This is a review of Sainsbury's unsmoked bacon from their basics range.

I picked this up as part of the ingredients for my Husband's New Year breakfast, his once a year fry up treat. The bacon comes shrink wrapped and requires some scissors or a sharp knife to open.

I don't buy bacon often and am not an expert on the subject but generally I look for unsmoked, non fatty and a good price without landing myself in a two packs for x price deal as I know we won't use it all before the use by date.

This bacon is quite reasonably priced at £1.49 for 300g pack which works out to be approximately 10 thinly sliced rashers. The other packs I looked at ranged around £2.99 for the same amount so I went for the cost-saving choice!

There's not too much fat on them but enough to make it tasty, and not too salty which is one of the reasons we avoid bacon usually. I fried the bacon up and on New Year's Day and we had the leftovers for tea a couple of days later.

It was really popular with my hubby and he was none the wiser that it was actually from the basics range. I would buy this brand again and would be interested to try some of their other basic range products.

To me, Sainsbury's is one of the more expensive supermarkets but it looks like they are aiming to combat the stigma of being priced out of the market as people become more savvy about what they spend and who they spend with. Judging by the bacon, with the basics range you are still getting the quality of Sainsbury's but at a price that competes with the value range at Tesco or the Smart Price at Asda.