Basics Living - review 4

Continuing my experiment, ‘Basics Living’. Here is my fourth review set.

Basics Sliced White Bread (37p 800g loaf)
It’s a simple, white ‘plastic bread’ loaf. Some people detest ‘plastic bread’ - and my view is that real bread is worth the extra money (if it isn’t going stale or mouldy on you). As plastic breads go, this is a good loaf. It’s certainly worth buying.

Basics Spaghetti (15p tin)
It never was the most gourmet of foodstuffs, but it’s a great snack or meal when you can’t be bothered with much more. I found this to have good texture on the spaghetti, and it was nice, as tinned spaghetti goes. This has become my choice for an emergency tinned spaghetti to keep in the cupboard.

Basics Midget Gems (35p 200g bag)
Midget Gems - my most favourite little sweet. One of the traditional sweets that have never failed to lose popularity. Small, gummy, fruity…. lovely. These don’t dissappoint.

Basics Swing Bin Liners (56p 40 pack)
When I unwrapped my first bag from the roll, I was very disappointed with the lack of handles, which I have always found useful from my usual Aldi bin liners. They were also very thin and not as big as you might expect. This means we now change the bin every day with these, instead of every other day or so. Although its possible to manage with these, the obvious design flaw is that they are so inconvenient without tie-handles. Sorry, Sainsbury’s - but you’re missing the trick there.