Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

Patr100

I tried their contact lenses the other day . My eyes did hurt a bit but I could see the buses coming if not the number or destination.

Jakejakejake

7p instant custard = surprisingly nice.... easy to make and tasted really good, better than I was expecting... will be buying more because its so easy to make!

purplevamp

Went to do an online shop tonight and saw that tinned tomatoes are up again to 36p :mad:. I'm getting them from Ald!, they're still 33p there. I'll be glad when my tomato plants start producing

I did buy some milk and white chocolate on the recommendations on here, they'll go lovely with the rice pops that no-one wants.

shoperholicnot

Basic frozen Apple Pie 69p- Disgusting!
Basic fresh apple pie in chiller cabinet 1.49 - Lovely!!! had this with the 7p custard..very nice!!

shoperholicnot

I am buying mostly basic items now, trying to try as many as possible
I cant believe how little my shopping is costing me now! a revelation!

Heres some of the stuff i have tried:

Baked beans - very good
chopped tomatoes - very good
Basic soap 3 for 13p !! excellent not heavily scented, which me and my skin do prefer.
Basic Tuna - smaller chunks but very good, perfect for pasta or sandwiches
Basics ginger bIscuits - really nice
Basics peanuts - smaller but excellent tasting and only 27p for a large bag!
Basics Baking potatoes - 55p for 4 -excellent
Basics Milk chocolate -27p 100g This is lovely! I prefer it to the white, which is also nice.

Basic Toilet cleaner - not very good ,smells nice and is nice colour but does not seem to clean very well! also has Formaldehyde in it.

will post my findings when i get round to trying the rest of what i've bought, but so far I am well impressed!!

namakemono

Their grated mild cheese was really quite nice. I usually like stronger cheese but this didn't taste all floury or anything (IYSWIM), and it had that slightly plastic-y quality that makes it really nice on its own.

blackbelle_2

... I thought I'd share my feedback, having sampled a bottle of Sainsburys 'Hock' at the weekend

Its only 21p more expensive than the 'basics' bottles of wine... so I reckon it qualifies for this thread as 'almost basics' range

I'd always thought it would be vile ...... however having seen good feedback elsewhere I ventured to buy a bottle .... and it is actually verrrrrry nice .....

I suppose it's lower alcohol content at 9% than some of the more expensive wines, but it's still perceivably alcoholic in taste 'and the slightly lower alcohol content perhaps no bad thing - can drink slightly more before becoming too tiddly ... yum:rotfl:

molthedoll

sparkling water - 12p - brill bargain :j can't taste how it differs to other sparkling water

i add this to cordial instead of lemonade - yummy

louisewh123

BAD - basic mixed veg - its all in tiny bits and has no taste. Yuck!!

Yorkielass

Have just browsed through this thread sitting here eating Basics Whte Chocolate which I've just discovered having seen it mentioned on this thread the other day and now love!

We currently buy regularly:

• Dark chocolate for baking (as someone said don't melt in the microwave though - I got sparks too :eek:
• White Chocolate and Strawberry bars
• Mozzerella Balls are fab - we use them in pasta bakes and in paninis.
• Smoked Salmon trimmings - OH won't eat fish but I get them and love them for lunch, do 2 days and for 88p a pack can't go wrong.
• Tortilla Chips - we've bought these for a couple of years having downshifted from Walkers Sensations.
• Onions - bags for 50p and find they last ages.
• Bananas are fine but always compare price and appearance to the loose ones.
• Peppers
• Teacakes - especially when reduced!
• Frozen Berry Mix - says new on it and is £1 really good mix of the 4 fruits in mine
• Plain/Self raising flour - fine - just give it a sieve, which I normally do anyway
• Dried mixed fruit - not particularly special but fine actually in things I think.

Thanks to this thread I now have a list of things to try and will be buying them next week - it's so annoying we can't get things delivered where we live :mad: