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By *tensonSwingers OP   Couple
over a year ago

Stenson Fields

Due to the ebbing and flowing of the current financial tides, are you turning more to supermarket 'own brand' groceries rather than the big-name brands?

Do you feel embarassed carrying your LIDL, ALDI bags to the car?....Do you hope no-one see's your Morrisons 'value', yellow-labelled shopping at the checkout?...Is it really smart to buy Asda 'smartprice' goods?

With the majority of own brand labels being canned, bottled, manufactured, processed etc by the leading brands and simply have a minor ingredient difference ( McVities biscuits made with castor sugar for example, where they manufacture 'shop brands' using granulated) and different packaging, does it make sense to buy the cheaper alternative or are you a diehard brandname buyer?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends in the product I think.

Get nice fruit and veg, and meat, then save money on biscuits, and basic ingredients like sugar flour pasta rice, then use up the savings on Kellogg's cornflakes where own brand really isn't the same.

Also, bogof is great, on food can be a waste of money if it won't get used, but cleaning products, kitchen roll pile em high...

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By *ounggun432Man
over a year ago

east mids


"Depends in the product I think.

Get nice fruit and veg, and meat, then save money on biscuits, and basic ingredients like sugar flour pasta rice, then use up the savings on Kellogg's cornflakes where own brand really isn't the same.

Also, bogof is great, on food can be a waste of money if it won't get used, but cleaning products, kitchen roll pile em high..."

I tned to agree....a cheap pasta won't be particularly noticeable if you make a good sauce...eg. things like tinned tomatoes can be helped along with a bit of sugar added. Plain flour

The trick is to be objective...Real lovers of food/cooking will know that price doesn't really have any bearing on how nice a particular thing might be. You could have the most expensive smoked eel and yes it might taste divine but that doesnt mean that a well cooked chicken liver is any less flavourful.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

I don't mind Own Brand, in fact I love Own Brand.....if it comes from Marks and Spencer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I don't mind Own Brand, in fact I love Own Brand.....if it comes from Marks and Spencer"

posh...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I couldn'tgive a tinkers cus what the brand name is - so long as it's tasty and cheap.

We live close to a place called Morpeth - a fairly well to do oldie worldie market town. For a while I was working at a job in Morpeth and Mrs Red works in Morpeth, so we'd meet up for lunch. Lunch comprised of eating our sandwiches in my van, sat in Lidl's car park.

We used to piss ourselves laughing at the amount of people who'd come out of Lidl with a shit load of shopping, go to their car then transfer it into M&S or Sainsbury carrier bags !!! That is the Gospel truth - it was fucking hilarious to watch.

Pompous fuckwhits

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I'm an Aldi shopper and love it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you check the nutrition labels on the side of tins and packages some are a lot healthier than up market brands ie less salt, sugar, fats etc.

Super market snobbery makes us laugh when you see people with up market labelled shopping bags being loaded with stores own brand stuff and the people look embarrassed, it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I couldn'tgive a tinkers cus what the brand name is - so long as it's tasty and cheap.

We live close to a place called Morpeth - a fairly well to do oldie worldie market town. For a while I was working at a job in Morpeth and Mrs Red works in Morpeth, so we'd meet up for lunch. Lunch comprised of eating our sandwiches in my van, sat in Lidl's car park.

We used to piss ourselves laughing at the amount of people who'd come out of Lidl with a shit load of shopping, go to their car then transfer it into M&S or Sainsbury carrier bags !!! That is the Gospel truth - it was fucking hilarious to watch.

Pompous fuckwhits "
Why would they do that, there carrier bags are the best thing they sell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aldi do a decent condom at a cheap price.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i've used em all, like everyone else on here, i used to use aldi's or lidle's a lot, but now dont really find em any cheaper...starting to buy certain things shops sown brand....wont compromise on wine tho...lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I couldn'tgive a tinkers cus what the brand name is - so long as it's tasty and cheap.

We live close to a place called Morpeth - a fairly well to do oldie worldie market town. For a while I was working at a job in Morpeth and Mrs Red works in Morpeth, so we'd meet up for lunch. Lunch comprised of eating our sandwiches in my van, sat in Lidl's car park.

We used to piss ourselves laughing at the amount of people who'd come out of Lidl with a shit load of shopping, go to their car then transfer it into M&S or Sainsbury carrier bags !!! That is the Gospel truth - it was fucking hilarious to watch.

