Is it value (Tesco Value bread)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tesco Value bread
Date:	20/11/03 (192 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap

Disadvantages: taste a bit like nothing

Tesco value Sliced bread

Well after my op on Tesco value beans what to follow but Tesco value sliced bread. Then you can make Tesco value beans on toast.

I do not often eat value sliced bread. I sometimes buy one for the freezer if I am going away so that I have some bread when I get home without going to the shops.

When Sleepydormouse was a student she lived on Value bread. It is cheap and filling for those on a low income..
Tesco value bread costs 19p for a loaf.
Tesco value sliced bread is available as a large loaf thick or medium slice.. The thick sliced one has about 19 slices so 1p a slice not bad.
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It is wrapped in a plastic bag with the Tesco value blue and red design, easily recognisable..

As I said I often have one in the freezer for emergencies. This bread is not available in frozen form at the supermarket.
It is conveniently sliced so easy to break of just a few slices straight from the freezer to make toast and the slices fit well into my toaster. I buy the thick loaf the other being to thin. I like my bread thick anyway.
If you want to make sandwiches it defrosts in about 2 hours or you could put it in the microwave on the defrost setting.

So how does this value bread taste?
O dear I find taste so difficult to describe. This bread tastes fine it is not too yeasty it has a mild bready taste. Very inoffensive not as tasty as a loaf from a bakers but then it is only 19p and what do you expect from cheap sliced bread. I have had other sliced breads in the past and this value bread is as good as and better than a lot of others.

Texture. I find this is important in bread. This bread has a fair texture quite an open one. It is moist not dry Will roll into little balls in your fingers not crumbly.

So I find it satisfactory. When feeling impoverished I am happy to eat it .A lot of people are happy with it all the time any way regardless of their financial situation bu
t not having been brought up on sliced bread I find it not good enough for my everyday wants in a bread.


So this bread as toast with value beans makes a cheap quick fairly nutritional meal a loaf with 2 cans of beans will probably feed 4 or 5 hungry students well for under 50p, top it with a little grated cheese for added protein. Suitable for vegetarians. Another cheap meal would be value bread toast and value spaghetti in tomato sauce, or how about a healthy nutritious egg on toast either scrambled or poached. Or you could just make a ham sandwich with Value bread. I must admit I am not so keen on it for sandwiches but for toasts its fine. .

You could always make a cheap, filling, fairly nutritious pudding from it. .

Yes a bread and butter pud

Ingredients
6 or 7 slices of bread. (If you are fussy you can remove the crusts)
50g/2oz butter or margarine.
50g/2oz currants or sultanas or mixed.
40g/1.1/2 oz sugar
2 eggs
1 pint milk

Method
Spread marge/ butter on bread.Cut the bread into squares or fingers.
Put ½ the bread into a greased 1.1 litre/2 pint ovenproof dish.
Sprinkle all the fruit over the bread evenly. Then sprinkle half the sugar.
(At this stage there is something I often do to make this pud special,
Sprinkle 1 /2 - 1 teaspoon of mixed spices or cinnamon onto the bread with the sugar)
Layer the rest of the bread over the top butter / marge side up, sprinkle the rest of the sugar over the bread.

Beat the 2 eggs and the milk together pour over the bread and butter in the dish.
Leave the pud to stand for about ½ hour time to have a cup of of tea or coffee. This time is so the milk soaks into pud
Turn the oven to 170C 325 F gas 3 for about 45 mins to 1 hour until it is set and a little crispy on top
This quantity should serve 4.

Well I reckon that’s enough about value bread
You probably have some excellent ideas fo
r snacks and meals using it.
I find Tesco’s value sliced bread quite good.
Happy eating Thanks for reading Mary

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