Value Brands What do you think of them?

[longdog]

Is that the liver nd bacon stuff??

I love that too

I like the liver and bacon stuff too but I hate them plastic 'sausages' they come in. What are they? Designed to withstand a thermo-nuclear device or something?

 

[Laney]

Tesco Value Bourbon Creams!!!

I buy my meat at the butchers and all my fruit/veg at the grocers, but for anything else the value deals are ... I can't seem to find them a lot of the time mind

I am currently eating for £20 a week, and eating really, really well. Like a Princess. Hopefully when I get the hang of this shopping malarky I can cut that number down a bit...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think they're great for some things.

Im eating Tesco Value Soup every day this week as I'm skint

I really like the value noodles too.

What say ye?

Over here, we have No Name Brand, among others.

The other day, I opened a tin of No Name Brand Celery soup. After spooning it into the pot, I made the mistake of licking the spoon with the concentrate from the can still on it.

It tasted like I'd expect battery acid to taste. I'll never buy it again.

I think no name is fine for staples like spaghetti or rice, etc, but I'll be wary of buying prepared foods like that again.

 

[nightowl]

value mince is just sludge

 

[Ms T]

I think no name is fine for staples like spaghetti.

I don't agree with you there. Dried pasta has to be a reputable Italian brand, preferably De Cecco, but Buitoni will do. Cheap pasta is blah.

 

[BEARBOT]

the only value brand thing i have bought and found to be awful was tea,its tea dust apprently.i buy tesco value instant coffee and its no worse than nescafe IMHO....

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I buy Tesco Value tinned chopped tomatoes, kidney beans, baked beans, tomato soup, peaches and mandarin oranges. I also buy their cat litter, butter, tortilla chips and sometimes their biscuits.

 

[Roadkill]

Don't use supermarkets any more than I can help, so I don't buy 'em.

 

[fractionMan]

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I do a monthy internet shop though Roadkill so I get the heavy non-perishables delivered but get my veg and fruit from the market and meat from the butchers, fish from the fishmongers...I get other stuff from Lidl. I've only got little legs and I'm a shortarse and there's a limit to what I can carry in one go.

 

[baldrick]

the only value brand thing i have bought and found to be awful was tea,its tea dust apprently.

yeah, cheap tea is nasty.

don't buy value brands, my nearest supermarket (co-op) doesn't do them. the random shop over the road, however, sells all sorts of stuff for not a lot

 

[Roadkill]

I do a monthy internet shop though Roadkill so I get the heavy non-perishables delivered but get my veg and fruit from the market and meat from the butchers, fish from the fishmongers...I get other stuff from Lidl. I've only got little legs and I'm a shortarse and there's a limit to what I can carry in one go.

Oh I wasn't having a go at anyone else's shopping habits, just mentioning my own.

I was lying anyway: I'd forgotten about the Co-op cheapy brand baked beans and bog roll at home.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Oh I wasn't having a go at anyone else's shopping habits

Yeah, I was just doing a bit of guilt-induced self-justification really...I do feel guilty about the evil Tesco (although they've been bloody good to learning-disabled people I know who work for them). I got a rant from a much wealthier friend about how I should get my monthly internet shop from Ocado (Waitrose by another name I believe) but I pointed out to him that they don't do value beans or cat litter and the like. I just can't afford not to do Tesco Value. I do buy fairtrade coffee though.

 

[Roadkill]

Ocado is Waitrose, at least if the delivery vans I've seen are to be believed. Bloody expensive too, which probably explains why most of the vans seem to be in Greenwich and Blackheath!

 

[longdog]

i buy tesco value instant coffee and its no worse than nescafe IMHO....

I started a tread along those lines and got abuse for it

I agree with you, it's perfectly servicable coffee IMHO.

 

[BEARBOT]

yeah definately! nescafe is a dodgey company and their instant is in no way cheap....the tesco value one IS!
lots of people HATE instant coffee, im now im in a phase of drinking it to save money and also cos my cafeter is broken

 

[Mrs Magpie]

also cos my cafeter is broken

 

[moomoo]

I'm afraid I have never bought anything marked 'value brand' in my life! I do buy own brand goods but I can't get excited over value brands, however cheap they might be!

And I only like organic meat and organic carrots

And I'm on benefits so I really should know better but I'd rather skimp on other stuff than feed my children shite! @ self

 

[sned]

with toast

I've found I havent eaten much meat since being ckint.

meat is sooo exoensive!!

with toast AND beans/mean beanz!! or just add chilli powder to normal beans.

yum.

 

[fear-n-loathing]

value bread is pretty mint but thats about it

 

[BEARBOT]

im sure i tried tesco value vodka awhile back and it was ok...call me a philistine but doesnt all vodka taste the same
to defend myself i should say im not a big drinker...

they do a value gin too, but i dont drink the stuff much anymore except at parties.
is there any difference in taste between say "traitors gate"(love the name,it was a kwick save one)gin and expensive brands like bombay shapphire?...
i think its probably just packaging snobbery!

 

[Mogden]

Sainsburys value milk powder is dead good for the bread maker.
Tesco value cheese and onion quiche is top hole too although I'm sure the eggs come from poorly kept chickens
Valued tinned toms are always good. Bit juicy but then that's ideal for tomato sauces.
Tesco value milk chocolate was just wrong and even I couldn't eat it all.

 

[sned]

im sure i tried tesco value vodka awhile back and it was ok...call me a philistine but doesnt all vodka taste the same
to defend myself i should say im not a big drinker...

they do a value gin too, but i dont drink the stuff much anymore except at parties.
is there any difference in taste between say "traitors gate"(love the name,it was a kwick save one)gin and expensive brands like bombay shapphire?...
i think its probably just packaging snobbery!

they do value 'lager' too.. its only 2% though otherwise it would be great.

88p for 4 cans i think.

 

[pembrokestephen]

is there any difference in taste between say "traitors gate"(love the name,it was a kwick save one)gin and expensive brands like bombay shapphire?...
i think its probably just packaging snobbery!

Yes. Lots. Most of the really cheap gins I've ever tried had a tendency to taste slightly like meths smells. On the other hand, Bombay Sapphire is actually fragrant.

I'd rather drink something else than drink "budget" gin (or scotch, for that matter).

 

[zenie]

Tesco value cheese and onion quiche is top hole too although I'm sure the eggs come from poorly kept chickens

yeh I tend to not buy and meat or eggs from the value range if only because most of the time it tastes like shit but also because of the cruelty issue.

I'm gonna attempt to do a weeks shopping with packed lunches on a tenner tomorrow

 

[fortyplus]

value tesco's water.

tap?