Product Review: Goldleaf Home Style Cherry Pie Filling and Pie Shells

Most of us love pastries. Most of us cannot afford to buy fresh pastries all the time. Very few people have the time, or, in many cases, the skill, to make pastries from scratch. So, what is a pie lover to do? Should one live on frozen pies? There is another alternative. You can buy a can of pie filling and a frozen pie crust, and, make your own pie. The problem is that it is hard to find the right ingredients that taste good.

At Save-A-Lot I can get what I need for a great pie. Now, I still don't make it; my wife does, however, I do eat it, so, I should get some credit.

"Goldleaf Home Style Cherry Pie Filling" is a wonderful pie filling. It tastes like real cherries. It isn't too sweet or too tart; it tastes just like cherry pie filling should taste. It only costs $1.99 for a 21 ounce can. Really, the numbers for this product are pretty nice.

A serving size is 1/3 of a cup. There are about seven servings per can. Each serving is about 100 calories; zero calories from fat. Obviously, there are no fat grams per serving.

This product can be used hand in hand with another product and that is "Goldleaf Home Style Quality Pie Shells for Nine Inch Pans". These come two shells to a package and are frozen.

These pie shells only cost 89 cents. For essentially three dollars you have a great cherry pie. Of course Goldleaf has other fruit fillings available as well.

The pie shell servings are divided into 1/8 of a pie shell so there are 16 servings per container which is a plastic wrapped package holding the pies one on top of another. There are 90 calories per serving of which 50 come from fat. Further, there are five grams of fat per serving, of which 1.5 grams of fat are saturated.

Now, if you opt to bake a "double-crust" pie, then you would still have eight servings, but, you would double all the readings per servings because you have twice the crust.

Whether you have a single crust or double crust; cook it at 375 degrees for about 40 minutes.