What to buy in Tesco Value Range

grimerking

OK, I've been through the thread and tried to make a comprehensive list:

Good
After dinner mints
Apple Juice
Avocadoes
Baby lotion – use for makeup remover
Back bacon
Bacon Off-Cuts
Bananas
Batteries
Beans
Bio Washing Powder
Bitter
Black bin liners
Bourbon biscuits
Breakfast Juice
Butter
Caramel wafer type biscuits
Carrots
Cat litter
Cheese
Cherry tomatoes
Chicken soup (good for casseroles)
Chocolate sandwich biscuits (like Penguin ones)
Chocolate Spread
Chopped Tomatoes
Cling film
Cooked ham
Corned beef
Courgettes
Crisps
Crumpets
Custard creams
Cutlery
Desiccated coconut
Digestive biscuits
Dishwashing cloths
Dried Milk
Dried mixed herbs
Dry Spaghetti
Eggs
Energy saving lighthbulbs
Fish fingers
Fitted bed sheets
Fizzy water
Freezer bags
Fresh tomatoes
Fromage frais
Furniture polish
Gin
Hairspray
Honey
Hot chocolate
Iceberg lettuce
Instant custard
Instant noodles
J cloths
Jaffa cakes
Jam
Jelly
Kitchen Foil
Kitchen Roll
Lard
Lasagne sheets
Lemon curd
Lemon squash
Long grain rice
Loo blocks
Mangoes
Marmalade
Meatballs
Midget gems
Mini rolls
Mixed fruit for cakes
Mushy peas
Nappy bags
Olive spread
Orange Juice
Oven chips
Pan scourers
Panty liners
Parsnips
Pasta shapes
Peanut Butter
Pedal bin liners
Pegs
Peppers
Pesto – red and green
Pickled Onions
Pitta Bread
Pizza bases
Plain chocolate
Plain flour
Porridge oats
Pot noodles
Potatoes
Printer paper
Rice Pudding
Rich tea biscuits
Rubber gloves
Salt
Salted peanuts
Scampi
Scotch pancakes
Seafood sticks
Self raising flour
Shampoo and conditioner
Shower gel
Skimmed long life milk
Skinned Boneless Chicken
Sliced bread
Smoked Salmon Off-Cuts
Some of the kids clothes
Soup
Sponge mix
Spread (good for baking with)
Stationery
Stir fry veg mix
Streaky bacon
Stuffing
Sugar free lemonade
Tea towels
Thin bleach
Tinned beans and sausages
Tinned kidney beans
Tinned mandarin segments.
Tinned peaches
Tinned peas
Tinned potatoes
Tinned Spaghetti
Tinned sweetcorn
Tinned Tomatoes
Tinned tuna
Tissues
Toilet cleaner
Toilet roll
Tomato puree
Toothpaste
Tortilla chips
Vinegar
Vodka
Whip (Angel Delight)
Wipes
Yoghurts
Yorkshire puddings

Mixed Reviews
Cereals
Chicken roll
Loo Roll
Frozen peas
Golden syrup
Squash
Tomato Ketchup
Washing up liquid

Bad
Lamb
Mince Beef – very fatty
Frozen peas
Frozen sweetcorn
Tea bags
Soap
Oranges – not fresh
Vanilla icecream
Rice crispies
Cheese triangles
Baby wipes
Cola
Nappies

If anything is missing, add it below.

Lilith1980

I get Tesco's value tomato ketchup. I actually like it better than Heinz as its tangier. It costs 43p whereas a bottle of the same size is about £2.18 from Heinz!

lucy*locket

Thanks for that grimerking, I've printed it off and will keep it with me when I go shopping. I do use a few Tesco Value items but don't want to waste money trying too many in case they're rubbish. Have added tomato ketchup to the list

*moggins*

I love the Value brown sauce as well but it could just be a matter of personal taste.

Jaycee1972

Hiya

The Golden Savoury Rice is nice if a little salty. We have it with added veg/tofu which are stir fried separately and stired in when the rice is cooked - yum!

Other things I have bought which are good are the tinned tomatoes, red kidney beans, rice pud, jelly, choc digestives, flour, peppers, bleach (mum has this), stir fry, curry sauce, tissues (thin but great value), salted peanuts, oats, kitchen roll, spaghetti, lasagne, cat litter, basmati and long grain rice and bananas.

Still to try, I have the strawberry whip and stir fry sauce in the cupboard

Not keen on the tinned custard and the value chocolate is really really bad! The weetabix tasted okay but were not so high in vitamins so won't be buying again.Oh and the toilet cleaner is rubbish. Smells okay but does nothing to clean the toilet! Red pesto was poor too.

VoucherMan

A warning about 'market value' bananas.



Standard bananas are priced at 68p/kg.

Market value bananas priced at 66p per bag - weighing between 600g and 900g - that I could see.
That works out at between 73p and £1.10 per kg .

Value!!!:eek:

uolypool

*moggins* wrote: »

I love the Value brown sauce as well but it could just be a matter of personal taste.

My son is brown sauce mad.I used to buy a more expensive one till his dad told me that when at his house he has tesco value as only him who has it and now thats all he will "smother" on his food

V.Lucky

The value Tortilla Chips are fab, lovely with salsa and cheese made into nacho's and less than 20p per bag too.

sexymouse

Also a word of warning regarding value products - check the price per 100g or each etc, as in quite a few of their products, the full price version actually works out cheaper than the value version (chocolate sandwich biscuits being just one of the examples I found today).

Mamae

Right:
tinned toms
tinned kidney beans
long grain rice
flour (self raising and plain)
Carrots
Onions
Frozen mixed veg
Hay and animal bedding (for guinea pig)
Butter
Porridge oats
Fruit n fibre
Bananas
bags of peppers (I try to get the bag with some red ones in as some bags seem to be all green peppers!)
kitchen roll

Will give most value things a go, don't know until you try! Do buy meat from the butchers though.