Anything you would shell out for???

pigpen

Mrs_A wrote: »

Yup - free range eggs. Only buy about six eggs every month but after going inside a battery farm once when i was a kid, I could NEVER buy cheap eggs.

If you read the boxes of tesco value ones some of them are from free range chooks.. it says so inthe top right hand corner.. my friend passed on the info.. basically they are the ones which are too small/mis-shapen to be sold as regular free range eggs.. definitely worth a rummage!!

OP.. I buy comfort/lenor fabric conditioner (usually stock up when it is on offer.. I had 32 bottles ones!!), finish or fairy dishwasher tablets and bodyform sanitary towels..

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

pigpen wrote: »

OP.. I buy comfort/lenor fabric conditioner (usually stock up when it is on offer.. I had 32 bottles ones!!), finish or fairy dishwasher tablets and bodyform sanitary towels..

Reminds me of when I was a student - Safeway (as it was) sold 2 litre bottles of Pepsi for 39p for about a week once - our house bought so many we ran out of space in the cupboard for them and stockpiled them at bottom of the stairs...so each night to get to bed we had to clamber over the top of the bottles

Came back to this thread because I have a guilty bread secret...we make most of our bread (mainly rolls) at home, but I am extremely partial to Sainsburys TTD multigrain bread from the bakery...absolutely packed with lots of lovely seeds, yum yum! Only thing is it's 99p a loaf, but attempts to recreate it at home have only resulted in what looks and feels like a seed encrusted concrete block...:eek:

Jillinoz

Mine are Illy coffee (I'm ashamed to admit that I'm a coffee snob and detest instant ) and 500-thread count pure Egyptian cotton bed linen (that has to be crisply ironed before it goes back on my bed after washing). I swear I'm not a princess or diva, though

dbelle

Toilet roll, we don't buy andrex but we don't buy value either. We used value once and it was GRIM.

Free range eggs (although this is cheap because my colleague keeps chickens and sells me 6 for 50p and they are about as free range as you can get)

Good wine, although if we are too skint I will have perry/cider instead, or nothing at all.

MrsMW

Sainsburys organic tomato ketchup.

filigree_2

McVitie's Digestives
Proper Coke
Anything but economy tea - Sainsbury's own brand Red Label is great
Organic carrots - the standard ones taste nasty

Amberelli

Sallylizzie wrote: »

I wish my clothes were soft, doesn't matter what i wash with my towels with they are always rough as sandpaper, still saves me having to buy exfoliator!! LOL :T

I always heard that you should NOT put fabric conditioner in with towels as it makes them less absorbant! (but I put about 1/2 the normal amount in. Then I usually dry by hanging up and then blast them in the tumble dryer :eek: - but only for about 1 minute.

This should make them nice and soft

plumduff55

Hi, for a long time when the children were growing up and money was really tight I always bought "value bread" but now my treat is nice bakery bread.

ampersand

hardpressed wrote: »

A decent loaf of bread. And I agree with you on the ham and any other cooked meat.

No need to buy a 'decent loaf of bread' - make your own. PLEASE TRY!
Cathartic, good for soul, for hands, for budget.
I vary white, wholemeal, other bread flours(whichever's cheapest)and add seeds - pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, poppy, linseed(particularly good for we who are Wimmin).
DON'T SKIP THE 2ND KNEADING IF YOU USE WHOLEMEAL FLOUR.
Put a bowl of water on the oven floor or lowest rack to encourage steam while dough does its last rise.
I make 2 loaves from the recipe on Mr T's own brand yeast, own brand lard(34p for 500 gms - will last an age)slice them when cold and freeze.
Toast is always better thus, using your own bread still frozen. It's also better for sandwiches; just butter and fill directly. Slow thaw keeps everything ultra-fresh.
Good luck.
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For me, it has to be DECENT TEA!(lapsang etc.) and butter(Mr T now does Value Unsalted, as well as salted)

ampersand

arlybarly wrote: »

like daisyroots
i cant stand cheapo perfume, would rather have a decent bottle and nothing else.

Absolutely, but was only thinking grox/household at first blush.
...........And it must be Eau de Parfum, not Eau de Toilette.
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Lapsang Souching, Earl Grey, Chai.