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?

A lot of things really, I hate when DH does the shopping because he always goes for the cheaper options insisting there’s no difference but for some things there really is.

Definitely:

Tinned tomatoes
Fresh tomatoes
Fish - we don’t eat meat and only very occasional fish so when I buy it I’m very selective (except I do sometimes like the occasional fishfinger, but only certain ones)
Teabags have to be Yorkshire tea or twinings
Butter has to be lurpak - I’ve tried to like the Aldi version but it doesn’t cut it

Ooh that's easy - bed linen and garden furniture. Sleeping and being in my garden are two of my greatest delights.

And Malvern sea salt. A life changer

Mayo- hellmans
Ketchup- heinz
Bread- multi seed sour dough
Tea bags- twinings or Yorkshire tea
Bin bags
Shoes
Car Tyres (we’ve gone through too many cheap ones)
White goods

If I buy he best I can afford of these few things. ...everything else slots into place!

Bread
Butter
Cheese
Tea
Apples
Plum tomatoes (fresh)
Plum tomatoes (whole, tinned)
Loo Roll
Cat Food

Dishwasher tablets
Shampoo and conditioner
Toothpaste
Potatoes
Sausages

*the best

Budvar lager
Yorkshire tea
Lavazza Qualita Rossa coffee
Lurpak
Mercedes-Benz cars

Heinz salad cream, no other tastes as nice

Coffee, shampoo, conditioner, washing liquid, cars, gym membership Definitely worth paying more for certain things.

Diet Coke, not supermarket own versions

Fresh interesting bread

Ground coffee, pods (supermarket finest type level)

Shoes (not super expensive but mid range eg. Clark’s level)

Free range meat. Decent fish. Filtered milk. Free range eggs (can't bear yellow yolks, has to be orange colour yolk) , detol sprays, fairy washing up liquid, lenor and decent shampoo and conditioner. Everything else is bargain buys 😁

Chopped tomatoes

Isigny Ste-Mère Unpasteurised Salted Butter
Fresh chicken liver for the cat
De Cecco pasta
Organic milk and yogurt

I’m totally happy with cheap loo roll, cheap tinned tomatoes, and any brand of Mayo!

Coleslaw.

Heinz sauces. Others are like vinegar.

Toilet roll - Andrex quilted, anything else gives me a rash.

Cereals. Has to be Kellogg’s, own brands go mushy.

Heinz beans - all others are mainly sauce and the beans are hard.

Galaxy chocolate. Anything else, especially Cadbury is overly sweet and claggy.

Domestos bleach. Others are just not thick and you end up using more.

Dishwasher tablets

Aldi’s own brand dishwasher tablets consistently score highest in Which? testing. We recently switched to a named brand, and found they aren’t as good as the Aldi ones.

Twinings Assam teabags.

Pink himalayan sea salt (NEVER plain white table salt)

5 kinds of peppercorn mix, which I then grind myself

Extra virgin olive oil

I also always buy the very best Andrex toilet roll

Tomatoes
Sweet potato fries (strong roots brand only)

Bin bags and sellotape- cheap stuff is such a false economy

Pasta - can’t do cheap value pasta

Dog Food - good food = healthy dog= fewer visits to the vet
Chocolate = me staying sane in the face of Covid and taxes and life

Tea bags and coffee
Butter
Minestrone soup
Leanest meat

Coffee + Tea
Bread + Pastries
Bog roll
Shoes
Hand soap
Cleaning products like Method anti-bac spray
Bedding-I wash it 1-2 times a week so it needs to stay in good shape
Ice Cream
Candles