What won't you compromise on in your bid to become debtfree?

amosworks

Hey there, you might be very interested to read this thread if you go through that much coke a week!

Nubs_2

Hear hear...I gave up on Heniz baked beans years ago...I spice my beans with ground cumin and coriander for a spicy version of beans on toast...it will cover the taste of any brand of bean and is cheaper than the new flavours Heniz has just brought out.

Try Asda for Organic lamb or beef mince...excellent value for money. Makes great Indian meat balls or kebabs (just add chopped onion, garlic, ginger and garam masala and season. Add to a tomato sauce of your choice.
Try the fish counter...trout was 98p! Cheap and easy to cook.
Home-cooking...saves lots.

Oats, I've tried the organic, cheapest and the middle range, my hubby prefers middle range (cooks quickly in micro. and is tasty...makes nice flap jacks too).
Don't waste money on expensive and tiny cereal bars you can make a whole tray of them tastier and healtier too in less than 1/2 hour. Last for a week or more if stored carefully.

It is so easy to get sucked into the adverising esp. M&S their food is fab(Don't get me wrong) but keep it for special ocassions...to be honest I tryto replicate the dishes at home for a fraction of the cost. It's all about what you think is important to you.

For me I try to buy good meat, eggs and milk for the kids. For you it may be something else.

My son had terrible ecezma...I have tried all brand of washing powders...I think Asda and Tescos non-bios perform well enough and don't irritate and are a lot cheaper than the branded powders. I still have to buy Comfort Pure as all other brands cause a flare-up.

Nubs_2

DAME wrote:

I will only buy:
I use the laundry balls now, got them at the home show 2 years ago and wouldn't bother going back to lugging laundry soap home!

DAME do they work? Really (reallyreally?)

foreverskint

Vodka, but I can drink the cheapie brands:beer: and red bull but again i can manage the cheaper own brand versions of this too.

I have to have real coffee and my current fave is Lazy sunday by taylors.

Rest of my shopping is done at lidl/Aldi so that I can have a couple of nice treats a month from what I save on food shopping:money:

And the very occasional pub meal and drinkiepoo just to remember that there is a world outside of my puter;)

gallygirl

Lady Grey T bags.

Clover (but only buy on BOGOF)

Dove stick deodorant (ditto)

Mrs_Sparkle

Blimey, loads of things:

£5 monthly DD to Cancer Research

Heinz baked beans

Fairtrade coffee

Haircut + colour every 2 months- costs £130 a time in London but I honestly notice the difference if I go to a cheapie place and I have to be groomed at work (this is my only luxury, I hasten to add- I'm very low maintenance apart from my hair)

Subscription to Eve magazine

If I put all these off until I was DF I would have a long wait...

corrig24

I love Green and Black Milk Chocolate, heaven, only have it as a treat do as its expensive, but worth it.

ZTD

Real food.

Chemicals ain't food. Salty water pumped into flesh ain't food. Hydrogenating oils to make them thicker using techniques from the plastic industry ain't food either.

Good quality Tea bags and Coffee.

Not the LIDLs "fresh floor scrapings from a *real* tea bag factory" kind. :eek:

My self-respect.

Respect of my nearest and dearest

Petrol

Need it for work.

Internet

Sheer laziness - won't go down to library. Having said that, there are dozens of unencrypted WAPs near me. I can sometimes pick them up better than I can pick up my own. :mad:

That's about it I think...

newleaf

PG Tips T bags
Free Range eggs
Proper meat (just buy smaller quantity)
everything else is negotiable.

Mrs_Sparkle

Oh yes, definitely free range eggs too. And I have a bit of a weakness for Rachel's organic yoghurts too. But I've switched to value/own brand options for cheese, ketchup, loo rolls, kitchen rolls, washing powder, dishwasher tablets etc etc so I'm not too bad now.