Tonight: Brand v Budget

mineallmine

frosty wrote: »

for everyone who missed it


www.itv.com/ITVplayer/video/default.html?viewType=5&Filter=37626

Thanks for the link frosty. Watching it now.

mineallmine

Interesting programme. I guess researchers need the more extreme cases to make interesting TV. I kinda got the impression the guy (compared to the missus) was not that blown away by the savings (guess it's all relative to some), maybe if it was put as - well thats £4k (every year) for your kids college fund or whatever. Bit like the demotivator.

shezza wrote: »

What would have been nice though was if they actually told you what the budget moisturiser was especially as one of the testers thought it was the premium brand.

Shezza, I'd like to know too. It was a tube (Martin handed the woman a wrapped box), priced at £2.81. Searched Boots to see if I can find anything close to that price. Aldi stuff (I think) comes in tubs. I wondered if it was a Nivea product, or Lidl?

MrsBartolozzi

Simple comes in a box about that size, and it's about that price too.

Funny though, I thought it might have been the Aldi cream that was in the papers a few months back, but that's in a different shaped box (more cube shaped).

tessie_bear

i enjoyed watching it....id have lked a bit more detail on what was purchased...very impressive saving though...what do u do though when u are buying the budget range ?:rolleyes:

brightonman123

i'm already on basics level, how can i go even further??

skintmumof3

i thinks all OS`ers should get commision as this what has been posted on here for years....lol
or at the very least he should invite antony worrell thompson round to cook us all a meal.
but to honest i found it was all rather vague..
no real mention of what was on the his list and the family`s list. what were the recipes etc..
also what were the beauty products..... that would`ve been interesting to know what they were buying for £75 a month.......
also did anyone else think the older woman doing the beauty test looked like a drag queen....
i am sticking to the cheap stuff if that what the expensive stuff does for you........ooohhh meow.....
skint
xx

Doom_and_Gloom

brightonman123 wrote: »

i'm already on basics level, how can i go even further??

If you have a local green grocers they are usually cheaper and better quality. For example at mine the bananas are £1 for 10, the quality is better than the supermarkets and for that they tend to last longer. I save a lot of money when I go there and not the supermarket for my fruit, salad and vegetables. That’s the only way I can think of beating even the basic prices but only for fruit, salad and vegetables. My partner says the local butchers works out cheaper for meat even at the basic prices for most stuff and it isn’t as fatty either. He really dislikes fatty meat of low quality.

Really the only way we are likely to beat the supermarket prices would be the local stores. I’m all for that :rotfl: .

daska

mineallmine wrote: »

I kinda got the impression the guy (compared to the missus) was not that blown away by the savings (guess it's all relative to some)

His wife did mention that he was a very private man. He reminded me of a friend of my parents who would react like in that, in public, regardless of whether you'd told him he'd won a million or his granny had died...