{"id":17663,"date":"2016-11-25T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=17663"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:37:56","slug":"sain-sational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/sain-sational","title":{"rendered":"Sain-sational!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As a student, spare money is something of a premium, that tends to get blown on Xbox games and alcohol. But there is another way to spend money that not many students indulge in, despite it being an always enjoyable experience.<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s going out for a meal. It\u2019s rare, unless the place was atrocious, to see people exiting a restaurant without a smile on their face. They go in, they order what they want to eat, they eat it, of course it\u2019s going to be nicer than food cooked themselves (unless they happen to be a professional chef), and everyone leaves happy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/15204295_1330945466936415_233338934_o-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"15204295_1330945466936415_233338934_o\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/15204295_1330945466936415_233338934_o-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"15204295_1330945466936415_233338934_o\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nHowever, when people leave a review for a restaurant, they will often comment on the price. When you\u2019re eating, you don\u2019t worry about the cost, just the quality. But in hindsight, when you get home and you glance again at the receipt, you realise you just spent \u00a320 to have tea. That\u2019s what puts students off. It\u2019s not the food quality, its knowing that they\u2019ll need to save up if they wish to go again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17810 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/15205679_1330945486936413_334321456_o-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"15205679_1330945486936413_334321456_o\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17810 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/15205679_1330945486936413_334321456_o-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"15205679_1330945486936413_334321456_o\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nThis is where I propose a new solution. Sainsbury\u2019s Caf\u00e9. Of course it isn\u2019t glamourous, that\u2019s not the point. If you want to spend a week\u2019s wages on a tiny plate of food in a room with \u201cambience\u201d, then by all means go ahead. But if you want to eat nice food, without the regret, your common old garden supermarket caf\u00e9 is the place to go. I\u2019d recommend Sainsbury\u2019s Colchester Avenue.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17820 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/sainsbrs-menu-625x484.png\" alt=\"sainsbrs-menu\" width=\"625\" height=\"484\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17820 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/sainsbrs-menu-625x484.png\" alt=\"sainsbrs-menu\" width=\"625\" height=\"484\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nI\u2019m a fan of restaurants, in particular places like Nandos, and if I had the money I would visit places like this all the time. But in the real world, I don\u2019t, and not many people do. As the menu shows, popular meals such as an all-day breakfast are only \u00a35, so you can fill your boots without breaking the bank. And it\u2019s not like the meals are cobbled together, they\u2019re cooked to order and tend to be served with a coffee too. A full meal costs much less than a tenner, and there\u2019s no doubt that if you go to eat in St Davids, you\u2019re spending a tenner on the starter alone.<br \/>\nAll in all, we all could do with changing our eating habits, and we should all start with ditching the big restaurants, in favour of Sainsbury\u2019s.<br \/>\nRating: 5 stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we need to ditch the restaurants in favour of our friendly supermarket caf\u00e9s, starting with Sainsburys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":17664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sain-sational! 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