Pompous fuckwhits Why would they do that, there carrier bags are the best thing they sell "

They're not just fuckwits they're M&S fuckwits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you check the nutrition labels on the side of tins and packages some are a lot healthier than up market brands ie less salt, sugar, fats etc.

Super market snobbery makes us laugh when you see people with up market labelled shopping bags being loaded with stores own brand stuff and the people look embarrassed, it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it "
it all ends the same ......................a pile of shit

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By *ounggun432Man
over a year ago

east mids

" it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it

true in the sense that you shouldn't be snobby but food can be a sensuous thing(as in to do with the senses not necessarily to do with sex) social, human spirit kind of thing, far beyond just fuel for the body

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By * starr -Woman
over a year ago

Burton on Trent.

those who are unlucky enough to be on benefits (me included) are probably used to the lower brand stuff, if you use herbs and things as such to spice it up/give flavour, who would know you had brought lower named ingredients??

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

That's the beauty of living in a free society....you get to choose what you spend your hard earned wages on....and that includes your food.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"those who are unlucky enough to be on benefits (me included) are probably used to the lower brand stuff, if you use herbs and things as such to spice it up/give flavour, who would know you had brought lower named ingredients??

"

Dress it up a it ..

You sound like the Gok Whan of food - and you know something - you're bang on the money. Add a few extra bits and bobs and nobody will know the difference

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use mostly own brands and also the pound shops, I've no qualms about being seen with their carrier bags nor the charity shops where I buy most of my clothes from and I don't care either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

am so horny

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By *ounggun432Man
over a year ago

east mids


"am so horny "

Sage words there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"those who are unlucky enough to be on benefits (me included) are probably used to the lower brand stuff, if you use herbs and things as such to spice it up/give flavour, who would know you had brought lower named ingredients??

"

That's what we do and only the lack of imagination limits what you can make.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lidl's and Aldi's have good stuff, and I am proud to shop in them!

Back in late 2008/early 2009, I saw a number of well-heeled customers in my local Lidl's, obviously displaced from the likes of M&S and Waitrose, and they were ogling some of the delights on offer in the freezer section.

Smart shoppers shop at Lidl's and Aldi's.

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

Branded...im not a food snob, but decent brands like Heinz, Schwepps, Birds eye etc have got a reputation because they are good and tasty...Tesco value lemonade or Whites?..

Tesco have just re branded their Value range because of the jokey reputation it earned, mostly justified as it was shit quality.

Id rather eat a smaller portion of food than a large portion of 'food' that leaves a weird taste in the mouth

When those value ranges came out stores led us to beleive that it was that price because of cheaper packaging and packing methods...total bollocks, its that prices because its mostly poor quality.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

It varies with us, own brand stuff can be great ...it varies according to taste

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i think morrisons is amazing love the butchers and bakery and all those ready made goodies mmmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do my weekly grocery shop at my local Morrisons, and visit the Lidl's across the road from my house from time to time to see if there is anything I fancy.

Usually I stick with branded items.

Lidl's Lasagne is the best I have tasted, and they do them in single portions!

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester


"If you check the nutrition labels on the side of tins and packages some are a lot healthier than up market brands ie less salt, sugar, fats etc.

Super market snobbery makes us laugh when you see people with up market labelled shopping bags being loaded with stores own brand stuff and the people look embarrassed, it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it "

It really depends on what you are buying as the opposite can be true... it's the salt, sugar and fat which are used to hide the higher volume of cheaper ingredients... things like sausages being a prime example.

Also sometimes a non branded item can appear lower in calories... because it contains more water. Even fresh foods, own brand or economy brand chicken portions will be pumped with water, bacon, check how much that shrinks.

I am the least loyal shopper when it comes to food, I will shop anywhere and not care what name is on the bag. I will buy cheap tinned tomatoes if I am making mexican or something like that. I will buy branded tomatoes if it's for a full english. I like a bargain.... but I am not paying 5p less to taste 20p less in terms of quality.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i polished off 2 of those steak beefburgers a slice of quiche lorraine and a giant fresh cream chocolate cupcake earlier. all thanks to my local morrisons

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We used to piss ourselves laughing at the amount of people who'd come out of Lidl with a shit load of shopping, go to their car then transfer it into M&S or Sainsbury carrier bags !!!"

I must be a reverse fuckwit then, makes me smile to shop in M&S or Sainsburys and use my Lidl bags at the checkout

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i love tesco's sellbydate section...but u do sometimes see ppl too embarrassed to approach it lol

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Home grown veg. Yum.

Supplemented by Aldi and Lidl products, who rarely carry the regular "branded" goods.

