Sainsbury's Basics Apple & Blackcurrant Squash

As most of us seem to be on a money saving mission lately I thought I'd join the trend whilst on my shopping trip in Sainsburys the other week. I am far from ashamed walking around with a trolley full of supermarkets basic brand products so long as I have a few extra pennies left in my purse. My boys are forever drinking squash so off I trotted down the drinks aisle, my eyes scanning the shelves for the Sainsburys basics range, *beep beep* there it is! The shelf was stacked full of 1 litre bottles of basics squash for just 18p a bottle! Before spotting this I was buying a different branded squash for over £2 for 2 litres! What a bargain this was, so I ...  Read the complete review

Having been a huge consumer of brand name fizzy drinks for far too many years to remember, Mrs. CFC introduced me to the joys of Apple & Blackcurrant squash, as a cheaper alternative to my usual seriously chemically enhanced, over-priced thirst quenchers. Well to say I enjoyed it would be an understatement, as I am now nearly off consuming those fizzy colas which I adored for years. So on a recent visit to my local Sainsbury's I spotted their "basics Apple & Blackcurrant Squash" and although I usually drink another supermarket's version, I thought I would give their version a try. Packaging ------------- Sainsbury's ...  Read the complete review

I don't buy juice very often because I don't like giving it to the boys. If it's in the cupboard Noah will ask for it so I figure, if it's no there then he doesn't know any difference and will always ask for water which is much better for him. The juice costs just 18p for a one litre bottle and on first glance you would probably think it was blackcurrant because it's a very dark purple in colour. It's not until your read the label that you will see it states that it is of course Apple and blackcurrant. The juice is the type where you need to add water to it to dilute the stuff which I like because if I do give it to Noah then I can monitor how ...  Read the complete review

A fruity juice. Only 18p. In another adittion to the Sainsbury's Basics Range is Apple & Blackcurrant Squash. This squash has a great fruity flavour and we love it in our family. You can have it with water or add it to some lemonade for a fizzy fantanstic. You obviously get this fruity drink in a sealed bottle, it has a plastic sleeve around it with the usual Sainsbury's Basics designed packaging. It tells you all of the ingreidants and nutritional information. Its rather low calories aswell! It only has 2 calories per 250ml glass. Thats better than the Sainsbury's Be Good To Yourself juice! In the juice you ...  Read the complete review

I switched to this squash several months ago when the credit crunch started to bite and it became harder to justify the high end squashes I used to buy and get through in substantial quantities. The packaging lives up to the "Basic" name - a plain bottle and plain white label with a basic design. But, this shouldn't put you off (it's a recognised tactic that supermarkets deliberately make their value ranges look as no frills as possible to dissuade more affluent shoppers from purchasing them!). The squash itself is no more dilute than mid-range squashes, so it doesn't suffer from "cheap washing up liquid syndrome". It mixes ...  Read the complete review