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You go to the supermarket and THERE IT IS in its white packets looking like the consumables from Repo Man: 5p tins of beans, 12p loaves of bread, 800 fish fingers for a quid etc. etc. Which products would you NEVER buy in saver form - and which might you as well buy for all the difference the 'premium' ones offer?

― Tom, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dine like Royalty in Tom Ewing's garden!! (I didn't know you COULD barbecue fish fingers...)

― mark s, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fish, Fruit and Nut butter.

― anthony, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not sure I'd buy nut butter in saver OR premium? What is it?

(ps if peanut butter i have always hated it)

― mark s, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Almond, Peanut, nutella .

― anthony, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, nutella: no point even buying that as i wolf it before it I get home from the shop using a 50p piece, and then the bread sits sad and dry and uneaty

― mark s, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

would never buy tins that were bloated or dented..or anything that had been opened.It pisses me off when they put these things out in their "reduced to clear" bins ,like any who looks in them is not only poor but stupid.

― Feline, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For the record - THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY BURGERS! They were nice.

― DG, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frankly, DG, that sounds like a _Carry On_ punchline.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You filthy little man, Ned. Wash your brain out with soap.

― DG, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't. Hurts.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wasnt talking about your burgers DG - they weren't saver because they broke the law of saver food i.e. you do not show the product on the front. Mind you we didnt realise they were cook from frozen not defrost which might have led to a few difficulties.

― Tom, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this tuf rocks it's what we students survive on; only thing i'd never buy, for more reasons than one, is their tampons.

― Geoff, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would never eat saver doughnuts, or saver chips, or saver beans.

― jel, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saver baked beans are an absolute no no, as are saver corn flakes. Saver fish fingers have a charm all of their own. Saver loo roll has more recycled content than most premium stuff labelled as such (I think).

― Nick, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saver fish fingers are great, especially Safeway ones. Dip them in a mix of mayonnaise and Thai sweet chili sauce. Safeway economy bacon is also very good, as they do the smoked variety. Sainsbury's do some nice peppers which I use for Thai cooking.

I don't eat anything else from Saver ranges. Ever.

― suzy, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lemonade, most of it ends being mixed with spirits eventually so it don't really matter.
Natural yoghurt. Yoghurts yoghurt right - like how can you have a saver version. What next saver milk?

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

saver biscuits in some places are identical to the higher priced ones - only the packaging is different. Safeway Savers custard creams and orange creams provided sustenance through many a late-night student essay writing sessions once upon a time.

― m jemmeson, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Billy, you're way off the mark about yoghurt. Cheapo yoghurt production methods = yuk! I'll eat it, but I'd much rather have proper live yoghurt.

― Nick, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have to agree that home made yoghurt better than supermarket stuff, but my palate just ain't sophisticated enough to tell difference between stuff at 50p and stuff at a £1, plus I'm too lazy to make it.

As for production methods, well I don't even think about them otherwise I'd prob only eat the grass in my garden. Had enough friends who have worked in food processing 'don't eat those pies, you should see what they put in them..', and it hasn't put me off yet.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark S eating Nutella with 50p piece on bus = funniest image ever injected into brane by ILE.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Western U.S. equaivalent=the supergood Western Family Foods.

Sing with me, to the tune of the Addams Family theme song: It's cheap and it's tasty, won't sell out over Pepsi, bought with the change of Brycey, the Western Family. *snap snap*

Darn good food, darn good near-rhyme!

― 1 1 2 3 5, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tesco Value choc ices are actually not bad.

― DG, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boring Betty on BB2 was not impressed with Saver Carrots and she seems like a lady who'd know. So them. I agree on saver baked beans although when we originally had this conversation at the barbecue this comment provoked a row about the relative merits of US vs. UK baked beans.

― Emma, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

value/saver/whatever, all crap, buy proper food, for god's sake

― cabbage, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only difference I can find between normal tins of tomatoes and saver tins is there is more juice and fewer tomatoes in the latter and if you're just making pasta sauce on a Tuesday night, like, who cares? But you do have to watch out that they're not GM toms, because we don't want to turn green and grow extra members do we? Unless you subscribe to Momus' sexual organ re-arrangement theory.

― Madchen, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Madchen, are you saying you already have a 'member'? Oh dear.

― Ally C, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

another Saver food thread - on which I will report my amazement at the rise of the cost of pasta. I said on another thread that food price rises couldn't be that big a deal compared to the cost of everything else in life. and it remains true that I can afford this stuff. but I am quite shocked by how a packet of spaghetti seems to have doubled in price, likewise a packet of wholewheat penne: £1.24 for 500g! in Tesco !!!

also Tesco Finest sausages are now £2.49 for six, which is surely more than the Sainsbury's equivalent. I decided to get some chorizo from the deli counter instead.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

Chorizo always sounds to me like the name of a small family car, rather than a type of cold meat.

― snoball, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

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