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What Value stuff should be avoided?

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  • 13katrina
    13katrina Posts: 56 Forumite
    Avoid Asda Smartprice Spaghetti Hoops- disgusting - actually threw a couple of tins away.

    The beans are good though - personally can't tell the difference between the regular Asda brand and the smartprice brand.
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  • Danni1979
    Danni1979 Posts: 84 Forumite
    Tesco Value Pot Noodles
    Yuck
    Even my dogs wouldnt eat them!!
  • tealady
    tealady Posts: 3,850 Forumite
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    Aldis own pizza, they are so salty it takes away all the flavour. Even my mates dustbin (aka the dog) wasn't keen on them.
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  • larmy16
    larmy16 Posts: 4,324 Forumite
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    I find any of the value washing up liquids useful for the dishwasher. I put a little squirt in the little separate box on mine, there is one for a tablet that shuts.

    Because it does not froth up much, I think it gives the dishes a good soak and clean before the tablet drops out to do the proper cleaning.

    To avoid would be Sainsburys basic chocolate covered bars - I only bought them once and they had so little chocolate flavour that they just did not do the trick.
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  • sammy_kaye18
    sammy_kaye18 Posts: 3,742 Forumite
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    I agree with Thistle-down

    My watrer is quite hard here and i find the tesco value washign up liquid works really well - i also agree i tend to use it for alot of things too - cleaning the oven and floors with, windows, bath tub and sink etc

    And hte tea bags - ive drank alot of value tea in my time as its all my tea a holic family could afford being that my mother was a single parent with 2 girls to raise. I quite like the value tea and at 29p for 80 im more htan happy to keep drinking it (except for the fact now i have to watch how many cups i have!)

    The tesco value cornflakes - i dont mind these if i HAVE to eat them but i would run a mile from the value rice krispies - there is no flavour its liek eating polystyrene. i find the cornflakes are good for putting in cornflakes cakes though
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  • Mrs_A_4
    Mrs_A_4 Posts: 184 Forumite
    Just put Aldi cornflakes in my cornflake cakes - but Aldi seems much posher than Tesco Value now!
  • sainsburys basic sweetcorn (cans) really chewy. Though most of the basic range is very good.
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  • Garnet_Gem
    Garnet_Gem Posts: 681 Forumite
    I never buy value ice cream. It has the consistency and tastes of lard. I don't buy value bread or jam. Yuck.
  • Garnet_Gem
    Garnet_Gem Posts: 681 Forumite
    I never buy value ice cream. It has the consistency and taste of lard. I don't buy value bread or jam. Yuck.
  • keelykat
    keelykat Posts: 3,341 Forumite
    Asda smart price frozen peas are disgusting! i thought peas are peas, but god no! never again-they were really dried up and nasty.

    Asda do a cheap box of chocs-which i actually like and for 99p theyre great! im not ashamed to try different brands, its great when the value things are as good as the leading brand. the odd few things are horrible, but a lot are quite good.

    I avoid cheap meat/fish etc....i feel sick thinking about what they really could be! loo rolls-false aconomy....bleach and washing up liquid-just like water and didnt really do anything.

    Smart price bread around here is dried up and goes mouldy in a day, so i avoid that too!

    keely.
    Mommy to Elliot (5) and Lewis (born xmas eve 11!)
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