Sainsbury's Basics Instant Mashed Potato Mix Reviews

I bought this for two reasons. Firstly, it's cheap. Secondly, I couldn't be bothered with peeling, chopping, boiling and mashing potatoes from scratch. Now I realise all that effort is certainly worth it. It sounds very simple to make, and it is. You mix some water and milk, boil it, then stir in half the packet of instant ...  Read the complete review

Not being in the best of health at the moment due to a back problem that will soon put me in a wheel chair i can't stand for periods of time to cook. I live alone so have to things as easy as possible to fit in my life style. I do prefure cooking everything from scratch as a rule but this just is not possible at this moment in ...  Read the complete review

Living alone and only cooking for one person I tend to be rather lazy I have to admit to that! I tend to eat alot of convenience foods or take aways at the minute and when I do cook well I cook for me and my mate who lives in the flat downstairs. I live in a flat as does she and sometimes it seems silly as we spend most of the ...  Read the complete review

Okay so there are two potato camps in the world; there are those who love light, fluffy, fresh mashed potato involving peeling, boiling, pulverising, seasoning, and adding hot milk and butter... then there are those who tip a packet into a bowl, pour on hot liquid, stir, and tuck in. I have a foot in each camp, because I find real mashed ...  Read the complete review

For many years I have bought instant mash potato as I have found it a very good food, if I have been out for the day or in a rush to go out, or my wife and myself just fancy a quick meal instead of slaving over the stove cooking and peeling potatoes. I have bought this mash from Sainsbury's many times and I like it, it comes ...  Read the complete review

Sainsburys Basics Instant Mashed Potato Mix is very reasonably priced at only 16p for a 250g packet (which should serve 3-4). It is also fairly easy to make, and certainly less hassle than making the real thing. That is where the praise for this product stops however. Despite the fact that this product contains 98% potato I ...  Read the complete review

sainsbury's basics instant mashed potato mix. This is one of their basic range from Sainsbury's, and a whole packet of this although basically rapped up in a plain wrapping which is white with the orange strip across the top displaying the sainsbury's basics range logo, they are really cheap, costing a mere ...  Read the complete review

With money being so tight all the time I'm slowly working my way though the Sainsbury basic range changing my everyday purchases for a cheaper option. By doing this every month I'm saving a huge amount of money. I usually purchase the leading brand smash for my local supermarket but being priced at £1.31 for 280g. I then saw ...  Read the complete review

Sainsbury's Basics Instant Mashed Potato Mix Description: Manufacturer: Sainsbury's / Type: Vegetables Anyone who has read some of my earlier reviews (many thanks, I do really appreciate it!) will know that I review a lot of products from the supermarket ranges which offer savings to customers by ...  Read the complete review

When my 10 year old sister was doing a bit of cooking at school they sent a list home of what she needed to take in. One of the things on the list read: ONE LARGE SACHET INSTANT MASHED POTATO (SAINBURYS BASICS WILL DO!) That was exactly as it was written on the list so that's what we brought for her because we ...  Read the complete review

Having a meal and realising there isn't quite enough of everything is awful. You feel like you're depriving everyone around you of basic essential nourishment... this is when you grab a bag of the smash. Or at least the basics brand! Obviously, a mashed potato mix is no contender to an actual mashed spud... but sometimes it's ...  Read the complete review

Whilst I do like to do a lot of cooking from scratch, sometimes I'm feeling too tired or lazy, and like to cheat a little - especially when cooking for my daughter, who tends to get hungry a lot earlier than me . She just isn't going to wait while I make real mash to go with her sausages - if she wants dinner, she wants it now! ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever tried to make a meal including mashed potatoes when camping? I don't think anyone does it because it's too hard to do in a tent. This is when Sainsburys Instant Mashed Potato Mix comes into its own. I think just about anybody writing a review will explain emphatically that they prefer genuine mash to the real ...  Read the complete review

SAINSBURY's BASICS INSTANT MASHED POTATO MIX. Yes i know it is cheating, but sometimes i find that i dont have much time, and this instant mash is really not too bad at all. The Packet ********** Instant mashed potato comes in a basic's packet made basically of a bag which is white ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes you simply don't have time to boil up some potatoes and mash them by hand. For all those times when you need to whip up some mash in a hurry, there are instant options. This mix is the cheapest of them. And it tastes it. You have to add a certain amount of water and a certain amount of milk - any less and you end ...  Read the complete review

I like to make the majority of my meals from scratch but sometimes I have neither the time nor the inclination to 'do it myself' so I like to keep some tinned products or packets in the cupboard for quick & easy meals that are still relatively healthy. This instant mash comes in powdered form and to make just measure out ...  Read the complete review

"Instant Mash Potato" is not something I would like to admit to using especially to the Mother in Law .After using it my "food snob" attitude has not been subdued , not even a little. I picked up a bag of this mix on one of my weekly shops to Sainsbury's to keep in the cupboard for ...  Read the complete review

Sainsbury's Basic Instant Mashed Potato Mix So in my idea world where my house was always tidy, my kids always clean and I didn't look like I hade been dragged through a hedge backward I would never eat instant mash it would always be fresh mash made from potatoes I picked that morning from my own organic garden. ...  Read the complete review

Well, what can I say? It rather depends what you are going to use this product for as to whether or not you'll like it. Can you use it for anything other than making instant mash I hear you ask? Well yes you can, and that is exactly why I bought it. I'm quite into making soup at the moment, my fave being homemade chicken. But it can be a ...  Read the complete review

Every few months I spend a certain amount of my shopping budget on stocking up on basics range tins and packets to have in for days when I can't be bothered to make as much effort with cooking. Mash potato is always a great way of filling a need for food. Sainsbury's basic instant mash recently went up to 39p still its not bad value for ...  Read the complete review