Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

shoperholicnot

Basics Cornflakes - these are fine, perfectly edible and agreeable. a bargain for 44p a box!
Basic crumpets - lovely ...would not know the difference between these and any other crumpets.

1carminestocky

A new one for us - basics teacakes. 39p for 4 and lovely jubbly.

shoperholicnot

Basics tinned pineapple chunks - 18p a tin, lovely.

Bought some of the loose Basics apples today and noticed they have gone down in price to 57p a kg!!! now THATS a bargain!

fuzzybear01

shoperholicnot wrote: »

Basics tinned pineapple chunks - 18p a tin, lovely.

Bought some of the loose Basics apples today and noticed they have gone down in price to 57p a kg!!! now THATS a bargain!

I bought some of the apples too, they look good and I normally only go for pink lady apples (bit fussy). Hope they taste ok though!

1carminestocky

Major news (yes, I'm sad! ) My wife has now converted to basics cornflakes :eek: If you knew her you would be just as shocked. She's always been a Kelloggs girl through and through but as we ran out of Kelloggs the other day she started eating the basics ones....and now really likes them. Enough to eschew the Kelloggs. Daft as it sounds, this will probably save us over £100 per year! On cornflakes. Madness.

ka7e

Bad news - Basics Mixed Vegetable Savoury Rice has gone up from 21p to 28p. Still great for stuffing the Basics peppers though!

shoperholicnot

fuzzybear01 wrote: »

I bought some of the apples too, they look good and I normally only go for pink lady apples (bit fussy). Hope they taste ok though!

i find them to be really nice apples i normally only like the pink lady and royal gala apples

Viper_7

LIDL or ALDI forget the basics just the normal foods and real prices. Much cheaper and better quality than the so called offers from the supermarkets.

1carminestocky

Funnily enough, we only pop into Aldi these days if they have a super duper offer on - now we are basics 'converts' the so-called 'cheap' supermarkets seem rather expensive in comparison . Plus we have also got used to using the clear traffic light labelling system on the basics products. Depends what you define as 'better quality' but, to us, it tends to prove that buying basics/value in most instances means eating less fat/sugar/salt than the so-called 'better quality' stuff.

John_Thomson

I've tried quite a lot the Basics range with usually good results. Wouldn't go for the teabags or washing up liquid again. Cashew nuts and Japanese rice crackers stand out though. Other half won't allow me to buy the toothpaste again as he's not sure it actually works. I've noticed a huge increase in the range lately! Naan bread anyone? Pepperoni pizza! Even a range of barbecue ready fresh meats! Best buy has to be leaf salad in a bag. The fruit ande veg is generally good although the bananas were a bit sad the other day. Most were black inside which was disappointing to say the least.