Chocolate chip cookie: Tesco’s own brand range

It’s another edition of own-brand products review for Tesco. As some of you may know, Tesco is a reputable company here in the UK/Ireland, and this is where I mostly do our grocery shopping. I also buy random food items from other stores like small Asian groceries, Aldi, Lidl, and M&S (just to name a few) but I can say that I spend about 90% of our household’s grocery budget with Tesco.

I am not that fussy with a lot of items we use for our home. In fact, I am very much open to the idea that I buy and use products that are cheaper so long as it works! So I can be really frugal about certain items especially around the last week before payday (since the grocery budget is almost running out at the time, LOL!).

Tesco chocolate chip cookies

These cheaper alternatives are not only limited to items we use around the house like cleaning agents but to items we eat, too. One of them is Tesco’s chocolate chip cookies. Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies, right? In fact, I know how easy it is to make so how can a cheaper alternative go wrong, right? If I wasn’t being the lazy person I am, I’d probably make one right now and bake! But since I am, the next best alternative is to buy these readily available options in the groceries.
The price for each pack is merely a fraction of the other alternatives from brands like Maryland or M&S – just €0.61 for a 250g pack! I am not a cookie expert but I find Tesco’s version of this cheap cookies not too bad. Each cookie has a decent amount of chocolate chip, not overly/sickeningly sweet and satisfies my sweet tooth cravings! I don’t think there’s much for me to ask for anyway if I think of the price I paid for it.
I can’t consume the entire pack but the cookies stay fresh and crisp even after a few weeks since opening. It is a simply foil packaging but does the job to keep the food inside fresh – I never experienced biting into stale-tasting cookies with Tesco’s! Apart from that, I never experienced opening a pack to discover it filled with crumbled or broken cookies. Sure, there are a couple of pieces split in half (probably during transport) but I find the number of damaged cookies versus the whole cookie pieces just very minimal. So it never bothered me in the end.
I bought this countless times before and don’t mind buying again in the future. Tesco really offers good and cheaper alternative to their customers for common household products that’s why I keep on buying from their own brand line. Overall, I don’t see myself not buying this item again in the future, especially if I don’t want to spend on chocolate chip cookies that much (or bake at home!).