Brands or Basics

[Alison]

When I do a big monthly shop online - it's with Tesco

If I ever use a supermarket it will never be Tesco, we both boycott them for so many reasons, can't stand them, some of the others are pretty bad but they are to worst. We have an express shop just near us and I'll always walk past it to go to the COOP up the road which is about the same size.

That said, since being a single mum, the weekends that I don't have the kiddies, I really can't be bothered to cook for myself, so I can perhaps see where they are coming from.

My mum has said that since she's been on her own lots of her friends have been shocked that she always cooks herself a proper meal from scratch every day. She makes the comment that she deserves decent food and if she puts something on the table that she wouldn't have fed my dad then she's not being fair on herself. I'm very much of the you are what you eat brigade and can tell pretty quickly if I'm not eating well as my energy levels plummet. That said, I do a lot of batch cooking so when I'm in late I have lots of things I can just microwave

[HeatherL]

We get our shopping delivered by Waitrose each week (OH cant stand going to supermarkets, he's another trolley rage sufferer and I'm not too keen either). We get mostly store cupboard supplies and wine (they sell a rose and a white from a local Hampshire vineyard). Meat (and veg when we have run out of our own) come from a local farm shop. It's not the cheapest but the quality is great and most of their produce comes from local suppliers.

[Hilary B]

We shop in Waitrose, because the alternative is the new T�$%o, and I refuse to shop there.
At least half of the things we buy are 'reduced for quick sale' (sometimes almost given away), and much of the rest is own brand.
We do have a market, and I try to buy most fruit-and-veg there, and cheese eggs and bacon also come from the local market most of the time.
We don't use sliced bread.
Basically the only 'brand' stuff we use regularly is condiments, plus tea and coffee (although the ground coffee is Waitrose own brand).
The reduced stuff means meal planning is done based on what we've got.

[Bigmallly]

cheese eggs and bacon also come from the local market most of the time

Don't you just love cheese eggs Hilary.......

[morverngirl]

Tesco Peach slices, packed with fruit ,about 30p
Morrisons cereals esp wheat biscuits and fruit and fibre

[Bigmallly]

Tesco Peach slices, packed with fruit ,about 30p
Morrisons cereals esp wheat biscuits and fruit and fibre

That reminds me, must get some tinned fruit. Trouble is it's so moorish.........

[di]

Aldi's Danish Blue.....

[salome2001]

That reminds me, must get some tinned fruit. Trouble is it's so moorish.........

but better for you than eating biscuits or chocolate mousse....