What's one thing you always buy the best of?

[Dandy0911]

When you do your weekly food shop.
We don't get all the fancy branded organic bits but...
Eggs! Nothing beats a poached burford brown on some seeded bread!

The things we try buy the best of is -
Eggs
Bog roll (absolute must)
And free range meat.

What are your best of the best necessities?

@PeterPomegranate

Tracklements Mayo Grass fed organic butter Organic milk Organic eggs Punjana tea bags (husband from NI so it’s a taste of home)

Am trying out cheaper washing up liquid and washing powder and they’re fine so far. Maybe need a squirt more washing up liquid but it’s so much cheaper.

Punjana tea here as well, makes the best strong tea Also agree with eggs, milk, butter & good quality cheese

Blitz kitchen roll, anything else is a false economy.
Yorkshire tea.

Andrex , strong enough to clean stoma without breaking.

Cat food. The decent quality stuff maintains their health more effectively than the cheap stuff. The cats eat better than we do 😄

I agree.

I'm an Aldi shopper and most things are great. I and the family are chilled with most things . Exceptions are:

HP sauce
Free range chicken (from Aldi)
Whole coffee beans only- no instant ever allowed.
Milk delivered from local farm
Swapped to SMOL for laundry/ dishwasher tablets/ cleaning sprays and am very pleased.

Aldi 4 ply toilet roll is superb as is their Plenty dupe.

Cravendale milk. It really does stay fresh for longer.

Peas have to be Bird's Eye.
Butter.
Bread.
Loo roll.
Bin bags.

Not massively fussy otherwise.

Fizzy drinks. Own brand Cola is absolutely disgusting. And probably branded chocolate too.

Coke/Pepsi

There's not really anything that I buy that I would say was objectively "the best", but for most things we have our favourite, be that a brand or an own brand.

So for kitchen roll, I prefer Morrison's extra strong ones - I actually prefer them to blitz or plenty.

For apples, we prefer Jazz apples. They're our preference, but I can't honestly say that they are objectively "the best" apples!

For fabric conditioner, I prefer Sainsbury's gentle orange blossom. Far better than the branded ones, as the scent is gentle.

For smoked paprika, it's always "La Chinata" sweet.

I like butter or spreadable butter. Can't stand margarine or spreads like flora or clover.

I could go on! I have a preference for most products tbh, but surely everyone does?

Coffee
Tea
Hot chocolate
Sugar (for coffee)
Milk
Dog food- home cooked due to sensitive stomach
Fish
Laundry soap
Most fruit and veg

The thought of spending more on expensive bin bags blows my mind. It’s literally throwing money in the bin! I just buy the normal Tesco ones and I’ve never had one split.

Oh yes, butter and bread but don't but much bread.

Dishwasher tablets
Clothes washing stuff (Persil, lenor etc)
Coffee
Lurpak

Bread
Spread
Peanut butter
Loo roll
Sauces (Ketchup, Mayonnaise etc.)
Crisps
Laundry detergent
Washing up liquid
Dishwasher tablets
Fizzy drinks (except cloudy lemonade. Tesco's own brand is superior to all others and I will die on that hill)

Oh. And Marmite.

We buy mostly Waitrose own brand stuff as the quality is excellent. Exceptions are cat food, chips, tea, milk, paper towels and coffee. I'd happily have waitrose milk but dh insists it's not as good. only in his head

I only buy the branded washing pods and fabric conditioner. The shops own brand doesn't have any fragrance and don't clean clothes properly.

And lurpak spreadable for DH too

Can't just say one thing :
Lol roll
Bread - never buy ready sliced.
Washing up Liquid
Cat food
Ketchup ( not big users , 1 bottle a year )
Kitchen roll
Furniture polish
Tea Bags - We like Ringtons Gold
Cheese

MUTTI Tinned tomatoes. Only discovered them during lockdown as they were the only ones left on the shelf, presumably because they're at least twice the price of all the other ones, but they are amazing, and now I can't go back to the rank watery shit you get in the other tins.

Mutti tomatoes here too, ruinously expensive though!

Aerial tabs for laundry.

De Cecco pasta - best I’ve found for retaining texture once cooked.

Tea bags (Clipper Organic)
Butter (The Butter Works with Cornish sea salt crystals)
Eggs - from my mates hens 6 for a £1 and they are the best eggs ever.

I have my own hens but if I run short of eggs i buy from other local hen owners with very small numbers of free range hens.

Even commercial free range hens are kept in shit conditions. The trouble with big flocks is that you get “sentry hens” at the exits that stop those at the bottom of the pecking order from ever going outdoors. The worst condition hens I’ve ever rehomed were barn hens, far worse than battery.

Apart from that, my cat won’t eat Lidl cat food!

Cheapest of the cheap for everything else that I buy.

@Footballfam

We buy mostly Waitrose own brand stuff as the quality is excellent. Exceptions are cat food, chips, tea, milk, paper towels and coffee. I'd happily have waitrose milk but dh insists it's not as good. only in his head

Agreed. After branston changed their bakes beans recipe and they now taste utter crap I've tried loads of different brands and me and the kids came to the conclusion that Waitrose Essentials baked beans are the best out there.

Tea bags and deodorant