It’s often said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but thanks to Hovis, you can at least have a free sandwich. Shana filled out a short online survey on Farcebook last week, and yesterday evening a courier’s van turned up with a free loaf of Hovis Hearty Oats bread, which is apparently a brand new Hovis product. It’s baked, according to the wrapper, with 50% oats. Blimey!

Not only that, but you get a free Hovis shopping bag thrown in, too. And not one of those ‘orrible plastic ones, neither.

The whole lot — bread, bag and informative leaflet, The Story of Oats — comes nicely packaged in its own Hovis box.

The taste test
Oh yes, it’s tasty all right. It also has a good texture and thickness and I suspect it makes good toast, too. (I’ll update this post when I toast some, just so you know.) We have eaten oaty bread lots of times before, and if you’ve never tried it yourself, you really should. In fact, why not try some of this new Hovis stuff? Remember, ours was a free loaf with no obligation to write about it at all, never mind say it was any good, but, as an ageing crooner once said, we mean it, man.

Toast update
Oops, it’s the middle of August. All right, so I’m three months late with the result. (Head like a seive, me!) Long story short, and just for the record, that new Hovis bread made jolly good toast.

(Can I go back to sleep now?)