Month: January 2019

Asda’s Frosted Flakes Cereal

Asda’s Frosted Flakes Cereal

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As a big fan of Frosties I could do with a cheaper alternative to save money. This is really great, it’s not too sugary and it doesn’t get mushy in milk. The taste is perfect, and I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference with the branded product and this one!

I easily recommend this if you’re a fan of Frosties!

  • Taste: 10/10
  • Price: 8/10 95p for 500g. It could be cheaper but it’s a decent price for it’s quality.
  • Packaging: You know what to expect from this product. The use of the lion is pretty tongue-in-cheek because of the normal brand.
Lidl Cotton Wool Pads

Lidl Cotton Wool Pads

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The Aldi ones are brilliant so I wanted to give the Lidl ones ago. These aren’t as good as the Aldi ones as theirs are a bit stronger and durable, and you get 2 packs for the price you’d get for the Lidl one.

The pad isn’t durable and even without any wiping, the cottons starts coming apart. I’ve found that as soon as I put a make-up remover or even water on the pad, that it starts breaking apart.

I’d recommend getting the Aldi version as you get two packs for the price of one! It’s much more durable than these ones.

  • Feel: 5/10 Not bad, but could do better.
  • Price: 6/10 42p for a pack of 140.
  • Packaging: 4/10 Comes apart pretty easily, so it’s easy for holes to be poked in the plastic wrapper, may cause sanitation issues depending on the user.
Asda Golden Balls

Asda Golden Balls

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This is much better than the branded cereal than make my mouth sore! It’s not super sugary like the branded cereal & it doesn’t hurt your teeth when you eat them. If you find this to hard for your teeth I recommend letting it soak in the milk for a bit. It doesn’t get mushy like other cereals.

It has a nice aroma to it and an almost honey like taste?

  • Taste: 10/10
  • Price: 8/10 (89p for 375g)
  • Packaging: 10/10. Stands out on the shelves so not hard to look for in the supermarket.
Lidl Cotton Buds

Lidl Cotton Buds

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Lidl’s brand for beauty products is Cien. I usually get a pack of cotton buds in Poundland but this is much cheaper and Lidl’s other products seem to be doing good so worth a try.

The stick to these cotton buds break easily. They bend almost every time I use them. The cotton wool part comes apart easily too, not as easily as the stick but still, a bit of a hassle that I could do without.

It’s a shame this product isn’t that great, I was really hoping it would do better but alas, I must give a honest review!

I’ll stick to going to Poundland for my usual stock!

  • Feel: 4/10 Not comfortable.
  • Price: 7/10 (35p for 200 sticks)
  • Packaging: 9/10 A bother to open at first, if you aren’t holding it’s base, when you first open the lid, the entire box will fall to the floor due to the sticker making it topple on the other side. I just leave it open on my stand now.
Asda’s Rice Snaps Cereal

Asda’s Rice Snaps Cereal

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A family friendly cereal at only 75p for a 340g box!? Bargain right? Hold on…

I loved rice krispies as a kid. Now that I’m an adult I’d thought to try out a cheaper knock-off box. Asda came through with their own brand cereal, however when I tasted it, it all went wrong.

I’m pretty sure this cereal is mostly sawdust. I’m certain. The look of the product & the smell is very sawdusty. I even tried sieving the cereal in a colander when I was nearing the end of the box to get most of the dust off, sadly it didn’t work. The taste doesn’t taste like cereal. It taste like cardboard.

The feel isn’t nice either. It’s texture isn’t exactly mushy but…it has a stale like quality? I’d expect rice krispies to go soggy once it hits milk, it is rice puffs after all, but this product just takes the cake!

I thought I got a bad batch so a few weeks later I tried again with the same results. I tried a third time a few months later but the sawdust feel got worse so I won’t bother trying this again.

  • Taste: 3/10 Was good for the first box, but quickly got worse with every repurchase.
  • Price: 8/10 It is worth it if you like the taste & can’t get any other cereal.
  • Packaging: 9/10. Standard cereal box.

 

Lidl’s Toothpaste

Lidl’s Toothpaste

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First time buying toothpaste from Lidl. I didn’t think much because…well it’s Lidl but their products have been in the news lately raving how good they are so I thought might as well see how their stuff is.

