To put this woman straight next time?

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

In tesco yesterday. My trolley contained mostly value products, including fruit, veg, meat and cheese. I am on a very tight budget. 2 women behind me and I hear one stage-whisper "would you buy all that crap?"

Woman 2 says something I didn't hear, then woman 1 says "could be for the food bank, you wouldn't give them quality stuff..."

I turned and glared, they obviously realised I'd heard and looked embarrassed.

I should have said something, shouldn't I? What a cow

Whine lol

I think the fact you glared at them probably spoke volumes to them , snooty people really get on my wick watch out for their Mumsnet thread though

Value fruit makes sense in a house with a toddler considering most of it gets half eaten then turns up in the sandpit, behind the telly or in the dog's bed...

where I work (with toddlers and babies) we only buy value fruit and veg as like most toddlers it gets squashed half eaten and stuck to the floor ,

Nearly all the time, 'value fruit/veg' is the stuff that isn't perfectly shaped and of a uniform size. Like the apples you used to pick off trees for those of you that did.

Stuff 'em.

Silly cows.
(a) basics isn't crap - esp with fruit, the Basics strawbs are quite often the best (going by smell not appearance) just 'all shapes and sizes'.

(b) appalling attitude that if you're giving to the food bank you wouldn't give quality stuff - which may be 'value'.

I would have glared at them too.

As for the lottery question. I probably would still buy the value food that i do as i buy what i like to eat. I buy somethings value and some branded things and if i won the lottery i would stick to that. Id probably treat myself to more cakes though

We switched to mostly value/basics when DH & I had a massive drop in income a couple of years back. I also started cooking from scratch as much as possible. We buy our meat from the local butchers and most our fruit, veg and eggs from local farms. So, when I do a supermarket shop once every 2-3 weeks it's mostly for cupboard basics. Our trolley looks a real fright, but I can guarantee we eat far healthier than most families with their 'Taste the Difference' ready meals and jars.

I get some strange looks, but no one has ever commented. That said, 2 visits ago a carton of basics tomatoes fell over the divider into the shopping of the lady in front of me. When the cashier got to it she practically shrieked "that's not mine!" She did have the good grace to look a little embarrassed though. I snuck a peek at her groceries; all frozen pies and pizzas. Branded of course.

Hold your head high and ignore. You know you are right.

I'm going in to tesco now with my food snob radar on

Good for you.

I feel no compunction whatsoever about buying value or reduced food.

I do, however, have a niece who doesn't like accompanying me into Lidl's. (She waits in the car even though it's a different part of town.)

How awful for you! I would have been really upset. They were arses though.

Thinking about the lotto thing I think I would probably spend more, in the supermarket I would probably stick to shops own because I know it and I like it but I would spend more on fancy things like cheese (can't stop thinking about cheese after yesterday) I would use the farm shop all the time for fruit & veg as its good to shop local if you can (affording that is a luxury for most) and local butchers for the meat my family eats.

Neverquitesure, you just made me snort my tea out!

cozie my DD on accompanying me into Lidl most times, so that she can pester me to buy their pain au chocolat. She's quite rightly concerned about the taste not where it comes from.

I think there are better uses for our money than buying premium fruit and veg for a 23 month old who says "yum" to a piece of dog biscuit she found down the side of the fridge...

Or premium dog food for an animal that quite literally eats shite in the park and enjoys the taste of baby sick.

They're hardly discerning :D

Comedy I wasn't upset but it put me In mind of another thread about food banks - someone said that luxuries like sugar should not be included. I think if you're going to donate you shouldn't have the idea that it should be 'crap'. That the people who need food banks should be doffing their caps to the benevolent donors.

Our food bank is quite new and the local supermarkets had a collection point. It's clearly quite a novelty to some shoppers.

I prefer the value fruit and veg -- it's more real. Silly cows.

What nasty comments :(

I buy lots of value range stuff and like LEM if I was much better off I would still buy lots of value stuff! For many products it is no different.

I feel sorry for Woman 2.

She could have been disagreeing with her friend as her comment wasn't heard.

Value is often less 'crap' because value products contain fewer additives like sugar, so she's ignorant as well as ill-mannered.

I agree that saying nothing is the way to go. People who stage-whisper are often dying for a bit of reaction and drama.

I was about to say what GobbySadcase said on page 1. We often buy value stuff.... for exactly that reason.

(PS- Co-Op homebrand cider is divinely good).

I can't believe there are people out there who think that sugar is a luxury and only 'crap' should be bought for the food bank. I just assumed that everyone bought the same stuff for the food bank as they would buy for themselves.

Those women should remember that needing the food bank just comes down to luck - at any time any one of us could be relying on it. Do as you would be done by, should be the thinking when buying this stuff.

We are comfortably off but I buy lots of "every day value" and "basics" things, Most of them aren't any different than branded stuff and all of them I've tried are perfectly acceptable. I'd rather have some fancy labels in my wardrobe than my kitchen cupboards TBH.

Surely if they were that snooty they should be shopping in Waitrose?

My friend lives in a 5 million pound house. Her larder is filled with value items. Asda even. You dont get that rich by frittering your money away on expensive stuff when there are cheaper alternatives.

PatPig we haven't got a waitrose

Heath, who knows what woman 2 was saying. I hope she was disagreeing.