The True Cost of Cheap Food?

thriftlady_2

Hawthorn wrote: »

You don't have to eat badly on a budget, but sacrifices have to be made. Ready prepared food is a no no.

No great sacrifice then This just confirms my view that to eat well and cheaply you need to stick to ingredients rather than 'food products'. Some of those ingredients are more expensive than others. Meat has always been the food which represents wealth in all cultures. It shouldn't be cheap but if you supplement a little meat with cheap sources of protein like beans and lentils you can enjoy better meat at a lower cost.

Thanks Penny btw, I knew it would be something obvious.

abaxas

Aghghgh!

This kind of article really hacks me off.

Value ranges / cheap food is NOT the same as crap food. This guy is simply spouting marketing drivel.

Hawthorn

That depends abaxas

You buy value chicken nuggets, or value fish fingers......they are crap food. Value porridge oats? Not so much.

thriftlady_2

Tesco value chicken nuggets are made from

Chicken (27%), Water, Breadcrumbs, Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil, Textured Wheat Protein (contains Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite), Chicken Fat, Pea Starch, Wheat Protein, Pea Fibre, Salt.
Breadcrumbs contains: Wheat Flour, Salt, Vegetable Oil.
Chicken (27%), Water, Breadcrumbs, Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil, Textured Wheat Protein (contains Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite), Chicken Fat, Pea Starch, Wheat Protein, Pea Fibre, Salt.
Breadcrumbs contains: Wheat Flour, Salt, Vegetable Oil.

And that's not crap?

Tesco value porridge oats however are made from

oats

Choose your value products wisely.

abaxas

Hawthorn wrote: »

That depends abaxas

You buy value chicken nuggets, or value fish fingers......they are crap food. Value porridge oats? Not so much.

That was my point.

People assume cheap = crap. It doesnt mean that, plenty of expensive crap out there.

Hawthorn

Ah ok, I misunderstood - apologies. I thought you were saying that chicken nuggets etc weren't crap

thriftlady_2

abaxas wrote: »

That was my point.

People assume cheap = crap. It doesnt mean that, plenty of expensive crap out there.

Good point -this is what is in a Tesco Finest Chocolate sundae which they flog for nearly £2 a pop.


Sugar, Milk, Skimmed Milk, Stabilised Whipped Cream, Cream, Wheat Flour, Milk Chocolate Powder, Chocolate Chips, Water, Vegetable Oil, White Chocolate Powder, Milk And White Chocolate Decoration, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Maize Starch, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dried Skimmed Milk, Vegetable Margarine, Dark Chocolate Powder, Milk Chocolate, Dried Glucose Syrup, Dried Egg, Dark Chocolate, Butter, Evaporated Milk, Cocoa Powder, Stabiliser (Pectin), Emulsifiers (Lactic Acid Esters of Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithins), Salt, Whey Solids, Milk Sugar, Whey Powder, Flavouring.
Stabilised Whipped Cream contains: Whipping Cream, Dextrose, Stabiliser (Sodium Alginate).
Chocolate Chips contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
White Chocolate Powder contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Milk And White Chocolate Decoration contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Milk Sugar, Whey Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Milk Chocolate Powder contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Dark Chocolate Powder contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Vegetable Margarine contains: Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, Water, Lemon Juice.
Milk Chocolate contains: Sugar, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Dark Chocolate contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.

:eek: :eek: Flaming heck -just how many rubbish ingredients does a pudding need?? OK some of them are ordinary foodstuffs but really!

Hawthorn

My teeth rotted just looking at those ingredients!

angelavdavis

thriftlady wrote: »

Good point -this is what is in a Tesco Finest Chocolate sundae which they flog for nearly £2 a pop.


Sugar, Milk, Skimmed Milk, Stabilised Whipped Cream, Cream, Wheat Flour, Milk Chocolate Powder, Chocolate Chips, Water, Vegetable Oil, White Chocolate Powder, Milk And White Chocolate Decoration, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Maize Starch, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dried Skimmed Milk, Vegetable Margarine, Dark Chocolate Powder, Milk Chocolate, Dried Glucose Syrup, Dried Egg, Dark Chocolate, Butter, Evaporated Milk, Cocoa Powder, Stabiliser (Pectin), Emulsifiers (Lactic Acid Esters of Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithins), Salt, Whey Solids, Milk Sugar, Whey Powder, Flavouring.
Stabilised Whipped Cream contains: Whipping Cream, Dextrose, Stabiliser (Sodium Alginate).
Chocolate Chips contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
White Chocolate Powder contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Milk And White Chocolate Decoration contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Milk Sugar, Whey Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Milk Chocolate Powder contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Dark Chocolate Powder contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Vegetable Margarine contains: Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, Water, Lemon Juice.
Milk Chocolate contains: Sugar, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.
Dark Chocolate contains: Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring.

:eek: :eek: Flaming heck -just how many rubbish ingredients does a pudding need?? OK some of them are ordinary foodstuffs but really!

Blimey, and my HM chocolate mousse contains: Green & Black organic chocolate, butter, freerange eggs, brandy and icing sugar.

I also suspect it takes less time to make than it took me to read this ingredients list and google what half of it was :rotfl:

diamondgirl78

At least when you make/bake something yourself, you know what's in it. It doesn't have to work out any more expensive than buying 'value' products. I'm very new to baking and have made my own hobnobs (thanks Twink!), flapjack, cereal bars, cakes... I do use the basic 'value' ingredients, value flour, value oats, value butter but as previous posters have said, "oats is oats!"...