Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

princessmoneysaver

Some items we buy which are good :-

Refuse Sacks x30 71p
Garlic Bread 150g 42p
Pure Apple Juice 1L 56p (either in a carton or a bottle same price)
Pure Orange Juice 1L 56p (either in a carton or a bottle same price)
Kiwi x5 79p
Pasta Sauce 440g 36p
Baked Beans 420g 29p
White Mushrooms 700g £1.36
Stir Fry 650g £1.00
Strawberries 250g £1.00
Barn Eggs x6 82p
2 Garlic Chicken Kievs 83p (I don't like these but DH says they are lovely!)
Yorkshire Pudding x15 54p
Marmalade Medium Cut 454g 27p
Strawberry Jam 454g 38p
Instant Custard 68g 7p
Sweetcorn 326g 29p
Carrots (tins) 300g 18p
Table Salt 1kg 23p
Pasta Shapes (usually penne) 500g 43p
Natural Yogurt 500g 47p
Beef Mince 400g 98p
Sweet Potatoes 600g 79p
Salad Potatoes 1kg 79p
Plum Punnet 400g 99p
Vegetable selection 1.25kg £1.00
Biscuit pack 700g 66p
Chopped tomatoes 400g 33p
Low Fat Yoghurts (just peach & strawberry) x4 29p
Bananas x8 96p
Fromage Frais x6 49p
Currant teacakes (lovely size for kids) x4 35p
Chocolate Mousse x4 33p
Rice Pudding 425g 18p
Mixed Fruit (raisins etc for baking) 500g 65p
Tuna Chunks 185g 55p (These have gone up a lot recently)
Sponge Scouring Pads x5 15p
Tortilla Chips 100g 17p (Like Doritos & lovely!!!!)
Lemon Curd 411g 31p
Loose Apples 63p (per kilo)
Spaghetti (tin) 410g 14p
Jam & Vanilla mini rolls x6 30p
Scones x10 35p
Tissues 150 sheets 25p
White loaf 800g 40p
Cheese singles x10 50p




Tried a lot of pre-packed cheeses all are nice, same with the biscuits, tinned fruit,



Some to avoid cornflakes, frozen chips, toilet roll, coffee, teabags, coleslaw, honey, baby wipes,


Probably more but need to find receipts for prices etc.

Miss_Liquorice

I'm not normally a fan of white chocolate, but the sainsbury's basics is absolutely lovely. Bought some for cooking and tried a square, an ended up eating the bar! Oops.

1carminestocky

Their Barn Eggs are currently £1.80 for 18! That would appear to be a brilliant price! We are investigating whether to start shopping at Sainsburys instead of Asda/Morrisons due to the better range of Value products (and, from all accounts, their better quality). I've just used mysupermarket to get a 'feel' for the prices ('ordered' mostly Basics stuff, granted). Ended up with a total of 60 items in my trolley for £47 (this includes a bottle of vodka and a bottle of red wine!) and the corresponding prices at the other supermarkets were:

Sainsburys £46.91
Asda £55.81
Tesco £58.09
Ocado £93.39 :eek: :rotfl:

This has greatly surprised us, but maybe the main reason is Sainsburys basics range covers a wider range then the others so the 'replaced' item in the other's baskets were 'ordinary' own brand?

Incidentally, here's how easy it is to manipulate the comparison figures. If I was to add 6 crates of 24x 440ml Carling to my Sainsburys order (on offer at £10.59 per pack), here's what happens to the figures:

Sainsburys £110.45
Asda £151.81
Tesco £162.13
Ocado £193.79

:rotfl:

louisewh123

i buy loads of basics but i really like their basic soup ( i think 14p for 3 bars last time i bought some ) gets us all clean!

eadieb

I found basics red grapes in store last week and they were sweet and no different to usual ones.

Have tried different basics products and use as many as I come accross within my normal weekly shopping list.

BUT the most foul, inedible item of food i've eaten in a very long time were the Basics Rice Crispies. I couldn't get beyond 3 mouthfulls. They tasted like they were made from something strange.......

DD1966

Hi, I see that a few of you have jars of basics curry sauce in your cupboards but have not dared to try it, go for it, it's really nice, if you like chinese curry sauce then you'll like this! I bought some a few months ago and beleive it or not it was only 4p!!!!! bargain.. i bought 6 jars and my family loved it!! Get tasting, try it you'll love it!
:T

Mizzymaddy

Hi, I regularly buy Sainsburys basics range. The more i shop in sainsburys the less i like other supermarkets. There food seems to be much better quality. Anyway a list of whats good...

