After Dinner Bliss at Half the Price!!! (Tesco Value After Dinner Mints)

Member Name: katestuartuk

Product:	Tesco Value After Dinner Mints
Date:	24/01/08 (89 review reads)
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Advantages: Taste good, cheap

Disadvantages: You don't get as many in the pack as with After Eights.

Tesco Value After Dinner Mints

Think After Eights but Nicer...!!!!

I love chocolate. But even more than that, I love minty chocolate. When I was pregnant I went completely off chocolate, but after I had my little girl, the rush for chocolate came back with a vengeance. I was lucky enough to receive a couple of boxes of After Eights as presents and soon wolfed my way through them. Now After Eights are pretty damn expensive if you ask me, so this is where the value aspect comes in.

During a recent online shopping spree at Tesco.com I found, in the virtual sweet isle, this delightful box of choccies, and could not believe the price. 75p. Yes, that's 75p for a whole box (200 sweet little grams) of minty chocolate. As they were Value, I didn't expect much, but popped them into my virtual basket and moved on to the boring task of locating and buying the washing up liquid.

When the Tesco man arrived with the shopping a couple of days later I had almost forgotten about the chocolate delights awaiting me, but found them, popped them in the fridge while I unpacked the bags, and then returned to find them all cold and crispy (just how I like them!)

The packaging is fairly standard for Tesco's value range - white and navy blue with the red Value label on the front. Inside there is a bit of corrogated card and then you get to the chocolates themselves. These are much chunkier than After Eights, with a great deal more chocolate to them and a runnier, less fondant, more syrup type of mint filling. Delicious! They still have the crispyness but are far more substantial than After Eights. The only other way they differ is that these are not individually wrapped, where After Eights are, and that's a shame, but they are still pretty good for the pennies you spend on them. I would be quite happy to serve these up as an after dinner treat to guests and I am sure the guests would thank me for it too, considering that these are bigger and in my opinion, better than their Nestle counterparts. For anyone who is boycotting Nestle, these are an ideal way of enjoying something that is very similar, and saving money at the same time!

I can heartily recommend these and will be adding another box to the next shopping trip - as I'm sure you can imagine, the last box didn't make it through the night....!!!

Thank you for reading, Kate x

Summary: Lovely! Yummy! Need I say more?!!