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By *ounggun432Man
over a year ago

east mids


"Branded...im not a food snob, but decent brands like Heinz, Schwepps, Birds eye etc have got a reputation because they are good and tasty...Tesco value lemonade or Whites?..

Tesco have just re branded their Value range because of the jokey reputation it earned, mostly justified as it was shit quality.

Id rather eat a smaller portion of food than a large portion of 'food' that leaves a weird taste in the mouth

When those value ranges came out stores led us to beleive that it was that price because of cheaper packaging and packing methods...total bollocks, its that prices because its mostly poor quality."

Agree isofar as despit the hippy in me railing against corporate stuff and branding..the only way alot of brands are brands is because they are bloody good.

heinz ....absofuckinglutley

R whites ...i couldnt agree more

I reckon its particularly true for ready made/concocted things, less so for raw ingresients.

I you're cooking from scratch it comes down to cooking techniques...an extra virgin bertolli olive oil would get lost in a spag bol ...its not worth it.

as a salad dressing I'd opt for the brand though. But thats only based on having tasted the thing objectively and decided it tastes good.

"I like a bargain.... but I am not paying 5p less to taste 20p less in terms of quality"

Thats my philosophy pretty much summed up....

right someone get me a stepladder so I can climb down off my soapbox

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"

Home grown veg. Yum.

Supplemented by Aldi and Lidl products, who rarely carry the regular "branded" goods.

"
Ditto - and once to get to know their stuff a bit you can surprise yourself just how good the quality is - just doesnt carry a designer label

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By *ilandlarryCouple
over a year ago

more north lincs than mids!

We tend to buy branded things like heinzm kellogs etc but I am happy to try different brands, value included.

My kids love Aldi cheerios and shreddies. They do a beautiful 3 or 4 bird roast in the freezer section. I also like Lidl's for their lasagne, toilet rolls and wash powder.

I rarely buy things that are not on offer unless I desperately need them.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"

ou can surprise yourself just how good the quality is - just doesnt carry a designer label"

Like me then.

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By *ounggun432Man
over a year ago

east mids


"

ou can surprise yourself just how good the quality is - just doesnt carry a designer label

Like me then. "

Haha...a mantra for all us single blokes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

i'm not too fussed about most things but have to have proper /pepsi, heinz tomato ketchup and tomato soup

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there. "

He doesn't really he goes to Tesco's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Certain things are own brand - like chicken fillets are chicken fillets etc... but other things like loo roll and my cats food, are branded.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there.

He doesn't really he goes to Tesco's "

No he does I have seen him getting pies in there on TV!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there.

He doesn't really he goes to Tesco's

No he does I have seen him getting pies in there on TV! "

~No he gets pies from Greggs like everyone else

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there.

He doesn't really he goes to Tesco's

No he does I have seen him getting pies in there on TV!

~No he gets pies from Greggs like everyone else "

NOOOOOOOOOO he is no TV getting them when the bell rings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Certain things are own brand - like chicken fillets are chicken fillets etc... but other things like loo roll and my cats food, are branded."

basically ur saying chicken of any quality lol...and ur cats get the 'best' brand lol...yer backwards lol xxxx

my cat gets what i give her lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like Morrisons as Freddie Flintoff shops there.

He doesn't really he goes to Tesco's

No he does I have seen him getting pies in there on TV!

~No he gets pies from Greggs like everyone else

NOOOOOOOOOO he is no TV getting them when the bell rings. "

For whom the bell tolls then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef."

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good

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By *he Ring WraithMan
over a year ago

Bradford

I am from yorksihire and the saying 'Ow Much' is important....

Cheap is good, BOGOF is better !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good "

That's just made me reach!

Goodnight I can take no more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good "

How can an arsehole be ground up , its a hole isnt it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Own brands yes and I love the reduced section too love a good offer. Always do my xmas food shop about 2pm xmas eve and get all the bargains reduced. If I could get in the skips at the back of the supermarket I would do that too so much stuff goes to waste its unreal. Ps I love blackberry picking too and finding wild garlic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Own brands yes and I love the reduced section too love a good offer. Always do my xmas food shop about 2pm xmas eve and get all the bargains reduced. If I could get in the skips at the back of the supermarket I would do that too so much stuff goes to waste its unreal. Ps I love blackberry picking too and finding wild garlic."

