Sainsbury's Mixed Vegetable Savoury Rice

This Sainsbury's Basic product is one of the cheapest student meals that you can have. 28p is getting to the price I would describe as 'ridiculously cheap'. The packaging says it all really. As you can see from the picture, Sainsbury's made no effort to attract me to this product. They know that most people who buy this will buy it maybe once just to see if it is better than the leading brand: bachelors. This is the trap that I fell into. This rice takes ages to cook in the microwave: 15 minutes. It needs stirring lots of times during this 15 minutes otherwise it will form one large clump of rice and will be impossible to eat. The rice also hardens if it is ...  Read the complete review

I am normally on a fairly strict shopping budget so I have lots of Smartprice/Basics/Value products in my cupboards to help my money go a little further whilst still enjoying delicious meals. When I was cooking recently and unexpectedly had guests I decided to cook this up along with some oven chips to provide something extra to bulk out the meat that I was cooking. This Sainsbury's Basics Mixed Vegetable Savoury Rice comes provided in a paper bag with a foil lining inside and it's simple enough just to tear a corner off and pour the rice and dried vegetables in to a microwavable bowl. There was a fair amount of rice and lots of dried vegetables, mainly peas, ...  Read the complete review