THEY say your first meal of the day is the most important, but which supermarket makes it best in a sandwich?
Tesco revealed its most popular “meal deal” sarnie of 2022 was the sausage, bacon and egg All Day Breakfast triple pack last week.
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Other supermarkets also have strong contenders wanting a slice of the brekkie and break action.
Julie Etherington built up a hunger to test out some of the breakfast sandwiches on offer.
Find out how a budget supermarket got on against the more expensive and upmarket stores.
Tesco All Day Breakfast, £2.80, calories 570
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THIS sausage, bacon and egg triple portion of sandwiches is packed with flavour.
There’s a generous helping of sausage with a taste of stuffing which pairs perfectly with the other ingredients.
The use of mayonnaise plus tomato relish sounds odd, but with both used sparingly, somehow it works.
While this Tesco brekkie sarnie is tantalisingly tasty, I must point out that it’s bit heavy-handed on the seasoning, leaving a strong peppery aftertaste.
Asda All Day Breakfast Triple, £3, calories 595
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TWO brown sandwiches again but mixing things up a little with Cumberland, instead of just regular, sausage in the egg variations.
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Each one tasted good and was packed with enough breakfast staples to keep me full for the rest of the day.
While ketchup is pretty much universally liked, maybe the decision to add brown sauce to a cold sausage and egg sarnie is more controversial.
I also wish they’d spread the sauce up to the edges, instead of just dolloping it in the middle.
Using butter could have made it tastier, too
Lidl All Day Breakfast, £2.39, calories 631
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THIS pack contains three variations of a breakfast sarnie, containing egg, bacon and sausage – so more banger for your buck to start with.
Lidl doesn’t scrimp on the filling for the sausage, egg and bacon on malted brown bread.
The egg and bacon on white bread gives a more authentic full English flavour, and the sausage and egg on brown bread makes an attractive looking pack of sandwiches.
My only criticism would be the smear of ketchup all soaked into the bread, as it doesn’t really add anything to the flavour.
Sainsbury’s Bacon and Free Range Egg, £2.75, calories 465
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HURRAH for the supermarket which doesn’t feel the need to pick a condiment on its’ customer’s behalf.
Simply a generous portion of egg with a less generous slice of streaky bacon.
While the store does make an All Day Breakfast Sandwich for the same price, if you’re not into cold sausages this is a great alternative.
The bread could’ve been more moist, but that’s the risk you take with malted or wholemeal when it’s up against soft white.
Not my favourite, but slightly higher than middle of the road.
Waitrose All Day Breakfast, £4, calories 506
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POSH supermarket’s sandwich is in the same ballpark as Marks & Spencer’s.
Egg, bacon and sausage completes the filling, again on white bread and with tomato ketchup spread thinly on one side of the bread.
There was very little bacon limited to just one half of one of the sandwich’s.
This one also loses points for having the least amount of sausage than any of the others in the taste test.
Maybe that accounts for it having the fewest calories of all the packs.
All in all, perhaps £4.00 could be better spent on a warm breakfast at the local café.
Aldi All Day Breakfast, £2.29, calories 704
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TEN pence cheaper than rival Lidl, Aldi offers a strikingly similar pack of three sandwiches for those extra-hungry people.
Like Lidl, two malted brown sarnies hug a white version in the middle of the pack, but fillings-wise they seem a bit more packed.
The sausage was more evenly spread and the bacon and egg one contained more bacon, so a meatier bite altogether.
Again, the ketchup soaked into the bread, but at less than 77p per sandwich, what’s to complain about.
M&S All Day Breakfast, £4, calories 552
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IT’S not just any sandwich…OK it is, but it’s way pricier than the packs of three and you only get two.
It is down to personal taste, but I prefer breakfast items to come on white bread, so brownie points to the M&S Foodhall for that decision.
It also containes four slices of sausage in the filling, instead of the two I had become familiar with, and strips of bacon right to the edges.
This is without doubt a decent sandwich.
But paying £1 or more extra for one fewer sandwich means the rating is going to suffer.
