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?

Hen2018

Any eating of eggs adds to the practice of chick culling though. 😔

@BabyYouKnowMyHandsAreDirty

Hen2018

Any eating of eggs adds to the practice of chick culling though. 😔

You’re not wrong there.

So far I’ve prevented 11 intensively farmed hens from being slaughtered at 18 months. That’s a drop in the ocean.

Coffee
Meat
Dog food

Loo roll
Ketchup
Eggs
Butter

Outside of the food shop I buy the best possible jeans, shoes and coats.

Yy to Mutti tomatoes. Also their pasta sauce, pizza sauce, passata

So far I’ve prevented 11 intensively farmed hens from being slaughtered at 18 months. That’s a drop in the ocean.

It’s a dreadful industry. 😔

Anyway, I don’t want to derail the thread, just find it very depressing. And I think threads like this show people think that free range and organic meat and dairy products are ‘good’. 😔

Eggs and horse feed.

Meat. Nothing with terrifyingly plain red labels
Eggs. Up the price more likely a lovely twee little farm with clucking and pecking hens bumbling around (unlikely I know)
Wine
Butter
Cigarettes.

Sabra houmous
Bob milk
Shea butter toilet rolls
Heinz Seriously Good Mayonnaise

Hot chocolate - what we have at home is nearly always nicer than what you can buy in cafes (and no, it's not some melted chocolate velvetiser luxury stuff, just a good brand from supermarket)
(any cafe charging £3.50 for that watery Cadbury crap is immediately boycotted forever).

And chocolate (Cadburys has too much emulsifier for my system). So needs to be something more expensive.

And organic tea.

And as per 2nd poster, cat food.

Conversely, our plumbing requires we buy the cheapest most budget loo roll available. Any luxury version should come bundled with a dynorod appointment.

Funnily enough I went through a phase when I only bought local meat with good known provenance from a local butcher - not a lot of it but good quality and paid through the nose for it. And then I was rushing one late Friday evening in a supermarket and came across even more local steak half the price which tasted three times better. I do want to support local farmers and will buy from farmers markets and from farm to fork projects where I can but my local supermarket is definitely responding to customer demand. The important question of course is did the farmer get a decent cut of the profits?

Mature cheddar.

Can't think of anything else.

Reading this thread and agreeing with everything (bar painkillers - wtf? Paracetamol is paracetamol, non?) has made me realise how spoilt I am.

But the OP asked for one thing, and I think the one thing I would really hate to compromise on is my Fortnums Smoky Grey teabags.

Hellman's mayo
Heinz ketchup
Weetabix
Pepsi Max cherry

Tomatoes - yes £2.75 for 6 tomatoes is a lot but it's worth it;

Pasta - DeCecco for us, budget home brand is not nice;

Olive Oil - wow, whatever it costs, but Levantine olive oil is incredible so not skimping there;

Toilet Paper - CostCo Kirkland for us;

Hand Soap - L'Occitane, although spendy, a little goes a long way (asked for at Christmas); and

Eggs - we don't have our own hens, but like the taste of Burford Browns which cost a little more.

Heinz sauce/beans
Barr's Irn bru
Toilet rolls
Washing up liquid
Soap Powder
Mince and square sausage from my local Butchers never the supermarket.
Brandy (Martell)

I buy organic eggs and Duchy organic beef from Waitrose (unfortunately it's better than our local organic butchers who I'd rather support).

We also feed our cat The Cheshire Cat's Garden as it's 80% meat. We started him on Felix but it went straight through him and we then found out it's 4% meat and basically meat flavoured cereal (but I realise many cats seem to thrive for years in it).

bar painkillers - wtf? Paracetamol is paracetamol, non?

Non 🙄

Although at least not necessarily.

Branded products often have faster dissolution rates; coatings that make them easier to swallow and added ingredients that can be easier on the stomach.

Contact lenses.

I have astigmatism and buy daily disposables, basically the most expensive type you can buy. They are £50 a month but there's no way I'm going without them. They're also hydrogel so don't damage my eyes like the old ones did.

MUTTI Tinned tomatoes., yes and their passata is amazing too.

Cheese. We get a £50 selection couriered in monthly. It's brilliant.

Illy coffee - the brown/purple one. Or lavazza espresso if I can't get illy.
L'occitaine Clary sage soap instead of shower gel.
Free range meat
Olive oil, or butter or goosefat only for cooking
Skin care - the best isn't the most expensive
Hiking shoes
Pens
Dog food

Cat food. Cat won't eat cheap stuff

Eggs. Hoping the chickens have had a reasonable life

Toilet roll. Cheap stuff irritates my fanny.

Bread. Cheap stuff tastes shite

Tomatoes. no flavour otherwise

Teabags& coffee. just because I think they taste better

Strawberries and cherries. Very little flavour otherwise.

Chicken. Organic free range. Animal welfare.

Oh and tinned tomatoes.

Baked beans
Dog food
Meat but especially Sausages or chicken
Eggs
Clover