Sainsbury's Basics Vegetable Soup

I have stated before in some of my reviews I don't do economy, I'm a brand snob, I totally admit it. I'm not tight when it comes to spending! I like good quality items of anything I buy and I'm willing to pay for it. However after a recent shopping trip to Sainsbury's and buying their Economy Tomato Soup and loving it I have made it my ambition to try all economy soups lol Well it's something to do eh! So I went the other day to my local Sainsbury's and purchased this along with some other economy products to try.... Sainsbury's Economy Vegetable Soup. The Packaging.... 400g tin with a white and orange label on it exactly the same as on ...  Read the complete review

When the colder weather comes along we always seem to turn to either making or buying some type of soup, we both love a good soup and in all fairness there is little to beat a plate of home-made soup served with a chunk of crusty bread. But time is not always on our side and I like to keep a few cans of soup in the larder ready for those occasions. I am flabbergasted at the price that some of the manufacturers are charging for their cans of soup, I personally don't go for the fancy soups, I much prefer the more conventional recipes that are on offer. But having seen some of the brand name soups priced upwards of 65p a can I am on the lookout for a good value ...  Read the complete review

I've been trying to lose weight and cut down on meal sizes so whilst in Sainsburys the other week I decided to stock up on soups. I have so far been quite pleased with most of the Sainsburys basics range so when I seen they even had soups I thought I'd purchase a tin or two and try them out because if they tasted good and saved me money at the same time I was definitely going to be happy. As with the rest of the range the tin is very basic, you do need a tin opener to open it. It has the orange ring around the white covered tin telling us it's Sainsburys Basics. Underneath this there is a sorry picture of a tomato, a spud and a something else not quite sure ...  Read the complete review

Now the weather is getting colder I've been having soups for lunch. The boys are sick to death of sandwiches, crackers and pitas so they welcomed the change too. I usually order the Asda ones when I do a online shop but forgot this time around so I thought I'd try this one as I was picking up a few bits at Sainsbury's. It costs just 21p for a 400g tin and it contains peas, potato chunks, onion and carrots. The first thing I noticed when I opened the tin was how watery it was. Now I know soup isn't suppose to be really thick but this looked like dirty dish water with a few lank bits of veg floating around in it. I was convinced that it would taste very nice but ...  Read the complete review

After being very impressed with Sainsbury's Basics tomato soup, I decided to try the vegetable soup variety. Well, I wasn't as impressed with this soup. I was expecting a nice thick creamy soup with big chunky vegetables, but for 18p my expectations may have been a bit high. The packaging is fairly simple, a white label with some orange decoration and labelling. Nothing too special, but that's what the basics range is designed to be. My first problem was opening the tin, but that could just be my tin opener. The basics tins don't have ring pulls, so a tin opener is necessary, but on this occasion (and other experiences with basics tins) it did not ...  Read the complete review