Value/basics etc ranges - best and worst stuff
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Yeah, my bloke bought me some asda shit vodka. Had been told it was passable. Vile more like.LilMissHissyFit said:Asda 'own brand' wines are pretty good, most are less than £3 a bottle and ar4e very drinkable. Leave their spartprice voddie alone unless you are using it to clean things
It's sat in the cupboard to feed to all the people who came round and drunk my nice vodka. That will teach them!**I'm not a mean person but if you finish my one bottle of booze because you're too lazy to go out and get something that you actually like and then I end up with asda crap as a replacement...
longdog
What is it you can't face?
zenie said:Whats the nutritional value of the dog food though?
Is it not all sugar?
Eggs are from caged hens so I wont buy them but I can't imagine they taste loads different ey?
Forgot about the butter - tesco vaue butter is the same as the normal one except it's not in foil!
Don't know about the nutritional value of the dog food but it looked good quality. Dovydaitis is kind enough to give me a lift to ASDA every month for a huge bag of Wagg which works out cheaper to be honest.
Yeah, the eggs are from caged hens and I only really get eggs in when I have drinking guests in who are going to be wanting a bacon and egg roll in the morning. If I do buy eggs for myself I only buy them when I can afford free-range, very hypocritical I know but meh.
zenie
>^^<
longdog said:
Aaaah I bought some wagg the other day as an emergency which my dog loved!
(she hates james well beloved fussy cow 
)Must look up the website actually to see what it's all about, as I hadn't notcied it in Tesco before.
Fair dos on the eggs wasn't a criticism it's about 25 per egg for free-range which is a bit pricey when you think about it ey?
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
The 'basics' selection is getting posher-brie and camerbert witnessed today and I bought a cheeseboard selection in strips of cranberry stilton, double glouster and herbs etc
-waiting for 'basic' rocket pesto
-waiting for 'basic' rocket pesto
Yelkcub said:Definitely brings back student days all this. In my first year at Manchester the Kwik Save 'No Frills' range used to make my weekly shop about a fiver!
I remember mu mum buying tins of Kwik Save baked beans for about 3p a tin. I was just a kid but I do remember them being a bit manky
Nixon
peanut butter n.w.o.
Im still trying to figure out the best Lidl products because my dad recons some of the stuffs very decent quality and well priced,but that some of it is poop.I know the ham's lovely and the chickens are well priced for the quality.Great cheeses.Some of the frozen stuff is stupidly cheap too and taste better than some of the stuff i've had from iceland.Might start a lidl thread..
We generally will buy the "basics" pasta,juices,beans,tinned stuff and other houshold stuff like toothbrushes etc.Most of the time I like cooking from scratch anyways,so I like buying a lot of food that's a bit versitile.
We generally will buy the "basics" pasta,juices,beans,tinned stuff and other houshold stuff like toothbrushes etc.Most of the time I like cooking from scratch anyways,so I like buying a lot of food that's a bit versitile.
dolly's gal
killing things
i'm happy to pay for the packaging. its depressing looking in one's fridge/cupboard and seeing a load of blue and white stripes. i love nice packaging. i can't help it. and don't care if that makes me a gullible twat, i don't care, i don't care! *looks mad*
like others, i occasionally make dalliance with tinned tomatoes from said value ranges, but quite frankly I’d rather not
like others, i occasionally make dalliance with tinned tomatoes from said value ranges, but quite frankly I’d rather not
zenie
>^^<
dolly's gal said:i'm happy to pay for the packaging. its depressing looking in one's fridge/cupboard and seeing a load of blue and white stripes. i love nice packaging. i can't help it. and don't care if that makes me a gullible twat, i don't care, i don't care! *looks mad*
like others, i occasionally make dalliance with tinned tomatoes from said value ranges, but quite frankly I’d rather not
dunno about gullible - a bit silly though
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Lidl is excellent quality as is Aldi although found Aldi rather pricey the last time I went-seem to be trying to encroach on Waitrose's territory with lots of organic chocolate and their posh pickle about £1.30-very nice though.
My only problem with Lidl is as a veggie, find it hard to do a 'proper' shop there as one of those rubbish veggies who like quorn and processed foods instead of making things from scratch
My only problem with Lidl is as a veggie, find it hard to do a 'proper' shop there as one of those rubbish veggies who like quorn and processed foods instead of making things from scratch
dolly's gal
killing things
zenie said:dunno about gullible - a bit silly though
not really. my money, my choice
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
I know what you mean a bit-feel like I'm living in communist Russia with loads of state sanctioned rations with that awful packaging-I go for an eclectic mix between Taste The Difference and Value stuff and hide the boring looking stuff behind the fanciness. I have no idea why whatsoever. It's not like people are going to come around and sneer in my cupboards but it makes me feel all posh in my headdolly's gal said:not really. my money, my choice
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
A bit sinister this whole baked bean thing.mrs quoad said:There's a four-foot high and two-foot deep stack of baked beans at my gym atm, with a phat sign saying 'take one! Free beans!'
I still have no idea why, and the best before's October 2007
At my old uni, at the Freshers Fair, were free baked beans but with the Christian Union's website sellotaped over the packaging. Seemed a bit bizarre to think that by getting some free baked beans meant you would be become God's concubine forever more.
I wanted to make some satanic baked beans but never got round to it.
dolly's gal
killing things
zenie said:shallow and frivilous?
well that's me in a nutshell!
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
*applauds*Yelkcub said:666 varieties?
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
cyberfairy said:The 'basics' selection is getting posher-brie and camerbert witnessed today and I bought a cheeseboard selection in strips of cranberry stilton, double glouster and herbs etc
-waiting for 'basic' rocket pesto
A friend of mine produced a jar of Sainsbury's "Basics" onion marmalade the other day. Since when did we live in a society in which onion marmalade is a basic? (I can't recommend it, it was a bit odd.)
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
Tesco's own brand pasta sauces are reallly yummy, feed four and are just 55p each.I think they are nicer than the posh sauces, esp the chunky veg one which is full of yummy veg and still tastes properly tomatoey instead of synthetic
Tinned tomatoes, custard and rice pudding and I think we've had value yoghurts before now, oh and ice cream.
Only for the kids mind, they can't tell the difference.
Anyone remember the old value brands, "My Mums" was probably the best known. The products all had their own little slogan like "My Mum's Shandy....Tastes just like Dad's beer". Anyone remember any others? I think the matches had something funny on.
Daddy of the non brands had to be 'Paul's Choice'. My mate had a tin of Paul's Choice spaghetti once, we never knew where it came from. It had a picture of a kids face on it, presumably Paul.
Only for the kids mind, they can't tell the difference.
Anyone remember the old value brands, "My Mums" was probably the best known. The products all had their own little slogan like "My Mum's Shandy....Tastes just like Dad's beer". Anyone remember any others? I think the matches had something funny on.
Daddy of the non brands had to be 'Paul's Choice'. My mate had a tin of Paul's Choice spaghetti once, we never knew where it came from. It had a picture of a kids face on it, presumably Paul.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Nixon said:
I'd try doing a search first mate. Been a few Lidl threads iirc. There are many 'converts' here
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