Sainsbury's: Best Easter food to order for 2024

Score: 78/100

Sticky toffee pudding lovers rejoice – featuring gooey caramel fudge pieces and sticky chopped dates, these buns have all the flavours of your favourite dessert. However, the sweetness is balanced by the addition of light spicing and a sourdough starter, which gives a pleasing bready taste and texture.

Score: 72/100

Well-risen and fluffy, these buns are packed with plump, juicy fruits that are bursting with both sweet and tart flavours. The tartness is intense, but most of our testers enjoyed the contrast. Serve hot with lashings of butter.

Score: 77/100

Our testers loved this beautiful, glossy egg, which has a balanced sweetness with a touch of cocoa. The highlight, however, is the honeycomb corn crunch, which is inspired by that nostalgic Easter favourite, the chocolate cornflake cake.

With moreish flavours of toffee and a good amount of salt, the honeycomb pieces add a pleasing texture.

Score: 78/100

Testers enjoyed the well-integrated coffee flavour and complex but pleasingly bitter notes of coffee beans in this rich, creamy white chocolate egg. The texture was also a hit – it’s smooth with crunchy biscuit pieces. An excellent choice for coffee lovers.

Score: 81/100

A classic dark chocolate and orange combination, testers loved the bitter, earthy chocolate, which was perfectly balanced by the acidity of the orange. The candied orange peel was a nice touch, adding additional bursts of citrus. 

This egg is also one of our more sustainable picks for 2024. Sainsbury's was recognised in this year's Chocolate Scorecard for making progress on the traceability of its chocolate and ensuring a living income for its farmers.

Score: 75/100

Topped with rich, buttery and crisp pastry, this innovative Easter centrepiece impressed our testers with its delicious aromas, with notes of cinnamon and cloves. The chicken itself had a good savoury flavour with a slightly sweet and well-spiced glaze. The panel also felt the well-seasoned stuffing was a great addition.

Launching end of March 2024

Score: 72/100

A great option for those who don’t want a whole leg of lamb to tackle this Easter Sunday. Testers enjoyed the clean, grassy flavours with a good level of salt and sweet from the thick layer of fat. Pair with your favourite veg for a classic spring lamb roast.

Score: 75/100

Try this wellington for something a little different. Testers loved the mild buttery aromas of cheese, leek and onion paired with powerful flavours of well-seasoned salmon, white wine and fresh dill in this centrepiece. 

A few thought the cheesiness of the sauce overpowered the flavour of the salmon a little, but the majority found it well balanced. The highlight was the buttery, flaky pastry.

Score: 73/100

With all the classic aromas you would expect from a roast chicken, including roast garlic, onion, sage and nutmeg, this full-flavoured alternative also had a rich vegetable stock that our testers really enjoyed. 

Overall, our panel was impressed with how authentic this tasted – just add your favourite spring greens for a satisfying roast.

Score: 77/100

These chunky Sainsbury’s potatoes have a salty and sweet flavour, while the centre is quite dense but still soft and creamy. 

Pale in colour with some light golden patches, a few testers would have liked them to be crispier on the outside, but enjoyed them, nonetheless.

Score: 78/100

This budget blanc de noir is worth stocking up on. The panel enjoyed lively lemon zest, ripe stone fruit and a lick of butter on the finish for a satisfying mouthfeel. Try it as an aperitif next time you're hosting.

Score: 77/100

Building on the classic flavour profile of apple, pear and peach, testers found this prosecco refreshingly floral, with gentle notes of rose and orange blossom adding interest. Although initially sweet, a welcome touch of bitterness builds for a well-balanced finish.