Sainsbury's 'Basics' 8 Pork Sausages

Background: I have to admit I love sausages with almost everything. I have them such a convent food and so adaptable. However they can be expensive and unless they are frozen they have a short shelf life. With this in mind on my latest shopping trip, I noticed these Sainsbury's basic sausages and thought I would give them a try. Price: The price is very competitive, for eight sausages in a pack that weighs 454 grams the cost is just 48p. This is a wonderful price as for the same size pack from a branded manufacturer you can pay up to £2.00. Packaging: This product I found among the other shelves of sausages. And ...  Read the complete review

SAINSBURY'S "BASICS" THICK SAUSAGES COST: 48p for 8 sausages NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (per sausage, presumably uncooked): Calories: 125 Kj: 520 Protein: 4.8g Carbohydrate: 9.2g - of which sugars: 0.3g - of which starch: 8.9g Fat: 7.6g - of which saturates: 3.3g - of which mono unsaturates: 3.6g - of which polyunsaturates: 0.7g Fibre: 0.5g Salt: 0.60g Sodium: 0.50g INGREDIENTS: Pork, water, wheat flour rusk, pork fat, pork rind, salt, sodium triphosphate, disodium diphosphate, dextrose, spices, spice extracts, sodium sulphite, herb ...  Read the complete review

I love to make a Sunday roast or simple sausage and mash and because I am currently unemployed I am on a tight budget so I thought at 48p that I ought to give these a try instead of my usual branded product & I threw them in to my basket on a recent visit to Sainsburys. The packaging is very basic and cannot be recycled, it is quite a stiff plastic wrapping and I needed to use scissors to cut through it as both ends were very well sealed. Once opened I was met with 8 sausages which are a light pink colour, almost a little grey, and these are all pretty similar in size. I actually used my sausages without the skins on them and mixed with sage ...  Read the complete review

For just under 50p you can buy these fresh sausages that are part of the Sainsbury's 'basic' range. The packet contains eight thick sausages that are made up of pork meat. The sausages are indeed thick and they are a nice pink colour. They are sealed nicely at each end but are plyable and easy to open if you want to use them for sausage meat. They smell of pork but the scent isn't overly strong until you start cooking them. There are a number of ways these can be cooked ranging from the oven to the grill to the frying pan. I always use the grill because it's the healthiest way and I just can't stand the thought of them swimming in their own fat. ...  Read the complete review

If you have been reading some of my previous reviews you will understand that i am trying out some super market own brand and value brands to see if i can find some products that are just as good as the more expensive brands, un fortunately these sausages arent. I was going to be having a jacket potatoe for my dinner so i thought some sausages might be nice to accompany it, 48p for a pack of 8 sasauges. It was worth a try! The packaging is the traditional Sainsburys basics. The orange stripe with orange writting of what the product is. To cook i grilled them for about 15 minutes, but you can fry them. They cooked well and looked ...  Read the complete review