The cost of living crisis is affecting us as consumers, leaving us with no choice but to look for ways to reduce our food shopping bills.
Supermarkets offer cheaper alternatives to staple items such as baked beans, fairy liquid, coffee and teabags, but it’s very easy to get drawn to the ‘finest’ ranges. This begs the question, are the more affordable ‘value’ items just as good in terms of quality?
As part of our supermarket reviews series and after reviewing coffee last week, we’re moving onto another household favourite this week - tea bags. Many of us can’t start the day without a cuppa, but does it really matter if we choose a fancy brand of teabags, or is tea just tea?
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This week we’re testing out value tea bags from supermarkets to see if they’re worth swapping to from big brand names like Yorkshire Tea and PG tips. With plenty of basic items out there on offer, we wanted to see which one came out on top. We put four to the test, here’s our verdict.
