Which cheap and nasty food item do you choose over more expensive and better quality alternatives?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

For me it’s chicken kievs. I love the crispy outside and the mushy chicken inside. I know they’re not the best, I actually work in a chicken factory so I know exactly what goes into it! But it still doesn’t put me off 🤣 Clearly my standards are on the floor…

What’s your cheap and nasty favourite?

I love tinned peas and carrots. We stopped at a village store today because I knew they’d have some. Also Hardys jammy red wine 🍷

Butterscotch Angel Delight is my cheap and nasty treat. But I also believe (quite strongly) that McDonald's hash browns are the best available . . .

Spam fried rice is amazing

WHAT!!!

I have a membership and honestly they are worth their weight in gold just for the meat. The prices are brilliant for top quality food.

I’m with your DH and DC. I don’t eat sausages as often as I once did but Richmond ones all the way for me for similar reasons to your DH and DC. The texture and sometimes taste of higher meat content ones doesn’t do it for me. Awful in a sausage sandwich, toad in the hole and part of a grill-up, which I’d only have a few times a year anyway.

Aldi Prosecco preferable to champagne.

Those singles cheese things. I buy them about once a year and eat the pack just stood in the kitchen then hide the evidence they ever existed 🤣

I have a jar of that in the fridge year round. Really got into it when I was a child. A favourite snack, believe it or not, was Ryvitas with sandwich spread on them,

Also a big fan of butterscotch angel delight, which I haven’t eaten for a few years. Growing up we always seemed to have butterscotch and strawberry flavour angel delight with fresh strawberries and sometimes chopped banana for dessert in the summer months. I’m going to have to buy some tomorrow now. Thanks, fellow angel delight fiends of Mumsnet!😆

I'd give that accolade to Lidl cremant.

I used to love these but they stopped selling them at my local tescos. Are they still around?

OMG, you can join if you get PIP.
I'm so joining!!!
Thank you, although not when I'm the size of a house.

Reese's peanut butter chocolate bars. Not good chocolate, or good peanut butter but far better than the sum of its parts when cold from the fridge. I'm having a row of it right now.

Bright mint green pistachio ice cream that tastes like marzipan for me. The brown tinged stuff that actually tastes of nuts is just no good

Hollands minced beef and onion pies cooked in the microwave

co-op own brand weetabix, I used to swear by original weetabix, one day we’d run out and I really fancied it, co-op only had thier own brand, I risked it, and honestly it tasted exactly the same for half the price.

We used to be a Richmond only family, until we bought the beef and pork ones from bookers for a bbq we were hosting and honestly they are a game changer, now we have them all the time.

Paxo or supermarket stuffing over the fancier ones.

Is that Cheese Hamwiches? An absolute favourite of mine as a child.

Where do you get them?

I always buy ahh bisto, despite there being ready made options or making my own!

Kingsmill white thick bread is better than the expensive fresh stuff 😍

Aldi beans are the best beans bar none and Aldi peri peri sauce is better than Nando’s 👏

Tinned mushy peas over fresh, and Tesco's own brand ones are better than Bachelors.

The basic cheese and tomato pizzas are usually non UPF and a great revision lunch / snack for teens!