Do you do Basic Range Products?

[veg4681]

Just wondering really because I do . When these basic range of products first appeared at Tesco, I was horrified but now my grocery shopping wouldn't be complete without them. Here are my favourite that I think are excellent value and quality still acceptable. These are however Sainsbury which I find are always superior in quality to Tesco's. If you have any more recommendations, I'd be pleased to hear of it as I believe I haven't tried everything yet .

Product Range I like
Baked Beans (taste better than Heinz!)
Tinned Chopped Tomatoes
Tinned Kidney Beans
Sweet Pickle (DH insists on having this but I don't eat!)
Crunchy Peanut Butter
Sliced Beetroot in jar
Dried Skimmed Milk
Packet Noodles
Big pack of Sweet Peppers
Big pack of Parsnips (not big pack of carrots as the qty is too big for us)
Big pack of ordinary Potatoes
Full flavoured Chedder Cheese (very big pack)
Frozen Prawns/shrimps
Frozen White fish fillet
Tortilla Chips
Crumpets
Cream cleaner
Yet to try Sweet & Sour sauce in jar

Tried these but didn't like
Tinned Sweetcorn
Tinned Tomato or Chicken soup
Gravy granules
Long Grain Rice (still prefer Basmati rice)
Custard cream biscuit or most biscuit
Pasta sauce in jar
Choc Ice
don't feel comfortable with any meat product!

I'm sure I've missed something but that's about it.

[NOG]

Long Grain Rice (still prefer Basmati rice)

How can you compare Long Grain to Basmati it's like comparing Tea to Coffee.

I tend to buy own brands when they are ingreadents in a meal rather than the meal, so and baked beans when its for Shepards Pie but beans on toast it has to be Heinz.

Did use to buy all my cleaning stuff at Lidl it was way cheaper but now we use ECO balls so don't buy any.

[smallblueplanet]

Don't buy many 'value' lines any more - many moons ago we used to buy lidl baked beans at 8p (?) a tin and rinse the sauce off to use them as haricot!

One of the things it seems with some value products is that they have less 'un-necessary added ingredients'? (cheaper not to mess about with them?)

Oh I've remembered, we do have value range tins of 'mushy peas', I've never seen an organic version?

[veg4681]

Don't buy many 'value' lines any more - many moons ago we used to buy lidl baked beans at 8p (?) a tin and rinse the sauce off to use them as haricot!

One of the things it seems with some value products is that they have less 'un-necessary added ingredients'? (cheaper not to mess about with them?)

I think the baked beans have improved over the years surely. I now can't stand Heinz, too thick that it feels like you can't swallow them. The value ones are 20p per can.

Yes the value ones are actually less fattening (perhaps healthier) than the normal and premium range according to Dispatch program! Funnily enough I don't really use much of the listed stuffs I buy because I'm a freaky eater. The good thing about value lines is that the savings will enable you to indulge in 'Taste the Difference' range .

[smallblueplanet]

I think the baked beans have improved over the years surely....

I'd have thought so, if they're 20p now they must have?

We tend to be more concerned nowadays with salt content (we mainly buy organic stuff).

[shirlthegirl43]

I usually buy the value loo roll (after all it all gets flushed). I always check the labels against the one I would purchase and compare values for foods. The value ice cream can often be less fattening than the cornish or whatever, and usually tastes just as good - specially if you are serving it on an apple pie or crumble.

[smallblueplanet]

I usually buy the value loo roll (after all it all gets flushed)....

Oops just remembered - we use Sains value loo-roll its recycled and quite soft.

[shirlthegirl43]

Oops just remembered - we use Sains value loo-roll its recycled and quite soft.

I find there is less paper dust with the value stuff.

[kirsty b]

Just wondering really because I do . When these basic range of products first appeared at Tesco, I was horrified but now my grocery shopping wouldn't be complete without them. Here are my favourite that I think are excellent value and quality still acceptable. These are however Sainsbury which I find are always superior in quality to Tesco's. If you have any more recommendations, I'd be pleased to hear of it as I believe I haven't tried everything yet .

Product Range I like
Baked Beans (taste better than Heinz!)us too
Tinned Chopped Tomatoesyep, lots
Tinned Kidney Beans
Sweet Pickle (DH insists on having this but I don't eat!) occasionally
Crunchy Peanut Butter he loves it
Sliced Beetroot in jar I love this
Dried Skimmed Milk
Packet Noodles
Big pack of Sweet Peppers
Big pack of Parsnips (not big pack of carrots as the qty is too big for us)
Big pack of ordinary Potatoes
Full flavoured Chedder Cheese (very big pack)we get this too
Frozen Prawns/shrimpsand these
Frozen White fish fillet
Tortilla Chips
Crumpets
Cream cleaner
Yet to try Sweet & Sour sauce in jar This is not too bad

Tried these but didn't like
Tinned Sweetcorn
Tinned Tomato or Chicken soup
Gravy granules
Long Grain Rice (still prefer Basmati rice)tesco do value basmati
Custard cream biscuit or most biscuitnot fussy about biscuits round 'ere
Pasta sauce in jar
Choc Ice
don't feel comfortable with any meat product!

I'm sure I've missed something but that's about it.

We get an awful lot of stuff thats blue and white. Tend to buy spuds by the sack because we go through loads! The savoury rice packets are quite nice.

[Waffler]

From Sainsburys: Value juice (apple, orange and breakfast): find it's fine for day to day, but splurge for special occasions and pay through the nose for the freshly squeezed Taste the Difference. Also buy tinned kidney beans (11p?): bargain and occasional tinned fruit.
Not much I'm afraid.

[Flummery]

The only 'value' product I get is loo roll. Mr F calls it Badger's @rse!

[Alison]

Don't use the supermarkets if I can help it so not really an issue for me. Also, OH would do his nut if I bought value loo roll (yes I know it only gets flushed), finds it too thin and is paranoid about his fingers going through...........

[Polly Fouracre]

I had the misfortune to read a publication that listed the pesticides,herbicides,all-of-the-cides in supermarket veg(these are chemicals that the supermarkets insist on to get the regulation pretty fruit and veg!!) and can't bring myself to buy them now(wish I'd never seen it!)
However I do buy Lidl's washing powder,olive oil,bog roll,tins of pilchards,booze.
Oddly enough,we are to have a Lidl store in our village.Had Tesco,Asda,Sainsbury,Morrison tried to open a store there would have been outrage,petitions,demonstrations!! But we are all so excited at the thought of Lidls.
Work that one out if you can

[shirley]

Don't use the supermarkets if I can help it so not really an issue for me. Also, OH would do his nut if I bought value loo roll (yes I know it only gets flushed), finds it too thin and is paranoid about his fingers going through...........

Same in my house... Also do find that non basic last longer. Probably because OH and kids dont use so much as it is thicker.

[valmarg]

I think the baked beans have improved over the years surely. I now can't stand Heinz, too thick that it feels like you can't swallow them. The value ones are 20p per can..

I don't buy any Heinz products since they closed down the HP factory in Birmingham. Have found Daddies sauce a good replacement.

Branston baked beans are infinitely superior, and at 99p for a four tin pack are much cheaper. Branston also do a great tomato ketchup and brown sauce.

Regarding loo rolls, our local Netto frequently has very good offers on Andrex products.

One of my old schoolteachers reckoned I had 'too lively an imagination'. Recycled toilet rolls No can do!!

valmarg