Greggs

Cheap and good food but full of saturated fat.
Very good food when you are on the go but something you need to think twice as you need to be on the go on the threadmill to burn out the calories you put on by eating this junk.

Got to get to Greggs the stottie sellers, is what southerners have said to me after getting off the coach in town. Apparently stottie bread is only sold in the Geordie land versions of Greggs the bakers. If you have never tried stottie bread or don’t know what I’m talking about, I’d say it was the only reason for shopping at Greggs. White, fluffy centred, Northern bread that is. Everything else they sell seems to taste the same. Pasties, pies, pizza slices and sausage rolls are popular. Way too mush cheese is used for my liking and even if it’s not visible, the taste of cheese is in everything. Biscuits and cakes are ok but they have clearly been sent in from a factory in tiny frozen blobs and are re-​heated in store. Put it this way, they taste no different to any other processed junk. Drinks are sold in bottles, cans, cartons and tea and coffee is available too. I’m giving 3 stars instead of 2 because last winter I remember having to stand in long bus queues in the freezing cold and buying hot drinks from Greggs to keep warm. I suffer from reynauds disease so the warm cups helped wake my hands up when I needed to get the bus fare out. Good old Greggs.