Sainsbury's Basics Tea Cakes

As someone who really enjoys a teakcake with melted butter, I was a little unsure when buying these for just £0.39, but considering the current financial difficulties in an attempt to reduce costs in food bills I tried them. I was pleasantly surprised however and whilst they are quite small, they taste pretty much just as good as the much higher priced variety. The packaging is naturally very basic, but this obviously does not matter. They provide 170 calories each, fqavourable to the 264 cal provided by their larger teacakes which also cost 0.94 pence for a pack of four. The amount of fruit in the teacake would seem to be an important factor in determining quality and ...  Read the complete review

COST: 54p NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (per biscuit): Calories: 89 Kj: 374 Protein: 0.8g Carbohydrate: 13.8g - of which sugars: 8.8g Fat: 3.4g - of which saturates: 1.9g Fibre: 0.3g Salt: 0.1g Sodium: Trace INGREDIENTS: Mallow, biscuit base, chocolate flavour coating, glucose syrup, water, pork gelatine, wheat flour, vegetable oil, sugar, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, salt, soya lecithin, cocoa mass, whey powder, polyglycerol polyricinoleate DIETARY INFORMATION: Contains milk, wheat gluten and soya Not suitable for nut or egg allergy ...  Read the complete review