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Which 'premium' brand will you not do without?
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Coke - I don't even like Pepsi, and own brand is a pale imitation!
John West No Drain Tuna - appeals to my lazy side, I stock up when on offer
Kingsmill Bread
Lurpak Spreadable Unsalted Butter - nothing compares
Free Range Eggs
Heinz Tomato Soup
Innocent Smoothies (though I only buy when on offer)
Cadburys Chocolate0 -
Organic meat from wellhung meat. Much more flavour than supermarket meat.
Ringtons Tea bags. I love a good orange cuppa
Most other things I am a bargain tartTwins, twice the laughs, twice the fun, twice the mess!:j:j0 -
Good quality cheese (other half would go mad if I spent any less on this!), branded toothpaste & premium sausages are things I wouldn't scrimp on.0
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Carte Noir coffee
Twinings Everyday teabags
Bovril
Heinz beans
Heinz tinned soups
Kelloggs Cornflakes
Nestle Cheerios
Fairy washing up liquid (nothing else seems to last half as long)
Green Giant sweetcorn (bought some from M&S the other day and it was horrible, I couldn't eat it)Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game0 -
Nescafe coffee
Branston beans
Fairy washing up liquid
Fairy powder and lenor softner
Mr Sheen polish
Decent cheese
Heinz tinned spaghetti
Clover spread
Huggies nappies0 -
Fairy washing up liquid
Kellogs cornflakes
Hellmans mayo
Co-op 99 teabags (its a bonus they are fairtrade as well)
black farmer or sainsburys taste the difference sausages
Aldi's large prawns (these actually taste of prawn rather than the watery offering of most other prawns these days)
Lidl on the vine tomatoes (unless I have home grown)
Free range eggs
Everything else is pretty much dependent on best value or cheapest.0 -
Whole earth baked beans 79p a tin.
Beans on toast becomes a treat with homemade bread. You should try them once because they taste incredible. Available from Waitrose.For myself I am an optimist - there does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill0 -
Only buy warburtons farmhouse bread, cant stand anything else. We dont buy own brand butter so buy whatever brands on offer. Coca cola, cheap coke is a big NO NO infact all cheap pop tastes nasty. We dont buy value cheese but will buy own brand as find the value rubbery and tasteless
Oh and fairy washing up liquid as the own brands don't later, don't clean and irritate our handsWins so far this year: Mum to be bath set, follow me Domino Dog, Vital baby feeding set, Spiderman goody bag, free pack of Kiplings cakes, £15 love to shop voucher, HTC Desire, Olive oil cooking spray, Original Source Strawberry Shower Gel, Garnier skin care hamper, Marc Jacobs fragrance.0 -
Cadbury's Dairy Milk
Yorkshire Tea
Kenco coffee
Diet Coca-Cola
probably will think of more in a minute...!:hello:
Engaged to the best man in the world :smileyhea
Getting married 28th June 2013 :happyhear:love:0 -
Marmite - nothing else comes close
Kelloggs Bran Flakes
Utterly Butterly
Tiptree jams or Duchy Originals
And good quality cheese!0
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