247 pies & pastries products sold in Irish supermarkets, ranked by protein per 100 calories.
| Product | kcal/100g | Protein/100kcal | Carbs/100kcal | Fat/100kcal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lidl Milbona High Protein Dessert Apple Cinnamon Pie Style Flavour 200g | 73 | 17g | 6.7g | 0.5g |
| NutriQuick Traditional Cottage Pie 380g | 87 | 10.3g | 10.1g | 1.8g |
| Colman's Chicken Pie Recipe Mix 38g | 207 | 7.2g | 5.8g | 5.3g |
| Lidl Chef Select Cottage Pie 1kg | 90 | 7.1g | 10.3g | 3.2g |
| Lidl Deluxe Creamy Fish Pie 400g | 109 | 7.1g | 9.5g | 3.6g |
| Weight Watchers from Heinz Cottage Pie 350g | 85 | 6.5g | 11.9g | 2.5g |
| Weight Watchers from Heinz Cottage Pie 310g | 76 | 6.2g | 13g | 2.2g |
| Cathedral City Chicken & Leek Pie | 141 | 6.1g | 7.8g | 4.8g |
| Denny Chicken & Mushroom Pie 350g | 92 | 6g | 9g | 4.6g |
| Cathedral City Cheesy Cottage Pie | 142 | 5.6g | 5.3g | 6.1g |
| Centra Classic Cottage Pie 400g | 121 | 5.5g | 10.7g | 3.6g |
| Quorn Sausage Roll 130g | 225 | 5.5g | 9.4g | 4.1g |
| Weight Watchers from Heinz Cottage Pie 300g | 69 | 5.5g | 13.9g | 2.2g |
| Birds Eye Shepherd's Pie 400g | 85 | 5.3g | 13.5g | 2.7g |
| Denny 2 Cottage Pies 700g | 87 | 5.2g | 10.2g | 4.3g |
| Denny 4 Cottage Pies 720g | 87 | 5.2g | 10.2g | 4.3g |
| Alpro Dessert Apple Pie 150g | 72 | 5g | 12.5g | 2.9g |
| Centra Meal For One Cottage Pie 450g | 107 | 5g | 9.4g | 4.6g |
| Lidl Chef Select Shepherds Pie 400g | 92 | 5g | 12.4g | 3.1g |
| Insomnia Smoked Bacon Croissant Monsieur 95g | 307 | 4.8g | 5.1g | 6.5g |
| Centra Family Cottage Pie 1200g | 121 | 4.7g | 9.9g | 4.4g |
| Findus Cottage Pie 360g | 87 | 4.7g | 13g | 3g |
| Lidl Deluxe Cottage Pie 800g | 163 | 4.7g | 6.3g | 6g |
| Quorn Cottage Pie Ready Meal 500g | 91 | 4.7g | 14.5g | 1.9g |
| Denny Shepherd's Pie 350g | 106 | 4.6g | 7.2g | 5.9g |
| Quorn Cottage Pie 300g | 82 | 4.6g | 16.1g | 1.2g |
| Quorn 2 Sausage Rolls | 266 | 4.5g | 9g | 4.8g |
| Spar Meal for One Cottage Pie with Seasoned Mash 400g | 101 | 4.5g | 10.3g | 4.1g |
| Birds Eye Cottage Pie 400g | 363 | 4.4g | 10.7g | 4.1g |
| Centra Inspired Slow Braised Irish Beef in Red Wine Pie 275g | 250 | 4.4g | 6.8g | 5.7g |
| Quorn Fish-less Ocean Pie 325g | 131 | 4.4g | 6.9g | 5.7g |
| Hairy Bikers Si's Mam's Cottage Pie 800g | 130 | 4.3g | 7.6g | 5.5g |
| Wall's Jumbo Sausage Roll 150g | 353 | 4.3g | 6.9g | 6.1g |
| Heinz By Nature Cottage Pie 200g | 74 | 4.2g | 10.8g | 3.9g |
| Denny 2 Chicken & Ham Puff Pastry Pies 280g | 284 | 4.1g | 7.4g | 6.2g |
| Spar 4 Large Sausage Rolls 240g | 261 | 4.1g | 8.5g | 5.6g |
| Birds Eye Inspirations 2 Steak & Ale Pies with a Roast Potato Top 410g | 201 | 4g | 10.4g | 4.5g |
| Linda McCartney Vegetarian Cottage Pie 348g | 80 | 4g | 18.2g | 2.8g |
| Tesco Shepherds Pie 400g | 118 | 4g | 8.1g | 5.5g |
| Denny Snack Sausage Rolls | 315 | 3.9g | 8.3g | 5.6g |
| Heinz Big Pie Chicken & Bacon | 229 | 3.9g | 9.6g | 5g |
| Lidl Chef Select 16 Cocktail Sausage Rolls 288g | 267 | 3.9g | 7.8g | 5.9g |
| Lidl Deluxe Cottage Pie 400g | 180 | 3.9g | 7.6g | 5.9g |
| Linda McCartney 30 Mini Vegetarian Sausage Rolls 510g | 293 | 3.9g | 8.1g | 5.4g |
| Quorn Meat Free 20 Mini Sausage Rolls 320g | 303 | 3.9g | 9.4g | 4.9g |
| Quorn Sausage Rolls 3 Pack 210g | 259 | 3.9g | 9.5g | 4.8g |
| Denny 2 Cottage Pies 360g | 112 | 3.8g | 7.9g | 5.2g |
| Denny Cottage Pie 180g | 112 | 3.8g | 7.9g | 5.2g |
| Linda McCartney's 6 Vegetarian Sausage Rolls 342g | 287 | 3.8g | 7.9g | 5.6g |
| Linda McCartney's Vegetarian Mini Pork & Apple Sausage Rolls 340g | 281 | 3.8g | 9.8g | 4.8g |
Showing the top 50 of the 247 pies & pastries products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories. Figures per label, sourced from Open Food Facts and tracker user logs.
Median across all 247 of them is 2.7g of protein per 100 calories. 2 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in 124, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.
Calories run from 69 to 557 per 100g inside this one group, an 8-fold spread, so “pies & pastries” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.
Own-brand is not the compromise here. The supermarket own-label median is 2.7g of protein per 100 calories across 84 products, against 2.7g for the 163 name-brand ones.
Lidl is the only Irish chain with enough own-label pies & pastries to compare fairly — 46 products at a median of 3g per 100 calories. Everywhere else this is a name-brand shelf.
Most of what is sold as pies & pastries is not a protein food. The 2 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.
38 of the 247 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.
Only one chain carries enough of this own-label to break out separately, so Lidl Pies & Pastries is the one sub-page here, next to everything else Lidl sells.
This is the aisle that quietly wrecks a calorie target, which is the whole point of where the calories actually hide.
For one specific product rather than the whole group, the 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland, and the same figures are built into the free calorie tracker.
We track 247 pies & pastries products across Irish supermarkets and brands. 247 of them carry 20 calories or more per 100g, which is the point below which protein per 100 calories stops being a real number, so those are the ones ranked and averaged here.
The table is sorted highest protein per 100 calories first, so the answer is the top row. The more useful number is that the median for the whole group is 2.7g per 100 calories and 2 products clear 10g — that tells you whether pies & pastries is worth buying for protein at all, which protein per 100g does not.