Basics For The Bin (Sainsbury's Basics Corn Flakes)

Member Name: cheersdarlin

Product:	Sainsbury's Basics Corn Flakes
Date:	23/09/09 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Not one

Disadvantages: Vile, tasteless, soggy.

I think Sainsburys make a good basics range - we have many of their Basics goods at home; they are cheap and - for the main part - quite good. In general, some basic or value stuff is ok and some of it is definitely not -you have to try it to test it. If it is not nice you do not buy it again and put the waste of cash down to experience.



Sainsbury's basics cornflakes were, quite simply, horrible! My mother nagged me to eat a bowl, telling me that they would be just as good as Kellogs - yeah right. I agreed to try a bowl with her for breakfast and neither of us liked them.



The flakes are much smaller than Kellogs. For some basics you can fool yourself that the food/ product is just the same - made in the same factory sort of thing. You'd have to be stupid to do this with this cereal.




I had a sniff at them - they smelled ok and you think they might be acceptable - until you pour on your milk. I shoveled a load of sugar on them to sweeten the experience and started eating. Kellogs corn flakes are quite tasty and have a crunchy thing going on. These basics cornies tasted really bland to the point of wanting to spit them out. What is the point of eating food like that? Even with 10 tons of sugar on them, you could taste the bland revolting flakes. If that's not bad enough, they went soggy really quickly - so much so that half way through the bowl I had to admit defeat. I refused to finish them.




Those basics cornflakes lived in our cupboard for about 6 months until it was agreed that no one was going to finish them. I even put some in my gerbil cage and they did not eat them either. Finally, they were chucked out. We are not a house to waste food - so the fact that it ended up in the bin speaks volumes. One star is too generous!

Summary: Cheap and horrible cereal