Sainsbury's Basics Instant Chocolate

I love hot chocolate my favoured brand being Whittard but alas my local Whittard has closed and I'm left searching the shelves for an alternative. When I saw that Sainsbury's had a 400 gram jar of instant hot chocolate albeit from their Basics range for 50 pence I put a jar in the trolley and decided to give it a try, if it was disgusting I hadn't exactly wasted a lot of money. I have tried other products from the Basics range before and been pleasantly surprised with how good they were considering the price. The jar itself comes in the Basics colours of white label with an orange band around the top and orange writing and a picture. It ...  Read the complete review

I really do love hot chocolate particularly when it's cold and miserable weather and as I'm in the UK I do get through a lot of the stuff lol! I usually buy individual servings of choccy drinks mainly because I'm a bit of a gannet and can't help myself and drink far too much of the stuff which simply isn't cost effective for me. So when I saw this big tub in my local Sainsbury's priced 89p (for a huge tub) I thought why not give it a go it may be the buy of the century! The Packaging.... White tub with a brown screw on/off lid to the top of it (slightly different to the photograph on the top of this review). In white, black and orange ...  Read the complete review

I don't often buy supermarket "value" or "basic" branded products because rightly or wrongly, I feel that the product will be somehow inferior to the better known more expensive brands. However, in a bid to cut down on my shopping bill, I recently bought a tub of Sainsbury's Instant Hot Chocolate Drink from their basics range. Priced at just 50p for a generously sized 400g jar, this hot chocolate drink was the cheapest on the shelf by a vast margin and seemed excellent value for money. The alarm bells should have started ringing at this point, but focussed on my quest to drive down my shopping bill my judgement was somewhat clouded and I ...  Read the complete review

Sainsbury's Instant Hot chocolate Drink. I like to have a bedtime drink sometimes, helps me to sleep. Whilst this is not the best looking chocolate drink, and thinking that i would save a few pennies at the same time, brought some of this Instant Hot chocolate Drink in my local supermarket. The Pot ********** Comes in the usual basics red colour band upon a white background, and has a rescrewable lid which has a removable foil lining presumably to keep the powder dry and fresh. I usually boil up some hot milk, and add a few maybe three spoonfulls of hot chocolate bedtime drink to my mug, its a large one that i got as ...  Read the complete review