Sainsbury's Basics good/bad items

Indie_Kid

The yoghurt (well, the strawberry one) is quite nice.

Patr100

I don't need to shop online yet but i jsut joined mysupermarket to check on prices.
Now I can't find the Basics Baked Beans at all on mysupermarket, it's got Basics Beans & sausages but not just the beans?

How can I add basics baked beans to my trolley if I wanted to order in future?

Bitsy_Beans

Patr100 wrote: »

I don't need to shop online yet but i jsut joined mysupermarket to check on prices.
Now I can't find the Basics Baked Beans at all on mysupermarket, it's got Basics Beans & sausages but not just the beans?

How can I add basics baked beans to my trolley if I wanted to order in future?

I've just done a search with Basics Beans and all varieties have appeared. If you still have no luck just type in Basics in Sainsbury's and it should bring up the whole range. Just a question of scrolling through then.

TravellingAbuela

I've just found the second Basics item I won't be buying again. The first was choc ices and now it's Cheese Sauce. CHEESE sauce? I think they forgot to put the cheese in my tub! I grated more cheese into it and that improved it but I won't bother with it again. Those two items apart, I have been pleased with every other Basics item I've tried.

Patr100

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

I've just done a search with Basics Beans and all varieties have appeared. If you still have no luck just type in Basics in Sainsbury's and it should bring up the whole range. Just a question of scrolling through then.

I'm talking about mysupermarket not sainsbury's own site.
I already tried a search on mysupermarket and they still don't show up at all.

A search for basics beans just gets tinned "beans & sausages" & "red kidney beans"
+ loose green beans.

viv0147

Beware people who have dentures I bought the basic jar of curry 12p I added chicken onions and mushrooms and it turned out a very tasty meal but my dentures ended up totally yellow lol

katycocoa

Have recently tried:

Blackcurrant squash approx 50p
Orange squash approx 50p
Jaffa cakes 38p
Cheese and tomato pizza (chilled, not frozen) 99p

All really nice, the pizza was huge and loaded with cheese. I just added some mushrooms and a bit of ham out of the fridge.

jbreckmckye

Going to be controversial here, and say -

The Good
- Basics Mozzarella is great. A little less smooth than its peers 'raw', it makes a fantastic pizza. Pizza bases are dirt cheap, as is tomato puree, so this is a great option for a budget pizza.
- Bacon is decent if you aren't too fussy about shape, or it's going to be chopped up anyhow (as per carbonara).
- Toilet roll. It's fine; I honestly don't see what the fuss is about.
- Foil. Foil is foil is foil. I've never had bad experiences with this one - and yet, the alternative is so much more expensive!
- White chocolate. Decent stuff, works well in baking / cheesecakes.
- Tortilla chips. Nice way of augmenting a chili, but very inexpensive.
- Flour. Honestly, what's the fuss about expensive flour?
- Carrots are great. So what if they're a little varied in shape and size? Wonderful roasted.

The Bad:
- Tuna. Awful, awful, awful. A horrible, rotten fish smell, poor texture and watery meat make this the last choice for me, no matter how much cheaper than the alternative it is.
- Tea Bags. Well, I call them 'tea' bags, but I'm not so certain. It's something powdery that makes something brown, but that's as far as I can go.
- Stock cubes. Very, very salty; pretty bland, not enough of a saving to justify it.
- Mince pies. Bleugh.

jenniewb

jbreckmckye wrote: »

Going to be controversial here, and say -

The Good
- Basics Mozzarella is great. A little less smooth than its peers 'raw', it makes a fantastic pizza. Pizza bases are dirt cheap, as is tomato puree, so this is a great option for a budget pizza.
- Bacon is decent if you aren't too fussy about shape, or it's going to be chopped up anyhow (as per carbonara).
- Toilet roll. It's fine; I honestly don't see what the fuss is about.
- Foil. Foil is foil is foil. I've never had bad experiences with this one - and yet, the alternative is so much more expensive!
- White chocolate. Decent stuff, works well in baking / cheesecakes.
- Tortilla chips. Nice way of augmenting a chili, but very inexpensive.
- Flour. Honestly, what's the fuss about expensive flour?
- Carrots are great. So what if they're a little varied in shape and size? Wonderful roasted.

The Bad:
- Tuna. Awful, awful, awful. A horrible, rotten fish smell, poor texture and watery meat make this the last choice for me, no matter how much cheaper than the alternative it is.
- Tea Bags. Well, I call them 'tea' bags, but I'm not so certain. It's something powdery that makes something brown, but that's as far as I can go.
- Stock cubes. Very, very salty; pretty bland, not enough of a saving to justify it.
- Mince pies. Bleugh.

Have to agree with you on the tea bags! Perhaps its because I drink too much of it but I can taste the difference! Its just a bit "sharp" or acidic or "hard" compared to other teas I have had.

But the loo roll? nope, I just end up using more if its thinner! Then I end up blocking the toilet...spening more money on new rolls/getting the toilet fixed... Maybe it'd be different if I had children (have heard my 5yo neice uses about 1/4 of a roll a time- just a bad habit says my sister who I can remember doing the same when she was 5!) but for me? its Andrex or Velvet all the way! (You begin to take pleasure in the small things after you've lived with 12 other people for 18 months!)

bramble1

I like the loo roll, i use the batter mix to make my yorkshires (8p! how can you go wrong?!) The cornflakes taste like 'real' cornflakes.