WE’VE all gone bananas for banana bread.
It was the lockdown go-to bake, and by April online searches for the perfect recipes had increased sixfold.
But with the nights drawing in, it’s time for a seasonal revamp — so try these recipe twists which won’t bust your budget . . .
TOFFEE APPLE TREAT
Stick to your favourite recipe, but substitute one banana for half a cup of apple sauce, which is 55p for Tesco’s version.
You can then add a generous amount of chopped-up creamy toffee for an indulgent hit.
I like to slice up Sainsbury’s dairy toffees, 90p, into cubes for this — cheaper than using popular Werther’s Original chewy toffee, £1.50.
If you want to go the whole hog, decorate the top of your loaf with sliced apple before you bake. Yum.
SAVING: 60p on the toffees
CRAN-VERY NICE
Get your tastebuds geared up for Christmas with cinnamon spices and cranberry added to the mix.
Nab a bag of Creative Nature wholegrain banana bread baking mix, £2.99, at Asda (cheaper than £3.50 at Sainsbury’s) and follow the instructions on the packet — but mix in a teaspoon of cinnamon with it.
Once all poured into a loaf tin, swirl a generous dollop of cranberry sauce around the top before baking.
Use a jar of Ocean Spray’s cranberry sauce, £1 at B&M right now.
SAVING: 51p on baking mix
PERFECT PUMPKIN
It’s pumpkin-spiced latte season, so what could be better than mixing the best of both worlds?
Simply add around one and a half teaspoons of pumpkin spice to your favourite recipe.
Try buywholefoodsonline.co.uk, where you can find 50g for £1.73, plus get five per cent off with the code FIVEOFF.
It’s cheaper than popular American alternative Trader Joe’s from Amazon, which costs £13.99 for 51g.
SAVING: Approx £12.26 on spices
SHOCK CHOC
Bananas and choccies are a fantastic combo, and this one is really easy.
Simply add your favourite chocolate chips — milk, dark or even white — into the mix.
I find 85g works well, but you can change this to taste.
Tesco milk choc chips are just 80p for 100g — a cheaper option than popular Dr. Oetker choc chips, £1.40 for the same amount.
SAVING: 60p on the chocolate chips
Deal of day
GET a free pack of six limited edition dessert-flavoured Muller yoghurts with three Slimming World meals at iceland.co.uk.
Add them all to your basket and the discount will apply at checkout.
SAVE: £3
Cheap treat
WAKE up and go with Kellogg’s Special K Red Berries, down from £4 to £3 for 500g at Sainsbury’s.
SAVE: £1
Don’t miss this
SUBWAY fans can now turn any six-inch Sub into a wrap or salad with the new “Make any six-inch sub a salad or a wrap” menu.
Plus you can now get the new Mega Meat sub – which is a combo of the Meatball Marinara and the Italian BMT.
Top swap
INSTEAD of paying £18 for the Mac Brow Pomade swap it for the Eylure Brow Pomade, which can be picked up with other Eylure products at Poundland for £1.
SAVE: £17
Giselle’s little helper
YOU can collect double loyalty stamps at Caffè Nero until Sunday.
Buy a coffee in store, or coffee bag/capsule online and get two stamps instead of one. You need just nine stamps to claim your free coffee.
Shop & save
A 500ml bottle of Johnson’s Bedtime Wash that contains essences to calm your baby before they go to bed is on offer for £2, down from £3 at Asda
SAVE: £1
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Use the code TREE20 at the checkout.
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