All around good bank.
The app is easy to use. The instant notifications are reliable. Good debit card for foreign travel. 4% interest on easy access savings paid monthly...

Thailand
Review of Starling
The app is easy to use. The instant notifications are reliable. Good debit card for foreign travel. 4% interest on easy access savings paid monthly...
Review of Harryscountrykitchen
1 - Steak in Ale with Cheese Cobblers... [D]
The taste and texture of the ale gravy is reasonable.
The meat needs to be cooked for a lot longer and the dumplings are very stodgy.
If you add your own mash or boiled potatoes this just about makes a small meal.
You're probably better off getting a £1 Fray Bentos pie in a tin.
2 - Creamy King Prawn Pasta... [B-]
Plenty of pasta and prawns. This is a full sized meal. The prawns are tender, the pasta is cooked. The sauce lacks flavour and is a bit thin so you may want to add black pepper and cheese then stir it all in.
3 - Chicken Chow Mein [F]
This meal has no business calling itself 'chicken chow mein'. It's basically some chicken pieces in a thick, brown, flavourless gravy and some thick, over-cooked noodles. It's horrible. To make this edible add spaghetti, chicken, and (lots of) soy sauce and Tabasco!
4 - Chicken Tikka Masala [C]
The sauce is thin, sweet and mild. (Not too oily, though.) There's not enough chicken to make this a proper meal. The best way to describe it would be 'a mild curry flavoured chicken soup'. (I added more chicken and used my own Uncle Ben's Rice to make this a proper sized meal.)
5 - Lancashire Hot Pot [B]
This has the texture of Shepherd's Pie with some nice lean, tender lamb added, and the flavour is okay. It makes an adequate small meal. (18 pieces of potato on the cover and just 10 on the meal!) You'll want to add some potatoes and maybe a tin of peas.
6 - Sweet And Sour Chicken [B]
A tasty, sweet viscous sauce and enough of it for a meal... if you add chicken! No pineapple chunks. There is a common theme running through all these frozen meals and it's that the supermarkets do them better and cheaper.
7 - Shepherd's Pie [D]
A watery squirt of anaemic, powdered mash potato over a lamb-flavoured gravy! The meat is fatty, despite being ground down and the flavour of the sauce is mild to non existent. Just throw it away. It's almost inedible. No thought has gone into this at all.
8 Lasagne [C+]
It's not 'lasagne', but... lots of meat sauce with a decent flavour, the pasta is not overcooked and there's plenty of the bland white sauce, too. But once again, to make this a meal you have to add things... lots of spaghetti and a loaf of garlic bread did it for me.
In summation, I won't be back.
The supermarkets do these meals, and better and cheaper.
Review of Vibox Gaming
It's an outstanding company to do business with. They answer questions almost immediately and gently guide you through your expensive purchase. I would recommend their computers, service, and packaging.
I have had my PC a few weeks now and it's running just fine.
(Uninstall all the Norton crapware, though.)
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Review of British Corner Shop
(I'm a repeat user.) Could be better.
On the plus side... problems are resolved quickly... with a bit of prodding! The boxes and interior packaging are good when they are used correctly. Delivery is reasonably quick. The selection is good and always adapting. Prices are moderate... where else are you gonna go, right?
On the downside... Almost all the tinned products are obviously 'seconds' that supermarkets or warehouses have sold off cheaply. All the tins I have ordered have some kind of damage to them. They're still edible, but the lids are a lot harder to remove when the tin is badly bent out of shape! Lids on jars aren't checked to make sure they are secure.
In the end, because the problems are dealt with quickly and without fuss, I'll overlook the negatives and probably carry on using the service.
Note: If you are shipping to Thailand, get ready for crippling taxes and VAT costs. On both deliveries I have had so far, the charges amount to almost 50% of the food costs!
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Review of British Corner Shop
Generally awesome... bottled and breakable stuff is extra-wrapped for added protection. The boxing and internal wrappings are great, but bouncing from country to country takes its toll, of course (especially on cakes, etc.)
Products were generally fine... the Cheddars were a fine powder! I ate them with a spoon! Four tins of VERY dented 'All Day Breakfast' were sent. This was not an accident or something that happened in transit. I suspect they buy up consignments of stuff that supermarkets can't sell. Despite the heavy dents, they were edible.
A word to the wise... My food order was £110, the packing was £40 and the import taxes and VAT for Thailand was an additional £50. £200 quid is a lot of money to spend on a few supplies from home!
The company does a few promotions and coupons, etc... the problem is that the coupons expire after a couple of weeks. It would be nice to see the loyalty incentives last for several months as most people will NOT be ordering on a weekly basis.
The speed was pretty good. The delivery agent (Parcel Force) takes a long time to respond to their help system, and when they do they aren't very helpful.
Overall, this is a great service but the cost can add up for expats in certain countries. Will I use it again? Not sure... it's a bit expensive for me. But for people who can afford it, it's worthwhile!