What things can't you compromise on?

Miss_Liquorice

I cannot do without heinz ketchup, though I do make sure I buy it on special offer to lessen the financial blow, heh. Also, decent loo rolls.
I'd rather do without crisps and chocolate than compromise, so mostly I do without for a few weeks (snacking on tesco value bananas instead) then binge on kettle chips and cadbury's. Yum.

Most food stuff I will try the value range and if I don't like it, switch up .

pigpen

sistercas wrote: »

i dont buy the very cheap tinned tuna in tesco (35p ish) tried it and it was like mush

It is perfect for tuna pasta bake though!

Buttercup.x

My hair dye Once a month! it cost me about £6 for two boxes my hairs so thick so i need two to cover it. i will never stop buying that untill i have no hair left to color i hate my greys (theres only a few but i know they are there)

Snow_White_5

Stuff I don't comromise on (yet):

Tea from Whittards (but I get a few cups from one bag).
Holidays abroad (though cutting this down due to budget airlines having become not-so-budget).
Presents for family

Funnily enough I'm a big chocolate lover but will eat any kind - from Green and Blacks to the cheapest Tecso value choccy: bring it on!

Primrose

A glass of wine with our evening meal.
Decent mature cheddar cheese

EssexHebridean

Goodness - this is a thread to make you think!!

Free range eggs & chicken - as someone said earlier on, if I can't afford free range then I can't afford the product at all - for me there is no alternative. Hellmans Mayonnaise comes under this heading too as so far apart from the organic ones it's the only one that uses free range eggs.
Meat from the farmers market - there is no comparison with knowing how your food has lived its life, and having spoken at length with the person who's raised it and taken it to slaughter.
Soft loo roll - absolutely!
Shampoo & conditioner that suit my hair rather than just the cheapest - my hair has a mind of its own at the best of times so I'm sure as heck not throwing cheap-as-chips products at it!
Clinique loose face powder - I will scrimp and save like mad to be able to afford this! Ditto Avon Thermafirm as mentioned above - been using this for a while now - currently as a birthday pressie from my Avon-Lady mum!
OH insists on Nescafe coffee, which is fair enough as I refuse point-blank to touch value crisps!
Maldon salt for use in cooking, bread etc.

Fozz

Decent coffee (Co-op own brand Fairtrade at the moment)
Good recycled loo roll
Free-range eggs and organic meat (we eat less meat to make up for it)
Fairy washing up liquid
McVities Digestives and Rich Tea biscuits
Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate
Not from concentrate fruit juice

That's about it!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I don't compromise on anything realy I just look for a good bargain in everything.I'm not a scrooge,I just like to get the most I can from whatever I have to spend.I was brought up that way and I've always managed well on whatever we've had.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Organic eggs - tried to do it once - couldn't bring myself physically to even pick the battery farm eggs up!
Tiny pieces of best quality meat - would rather go without than prop up intensive farming
Tiny pieces of super duper fresh fish (coley, mackerel, organic/pacific salmon, pollock, etc, all MSC approved sources)
Rapeseed or olive oil
Organic flour
Quality dried pasta
Japanese rice
Soy sauce/tamari
Branston Baked beans
Organic milk
Yorkshire teabags
Sanex Shower gel (eczema prone skin)
Vosene shampoo
Grapeseed oil for skin
Petit pois, not peas

Cat milk and litter

Think everything else tends to be fresh and loose, basics or whatever happens to be on a genuinely good offer that week. I won't buy rubbish just because it's cheap though - I still take the mushrooms in the fresh crate behind the open soggy ones in Mr S's, much to the disgust of the staff.

Dazi

Nescafe Coffee
PG Tips Tea
Hair Dye - but am not fussy which kind, as long as it covers the grey :rotfl:

Tights - I only wear them in winter and then it usually Primark black 40 denier ones, but as soon as they get snags they're out! this comes from the time when tights were very expensive and I used to get a card from the local [FONT=&quot]haberdashery [/FONT] with various coloured nylon thread and had to sew up the holes/ladders . To think we went to school with great big ladders mended and winding round our legs. (((((shudders))))) Oh and we used to make sure we had a bottle of clear nail varnish with us to stop the holes/ladders till we could get home to sew them up. In those days the top of the tights had strange pink or blue knickers sewn in, they were all the rage then, panty hose :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I experiment with loo roll, have only ever got one lot that we wouldn't use - I still have them put by to do an 'art attack' project with them....errrrrr 4 years later maybe its time to throw them away :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (they have been on 2 house moves with us, carefully wrapped)