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Asda Smart Price products

31 replies

Marzipanface · 11/11/2012 10:08

Can anyone advise me on the best Smart Price products?

So far the squash seems ok
Peanut butter
Chocolate sandwich biscuits.

I'm thinking of branching out but don't want to waste my money!

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FrillyMilly · 11/11/2012 10:11

All the smartprice biscuits are good and so are the cereal bars. Never had a problem with smartprice fruit and veg. I get the porridge oats too which are no different to any other but cost 75p for 1kg. Don't think I've tried anything else.

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Marzipanface · 11/11/2012 11:05

Ooh never thought of the porridge oats
I do pick up the fruit and veg quite often. Will try the cereal bars as well.

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slartybartfast · 11/11/2012 11:14

beans
cereal bars
orange juice,

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CaptainBarnaclesDaddyman · 11/11/2012 11:16

Have just tried the chocolate digestives. They're better from Tesco.

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wheredidiputit · 11/11/2012 11:17

I find the smart price flour ok for baking.

Don't bother with smart price chopped tomato all juice and no tomato's.

I agree with biscuits and oats.

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retiredgoth2 · 11/11/2012 11:19

ASDA smart price?

(shudders)

It's almost all vile.. I don't think I'm ever gonna be THAT hungry...

..LIDL and ALDI give much, much better quality for similar price, I've found..

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slartybartfast · 11/11/2012 11:36

ketchup

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Fluffycloudland77 · 11/11/2012 11:51

Most of it's just fine imo I even use the sanitary towels.

I shop at Aldi though, I think the range is better.

And the stores easier to get round in 20 mins.

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Loveleopardprint · 12/11/2012 20:10

Tins of sweetcorn to add to pasta dishes etc. are good.

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YouOldSlag · 12/11/2012 20:17

Bad Smart Price:
-tinned tomatoes- too watery
-Baked beans- too watery
-Tea bags- ugh! don't!
-I wouldn't risk the sausages

GOOD Smart price
-jars of pasta sauce very good for making pizaa
-frozen chicken breasts are excellent- you get about 7 or 8 in a bag for 3.99 and they make great curries- no skin or bone.
-apple juice (NB don't buy apple juice drink, just apple juice)

  • biscuits are excellent

-tinned kidney beans are exactly the same as posh tinned kidney beans
-tinned pineapple is also excellent for topping pizzas
-fruit and veg is good
  • smoked back bacon is good
  • dishwasher tablets are not bad, they do the job.


Aldi and Lidl are indeed good, but I guess you're asking because Asda is your nearest or your all-under-one-roof shop?
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Foosyerdoos · 13/11/2012 11:55

The biscuits are fine, I like the Jaffa cakes, the digestives not so much. I get the mushrooms onions and potatoes. I like the beans. Tinned sweet corn is fine. I have used the thin bleach, which is fine. I have also used the clothes liquid which is ok, but I prefer the own brand adsa one to the 'smart price' . What I have found which I like is dried fake mince ( comes in savoury mince of bolognaise flavour) which add to real mince to double the amount. It only costs 65p.

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Ghostsgowoooh · 13/11/2012 17:02

I don't mind the smart price beans and the tomatoes but totally agree about the tea bags. You need about five tea bags to make a half decent cuppa, totally pointless. I like most smart price stuff actually

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Fluffycloudland77 · 13/11/2012 17:15

Sainsburys smart price teabags are nice, I had some twinings tea bags recently and wasnt massively impressed.

In my younger days I always had Twinings earl grey!

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derekthehamster · 13/11/2012 17:17

Smartprice Bourbon biscuits are hideous.

Tinned sweetcorn, kidney beans are fine.

Dishwasher tabs are ok

If you can get to an aldi, quality is much better.

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snickers251 · 13/11/2012 17:24

I'm ok with some smart price stuff but NOT the all purpose cleaner...it's just vile!! As are the tea bags I agree with everyone on them waste of time!

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poorbuthappy · 13/11/2012 17:26

Washing powder.
And their bourbons are not hideous. Biscuit

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schnauzerfan · 13/11/2012 17:29

Baby wipes are excellent and very very cheap!

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Marzipanface · 13/11/2012 22:20

Thanks everyone. This is really helpful!

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KnitterInTheNW · 13/11/2012 22:23

We love the bourbons in our house! And spaghetti's fine too.

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YouOldSlag · 13/11/2012 22:25

I heard that the Smart Price suppliers vary according to who can tender the cheapest bid for the job. So maybe one week you will get great Smart Price coffee and a few weeks later it will be someone else doing it.

I read it on Mumsnet so it must be true.

Personally, I have never been let down by SP products (apart from the watery tinned tomatoes)

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AbbyLou · 18/11/2012 22:04

I agree re frozen chicken breasts. They are really good. The dc love the fromage frais too.

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MrsEdinburgh · 19/11/2012 10:28

Smart Price Mature Cheddar is lovely, just as good as Cathedral City.

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InNeedOfBrandy · 19/11/2012 10:34

Their frozen garlic bread is fine
biscuits
chocolate spread
squash
orange and apple juice
cheese is really really lovely all crumbly
kidney beans/chickpeas/butter beans
tinned pinapple
cleaning sponges and jcloths
dc like their hotchocolate
flour is fine

Their asda chosen by you washing up liquid is the same as fairy, the only other washing up liquid I will use. Persil/eco/any other brand does not work and last as well as fairy.

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MackerelOfFact · 21/11/2012 14:44

The laundry detergent is fine (ditto Sainsbury's basics) - smells fine too.

Fruit and veg are all fine, but not necessarily always cheaper so be careful.

Biscuits are good.

Sponge scourers are fab. So is the cream cleaner (Cif-type one). Dishwasher tabs are alright.

Foil, cling film, food bags, bin bags - all good.

Flour is good, very finely ground which is good. So are the porridge oats, again quite fine which is good if you want your porridge to cook quickly!

I used to live off their instant noodles at uni but haven't tried them in a good few years!

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MackerelOfFact · 21/11/2012 14:45

Wow, how many times have I said the word 'fine' and 'good' in that post?!

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