Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

littlesnuggy

Curry sauce back down to 4p!

~~Diane~~

smeeinnit wrote: »

Only once, smelt a bit dog food ish, wasn't appetising. Much better to make it yourself, then you will know what goes in it!

Yes it does smell like dog food even John West which is the one I tried, once cooked it was nice, but for the price you might as well buy the ingredients and make it from scratch like you say. :T

ka7e

Found Basics aubergines for the first time, this week. £1.65 for 2 huge ones instead of £1.18 each - and the regular priced ones were much smaller!

sarymclary

Lasagne sheets are just like any other brand, but only 32p
Mayo is good and 41p
Natural yogurt is just as good as any of the expensive brands but only 46p for 500ml
Malt vinegar is fine and 13p
Shower gel is 10p smells like normal gel, and cleans well
Grated hard mild cheese £1.97 for 500g, great for cheese on toast, in toasties, sprinkled on lasagne and pasta bakes, or just in sandwiches
Sage & Onion stuffing 16p, tastes lovely, just like Paxo
Cheese singles 50p - exactly like the branded ones
Tinned custard 25p - lovely
Furniture polish 30p - does the job, not as waxy for wood, but as a general polish for cleaning its more than adequate
Hairspray 37p - my teenagers use this instead of expensive gel/wax and say it's good


Mint sauce is yuk! gloopy, with a glue like globbular consistency, artificial sweetener, and just too awful to eat. We went back to Colemans or Duerr's from Farmfoods for 50p

1carminestocky

Have to agree - the mint sauce has easily been the biggest disappointment for us. Horrendously yukky! Can't say we've had any more disasters like that one and these products are so cheap it's not a huge risk to try them.

Claire_Bear

Basics cider, £1.21 or something for a massive bottle, tastes just like Strongbow to me, nothing like the truly awful cheap 'White Lightning' type ciders you can get. Lovely and refreshing straight from the fridge with some blackcurrant in

L.L_2

I found something pretty useless. The blue cistern toilet blocks (the ones that you put in and make the water run blue) they are only 37p but last about 15 flushes compared to the more expensive brands that last atleast a fortnight.

wheretheresawill

I've bought the curry sauce today after reading about it on here, just plucking up the courage to use it......

jcr16

this week i'd thought for a change i'd try their value tea bags. we always have a variation of tesco premium, twinings every day or builders brew. anyway thought for 28p what have we lost. and i was very surprised. they were fair trade but not only that produced a really nice cuppa. even my mil never noticed the difference between basics and twinings.

also basics frozen cauliflower. these are really really tiny pieces. poss all the left overs from when they chop you the big bits. but it made a delish cauliflower cheese. hubby said it was the nicest one i've made. because they were small florets they cooked really quickly and when mixed with a cheese sauce you still got full flavor.

i'm very impressed with my 2 latest trial's.

1carminestocky

Sainsbugs basic tea bags are frankly the bargain of the century. Currently saving us £70 per year. On tea bags. Crazy.