This is Lidl’s brand ‘dentalux’ whitening toothpaste. They do other sorts but what I needed at the time was a whitening toothpaste. This dried my mouth out when I used it twice a day so I switched out my morning toothpaste for another branded toothpaste. This toothpaste leaves a clean feeling in my mouth, but because there’s no minty taste or smell, it doesn’t give that satisfying feeling. Still, for the price it’s cheaper than other brands. As for the whitening impact; this products works, but it’s results are slow. Maybe it’s because I’m using it only once a day instead of twice so your results may differ to mine. I’ll keep buying this, but as it’s absence of the minty feel makes my mouth feel tacky later in the day, I won’t use it twice a day.

  • Taste/Smell/Feel: 5/10 Not bad…but not as great as it could be either.
  • Price: 59p for 125ml’s. It’s okay for it’s worth.
  • Packaging: This toothpaste comes in a twist-off cap at the base. I’d prefer a pop-up lid for pure laziness but it’s not something that makes the product difficult to use. The product also stays upright even when the paste is getting empty which is good use of the packaging in my opinion!

Would I buy again? I don’t shop at Lidl often but when I do go I’d buy a few again. Maybe test out their other toothpaste range!

Baxter’s Tomato Soup.

Baxter’s Tomato Soup.

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Disgusting.

In a word, this product is…disgusting. It’s gross. It’s vile and I wouldn’t buy it again.

I was looking for a cheap product to buy in time for the colder season, I got some soups, saw this on the shelf, and thought to myself, hmm, that seems different, I’ll give it a go.

I was wrong. So very…very wrong.

Let’s start off with the basics.

You can heat this in a pan over the hob or just in a bowl in the microwave, either way, it only takes a few minutes to heat up & ready to eat. So suitable for a quick and lazy meal.

HOWEVER

This product, as soon as I opened the tin, had a very metallic smell to it. I thought nothing of it, it’s from a can, it’s bound to smell a little bit tinny; it’ll go away once cooked. The amount in the tin is very small. There’s only about a tablespoon of rice & 5 or so, of bits of corn. Hardly worth calling it a sweet corn product!

As for the ‘spicy’ part, well I had to add my own spices in to give this product any flavour. It’s so unspicy, I’d be fine if someone fed a toddler this soup.

The tomato doesn’t taste or smell like a actual tomato. It smells and tastes of a very bad canned spaghetti hoops, (Not to say I don’t like canned hoops, but this product had that yucky taste & texture…Imagine if the Americans made a fake tomato sauce/soup product, it would taste like that, this is the American cheese slice, of tomatoes.) the sweetness is overpowering & make me gag. (Even after adding two spoons of chilli powder) I couldn’t even finish of this can because it was so awful.

I don’t know where the spices they had in this product went, because it certainly wasn’t in the soup! If you do plan to buy this, I recommend having a stack of spices ready to give this a kick and to cover up that nasty metal smell and the sickly taste.

  • Taste: 1/10
  • Price: 4/10 (£1 on offer at Morrisons for a serving of one person.)
  • Packaging: 1/10 Lies! There’s barely any rice or sweetcorn in this at all & the tomato is not spicy.

Would I buy again? Absolutely not! If this goes out of my memory & it’s on offer again, maybe I’ll buy it to give it another chance, but for now, there’s no way I’ll buy this again anytime soon.

 

Tesco’s Cherry Cola Review

Tesco’s Cherry Cola Review

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For someone that usually always had branded cola I was hesitant to try this but it’s surprisingly good! I found that it does go flat after a few days but no drinks stay fizzy after opening these days.

The taste is the same (if not better) than the branded Cola. It has a nice cherry fragrance and a sweet taste, it’s not too sugary either. It will be great to freeze on summer days for ice lollies. The taste is very reminiscent of the gummy cola bottle sweets you would find in traditional sweet shops.

For 50p for 2L of drink this is a really great alternative to branded cola. Definitely worth the price!

I do really miss Tesco’s vanilla cola drink, that was easily the best of the flavours yet was discontinued due to lack of buyers. There is now a ‘botanical’ flavour (no idea what that implies!) and a honey flavour incase you want your cola to be even sweeter than usual.

All of Tesco’s own brand cola is sugar-free, that’s what the ‘Xero’ stands for. Quite a lame way to market towards the younger generation but I guess that’s what shoppers are more used to seeing on supermarket shelves these days!

  • Taste: 10/10
  • Price: 10/10
  • Packaging: 8/10 Close in looks to other colas, but doesn’t do much to stand out on the shelves.

Would I buy again? Yes sure! It’s already replaced my normal cola!