What Value stuff should be avoided?

scbk

I actually don't mind the value bread!

Bought some bettabuy pickled onions the other day, they aint great.

Also tried tesco value lager and bitter once, "just for the hell of it". I think it's made in the same factory as the value washing up liquid......

nell2

I've got a really weird one - I bought Tesco Value broccoli last week thinking broccoli is broccoli - it just grows, it can't be any different, but it was! It was really hard even after I'd steamed it for ages - far longer than usual, and tasted awful.
I don't know if it was a different variety - it looked slightly different after I'd cut it up.
Horrible stuff! Back to proper broccoli for me!

DawnW

anybody's 'value' or 'basic' level sausages, cheap instant coffee, most value biscuits (not worth the calories:), basics tissues - like trying to blow your nose on a spiders web, any sort of cheap cakes - HM much better, any white sliced bread, value baked beans - taste OK but all sauce and no beans, any sort of tinned soup ... I could go on. In a lot of cases I guess you get what you pay for. Some of the own branded stuff (Sainsburys or Morrisons) as opposed to the value stuff is OK though, and still cheaper than branded goods.

Stephen_Leak

My big "value" mistake was a pack of ASDA Smart Price kitchen towels - so thin, they got used up significantly (and mercifully) faster than the "standard" own-brand ones.

Little_Miss_Saver

I've tried and won't be buying again their "Value" Washing up liquid, Bread, Squash, Pop & Bacon.

I do buy quite alot of thier Value range but thier are some things that are just not good "Value"

LMS xx

dolly_day_dream

For those of us who have little economic choice but use the value brands I wonder if you have noticed what I have. The standard seems to fluctuate wildly. Value baked beans range from very tomatoey to hard as nails. Tinned tomatoes from watery to almost like tom puree. I try and buy as little as I can from supermarkets but my budget (£20 for 3 adults) means that every single penny counts. I have come to the conclusion that value means - we will try out something new and see if it works before we put it to our full price paying customers.

mum2kathryn

Asda Smart Price cheese spread - gross!
And considering two seperate people in the food industry have told me not to eat Dairylee (which I quite like) I dread to think what's in it!

helping_hubby

nell2 wrote: »

I've got a really weird one - I bought Tesco Value broccoli last week thinking broccoli is broccoli - it just grows, it can't be any different, but it was! It was really hard even after I'd steamed it for ages - far longer than usual, and tasted awful.
I don't know if it was a different variety - it looked slightly different after I'd cut it up.
Horrible stuff! Back to proper broccoli for me!

I didn't know there was value brocolli! I'm sure my bunnys won't mind. Thanks.

saving-grace

Sainsbury's Basics Brie - tastes of absolutely nothing!!

comping_cat

We bought some tescco value lamb (boned and rolled) it was disgusting - mostly fat, no meat, no taste - not sure what part of the lamb it was, if any!!!!