The "Ms Molly" and the "creamfields farm or whatever it is, IS the value. They've just changed the name and coloured so people feel better about buying the cheaper stuff :)
@@NancyValleria Idk I always found them kind of helpful when I was homeless for ideas of what to eat. Also I think the difference is whether the person doing the video acknowledges their own privilege and addresses the issue in the video but of course our girl would do it right
Recipes are different though. My dad works as Chef Engineering Site Manager for McVities and they make the biscuits etc for everyone BUT the recipes are stripped back and different. That doesn't mean they don't taste great though. :) Its the same with frozen meals and pizzas (his last company he worked for)
Years ago my husband was a supervisor in a cheese factory. The budget cheese was exactly the same cheese as the more expensive just packaged differently. Great video as always Grace Xx
Exactly. Many off-brand products are in fact brand products in disguise and you are buying the same thing. Sometimes you can even check the manufacturer of off-brand products
when is your dad going to do a day eating like you? the likes on the original video are wayyyyyyyy above 5k haha! Also, would love to see you do a week eating food that does not contain palm oil. the documentary by David Attenborough on climate change was heartbreaking to watch and it would make great topical content from you!
Amy Hughes Create even more WHAT? You’re mental. Palm oil has single handedly devastated the orangutan species, making them extremely endangered, as they have torn down most of their habitat to grow it in the tropical region that it requires. Prove that other options would destroy even more of their habitat.
My Brother, Sister and I lived off Asda smart price our whole childhood growing up and honestly never had a reason to complain. There are actually some store brand products I still buy to this day because I'm so used to the taste over the name brand item. I'm happy to see that supermarkets are changing their branding to blend better with the other items on sale. I still believe that there is quite a stigma around people buying store-bought items. form my experience people that are in a situation where store brand is all they can buy might feel ashamed or embarrassed so not having a bright green smart price or bright orange basic will help a lot. Another great video Grace. 👍🏻
I often buy store brands because I prefer the store brand product. I'm not embarrassed at all. I also not embarrassed by my 20 year old pick up, it runs well and has been reliable. However I'm proud to report my truck is paid for, my car is paid for, my house is paid for and I have no debt. Side eye me and I'll laugh in your face.
It’s super simple just google a basic white bread recipe ! Just bread flour, water, salt and yeast. Shouldn’t cost more than ~ 40p per loaf and v satisfying to make !
Literally just buy the stuff to make a loaf of bread and when you divide the ingredients with how many loaves and how much you spent is gonna be cheaper
I usually buy value (I have 3 little girls to feed on a very low income) and it only takes a little finesse to turn them into yummy meals 💓 I don't usually buy snacks either just main staple ingredients! This should be a great vid!!! X
Hey, just a little message to say I used to be one of those little girls who ate value meals and lived in a low income house. 25p pasta sauce doesn't kill anyone and it teaches people how to make things stretch and how to season stuff if anything! I'm sure your little ladies will be able to make a meal out of a dish cloth when you finish with them! Im Just a random RU-vid comment wanting to say HEY. Well bloody done!
I've lived on dried beans and potatoes and cornbread and mac'n'cheese, but I confess, I couldn't make a meal from a dish cloth. When you really have to stretch pennies, yeah, you don't buy the cakes and crisps. (*You can MAKE crisps, if you have enough oil to deep fry. But a bag of popcorn--not the microwave kind--is cheaper than a bottle of oil.)
All of that food in canada, even if you bought store brand stuff, would cost $50 at the very least. The fact that you paid 7 pounds for all of that makes me want to cry for people here. That's wild
@@AKayfabe I know. I don't understand. The basics of nutrition should be a right to have. Milk, bread, fruits, and veg should be given. People are starving and they shouldn't have to be. It's disgusting how much we pay for food
@@mcan1774 umm I think it's 12 now. And I know that it's different everywhere and some places it's much less but even at 12 dollars an hour someone here wouldn't be able to afford to live on their own and pay rent and buy food and pay bills. Also I'm saying that anywhere in the world basics should not be something you have to buy. Bare necessities should be something everyone in the world has the right to.
I think it's great that you address this topic. Usually people on the internet try to show how rich they are or fake it. There are so many videos with the titles like "I ate $1000 GOLD CHICKEN WINGS!" and so on...
I live in France where food is incredibly expensive, we can buy food in England for a month, for the same price we pay for a week in France. ( and eat better food as I'm vegetarian and that's something that France just doesn't cater to...) We fill up three times a year from Tesco.
