What Value things have you tried and liked?

kippers

We are on a very tight budget this xmas and i have been asked to make a cheesecake for a get together during the holidays.

I usually use tesco soft cheese for my cheesecake and it's fine, however, i was wondering if the Tesco 'value' softcheese is just as good to use as it's half the price?....does anyone on here use it and what are the results like?

Thanks for any replies

ifonlyitwaseasier

i've used it for carrot cake icing and it's tasted exactly the same as using posh brands

redruby

I have not tried the tesco one, but I made a cheesecake using co-op value soft cheese, it was delish :T, maybe you could make a test one, just for quality control purposes , but I think it will be fine.

meritaten

when I was a regular Tesco shopper I remember buying the value one and not being able to tell it from the expensive 'Fillly' one! it may be a good idea to do a test run first though as redruby suggests!

hex2

I regularly use the value one to make cheesecake, no difference whatsoever.

kippers

Thanks for your replies. I think i will give the value one a try.

(I am so grateful for this website...it's great to be able to ask questions like this and get such quick replies. Thank you all so much)

Penelope_Penguin

kippers wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. I think i will give the value one a try.

(I am so grateful for this website...it's great to be able to ask questions like this and get such quick replies. Thank you all so much)

I use the value soft cheese, too I'll add this to the existing thread on which value items people like, later.

hieveryone

I'm another who uses the value cheese, as well as value biscuits, cream and value chocolate to grate on top...

jollymummy

We scoff loads of the Tesco value cream cheese and it's fine. My 5 year old's sandwich of choice is cream cheese and strawberry jam

sonnythecat

just for the record, what DOESN'T seem to work as well is low fat cream cheese. I think you'd need to tinker with the recipe as maybe its more watery.