Sainsbury Basics White Chocolate

I buy this chocolate quite often, though I had never actually eaten it as a chocolate bar until last night. Ordinarily I use it as an ingredient for making chocolate chunk cookies as I find it tastes lovely in them.

Last night I really fancied some chocolate but had nothing in the flat. I was contemplating baking a chocolate cake or at least making some cookie dough to eat when I stumbled across my stash of cookie making chocolate. I decided eating a bit of that was far easier than making cookie dough and I would get my sugar fix a lot quicker.

The packaging is very simple, being a basics product, and comes in the usual white and orange wrappings we expect. It also contains the usual style of slogan, telling you it's the same but just simpler ("no fancy packaging, just a good bar of chocolate"). We also have the familiar health wheel on the front with four of the five wedges being red (well really, would you expect it to be anything different?) We are also told that the bar is suitable for vegetarians.

The chocolate was lovely. Really creamy and tasting far nicer than Cadburys white chocolate (which I find overly sweet and sugary). It certainly reminds me of the taste of Nestle, who I try not to buy from because of their overseas policies. I also surprised myself that I managed to not eat the entire bar in one sitting, which is what I have done with Milky Bars in the past, perhaps because after just a few squares I actually felt my sugary craving had been satiated.

The back of the packaging gives us the ingredients list and the fuller list of nutritional information. Costing just 27p this really is a great value bar of chocolate. As already mentioned, this isn't exactly a healthy snack, but it definitely is a nice treat to have and also is great for baking with. I will certainly be buying this again, whether it is to use for baking or just for eating!