Bag of peppers
Chopped tomatoes
Brocolli Florets
Baking Potatoes - Gorgeous taste
Mozarella ball
Basics pot noodles - only beef and tom.
Stir fry veg
Crisps
Vinegar
Milk choc digestives -better than Mcvities
Basics Spanish White wine
Lemonade
Orange Juice
Pasta
Rice
Washing powder
Fabric Softener
Pizza
Tomatoes
Onions

Prob more but can't remember!

Sol00

1carminestocky wrote: »

Their Barn Eggs are currently £1.80 for 18! That would appear to be a brilliant price! We are investigating whether to start shopping at Sainsburys instead of Asda/Morrisons due to the better range of Value products (and, from all accounts, their better quality). I've just used mysupermarket to get a 'feel' for the prices ('ordered' mostly Basics stuff, granted). Ended up with a total of 60 items in my trolley for £47 (this includes a bottle of vodka and a bottle of red wine!) and the corresponding prices at the other supermarkets were:

Sainsburys £46.91
Asda £55.81
Tesco £58.09
Ocado £93.39 :eek: :rotfl:

This has greatly surprised us, but maybe the main reason is Sainsburys basics range covers a wider range then the others so the 'replaced' item in the other's baskets were 'ordinary' own brand?

Incidentally, here's how easy it is to manipulate the comparison figures. If I was to add 6 crates of 24x 440ml Carling to my Sainsburys order (on offer at £10.59 per pack), here's what happens to the figures:

Sainsburys £110.45
Asda £151.81
Tesco £162.13
Ocado £193.79

:rotfl:

It is actually surprising how many Basics products they have! I never really contemplated using Sainsbury's for my shopping as I always thought it'd be more expensive than Asda or Tesco,but obviously not. I even saw a chocolate gateau at 40 odd pence!!! :T

blackbelle_2

Hi everyone

What a useful thread :T

Here's the Basics I buy regularly and which I recommend:

• Kiwis - small but regular kiwi taste
• Lemons - great for cooking
• Basics Digestives - great for dunking and cooking
• Custard Creams - yummy
• Jaffa Cakes - really tasty and low-calorie
• Medium Food Bags - great for packing home baked stuff away in my freezer
• Sweetcorn can - sweetcorn is sweetcorn, right?
• Carrots
• Peppers
• Basics Tomatoes - can't distinguish between these and loose ones
• Mushrooms
• Soya Milk
• Basics Whole Chicken
• Peach Slices
• Pineapple Pieces
• Instant Skimmed Milk Powder (for breadmaker)
• Sponge Scourers 15p :-)
• Natural Yoghurt 500g
• Chopped Tomatoes - great staple ingredient
• Frozen peas
• Milk chocolate - I think these bars are lovely
• White chocolate - havent bought this recently, since change of manufacturer, but will be disappointed if worse quality - these bars were really tasty
• Plain flour - noticed absolutely no difference in standard of baking when using this

Basics I've tried but which I wont bother buying again:

• Bananas - they used to be cheaper than the loose bananas, but now the loose ones are working out cheaper weight for weight!
• Apples - found them small and tasteless
• Strawberries - hard and tasteless
• Cooked & Peeled frozen prawns - used to buy these, but then noted that some packets have not been shelled properly, so am now buying JS own-brand.
• Cereal Bars - from memory, these were full of artificial sweeteners?
• Smoked Salmon trimmings - yes, it says 'trimmings' but it looks very unappetising, like roadkill, and it has got tough bits in it.
• Cat litter - it is non-clumping and I thought was not as good as JS own-brand clumping version.
• Curry sauce - I found this quite bland and watery, but perhaps a better cook than I could jazz it up a little :-)
• Cola / White lemonade - yuck
• Instant chocolate - I thought this tasted terrible - really bland and lumpy.
• Basics onions - can be difficult finding a bag in which some haven't 'gone off'

tootiefrooties

Their basics milk chocolate is really yummy, kind of praline-y IYKWIM. Also, they have chocolate sponge puddings in the freezer section for about 89p and they are really, really nice! I feel like I should think of something healthy now... OH, their basics bananas are much better value than tesco value range as you get more for your money