Budget at Budgens for Christmas

There are less than five weeks to Christmas and I am looking around for shopping ideas. Budgens isn’t somewhere I would normally consider, as I don’t have one near me, but recently I had the chance to take a wander around.

Budgens are smallish local stores and have both their own ranges and also stock well known brands, at pretty decent prices. There are more than 150 Budgens stores across the UK ranging from petrol forecourts to neighbourhood supermarkets, independently owned by Budgens retailers. Budgens retailers “care about the quality, provenance and value of their food, and their communities’ needs”.  Budgens was recently named the ‘best top-up shop’ at the CTP awards, voted for by 20,000 UK shoppers.

Here are the items that caught my eye:

Monty Bojangles Truffles

Their Bojangles chocolates are lovely at …