FabSwingers.com forum: Cheap over expensive

By (user no longer on site) OP
41 weeks ago

So maybe it’s just me but on the whole I prefer the cheaper version of a food than the more expensive.

A cheaper sausage than the more expensive one as the skin is nicer (no pun)

A cheaper rasher of bacon than the thicker type of rasher

Is there any food you won’t compromise on regardless of expense?

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By *obilebottomMan
41 weeks ago

All over

Lobster

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By *ullman2211Man
41 weeks ago

hull

Steak

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By *ora the explorerWoman
41 weeks ago

Paradise, Herts

Oh god. Cheap sausages. Nooooooo!

I prefer thin bacon though as I like it crispy. I don’t like thick cut

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By (user no longer on site)
41 weeks ago

These days, it’s whatever I can afford.

I hate cheap sausages but if the international bank of money says so, I gotta have ‘em.

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By *asques and boxersCouple
41 weeks ago

Ashford and dept16

Real question is less about cost and more about quality and value.

Looking at a menues you'll often hear people say hmmm slow braised pork belly served on patatoe & cabbage hash. Or oh my look marinated ox cheek slow cooked with red cabbage . Both of which are two old fashioned "cheap" cuts but they now command both places on the "specials" menue at inflated prices.

Marketing makes fools of us all.

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By *ornycougaWoman
41 weeks ago

Wherever I lay my hat

Fruit. The cheap stuff is usually tasteless (well in this country anyway... Doesn't seem to apply in the rest of the world

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By (user no longer on site) OP
41 weeks ago

I learned in this country we are mostly eating last years crop. They place it at a temperature which puts it in to hibernation so it doesn’t “rot” or “freeze”. But when you bring it out it absorbs a lot of moisture hence why apples etc go “mushy” really quickly

I’d much rather eat seasonally

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By (user no longer on site)
41 weeks ago

I look for good value rather than cheap, thats subjective I know

To me some cheap things aren't good value, likewise some expensive aren't either

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
41 weeks ago

Carlisle usually

Value to me over direct numbers on price.

If something is worth the cost is more relevant than what the cost is so long as it's within budget.

If I have a slight preference between two equally priced items and one is reduced, I'll take the reduced. If something is cheaper but nasty, then no.

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By (user no longer on site)
41 weeks ago

I like Marks & Spencer and I like Aldi

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By *aith SkynbyrdWoman
41 weeks ago

Somewhere else

"Real question is less about cost and more about quality and value.

Marketing makes fools of us all.

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By *aith SkynbyrdWoman
41 weeks ago

Somewhere else

"I learned in this country we are mostly eating last years crop. They place it at a temperature which puts it in to hibernation so it doesn’t “rot” or “freeze”. But when you bring it out it absorbs a lot of moisture hence why apples etc go “mushy” really quickly

I’d much rather eat seasonally "

A lot makes sense now. But I kinda wish you hadn’t told us

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By *edKnight41Man
41 weeks ago

Leicester

Kelloggs corn flakes. There’s no compromise. Everything else I buy shops own brand.

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By *ambertMan
41 weeks ago

Cheltenham

I dunno, some of the luxury sausages are brilliant.

To eat as well

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
41 weeks ago

little house on the praire

since being converted to aldi there are lots of their own brands I buy including baked beans and tomato ketchup. I prefer their yogurts and smoothie type drinks. I now buy their cleaning products and washing tablets. Fresh meat is meat wherever you go.

I've found one of the very few things I won't compromise on is mayonnaise it has to be hellmans

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By *oodmessMan
41 weeks ago

yumsville

I'm trying everything, if I don't like it I go back to what I was having before, if not I'm sticking with cheaper and enjoying the saving. No doubt those cheaper items will creep up in price and become just as expensive in a few months or years.

What I don't like is when choice is pulled from you so that it's only own brand or only expensive named brand with no other varieties.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
41 weeks ago

I do like a cheap sliced loaf for toast

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By *a LunaWoman
41 weeks ago

South

I do love a decent teabag!

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By *red and daphneCouple
41 weeks ago

in the middle

Always preferred cheap ready salted crisps over expensive ones

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By *ldbutrandyMan
41 weeks ago

West Midlands

"I do love a decent teabag!"

Made me chuckle

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By *itygamesMan
41 weeks ago

you'll be surprised but i read that the same chicken factory , for want of a better word may supply all the chains there chicken breasts (for example) so a waitrose chicken breasts no different to an Aldi breast , its just the packaging.

its the same with lots of products

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By *itygamesMan
41 weeks ago

"Always preferred cheap ready salted crisps over expensive ones"

i just add my own salt..or more salt

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