Food things worth the extra money.

[KitKat1985]

I brought a loaf of fresh bread from the bakery today as a treat over our normal supermarket loaf. It's twice the price at £2 a loaf but tastes soooo much better.

I'm tempted to make this a permanent bread arrangement.

I was the ultimate Lurpak snob, although I did try lots of alternatives because I resented the price! Then Aldi’s Norpak entered my life, half the price and indistinguishable, and I never looked back.

Those frozen steam bags of veg are worth every penny, saves on pans, time and food waste. I’m all for that.

Never found an acceptable alternative to Kellogg’s, those evil geniuses of the cereal world.

Real butter
Maldon salt flakes
Denhay Bacon
Bread from bakery
Fresh OJ made on the day at our local deli

President squirty cream.
You won’t be able to go back to any other brand once you’ve tried this

@SophieB100

Heinz ketchup Hellman's mayo Yorkshire tea Colman's mustard Marmite Robinson's jams HP sauce

Can cope with any other brands, as long as I use these staples.

I have bad news for you re mustard

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@SendHelp30 we’re in Wales and the cottage cheese is available in Home Bargains. We always had it in the house growing up and my 73 year old mum was so excited when she found it at the start of
Lockdown. Apparently nothing else compares!

We’ve downshifted quite a bit as my DP was made redundant, and some things I thought would be crap as own/cheap brands have been a pleasant surprise. However we do stick with:

Skippy peanut butter
HP sauce
Heinz ketchup
Higher welfare meat - we eat more veggie stuff now
Kleenex Balsam tissues
Cat food - fussy face won’t touch anything other than Felix, which isn’t expensive. When we adopted her we tried her on more expensive, better quality brands, and she would rather starve. Likewise when I thought we would experiment with Asda Tiger. The local cat and dog home really liked us for a while!

Good cheese, smoked salmon, wine, steak, crisps, sausages...
Things I wouldn't pay extra for: water, olive oli, flour, sugar and other basics.

After really shit mozzarella at dinner, I'd say good buffalo mozzarella or even better, burrata are worth the money.

Day to day? Maldon sea salt, good quality chocolate and decent coffee.

Pip and Nut crunchy peanut butter
Heinz beans, hoops, ketchup and salad cream
Sharwoods Mango chutney
Unsalted butter
Clotted cream (Trewithen or Roddas)
Organic veg off the local food hub, ditto sourdough bread from there
Decent cheddar
Lurpak, but the Yeo Valley spreadable is good
Maille Hollandaise, Tartare sauce, Dijon and Fines Grains mustard
Tiptree jam, especially Little Scarlet
Natures Menu cat food
Sheba lamb and Chicken in sauce that Amazon provides from Italy
Free range chicken from the butcher, plus Cornish smoked streaky bacon and his sweet chilli sausages.
Lindt, Neuhaus, Callebaut chocolate nibs for cooking
Goose fat
Oil and Vinegar Garlic Oil (get it sent from Inverness)

Oh forgot
F&M Smoked Earl Grey

@Hoppinggreen

Sorry cricketmum, not what I meant. It’s produced local to me so I am familiar with it ( and I agree it’s reet good). That poster said her family firm had been mentioned and I was asking if it was Longley Farm

Ah I'm with you now

Aldi Spanish Manchego cheese

Proper Indian spices instead of horrible curry 'sauces'.

@Billy- we have a big sainsburys near us. They stock an amazing burrata at surprising price. Oe did. I cant get it online anymore and I haven't been in store so not sure I'd they have it. They didnt the last few times I did go. I will be devastated if it's gone forever. Was my favourite lunch time treat.

Loose leaf tea - proper coarse leaves as opposed to dust.
Decent cherry tomatoes.
Heinz ketchup - for the DC though - I'd eat anything. In fact I think Heinz ketchup has gone to the dogs - thinner and more vinegary.

Bacon from the butcher. Supermarket bacon is awful.

Our village butcher is also a greengrocer and has the most amazing cherry tomatoes on the vine. They cost a fortune but are so much better than ones from Tesco.

Longley Farm yogurt is amazing

@Elephantscantfly oh bless her!

Green giant sweetcorn
Branston baked beans
Heinz tomato ketchup
R whites lemonade
Flahavans porridge oats
Kenco coffee
Options hot chocolate
McVities digestives
Green and Blacks chocolate

Irish butter. Salted. No spreadable muck.

Branded toilet roll.

Coke zero.

Local meat when we buy meat.

Anything else I'll buy yellow stickered.

Butter, milk, cheese and cream from local happy grass fed cows. It's truly gorgeous. The rich yellow cream whips in 10 seconds, unlike the several minutes for the watery Tesco equivalent.

Getting a local milk delivery has been fab. Contactless too.

President salted butter
Cherry tomatoes
Greek yogurt
The few premium cat foods the animal will eat

Lavazza coffee
Tony chocoloney dark choc
Oatley or moma barista oat milk
Sourdough bread
Manilife deep roast peanut butter

Coca Cola, don’t care what anyone says, nothing tastes the same, not even Pepsi, I’ve passed the taste test several times. Nothing beats the original.

Tesco finest range. It really is better.