Negative supermarket own brand reviews

[mybike]

Filter coffee - in fact any decent coffee - should be drunk when it's made... not kept warm for hours in flasks or on hot plates.

So I've heard, but it isn't true in my experience.

 

[nickyboy]

I work in food factories most days

A lot of supermarket branded food comes off the same production lines as branded food.

I was chatting with the occupational health nurse at a company I used to work for about 10 years ago. She was a contractor so she was also working for other companies. One of them was the company that make Soreen malt loaf. She told me that the company making Soreen also made supermarket own label malt loaf.

Just a great big hopper mixing the stuff. Some days they would package it with Soreen packaging, some days with the own label packaging

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Tesco value ginger nuts, 25p a pack, are absolutely lovely, a good taste and snap to them and they don't disintegrate when dipped in a cup of tea.

Ditto jaffa cakes (except they don't snap unless they've gone off - no chance of that)

 

[young Ed]

much of the tesco every day value stuff is great and excellent VFM
but coffee, when i drink coffee i only drink coffee. none of this instant fake wannabe 'coffee'!
Cheers Ed

 

[cosmicbike]

We only buy 2 branded foods, PG Tips tea bags and McVities digestive biscuits. Everything else is house brand. I don't drink coffee at home anymore so no idea if house instant would taste like Shiite..

 

[Archie_tect]

No sh*t! It's instant coffee.

It's gravy browning mis-labelled.

 

[mjr]

I usually buy Sainsbury's own brand small cheese pizzas then add pineapple, peperami & lots of cheese.

Blinking heck! Is it worth the cost and chemicals not to mix flour, yeast and warm water, knead, wait, part-bake and spread some tomato paste on it?

I like the nicer coop ground coffee but the basic one's not great. The decaf and Italian blends are better than many named brand ones.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Gosh and blimey...instant coffee can be perfectly fine...and the reason I asked for a rich blend own brand jar was that Tesco and Morrisons do them very well indeed...taste exactly the same as Nescafe Gold Blend...so if you like that, try them instead...cuts a few pennies off a jar...also worth recommending are Tesco's own pizza's from the chilled aisle, large packets of dry roasted peanuts, deodorants, creams, soaps, cereals, tea bags, bread, vegetarian 'meat' and pre-packed sandwiches...I buy many own brands and...contrary to popular belief, most are better for you...less additives...bizarre thing is that when you pay more for things, they often do you more harm...very odd world we live in...

 

[vernon]

Sainsburys ibuprofen 35p for 16 tablets or Nurofen for £2.99.
Only a fool would by the branded ones.

Asda and Aldi are even cheaper at 24p only a fool would buy Sainsbury's ones.

 

[mjr]

Gosh and blimey...instant coffee can be perfectly fine...and the reason I asked for a rich blend own brand jar was that Tesco and Morrisons do them very well indeed...taste exactly the same as Nescafe Gold Blend...

That's not much of a recommendation! Nasty coffee from an oft-boycotted company!

 

[GM]

Do they have some questionable substance in instead?

Don't know about that, but they're good for dunking!

 

[Turbo Rider]

That's not much of a recommendation! Nasty coffee from an oft-boycotted company!

Taste the Waitrose stuff...the nasty coffee will suddenly taste better than the stuff the cow's sh1t out...promise...

 

[Hacienda71]

Sainsbury value ground coffee is surprisingly good.

 

[mybike]

Then you're probably not drinking decent coffee.

Try it:

Sainbury's taste the difference peaberry coffee beans are really nice.

(just thinking my coffee was a bit weak, then realised it was green tea)

 

[mybike]

Blinking heck! Is it worth the cost and chemicals not to mix flour, yeast and warm water, knead, wait, part-bake and spread some tomato paste on it?

I suggested to my OH I might do that after learning to cook lasagne & pies. I think she's getting used to my adventures.