You pay for what you get (Strawberries)

Member Name: chrisc92

Product:	Strawberries
Date:	17/06/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap at £1 per punnet

Disadvantages: Tasteless, often in bad condition

We first bought the basics range from Sainsburys a couple of months ago, and one of the first things we bought was their strawberries at £1 per punnet - what a bargain we thought.

For about 4 weeks we bought them everytime we went shopping there, as they were ok and did have some taste. Recently, as the price of british ones went down, so did our interest in this particular product. There is absolutely no comparison with the british ones that are currently selling at around £2, and the size of the punnet is pretty small.

If you haven't had a strawberry for quite a while I guess they do make you miss the proper ones. Most strawberries these days come from Spain, but you have to admit british ones look and taste better. The one thing we did notice is that the basics ones tend to be quite hard, tastless and as an added problem it takes a long time to find a punnet thats in good enough condition to buy - often there are mouldy ones or they look like they've been sweating on the shelves for days.

Of the basics range this is one item that I would not recommend. They certainly aren't very good with cream, but I guess if they were put in a pie or something they'll probably be okay. Anyway for the time being we're going one better by growing our own.

Summary: Fruit is okay if you're short of cash