Asda Smart Price - Good/Bad items

alibob_1986

i have just been and bought my weekly shope, almost all SP items. I have tried quite a few SP items, not really found anything I absolutely wouldn't touch again but it's definitely my "skint" shopping on some items!
The crisps are nice, biscuits are definitely edible although the bourbons are a bit skimpy on the filling they are still perfectly ok. I buy a lot of their tinned goods and they all taste fine (kidney beans, sliced mushrooms, sliced carrots etc) I just wish they're packaging wasn't so cheap looking! it's like Hi!!!! everyone see my green and white packaging shining like a beacon in my trolley lol

raven83

alibob_1986 wrote: »

i have just been and bought my weekly shope, almost all SP items. I have tried quite a few SP items, not really found anything I absolutely wouldn't touch again but it's definitely my "skint" shopping on some items!
The crisps are nice, biscuits are definitely edible although the bourbons are a bit skimpy on the filling they are still perfectly ok. I buy a lot of their tinned goods and they all taste fine (kidney beans, sliced mushrooms, sliced carrots etc) I just wish they're packaging wasn't so cheap looking! it's like Hi!!!! everyone see my green and white packaging shining like a beacon in my trolley lol

i agree the packaging is rather awful but then again what do you expect for the price.....but i know what your saying lol:rotfl:

dreamyd

My favourite SP items are
rice pudding
9p noodles
'angel delight'
milk powder
instant coffee
mature cheddar
brie
squash
mixed peppers
apples
pasta (expecially when it's 20p or less)

I am a volunteer at my local food bank, have gone down their shopping list almost enitrely from the SP ranges. I have been able to acquire almost everything on their basic shopping list for £10, either using SP or the next brand up. If people look in my trolley and attempt to make value judgments, more fool them.

raven83

just a quickie to say i brought the sp noodles as there was so many people raving about them, and gave them to my daughter as she loves supernooodles and she said she preferred them to the batchelors ones! result! at only 9p a pack i will def be buying them instead of batchelors! thankyou guys x

Beetlemama

JillD wrote: »

My poor kids have Smart Price lunchboxes - fromage frais, juice and crisps. Thankfully they are still too young to have the mickey taken but I expect its inevitable.

lol the trick there is to repack it in little clear boxes, then no one knows, I do that with Dill's lunch

Love SmartPrice on the whole, the rice crispies might not be up to much but the coco-pops are ok. We eat the potnoodles sometimes too.

Lugh_Chronain

Have a flick through this lot. There's about six pages to flick through though if you want to check anything specific then just enter in the search box at the top of the page what you want to look for and then tick the ASDA box then hit search, best if you also tick were it says Include Tasting Note in Search.

The website I've mentioned, SupermarketOwnBrand, reviews supermarket own brands, pitting them against their brand name rivals and giving them a mark out of ten.

tessie_bear

i buy lots of smart price stuff such as peppers/bananas/noodles/pasta if its really cheap/curry sauce/apples/crisps/biscuits/

with regards to using s price stuff in lunch boxes go to the pound shop and buy some cuts tubs and kids food bags and put the smart price stuff in them...thats what i do for my kids

Kei

I buy the SP rolled oats for flapjacks (not tried them for porridge though) and the SP cashew nuts for cooking with. In fact they are better for cooking with and snacking on as they are not covered in salt, which I hate!

Not tried any other SP items that I can think of but will be from now on!!

karl-123

thanks for the smarprice information,
i will be trying there stuff,
i tried smartprice butter ,this year, it was 85p i spat it out and threw it in the bin, my local heron frozen foods do nice butter for £1

i like anchor but refuse to pay the recent price hike to £ 1.60p
however i buy anchor, if its two for £ 2.50p

i told my brother who is the manager of asda about their butter, however i suspect it is still the same,

my mother buys it and likes it but as a good home cook i know its
crap...sorry to be rude but it is

bye karl......:mad:

In_Martin_We_Trust

i don't like the sp bread and didnt think there was much substance to the salsa. I tried the coco pops they weren't bad but after a while they didn't taste that good. I didn't think the flour was that fresh when I tried it but there could have been other reasons.

Porridge oats however are wonderful as are there fresh fruit and veg,

Nobody so far seems to have mentioned sp lager. Good for killing slugs in the garden, gross if you even drink the smallest amount.

Really didn't like there cola and wasn't keen on there lemonade either. I thought the 'angel delight pudding mix' was awful. Peanut butter wasn't good and the best place for jam/marmalade is actually lidl.