Vanilla ice cream

Waitrose Essential Vanilla Soft Scoop Ice Cream
1l, £1.09
This has the best vanilla flavour out of all of them, it's also nice and creamy.
★★★

Morrisons M Savers Vanilla Ice Cream
2l, £1.15
Tastes a bit like frozen ice. There is a little hit of cream at the end, which is nice but it needs more vanilla.
★★

The Co-operative Simply Value Vanilla Ice Cream
2l, £1.05
Starts off being lovely and creamy but then the taste disappears.
★★

Marks & Spencer Simply Soft Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
1l, £1.80
The vanilla flavouring is quite obvious and leaves a strange taste in the mouth.
★

Fish fingers

Marks & Spencer Simply Chunky Cod Fish Fingers
400g, £2.90
Easily the best one, has a lovely crunch to the breadcrumbs and great big pieces of fish.
★★★★

Waitrose Essential 10 Cod Fish Fingers
300g, £1.91, waitrose.com
There are lovely bits of fish in these fingers but the crumbs are too soft.
★★★

Morrisons M Savers 10 Fish Fingers
250g, 60p
These are so thin it's like they've forgotten to put the fish in, but what's there is reasonably tasty.
★★

Sainsbury's Basics 10 Breaded Fish Fingers
250g, 60p
Not nearly enough fish in these and they seem to fall apart quite easily.
★★

Digestive Biscuits

Morrisons M Savers Digestives
400g, 40p
Gorgeous. Nutty and sweet with a beautiful flavour. BEST BUY
★★★★

Waitrose Essential Digestive Biscuits
500g, 70p
Quite plain tasting but it's not too sweet, which is a good thing.
★★★

Tesco Everyday Value Digestives
400g
A lot of texture to this biscuit, possibly too much. It's also far too sweet.
★★

Sainsbury's Basics Digestive Biscuits
400g, 40p
This is even sweeter, but it has a better texture and isn't too grainy.
★★

Cheese and tomato pizza

Tesco Everyday Value Cheese & Tomato Pizza
480g, £1.50
Lovely and crispy. Can taste herbs so it's definitely the most flavoursome.
★★★

Waitrose Thin & Crispy Cheese and Tomato Pizza
250g, £2.49
I like the thinness of the base but the flavour is a bit lacking.
★★

The Co-operative Simply Value Cheese & Tomato Pizza
268g, 63p
Too much dough and not enough tomato or cheese!
★

Morrisons M Savers Deep Pan Cheese & Tomato Pizza
405g, £1
Way too much bread, even if it is supposed to be a deep pan. Not good at all.
★

Macaroni Cheese

Sainsbury's Basics Macaroni Cheese
300g, 60p
This is actually quite delicious. There is a real depth of flavour. Very good.
★★★★

Morrisons M Savers Macaroni Cheese
300g, 80p
Extra cheesy, which is good but it's also bizarrely bland. It's watery too, which isn't nice.
★★

Tesco Everyday Value Macaroni Cheese
400g, 80p
Apart from being very bland, the pasta is too thick.
★

Waitrose Essentials Macaroni Cheese
350g, £1.79
Incredibly tasteless, apart from the salt of which there is far too much. No taste of cheese at all.
★

Houmous

Waitrose Essential Houmous
200g, 95p
This one has the best texture, and probably the best flavour, but there isn't much in it.
★★★

Sainsbury's Basics Houmous
200g, 85p
This is missing the good sesame kick that you'd expect. Is a bit too sour too, but not terrible.
★★

Tesco Everyday Value Houmous Dip
300g, 98p
Incredibly sour. Also, I know it's supposed to be textured but this is far too grainy, it's not nice.
★

Morrisons M Savers Houmous Dip
150g, 55p
I wouldn't call this houmous!
★

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