'Value' products - what's good?

[mr steev]

If you check out the packaging, a lot of orange juice is 'made from concentrate' and has water added.

The majority of oj is made from concentrate, but there is also orange juice 'drink' which is diluted even more (and not orange juice at all imo)

 

[mr steev]

Except the filter is useless after that (even for more vodka), and I think you'll find it's cheaper in the long run to buy slightly better vodka. At least if you're using Britas or somesuch. Maybe there's Tesco Value water filters?

Even brittas filters are less than £2 so it works out cheap enough... Personally, I would rather get some decent vodka, but my mate had a spare bottle of cheap stuff left over from a party so we thought it was worth an experiment

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

value bananas are disgusting

yes, you have to stick to finest bananas in their protective 'super printed' packaging I find

 

[gentlegreen]

I noticed last night Tesco's have re-heatable "chips with curry sauce". !

(I'm embarrassed to say I found myself checking to see if it was veggy-friendly. )

I suppose it's no different to what plenty of us have done ourselves with leftovers.

 

[JE:5]

Surprisingly, the tesco value steaks can be quite good if you have a good root around through the packets.

 

[PacificOcean]

I can't bring myself to buy Value products.

The packaging is so naff it just screams poor person to the person behind you at the checkout who is having a nosy through your trolley.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

For me it's

Pasta
Tinned almost everything
Frozen veg

I bought some value mackerel from sainsburys the other day and it was disgusting. Tescos is fine and at 2 for £4 it's only 20p more expensive.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Asda's cheap vodka is scarily palatable once it's been poured through a water filter a couple of times.

Pretty much all vodka is. A lot of what makes 'quality' vodka is the water purity. There was a test done a few years back where top vodka judges blind tested the shittyest vodkas (filtered) with the best on the market.
I think the worst vodka took 5 filters before it was comparable with Grey Goose.

I only discovered this magic when I was making skittles vodka (don't use the green ones). I was using cheapo vodka because it was an experiment. There was all this gunk on the top and the only filter I had was a britta. I ran it through a couple if times and it came out tasting incredibly smooth.

The britta filter tasted of vodka for weeks though and the wife was not happy.

 

[sned]

Sainsburys basic meatballs. yum.

 

[Cloud]

I have to buy value products!

There's nothing wrong with most of them.

Tesco Value Tortilla chips, huge bag for 25p and I personally prefer them to certain brands. Bastards have put them up from 15p thou cos they were always selling out.

I'd say over half my shopping is either "budget brands" or reduced price/offers.

 

[mentalchik]

I would rather go to Aldi/Lidi than buy the basic range in the supermarkets.

So would i but they are so far away from where i live that it makes it not worth the effort !

 

[mentalchik]

I can't bring myself to buy Value products.

The packaging is so naff it just screams poor person to the person behind you at the checkout who is having a nosy through your trolley.

Well good for you.......................i often have no other economic choice and why should i feel ashamed coz people are snobs !

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I can't bring myself to buy Value products.

The packaging is so naff it just screams poor person to the person behind you at the checkout who is having a nosy through your trolley.

You do your grocery shopping on the basis of what the stranger behind you at the checkout might or might think about your choice of purchases?

 

[sned]

I can't bring myself to buy Value products.

The packaging is so naff it just screams poor person to the person behind you at the checkout who is having a nosy through your trolley.

Use the self-checkouts... or you could not care what other people think about what you eat.

 

[PacificOcean]

Well good for you.......................i often have no other economic choice and why should i feel ashamed coz people are snobs !

I was joking!

 

[Yetman]

What if somebody sees me at the till with all this blateso obv VALUE shit in my basket eh? I'll never live it down at the rotary club

 

[ViolentPanda]

I can't bring myself to buy Value products.

The packaging is so naff it just screams poor person to the person behind you at the checkout who is having a nosy through your trolley.

You are such a tart!

 

[mack]

Is there any way on Earth that this could be any good?

£0.04 per jar

 

[kained&able]

ive been buying sainsburys basic minced beef recently asnd i am pleasently suprised. Its not at all fatty and cooks nicely.

Reckon its better quality then the stanadrad tesco one.

Sainburys basic peanut butter isn't entirely hopeless either. Again a huge suprise.


dave

 

[Prince Rhyus]

Value chicken? FFS

This ^^^

Wouldn't touch supermarket value chicken with a bargepole...

 

[SpookyFrank]

value bananas are disgusting

Err, all bananas are the same. And that's not a value judgement (sorry) they're pretty much identical at the genetic level. Becaue they've got no seeds the plants can only reproduce asexually and so there's no variation, no different varieties. The only difference in flavour between expensive bananas and cheap bananas is caused by your innate prejudice against poor people. You bastard.

 

[PacificOcean]

Is there any way on Earth that this could be any good?

£0.04 per jar

Tesco have the same thing.

It must be a loss leader as surely the jar alone would cost more than 4p to produce?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Err, all bananas are the same. And that's not a value judgement (sorry) they're pretty much identical at the genetic level. Becaue they've got no seeds the plants can only reproduce asexually and so there's no variation, no different varieties. The only difference in flavour between expensive bananas and cheap bananas is caused by your innate prejudice against poor people. You bastard.

I believe that soil, use (or not) of pesticides and climate have something to do with flavour too.

 

[Geri]

Tesco Value Tortilla chips, huge bag for 25p and I personally prefer them to certain brands. Bastards have put them up from 15p thou cos they were always selling out.

I've just had some of these. There's not much flavour to them, but I was eating them with hummus so it didn't really matter.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I guess it depends how you like your tortilla chips, my kids love them but we do have them with salads/humous/dips/salsa etc

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Aldis humous is YUMMMMMEEEEE
£1 for a massive pot, the lemon and corriander one is deelish

Aldis tinned rough chopped tomatoes with herbs (39p) and their own brand pesto ( about 90p) are both gorgeous

 

[Bassism]

this is a great thread

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Lidls soft cheese with herbs/garlic, about 79p per tub are gorgeous

My cat now turns its nose up at branded cat food in favour of lidls own pouches which dont make me heave unlike some when I open then- £2.19 for 12

Aldis part bakes ciabatta 69pish is fab, I shoved one away in the cupboard for when we ran out and just baked it, its deelish!

 

[lighterthief]

Why is value meat deemed to be worse than 'normal' meat? In almost all cases it is from the same source, just different cuts in different packaging. I for one applaud the reappearance of good cheap cuts of meat such as breast of lamb, belly pork etc, which were simply unavailable in my local Tesco or Sainsburys before the credit crunch

 

[Bassism]

i hate green peppers!

it really annoys me that supermarkets always put green peppers in those multipacks - i don't eat them except in chilli and i don't make it that often.

so 90% of the time they go straight in the compost. what a waste.

I totally agree with you on this in fact i didn't think green peppers were digestable