What grocery items do you never buy?

[AmberTurnerCo]

I would
Alcohol
Crisps apart from Pringles

White sliced bread
Tinned vegetables (other than tomatoes, obv)
Branded cleaning products
Turkey
Instant coffee
Pet food, baby food, nappies (no pets or children)

Also fabric softener, which is the biggest marketing con trick ever. It’s a completely unnecessary waste of money.

Pet food
Margarine
Pepsi type drinks
Ready made curries
Fabric softener
Boiled sweets
Frozen fish in batter
Instant coffee

Mayonnaise - Devil’s spunk.

What’s wrong with tinned tomatoes? I use them all the time in stews, curries, etc.

Spray on cream/Elmlea type mock cream
Anything containing Quorn
Tinned tomatoes
Skimmed milk

NRTFT since I posted but what is wrong with frozen stuff?!

Frozen is fresher when it hits your plate than so called "fresh". "Fresh veg can be a couple of weeks from field to plate if not more, but frozen has to hit the freezer within a couple of hours so has more nutritional value.

And "fresh" meat is often in that nearly frozen state

Ready meals or pre made sauces
Sandwich style ready sliced meat or cheese
Herbs (we have an aerogarden)
Fish fillets, but we do buy lots of seafood
Sour cream/creme fraiche/cottage cheese - Israeli versions have ruined this in the UK, so much better
Tinned items that aren’t tomatoes
Cooking oils - get these from specialists
Rice
Alcohol
Frozen pizza

We always buy fabric conditioner, locally there is an oud and sandalwood one that makes me excited to dress every day.

Oof, someone sounded the snob alarm when OP made this post

Iceland has some amazing stuff including the seafood and frozen Greggs.

Fabric conditioner. I think I’m allergic to it.

Coffee

Non organic meat/eggs/milk. I’m vegan so I wouldn’t buy it at all but partner and kids eat some so organic only.

@KilljoysDutch

Oof, someone sounded the snob alarm when OP made this post

Iceland has some amazing stuff including the seafood and frozen Greggs.

AWOOOOOGA!!!!!

Couldnt agree more!

Who the fuck doesnt buy tinned tomatoes?!

Horse food
Lard
Toilet roll

So funny how the trolleys you see at the supermarket are, on the whole, filled with a total mixture of food stuffs including natural and processed- crisps and snakcs included. However, in the mystic realm that is Mumsnet, the vast majority would recoil at the very idea of a custard cream or a jar of Dolmio.....

@Wearywithteens

Flipflopsaga - I live in a hard water area. You don’t need fabric conditioner. Dry rough towels are brilliantly absorbent which is the actual purpose of a towel.

Thanks for replying. I promise after your comment I will give other options a try!

Ready meals
Preprepped salads
Tinned fish and meat
Pastry and pies
Sugar

Bottled water
Squash etc
Fizzy drinks
Skimmed or low fat anything
Breakfast cereals

Spam
Tinned meats
Fish or meat paste
Veal
Pate
Caviar
Kidneys etc
Farmed salmon
Eggs
Beetroot
Piccalilli
Branston pickle

@frumpety

Have the posters who never buy anything from Iceland actually been recently ? Their frozen seafood is brilliant.

Stuff I never buy - air fresheners of any variety and tissues.

I don't think I've ever been in an Iceland. There's nothing I'd buy there, I have no idea where one is as we don't have one.

@PyongyangKipperbang

NRTFT since I posted but what is wrong with frozen stuff?!

Frozen is fresher when it hits your plate than so called "fresh". "Fresh veg can be a couple of weeks from field to plate if not more, but frozen has to hit the freezer within a couple of hours so has more nutritional value.

And "fresh" meat is often in that nearly frozen state

Mumsnet is like another world sometimes

Mind you I have a friend in real life who likes to tell everyone at every opportunity that she doesn't buy frozen food. When I mentioned getting a second freezer recently so I could keep a decent store of basics in in case of a second lockdown/ready for Brexit she was aghast. She couldn't understand how I can fill 2 freezers (1 is tiny) when she never even fills one and her family is twice the size of mine. (Number of people not physical size).
She also moans that she has to go food shopping every 2-3 days for meat and veg. I buy a freezer load at a time and uhhh... freeze it. 1kg of chicken thighs frozen in portions. Packs of sausages. Some steak occasionally. Fish fillets. Mostly bought from the fresh section and then frozen at home in smaller packs so I can defrost what I need when I need it. Plus I can freeze leftovers.
I mean everyone is free to live and shop as they please, but she's mad

@brillo same here - nothing low fat

@longtompot - I was recently in M&S and discovered a new amazing hybrid creation of a doughnut and yumyum that they called a yumnut... It was GORGEOUS. Do yourself a favour and try one!

I’m not gonna say there’s stuff I’ll never buy as although there’s foods I’m personally not keen on, I will get them if the lads or DH or guests want them and budget allows.

I don't think I've ever been in an Iceland. There's nothing I'd buy there, I have no idea where one is as we don't have one.

@therhubarbbrothers How do you know that there is nothing you'd buy there if you've never been in one? That's like saying you'd never fly as you've never needed to be abroad!

No sweet cereals
Coffee
Crisps
Cakes , pastries biscuits and sweets.
Ketchup /salad cream/ potato salad slop in plastic tubs.
Fizzy drinks and cordials.
No wipes of any kind

Fizzy drinks (I do get fizzy water sometimes)
White bread
White rice
White sugar
Sweet biscuits
Cake
Anything low fat or fat free
Battery eggs
Precut fruit
Vegetable oil
Margarine
Milk chocolate
Flavoured yogurt
Those little desserty things (except the Rolo ones v. occasionally - they're lethal but yummy)
Crisps

I buy loads of frozen food - veg, fruit, fish, meat, chicken. I think Iceland is better than Aldi or Lidl.