What Value stuff should be avoided?

milkydrink

ANY value/cheap sausages:eek: .

I think the best ones are just about OK:think: . A programme a few years back did a thing on value sausages, urgh.

Miss_Penny_Pincher_2

value ham from kwik saves - it's full of gristle / ground bones type things! YUK!

kingmonkey

Tesco value long grain rice

Has lentils in it!!!

dolly_day_dream

lil_me wrote: »

Wow, that is a tight budget, is that for 3 meals a day and snacks etc ? You have my admiration!

Thats for 2 breakfasts, (son just doesn't have time) 2 packed lunches (daughter gets supplied by her place of work) and 3 sometimes 4 (if daughter's boyfriend joins us) dinners. I bake when the oven is on for snacks etc.

It is achieved by making everything from scratch and shopping around like crazy. I am lucky in that people give me veg from their allotments - not because they think I am hard up but because they know that I will use it. There is a joke that the compost heap goes hungry in our house cos I use every last scrap of food that comes into the house.

I am vegan (lovely and cheap) and the rest have to eat vegetarian/vegan for 3/4 meals a week. I am constantly on the look out for new recipes and the people on this site have been a great help. Curry Queen's sauce for instance means that they can have great tasting curries for relatively little.

Mrs_A_4

In the spirit of HM pizza making, hubby bought Value "Mozzerella-style cheese substitute" ready-grated in a big bag.

Ugh. The word "substitute" implies viable alternative to the real thing. Not true.

When cooked it forms a gooey mass that somehow managed to literally coat your front teeth, leaving everyone gagging for a tooth brush. Nice.

Mildly better if the pizza is left to go cold - bland but not so tooth-coaty!:doh:

Ianna

ASDA smart price tinned tuna is OK (but not great) for cooking as long as you're going to add herbs and spices to basically cover the taste up but on its own in a sandwich - it looks and smells like cat food. I also once brought a smart price turkey leg and frozen smart price kievs which tasted fowl (wakka wakka ) I'm surprised I didn't get bird flu from them! Asda own brand kit kats were like powder, just crumbled into powdered cardboard in my mouth. Ugh.

moanin'minnie

kimevans wrote: »

ANY value/cheap sausages:eek: .

I think the best ones are just about OK:think: . A programme a few years back did a thing on value sausages, urgh.

I agree they are absolutely vile and I also saw a programme about them and what goes into them, I will never eat cheap sausages again.:eek:

Bunnie1982

I agree with any value cheap sausages, we had some from Morrisons that tasted horrible and I simply cannot bear to eat any packaged sausage.

We hated Tesco Value Weetabix, they tasted like cardboard. Also Tesco Rice Krispies are just nasty.

Asda value chicken kievs I would not touch with a barge pole.

Saying that I have not had many supermarket products recently, been buying fresh produce from the butcher and the greengrocer

PurpleDuck

mum2kathryn wrote: »

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!

make that three - I have banned my children & family from eating any form of processed cheese after what I found out about how it is made :eek:

PurpleDuck

Mrs_A wrote: »

In the spirit of HM pizza making, hubby bought Value "Mozzerella-style cheese substitute" ready-grated in a big bag.

Ugh. The word "substitute" implies viable alternative to the real thing. Not true.

When cooked it forms a gooey mass that somehow managed to literally coat your front teeth, leaving everyone gagging for a tooth brush. Nice.

Mildly better if the pizza is left to go cold - bland but not so tooth-coaty!:doh:

and if you knew what THAT was made out of you would feel even worse! Its another of the do NOT touch with a bargepole products :eek: