Food Products You Can't Skimp on.

[Dadam]

+1 for marmite!
HP sauce
Yorkshire Tea!

For butter we get Aldi Lurpak spreadable ripoff (Nordpak)
For crisps we usually buy McCoys as autistic son will only eat Cheese and Onion McCoys.
S&V is the best crisp flavour ever and Piper's are the best crisps I've tasted ever.
Walkers are the most overrated crisps ever made. Not the best, not the worst, just ok. A triumph of marketing over quality. It doesn't help that they've always got the colour coding so wrong. Blue is the correct colour for S&V and always will be. C&O should be in green!

Seabrook Worcester sauce crisps. Even Walkers can't touch the flavour.

And still made in Bradford!

 

[Dan Lotus]

Marmite.

Very much a Marmite fan, but I must admit I prefer the Aldi version - both taste and definitely price.

 

[Drago]

I prefer the Tesco yeast spread. A bit mi,der than Marmite, but I think nicer and easier to spread.

 

[Mr.B-Campag]

Heinz' CEO was on record a few years back saying they make own label (Sainsbury's iirc) baked beans...

 

[markemark]

Heinz' CEO was on record a few years back saying they make own label (Sainsbury's iirc) baked beans...

Originally most supermarket own brands were made by the main brands using lower quality ingredients. Helps them get shot of b-quality ingredients, increases their sales, but does not tarnish their superior quality brand.

Think it's moved beyond that though these days.

 

[postman]

I am banned from beans due to excessive wind.Plus eggs of any kind except chocolate ones.Wind wind and wind.

 

[Gwylan]

HP Sauce
Heinz BB

I suspect the rest of this topic will be people arguing and that those who prefer brands are snobs or those that prefer the alternatives are cheapskates.

Probably a dose of ...well of course I don't buy into the marketing like you sheep...type comments

I actually prefer Lidl baked beans.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The only brand i insist on is Yorkshire Tea

 

[markemark]

I actually prefer Lidl baked beans.

Then there's no hope for you.

 

[Gwylan]

Bollinger champagne. Tesco's own is pitiful by comparison.

Has to be Lanson, a long time connection.
But can make do with the Aldi one they messabout with on pricing is very palatable.

 

[Profpointy]

Bollinger champagne. Tesco's own is pitiful by comparison.

Nah Cava or Cremant are much better

 

[Profpointy]

Basmati rice rather than cheap rice. It's twice as expensive, but rice is pretty cheap regardless especially if you buy the big 10kg bags of it from the supermarkets where the Indian families do their shopping.

 

[stephec]

Bollinger champagne. Tesco's own is pitiful by comparison.

Definitely, when I brought a bottle home we polished it off in just over half an hour.

 

[albion]

Bread.

Plus I do not buy brands that rely on reputation whilst skimping on current high standards.

 

[si_c]

Bread. I buy it from an actual bakery, especially if Mrs C wants some sourdough - supermarket sourdough is rarely actually sourdough.

Hobnobs - needs to be McVities.

Tea and Coffee - get decent tea bags (generally twinings, but Tesco do good ones too), for loose leaf tea, Mrs C makes me take trips into Fornum and Mason, but I think that's a bit excessive. Coffee I buy from specialist roasters.

Beans, Heinz. As the advert says, same for Ketchup. Brown sauce is HP sauce.