What are the best and worst basics/value/smartprice own brand products out there?

ikkle87

basics scones and basics toffee's are amazing

Diflower

Just a warning, was in Sains the other day and Basics pasta sauce is suddenly 38p a jar, a rather big jump from 18p:( I noticed just in time.

trinidadone

ikkle87 wrote: »

basics scones and basics toffee's are amazing

thanks Ikkle87, I have added your recomendations to the first page

asparagusnextleft

I bought a bag of Asda Smart Price peppers this week - they are great. Seven of them in a bag, a bit small and odd shapes, out of the seven one was yellow and six were green but they are super tasty! I did read somewhere that green peppers are the least popular so maybe that's why they are mainly green. Who cares though!?

trinidadone

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

I bought a bag of Asda Smart Price peppers this week - they are great. Seven of them in a bag, a bit small and odd shapes, out of the seven one was yellow and six were green but they are super tasty! I did read somewhere that green peppers are the least popular so maybe that's why they are mainly green. Who cares though!?

thanks for the comments, I have added to the front page

Mayflower10cat

Recently disenchanted with Heinz Tomato Ketchup - and have been tasting various other, and own, brands for a nicer, cheaper alternative. Final side by side test was Sainsburys own brand (approx 90p, half the price of Heinz) and their Basics ketchup (25-30p).... We both agreed the Sainburys ketchups were more tomato-ey than Heinz and more to our taste. Of the two, I felt the basics one was very slightly sweeter, maybe a little more runny. But that was just nit picking, really. The basics ketchup is our favourite, now.

Also, the basics value dried spaghetti at Sainburys used to be 20p for 500g. It's suddenly doubled in price, against their ordinary spaghetti at 85p (?) The value spaghetti does have a different texture, I found, and it's harder to get it just spot on when you're cooking it - seemed to be a very short time between raw and suddenly overcooked and mushy! The ordinary pasta cooks more consistently and is easier to get to al dente. So, I've gone back to the ordinary own brand spaghetti, as I do prefer it.

paadzer

Not a fan of basics toilet paper, cereal or crisps. I tend to buy buy basics lemonade, mince, rice, pasta and printing paper for my printer.

I don't bother with the baked beans as the Tesco brand ones tend to be on offer at 4 for £1 or less so I just stock up on them or find dented cans reduced.

I haven't had the mince for a while as I have been able to find steak mince at the co-op reduced to 90p (with a sticker on it, so I put it in the freezer).

Viper_7

trinidadone wrote: »

wow, assumed the basic eggs in sainsburys would be from battery hens

Barn isn't much better!
9 hens per square meter usually, and they are crammed in by the thousand...

missyp123

i buy frozen chicken fillets form morrisons value range, tried the ones form asda and will never buy them again, they are like soggy rubber vile...morrisions are much better quality and i will stick with them!

strangley i prefer asda smart price low fat yougurts better then the morrisons value ones! lol

asparagusnextleft

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not but we've tried the Asda Smart Price orange squash this week and it's absolutely fine. Like the lemon squash you need to use a bit more than you would with more expensive double concentrate squash but it's only 28p! I will be buying it instead of the more expensive one from now on.

Hi trinidadone - just a small correction, you put the orange squash in the not worth buying section of the list but I did say it was good and would definitely buy again (see above)