Budget items - the favourite option?

Steve059

I also much prefer the cheap and coarsely milled ASDA SmartPrice or Tesco Everyday Value porridge oats to the expensive and finely ground "wallpaper paste." As you may have guessed, it's the texture as much as the taste. It just says "Rolled Oats (100%)" and "Just natural rolled oats" respectively on the ingredients. Both are currently 75p for 1kg.

However, my latest budget brand find (thanks to these MSE forums) has got to be Sainsbury's Basics tea bags. Before anyone says anything they're amazingly good. Even my partner, who previously moaned when I bought certain well-known brands, is a convert. They're now 15p for 40 one-cup bags/100g. That's 0.375p per bag. They're also Fairtrade, although I don't know how they do this at the price.

PS. The cheap, coarse porridge oats are also perfect for Twink's hobnobs.

PasturesNew

I prefer Lid's GranArom coffee granules (about £2/200g) to Nescafe granules or Gold at £4-5. It's not so bitter/nasty.

bazzyb

Sainsburys basic teabags are great for a mug of tea, better than any brand names in my opinion. However I don't find them as good as PG when brewing in a teapot, so I guess it depends how you prefer your tea.

redcard

geordie_joe wrote: »

Yes it does, which part are you having difficulty with?

MrsE said she preferred cheap porridge oats

You said people prefer cheap stuff because "these will generally have more sugar, salt and other 'flavour enhancers'.
"

MrsE then replied to say she was sure her porridge oats were just oats.

What did you not understand about that?

Can you not compute that "just oats" means no added sugar, salt flavour enhancers etc.

Perhaps you should try thinking instead of computing.

Doesn't matter.

If you're eating cheap food you're eating junk more often than not.

Steve059

bazzyb wrote: »

Sainsburys basic teabags are great for a mug of tea, better than any brand names in my opinion. However I don't find them as good as PG when brewing in a teapot, so I guess it depends how you prefer your tea.

They are quite clearly labelled as a "one-cup" bag.

redcard wrote: »

Doesn't matter.

If you're eating cheap food you're eating junk more often than not.

Are you saying that the food that I eat, which I make from ingredients, which are usually cheap, is more often than not junk? If so, then I may have to ask you to step outside.

geordie_joe

redcard wrote: »

Doesn't matter.

Yes it does.

redcard wrote: »

If you're eating cheap food you're eating junk more often than not.

That's not true, not all cheap food is junk and not all people who eat cheap food eat the junk food.

MrsE_2

redcard wrote: »

Doesn't matter.

If you're eating cheap food you're eating junk more often than not.

Thats not true at all.
Junk food is processed sugary, fatty rubbish, usually of the ready meal or made variety or snack & junk type food.

Basics tomatoes, carrots, brown bread, oats, ect, are much much better for you than any number of high end ready meals.

Pickle29

Sainsburys basics tin rice pudding. 15p per tin, less sugar and calories than the best brands and less cals than ambrosia light rice pudding. Tried them all and compared all the labels and my conclusion is you can't beat sainsburys basics, what a bargain!

MrsE_2

Pickle29 wrote: »

Sainsburys basics tin rice pudding. 15p per tin, less sugar and calories than the best brands and less cals than ambrosia light rice pudding. Tried them all and compared all the labels and my conclusion is you can't beat sainsburys basics, what a bargain!

I only usually buy fruit & veg basics, but when I reached for the ambrosia custard I tesco at the weekend, I couldn't help noticing the basics was silly money.
So I bought it.
It was pretty tasteless, I wouldn't get it again.

MrsE_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I prefer Lid's GranArom coffee granules (about £2/200g) to Nescafe granules or Gold at £4-5. It's not so bitter/nasty.

I don't like any instant coffee.
But im happy to drink cheaper real coffee.
But m&s own brand is particularly nice.