The tesco value thread

Tayto over here in Northern Ireland produce the Tescos multi pack crisps, which are pretty good, especially cheese and onion. Was on a school trip few years ago and seen them making them :)
 
Don't bother with Tesco's value bread (it would be easier to eat a 16 year old shoe than a value loaf that has been open for a few hours) also whilst most of their value stuff used to be really good you can now tell that they have started to cut back on the quality of their products as well as increasing the prices as their stranglehold on the market has increased. Anyone looking for meat should go to Morrisons they have a far better selection and a better quality lvl than most other supermarkets
 
sidthesexist said:
Anyone looking for meat should go to Morrisons they have a far better selection and a better quality lvl than most other supermarkets
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Its still not that great, norr is it that cheap.
I like coming home from Uni because my parents dont shop at morisons v much, but its what i live next to in uni, they always have much nicer food.
Some of the meats in morisons are great though, but at the end of the day you cannot beat a butcher..

Anyone looking for meat go to the butcher.
 
The idea of buying free range is a moral thing.
I'm against animal cruelty, while cheap eggs might taste the same I avoid eating them (I never buy them myself).
Same with chicken, however with chicken and meat in general, proper butchered is always much tastier.

I find morrisons do some pies which aren't bad, nearly as good as the baker and a lot cheaper.
 
I don't know why, but I just hate looking like a 'cheatskate'. Makes me cringe at the thought of having a trolley full of Tesco Value products, etc. :o:(
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I don't know why, but I just hate looking like a 'cheatskate'. Makes me cringe at the thought of having a trolley full of Tesco Value products, etc. :o:(
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That's because most of them taste horrible.

What people forget is they might be made in the same factory but the recipes differ significantly.
 
The whisky from quite a few large scottish distilleries is repackaged for supermarkets as well.

I don't drink whisky so can't be bothered to look it up but google might help.
 
We've been doing a lot of experimental 'smart' shopping lately, our income is fairly good but I see no sense in throwing money away buying 'luxury' brands when often the 'value' brand is the same product anyway (or very close).

Things we thought were particularly good.

Asda Smartprice Ketchup - we prefer it to Heinz! Tesco Value Ketchup is horrible though.
Tesco Value Tuna - I like it but my GF doesn't, I can't tell it apart from John Wests etc.
Tesco Value tinned fruit/veg - all seem very nice tbh.
Tesco Value Jaffa Cakes - superb.

And lots of other stuff too.

Buying washing (clothes) liquid yesterday, I noticed a lot of the same logos on 'Bold' liquid were the same as the logos on the Tesco's version - but in this case there was only a difference of about 2p in price so I went with branded. :o
 
Vampire said:
Tesco Value Tuna - I like it but my GF doesn't, I can't tell it apart from John Wests etc.
Tesco Value tinned fruit/veg - all seem very nice tbh.
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How can you not tell the difference. Proper canned tuna is chunks or stake, Tesco value is mushed up rubbish, which I swear has other fish in as it tastes of oily fish as well as tuna.

As for tinned fruit, value stuff often has skin left on, hard spots and the segments often have bots missing or again mushed up.

jas72 said:
The whisky from quite a few large scottish distilleries is repackaged for supermarkets as well.

I don't drink whisky so can't be bothered to look it up but google might help.
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It might be but there two totally different products. They wont be aged in decent barrels or aged for as long.

Value beaked beans and ketchup are watered down

Value bread well that speaks for it's self

Value fizzy drinks are vile and don't taste like the original

Value butter is tasteless and hard
 
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Acidhell2 said:
How can you not tell the difference. Proper canned tuna is chunks or stake, Tesco value is mushed up rubbish, which I swear has other fish in as it tastes of oily fish as well as tuna.

As for tinned fruit, value stuff often has skin left on, hard spots and the segments often have bots missing or again mushed up.
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Yeah I'll give you that, but it tastes the same - at least I think so.

I don't mind if I open a tin of tuna if it's all little bits rammmed into the tin, as long as they're not floor sweepings etc, and are actually tuna. I'm not after it looking like a work of art when I open the tin - as it just gets broken up to mix with pasta/sauce, put in sarnies etc.

And re the fruit, meh, I don't mind the skin on fruit anyway - and bashed/broken segments of mandarin/grapefruit taste the same as geometrically pristine ones (again IMO). Hard bits are a bit yuk, but I'll either eat them anyway or just check that bit in the bin.

Not a dig at you but I feel some people get a bit hung up on making sure their food looks like it's been laid out for an arty photo, as long as it's healthy then that's good enough for me.

I went to buy fresh bananas to cook some muffins once, I was in Asda and bought the Smart Price ones since they were for cooking - you know the ones in the white bag you can't see through. The reason you can't see through the bag is so you don't see that they in fact Del Monte bananas, just they are the ones that are a bit small or are odd shapes. They are exactly the same bananas off the same trees as premium bananas! There's supposed to be a bit of variety in shape/colour - that's just nature - I prefer my fruit/veg to look like that rather than look like it's been made in a factory or cloned.

:)
 
Theres a BBC article somewhere about how certain supermarket(s) stick all the small/large/odd shaped fruit/veg in the value section, as it doesnt meet required specifications they want.

Moral of this thread : Value is sometimes the same as the other stuff, sometimes its just different looking but otherwise is exactly the same, then other times its slightly different.. tasting similar.. other times its just plain rancid.
 
I agree that value chocolate from ALL supermarkets is always the tastiest, this is probably because its so much more unhealthy.. FAT IS FLAVOUR.
 
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