Friday afternoon, long day, looking after daughter M and her schoolfriend E. Hit Coles for a few supplies, E runs away, M is keen to follow but I convince her to stay, well bribed her really with a packet of twisties. There is no catching E, the more you chase the further away he runs. We continue to shop and I am so not feeling like cooking anything at all.

A quick stop at the fresh pasta section and I'm thinking filled pasta with a fresh tomato sauce made from crushed tomatoes and a few flavourings - I don't consider it to be cooking when I can prepare the sauce in the time it takes to boil the pasta. The packet with the potato, leek & gorgonzola anolini sounds good.

Round the corner into the bread section and there's E loading his basket with gingerbread men. This is no good as E is on a gluten free diet; last week he tried to get some biscuits, when I eventually corral him, he quietly gives up the contraband.

Home we go and I set up the kids in front of the telly, with a small bowl of corn chips each. I would love to broach a bottle of wine, but with E's mum coming over think better of it. Eventually she comes and after a bit of chat they depart. Time to start dinner so I put a pot of salted water on to boil, open the tin of crushed tomatoes, toss that into a pot along with a clove of crushed garlic, a shake of oregano, salt and pepper and simmer, that's it. When the water boils I toss in enough of the potato, leek & gorgonzola anolini to feed the pair of us.

After 12 minutes I test one, al dente enough but something is missing, like the gorgonzola and leek flavour. Puzzled I reach for the packet to check the ingredients. You all know how it works, the ingredient that there is the most of is listed first and so on in descending order. First cab of the rank is durum semolina wheat - fair enough - second is ricotta cheese, that wasn't on the front.

Now I have to tell you that the name potato, leek & gorgonzola anolini is writ quite large, it's what drew me to the packet in the first place - the list of ingredients almost requires a magnifying glass to read, I had to place the clear plastic against a white background in order to read it. Two thirds of the way through I found the leek, it was after semolina, sugar, emulsifiers and sesame seeds, the gorgonzola was practically at the end, just before salt, herbs and spices.

The leek constituted 1.5% and the gorgonzola 0.4% of the ingredients. Yet there they were, bold as brass, on the front as if they were the main ingredients or flavours. Absolute rubbish! They were pleasant enough to eat, but I definitely felt cheated of the flavours I thought I purchased. It wouldn't even be fair to say that they stretched the truth, it's not that elastic. As far as I could see and taste, they were potato & ricotta anolini.

Which is fair enough, just say so.