What Value things have you tried and liked?

ShelBell

New discovery for me, tesco value food bags (small white roll) are fabby. MUCH higher quality than I expected!

kings981

fedupandskint wrote: »

Tesco Value nappy bags for dog poop and scooper 73p for 300 instead of £2 for 2xpacks of 50 form pets at home. Took some finding in the baby section.

Ok, they are see through pale green instead of black but lets be right they fit and do the job.

That's the only Tesco recommendation I will make as I really do not like the place and it's 'we're such great value' attitude, which I don't think they are BTW

Why not use the free plastic gloves you get from the petrol station? Or old loaf bags etc. These are free.

willis

I have always used Tesco Value baked beans, dried spaghetti, chopped toms, lasagne sheets, flour, and they are all absolutely fine. I've also recently started buying Value bran flakes. I compared the box (ingredients and nutrition) with Tesco's standard Bran Flakes and the 2 are totally identical.

fedupandskint

kings981 wrote: »

Why not use the free plastic gloves you get from the petrol station? Or old loaf bags etc. These are free.

Sorry I don't buy bread and try to avoid plastic bags as much as possible and only fill the car up once a week. With 2 dogs that's alot of bags needed!

tiff

I dont get why you would buy bags when you could reuse what is already available for free!

ShelBell

But you don't need to 'get' it. It's down to each individual what they buy, and the thread is what value things have you tried and liked, not what value things have you tried and like which fit in with everyone elses morals and values.

sb44

tiff wrote: »

I dont get why you would buy bags when you could reuse what is already available for free!

I don't know what size of 'free' bags you are talking about, I assume you mean carrier bags. If so, have you tried picking up dog muck with a carrier bag?

tiff

yes, I do it every time I go out with the dog. You put your hand in the bag, pick up the mess and pull your hand back through so the bag is now inside out and mess is inside. I use reusable bags for food shopping but generally keep bags that clothes come in, veg bags from the supermarket etc for picking up mess.

Pretani

I love the tinned chicken sold in Lidl's. It's called Grangedale Chuncky chicken in a white sauce and it's great mixed with boiled potatoes, like a stew or in a pie.

RichyRich

givememoney wrote: »

There was a programme on TV last week(dispatches I believe), that tested the own brand basics against the more expensive better counterpart.

Strangely enough I was encouraged by their findings.

They proved by scientifically testing the food, the cheaper options were in fact inferior to the dearer options. The ingredients did actually have less food value, poorer quality, for various reason e.g. less protein etc.

I was encouraged because I have always wondered if the dearer product was just the cheaper but in more elaborate wrapping, but no, they are in fact a better quality product.

Dispatches is the Daily Mail of documentaries - nothing more than scaremongering with a thin veil of "science" behind it. The experiements they showed were NOT scientific in the slightest. I saw the programme in question and any academic could pull their "tests" to bits for lack of intellectual rigour.

As an example, they tested value -v- non-value tomatoes for one nutrient and found that on the whole they had less of it. They did not test the tomatoes for the many other nutrients that tomatoes have (or, maybe they did, but chose to broadcast only the one that made the Value lines look the worst).

The problem with any of these shows is that on any channel but the BBC the programming is funded by advertisers and thus the programmers cannot criticise suppliers of goods too much for fear of losing revenue...although apparently critical of the supermarkets Dispatches did them a favour by advising that higher-priced, higher-profit lines are better for you than value lines.