Today was day 3 of our TV experiment, and Keli and I thought, to mix things up a bit, we’d try a few new products from the gourmet Tesco Value range. So, we started the morning by swapping what we’d had for breakfast (i.e. Keli had what I’ve eaten for the past two days, and I had what she’s eaten – I know, we’re wild!) and we tried out a few new bits and pieces – along with TV loo roll……
Keli;
It’s mid week and I could not be more unenthusiastic about food if I tried, which is incredibly strange for me, as normally it’s on my mind 24/7! For breakfast I had Val’s Wheat Biscuits, they tasted how they looked: dry, plain, and grey- but actually not all that dissimilar I thought, from the normal brand (I’m not a cereal fan). I definitely missed my yogurts and will sure be reverting back to my TV fav find tomorrow. I really fancied a health kick today food-wise, I think the epic failure of the Crisps and “Chocolate Chip” Cookies yesterday made me realise the need for fresh produce. So for lunch I opted for a TV Tomato and Mozzarella Salad. Now normally I consider this meal a treat - I choose the nicest looking Moz I can find and always get some really juicy ripe Tomatoes. Sadly, when you’re using TV products the only option is to use “ripen at home” veggies and the most basic looking cheese. Although I bought the toms at the weekend they were nowhere near ripe enough today, which to be honest only added to the watery bland taste of the Value Mozzarella. In all honesty, if I had left the Tomatoes another week it might have tasted better, but there is no excuse for that cheese. Italians would literally spit on us if they ever came anywhere near it! It lacked everything fantastic about moz; firm yet tender texture, glossy appearance and most important the flavour of cheese! Dinner, however, was much better. Val and I shared our TV version of Spaghetti Napolitana, you can read our description below. All I will say is it’s the first time I have felt really full without having that lurking vomitus feeling in my gut – all around a nice experience! We also tried out TV Flapjacks for our evening desert/watching a movie snack. Nothing in comparison to home-made, but not inedible…Overall I’d give today a 4/5, perhaps I’m just turning nice/slightly delusional resulting from my body’s lack of nutrients!
Val;
My morning started with the very exciting Buttered Toast and Yoghurt. The bread was a real treat - I particularly enjoyed when the top half of the slice just crumbled in my fingers as I pulled it out of the toaster. The Yoghurt however, was really quite yummy; it pretty much tasted like the other yoghurts I normally buy. It then got to lunchtime (or as I now like to call it - my least favourite meal of the day!) and Tesco Value Curry Flavoured Instant Noodles were on the menu for me. However, one packet was hardly going to be enough to fill me, so I loosened the purse strings and dished out the extra 10p for a second pack! Nevertheless, after having tried my first mouthful of the “noodles”, I felt like I’d been conned out of that 10p! Now, I don’t know how to adequately describe this, but it literally tasted like when you get a strand of hair caught in your food…except it was a whole bowl of hair! The “curry flavour” was another replica of their crisps where every flavour just ends up tasting like “ready salted”! For dinner, we decided (after the disaster that was Monday’s pasta sauce) to make our own fresh Pasta Sauce, Napolitana style, using TV ingredients. Considering that the sauce was pretty much made up of: TV tinned tomatoes, salt, pepper, onions, garlic, and water, it tasted really good! We combined our successful sauce with TV Spaghetti, cooked with 1p Stock Cubes – yes you read correct 1p per cube – and they tasted as good as high range equivalents. Throughout the day we both drank TV Double Strength Apple and Blackcurrant Squash, and just like the Lemon flavour, this was perfectly nice and definitely worth buying to save money. Overall I give today a 3/5.
** Also we have had some comments about trying out other TV products, not just their food. So to make sure we please all of you – and to get a good idea of the TV range – we decided to purchase some TV Toliet Roll. At around 50p for 12 rolls we thought what could really go wrong……. We clearly overestimated TV’s products after a few (that meaning 2 or 3) successful TV finds. We worked out that although this loo roll is so cheap, it might not be that economical. The rolls are much much smaller and the paper is so thin that you find yourself using 3 or 4 times as much. Thus, in a large household, you would go through rolls and rolls in a day.
Spaghetti – Buy
Flapjacks – Try
Apple & Blackcurrant Squash – Buy
Curry Flavoured Instant Noodles – Avoid (Unless of course you’ve run out of dental floss!)
Tinned Tomatoes – Buy
Fresh Tomatoes – Try
Mozzerella – Avoid
Garlic – Buy
Onions – Buy
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