What Value things have you tried and liked?

greenpixey

I have not compared with a more expensive product or weather its good for you or not but my kids and hubby likes the Smart Price - Orange Juice and Apple Juice from Asda

katholicos

I think the value fresh orange juice and apple juice are just fine, although even the value range of these has risen considerably of late. I also buy/ tinned value kidney beans, chick peas, tinned tomatoes, tin foil and food bags.

dzug1

RichyRich wrote: »

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.

Indeed.

And it overlooks the point that the extra nutrients, etc, the more expensive brands may have may actually be more than you need and contributing to your (totally hypothetical of course) obesity.

sb44

Pretani wrote: »

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.

We have this with boiled rice, it's a bit like Chicken A La King if you add a few bits of chopped peppers.

Snowy_Owl

Tend to go to Tesco and Asda. SP/Value cheap tomatos very common on my list. Value bread and porridge common.

just DON'T touch the teabags. As a regular tea-jennie, these teabags taste FOUL!

Snowy

sb44

Snowy_Owl wrote: »

Tend to go to Tesco and Asda. SP/Value cheap tomatos very common on my list. Value bread and porridge common.

just DON'T touch the teabags. As a regular tea-jennie, these teabags taste FOUL!

Snowy

Try the teabags from Sainsburys (basics range) they are 35p for 80 and are quite nice. In fact I don't normally drink much tea but I do now that I have tried these. If you don't like them you have only wated 35p.

locutus2003

Probably already been said - in which case ignore.

However, Sainsburys Basics Weetabix are FOUL. Really tried - got through the 2 boxes but they were horrid. However, their own brand is fine (and half the price of Weetabix).

We eat Sainsbury's Basics Tuna a lot - and can't tell difference between that and normal stuff.

lynnemcf

Thanks for the info on this thread. I've been buying a lot of the Sainsbury value range, and the rubber gloves (twinpack) are fantastic, exactly the right size for my hands.

muddy_fox

The Sainsbury's Basics Chocolate Fudge Cake dessert is yummy for an evening treat and only 85p.

I'm eating a lot more of the Basics stuff now, the mixed peppers and mushrooms are fabulous for cooking easy stirfrys, I haven't bought a branded biscuit in ages and the Basics hula hoops I can't tell the difference between them and KP's version!

The only thing I haven't got on with, was the Basics washing powder, it just didn't get the mud off my breeches, so I switched back to Persil.

WorkingHardDFW

Got to say Tesco Value Bran Flakes are great - can't taste the difference between them and K's

Likewise Tesco value porridge oats as well

I buy quite a lot of value stuff now and generally I don't get any comment from anyone in the family...:D