Kingsmill Love to Toast Crumpets

My family love crumpets especially during the winter months when they really fit in the comfort food category. There's only two of us living here but my son is a frequent and always hungry visitor and he too has a crumpet weakness and because they disappear so quickly I usually buy the largest size at the cheapest price - both Tesco and Sainsbury's sell twelve for 67p. Bargain! However recently I have found myself reading quite a number of crumpet reviews which in general seem to praise the more expensive brands and decry the cheaper alternatives and I am forced to ask myself just how ... more

I am partial to a crumpet in the morning when I get to work and am very loyal to the warburtons brand of crumpet, so imagine my distress when I went to Asda on Monday morning to buy my weekly crumpet fix only to find that there were no Warburtons crumpets on the shelves. Instead, my only options were Asda's own brand or Kingsmill love to toast. Having tasted and enjoyed Kingsmill bread, I decided to opt for this brand of crumpet. What is a crumpet? No a crumpet is not as the thinking man's saying goes an intelligent good looking woman / one who is the object of sexual desire. A crumpet is an ... more

When scouring the shelves in Tescos for some snacks to keep in for the family I noticed Kingsmill Love to Toast crumpets recently. I am a real fan of crumpets but had never previously noticed these before so thought I would give them a try. With these being from the Kingsmill brand I was hoping they would be as good quality as their bread which I am a fan of, and that they were. I was really impressed with these. Some cheaper crumpets I have tried in the past have a dryness to them after toasting, but these were really moist and tasty and contained not one ounce of dryness. Size wise they are ... more

There is something just so quintessentially British about a good crumpet. I dont know whether its just our love of bread products or the word itself crumpet just sounds so English doesnt it! One bite of these crumpets smothered in butter and i was transported back to sunday afternoons as a child sat in front of the fire watching The Antiques Roadshow! And no i didnt live in an Enid Blyton story that really was what my childhood was like we actually did toast crumpets on an open fire! Kingsmill love to toast crumpets do what a really good food should do they transport the tastebuds on an ... more