coffee shops which had a Christmas theme, but Phil wasn't impressed with the offering from Ginsters, while Holly wasn't taken with Morrisons.

This Morning regular Suzanne Mulholland, AKA The Batch Lady, had rated the sandwiches out of ten beforehand and laid out a spread for Holly and Phil to tuck in.

Factors which led to the rating included taste, the level of filling, price and calories.

Holly and Phil were joined by Suzanne Mulholland on This Morning to try out festive food (ITV)

First up was Asda's festive offering, which scored the lowest, at 5/10, with Suzanne explaining there wasn't much filling "in the back" and it "wasn't overly tasty", with the onions overpowering it.

Holly described the sandwich as "quite sweet", but added that she "actually quite liked it," with Suzanne responding "They are all quite good."

Tesco was up next and scored 9/10 from Suzanne, with Holly remarking: "This feels chunkier", and Phil remarking: "nice stuffing and not as sweet with the cranberry sauce."

Holly Willoughby tucks into a Christmas sandwich (ITV)

Phil tucked into the Ginsters pie next, and he remarked: "It's a bit bland," with Suzanne explaining that the small print on the packaging says the product is much better heated, and it would be nicer hot.

"I love the brand but I'm not massively impressed with that," a deflated Phil summarised.

Holly felt that the Waitrose offering, although "chunky", tasted like a bacon sandwich, thanks to the whole slices of bacon in it.

Suzanne awarded it a 7/10. As Suzanne moved on to the next sandwich, Holly proclaimed happily: "I love this job".

There was a disagreement over the Morrisons sandwich, as Suzanne awarded it 10/10, but Holly said "I don't think that's very tasty", although she admitted she may still have the taste of bacon from the Waitrose sandwich. Phil said he thought the stuffing was better in the Tesco treat.

Explaining why she gave it the highest score, Suzanne said it wasn't the tastiest, but was a good price at £2.35 and the calories were lower than other offerings.

Next up the presenting duo tried out Pret's vegan sandwich and M&S's club sandwich, with both agreeing three layers of bread wasn't needed from M&S.

Holly and Phil survey the festive food (ITV)

They also sampled Sainsbury's gluten free sandwich and offerings from Costa - which Suzanne said was "especially tasty."

She slammed Starbuck's sandwich however, says it was "quite dry and not much filling."

Finally, Phil sampled Greggs' vegan pie, which he said was better than Ginsters, but he described their festive soup as "not very Chrismassy".

This Morning was cut short today to make way for ITV News coverage of the Autumn budget.

The programme usually airs from 10am to 12.30pm on weekdays, but at the start of today's show, the pair confirmed it would end early at 11.15am to allow for an ITV News special.

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