Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

Middy

mardatha wrote: »

Is the wine in the Wine dept ? LOL stupid question! but I just want to try it in cooking, wasnt sure if maybe it was in a separate section for cooking ingreds ! What sort of label is on it ? I never go in the wine bit and there's millions of bottles.. I might be in there for a week...

Its in the normal wine section. Probably on the bottom shelf, as 99% of Basic items are on the bottom shelf. They are all Spanish, so look in the Spanish sections of each wine colour.

They have gone up a lot recently. They are £2.89 a bottle. Bought a bottle of Hungarian Chardonnay from Aldi for £2.99 and its very pleasant.

normandleigh

Graz-D wrote: »

I just had all 3 of Sainsbury's Basics Snack Assortment varieties, and they are totally delicious at lunch time. Today I had the cheese flavour maize puffs (read: basics wotsits) and they are delicious and moreish with a really good taste. Only 3.7g of fat and 79 cals a bag too and nothing like MSG which I find impressive. I've also had the salt and vinegar sticks, the flavour isn't too strong which I like, and I'm yet to try the onion rings. I'll be taking these to work from now on - along with the oat and raisin cereal bar which I also rate highly!

my kids love these:)

Swans1912

Has anyone tried the Basics Rose Wine? Is it any good?

Patr100

Patr100 wrote: »

Tuna PriceWatch latest:
Up 10p to 55p

Well, it's now back down to 45p
so maybe get it before it goes up again.
I'll stop reporting every up & down now. Just never seen a Basics product that fluctuates so much.

recovering_spendaholic

hermum wrote: »

I'm sure that their cooking bacon will have been mentioned many times. The chilled, I see that they do frozen and that is even cheaper, can't remember the figures though.
One pack that I had last week was almost all bacon steaks, I think I had 5 or 6 in the pack. Lovely, slice of pineapple cheap gammon steak.

Each time I go in I look for this and can't find it - do they not have it in all Sainsburys. Our is not a huge store, but it's not a local type one either.

pinkclouds

Has anyone bought toilet paper recently? I was sure there's only one pack size but today I bought a 4 roll pack (and the rolls look smaller and thinner) instead of my usual 6 roll pack. I couldn't see another size in the aisle. Was it out of stock or has the product actually changed size?

Fran2584

apologies if someone else has posted it before now, but the big size basic cottage pie is lovely had it for lunch today the potatoes tasted so nice and the meat was good too we'll buy it again for sure!

SimbaSimon

pinkclouds wrote: »

Has anyone bought toilet paper recently? I was sure there's only one pack size but today I bought a 4 roll pack (and the rolls look smaller and thinner) instead of my usual 6 roll pack. I couldn't see another size in the aisle. Was it out of stock or has the product actually changed size?

Same here, none of the 6 pack with the big rolls for two weeks and the shelves were full with mini 4 packs. I'm hoping its just a stock issue as the 4 packs while still cheap are forever having to be replaced with being such small rolls.

annie123

pinkclouds wrote: »

Has anyone bought toilet paper recently? I was sure there's only one pack size but today I bought a 4 roll pack (and the rolls look smaller and thinner) instead of my usual 6 roll pack. I couldn't see another size in the aisle. Was it out of stock or has the product actually changed size?

Had the 6pk in my one yesterday £1.50
Basic honey 65p 2 weeks ago, 99p yesterday :eek: thats roughly 50% increase, but no longer stocking the basic jelly or basic tins of sweetcorn

mardatha

Gawd. How much are the 4packs of bogrolls ? And I buy loads of that honey annie, not happy !!