Where to buy cheap staple ingredients?

flabadabado

Hi all,

I've been lurking around here a while now, taking all your advice. Including buying a slow cooker and venturing into cheaper cuts of meat etc. With great success so thankyou! I was pleasantly suprised by this as I have a fussy husband who believes the cost of the meal is directly linked to how nice it is!

One thing I have noticed is the cost of staple ingredients such as tinned toms seem to be rising quickly (I think by about 10p a tin since last time I bought them!) Where do you buy these staple ingredients? I remember reading a thread about what value/basics products people reccommend but couldn't find a thread for this. Apologies if I didn't search thoroughly enough, I grab time on here when LO is napping!

Thanks
F x

nimbo

i tend to shop arond a bit, and will pick them up where i see them cheapest.....

but am mostly just bumping this thread...

Gigervamp

I think the thread about the value products is over on the shopping forum. I never venture over there so can't give you a link but I'm sure someone else will have it.

I've found that things like value tinned tomatoes, flour etc are pretty much the same price in all the supermarkets.

adelight

The ultimate basics are similar prices in most shops, but the quality varies. I find basics pears and apples are disgusting from asda but delicious from waitrose. Lidl's basic tinned tomatoes are really nice, and for about 5p more than supermarket basics you get their extremely tasty well seasoned kind.

macma

I agree about prices being pretty much the same but content often isn't.Tinned tomatoes are very good in Lidl but I recently discovered Farm Foods had 4 tins for £1 and they were very good not at all watery.Basic kidney beans seem to be 19p a can in most places,I have found that canned chickpeas are often a few pence cheaper in the indian section as are some of the spices.:)

zippychick

These threads may help?

What value stuff should be avoided?

Free range or value eggs

What to buy in tesco value range

There is a thread , i know which one you mean, but i can't for the life of me find it! Where's Pink when you need her?! :rotfl:

Ill update when i find it!

Zip

ceridwen

...and a consideration from the last coupla days worth of newspapers articles - cant-recall-his-name from Asd* has "done a Ratners" - ie said "Our stuff is rubbish". It would appear that Asd* own brand stuff leaves a lot to be desired...compared to other supermarkets.

meritaten

I heartily agree with ceridwen here! Asduh value I wouldnt touch with a bargepole! been disappointed every time in the past. so much so that I changed supermarkets and now shop mainly at Aldi (lucky enough to have one just five minutes drive away) although I do a Tesco shop every few months to stock up on stuff that Aldi doesnt stock.
I like Aldis quality, in most cases it is far superior to Asduh and cheaper too.
Tesco value is much better lately, but everything seems so expensive to me and oh now!

zippychick

zippychick wrote: »

There is a thread , i know which one you mean, but i can't for the life of me find it! Where's Pink when you need her?! :rotfl:

Ill update when i find it!

Zip

You've no idea how much this is doing my head in!:eek::rotfl:

freyasmum

Tesco value snobbery? :huh:


From food shopping and groceries:

Sainsburys basics good/bad items {merged}

Tesco value good/bad items

and if you still needed convincing:
MSE News: 'Value' supermarket brands as good as standard – study

seabright

If you have a Chinese or Indian supermarket nearby, theybare excellent value for things like rice (10kg bags) spices, frozen shellfish etc