There was a woman on come dine with me who had got most of the food for her night from the bins at the supermarket.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good

How can an arsehole be ground up , its a hole isnt it "

The bit round it is fleshy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Own brands yes and I love the reduced section too love a good offer. Always do my xmas food shop about 2pm xmas eve and get all the bargains reduced. If I could get in the skips at the back of the supermarket I would do that too so much stuff goes to waste its unreal. Ps I love blackberry picking too and finding wild garlic.

There was a woman on come dine with me who had got most of the food for her night from the bins at the supermarket. "

I saw that. I think they should give all the left over food to homeless shelters instead of chucking it in the bid. Food shopping is just too expensive. And I love wilkos for all my toiletries.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good

How can an arsehole be ground up , its a hole isnt it

The bit round it is fleshy "

Ahhh but you didnt say the bit round the arsehole you said arsehole

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I work for one of ze german discounters in ireland. You would he amazed at the amount of highend car in the carpark while their owners are inside doing the shopping. These would of been people who shop in marks and sparks a few years earlier.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good

How can an arsehole be ground up , its a hole isnt it

The bit round it is fleshy

Ahhh but you didnt say the bit round the arsehole you said arsehole "

Ye that is right like a polo is a polo cos of the hole not cos of the mint ring. If an asshole didnt have a fleshy ring your shit would flood out all over and it would be pretty nasty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was surprised the other day when comparing Birds eye beef burgers and Morrisons own brand to find that morrisons had the higher % of beef.

More ground lips and arsehole content isn't always good "

Are you still talking food - or last night's meet?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you check the nutrition labels on the side of tins and packages some are a lot healthier than up market brands ie less salt, sugar, fats etc.

Super market snobbery makes us laugh when you see people with up market labelled shopping bags being loaded with stores own brand stuff and the people look embarrassed, it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it

It really depends on what you are buying as the opposite can be true... it's the salt, sugar and fat which are used to hide the higher volume of cheaper ingredients... things like sausages being a prime example.

Also sometimes a non branded item can appear lower in calories... because it contains more water. Even fresh foods, own brand or economy brand chicken portions will be pumped with water, bacon, check how much that shrinks.

I am the least loyal shopper when it comes to food, I will shop anywhere and not care what name is on the bag. I will buy cheap tinned tomatoes if I am making mexican or something like that. I will buy branded tomatoes if it's for a full english. I like a bargain.... but I am not paying 5p less to taste 20p less in terms of quality.

"

Agree with you on meats etc. Asda baked beans are better than heinz imo and most of the tinned stuff too and at the side of main brands some are healthier.

Fresh fruit and veg is cheap enough if own brand is available and the frozen fruit and veg is good too although we use home grown as much as possible.

Dried foods such as noodles, rice etc and baking products are cheap as chips and can be made into something good and nutritious.

It all comes down to taste, preference and affordabilty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tend to frequent the co-op for general groceries such as butter, milk, bread. Meat from the butchers and fruit n veg from grocers or local "Turkish" minimart - their stuff is always spot on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Own brands are not always cheaper either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you check the nutrition labels on the side of tins and packages some are a lot healthier than up market brands ie less salt, sugar, fats etc.

Super market snobbery makes us laugh when you see people with up market labelled shopping bags being loaded with stores own brand stuff and the people look embarrassed, it's only food! You have to eat and drink to stay alive so why make a fuss about it

It really depends on what you are buying as the opposite can be true... it's the salt, sugar and fat which are used to hide the higher volume of cheaper ingredients... things like sausages being a prime example.

Also sometimes a non branded item can appear lower in calories... because it contains more water. Even fresh foods, own brand or economy brand chicken portions will be pumped with water, bacon, check how much that shrinks.

I am the least loyal shopper when it comes to food, I will shop anywhere and not care what name is on the bag. I will buy cheap tinned tomatoes if I am making mexican or something like that. I will buy branded tomatoes if it's for a full english. I like a bargain.... but I am not paying 5p less to taste 20p less in terms of quality.

"

I would love to know where you shop then as Asda's smartprice tinned tomatoes at 31p were 20p cheaper than the next price for their 'better quality range' and 30p cheaper than the Napolina range

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cheap beans = bullets!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cheap beans = bullets!!! "

Oddly enough, some really are though even some branded ones were awful, HP for example yuk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Certain things are own brand - like chicken fillets are chicken fillets etc... but other things like loo roll and my cats food, are branded.

basically ur saying chicken of any quality lol...and ur cats get the 'best' brand lol...yer backwards lol xxxx

my cat gets what i give her lol"

smart price chicken is fine for stir fries. Which is fine for me. My cats wont eat cheap food. So they dont get it.

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