So true!! I live in France too and when I go to England, the difference is wild!! Not to mention the vegan and vegetarian range is SO much better in the UK! (I eat veggie too)
That's interesting! I always assumed it was just the cafe and food served in restaurants that were expensive, not groceries as well. I live in Singapore and I do the same thing when it comes to toiletries, Malaysia sells them way cheaper.
my mom was a single mom and ALWAYS bought the store brand stuff growing up and ALWAYS made everything from scratch. it really helped me when i moved out on my own to save money
I usually buy value foods/reduced items, Being disabled and on benefits because I sadly can't work. So I was really excited to see you try this out. Big fan of your content, I think you're killing it lately. Keep it up
I moved to france with my parents 10 years ago and i absolutely love watching your vlogs because i feel like i’m at home again Sorry if that sounds soppy lol
I love this so much because some people on youtube make videos around the subject with negative connotations and you've put such a positive spin on it , so refreshing to see your content as its just so unique !
I find peoples opinion of value foods crazy i mean look at Aldi 90% of their stock is a value range however people dont view it the same as they dont stock multiple other brands
This was a great video! My value food hack is basically to buy meat thats about to be thrown out in a day or two, since my supermarket puts those on big discounts. I just buy them and make like a huge roast that lasts me a week. That way I can have various types of dishes. Like use some of the meat in pasta, some of it in a taco, make like a "sloppy joe", sandwiches with some rice. I love it
i love that these kind of videos can be seen as trivial but you always make them so interesting and informative ??? you always do so much research and you have knowledge on the topic and you can really tell that you're interested in what you're talking about
I will always be grateful for my mom putting food on our table. She went without food for me and my sister and honestly value food is great most of the time and you can come up with super proper creative stuff💛
I don't know how I came across this channel but I'm floored by how much you can eat. I'm 180cm and 83kg and I can't do that much tucker. You are amazing. I subscribed because I am in awe.
Jaffa Cakes use saffron which is as expensive as gold... the fake ones all have a white sponge... you can definately taste the difference... I am the Jaffa Cake Monster...
@@sasbetasquadron873 That is interesting information. My son has just returned from a few weeks in England, and I am really, really hoping to get good Jaffa cakes from him. I like the Marks and Spencer ones, but McVitties will do the trick too. For some reason they have never really taken off in South Africa and although one can find them, they are not very good.
I don’t know why but when you sneezed I started cracking up so hard .your videos are so uplifting and creative , you’re a breath of fresh air on RU-vid . Keep being your authentic self !!!!
I can't believe how quickly you have gained subscribers. Love your videos . So excited to see new ones uploaded. Everyone subscribe and make this girl a RU-vid superstar!!! 😉😁🤗
In America, the Walmart Great Value selection is fantastic. I've never had anything bad. I usually buy everything great value except for veggie meat substitutes
in australia we don't have everyday value veggies BUT there's a section called "the odd bunch" which is fruit/veggies that are weird/ugly/small that usually wouldn't get sold and are way cheaper than everything else
I’m a 27 year old Australian male, probably the complete opposite to you and what your about but I really enjoy your videos and watching them. You really are a breathe of fresh air. I appreciate you grackle!
In the US in the 80s supermarkets actually had "generic" groceries that were even more plainly wrapped than those Everyday Value items. It was a tin of beans with just the word "beans" on it in black ink on a yellow label. Maybe the nutrition information also. You can see a take off on this in the movie Repo Man (1984).
Grace I've become a massive fan in the past week, I could binge watch all your videos till I die 😂 you're so funny and original, the best ideas on the the platform 💯😂👌🏻
I feel so passionately about home brand ice cream being one of the best icecreams, (both their regular and dairy-free) at Woolworths that I have constant arguments with my mother that refuses to buy it. (however the vegan iced dessert I think it's technically called is either more expensive or the same price as dairy-free icecreams by brands but it's so good)
Your mom is SO RIGHT about not buying some stuff from basics... Cheap sausages are the absolute worst thing ever when cheap!! Worth investing a little more to get a decent ones (learnt from experience)
My mom works in the food packaging industry (where they print the packaging not the food side) . Packaging for ham, bacon, cheese, coffee, dog food etc. is printed for big brands and aldi/lidl/own brands, and sent to the same factories. The same foods go in but are just packaged differently and with different prices 🤷🏻♀️
My life was baked beans on toast or eggs I was brought up in housing commission it’s for people that can’t afford to pay 300 a week on rent so I’m very great full:) love from Australia
Years ago, in the US, one of the major food wholesalers supplying restaurants, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, every sort of food business, came to our cookery class to do a 'can opening'. They had canned green beans at every price point and brand in the largest size sold commercially. the more upscale brand had fatter, longer consistently sized pieces of green bean, neatly sliced. Very few end pieces, whether stem or point. As you went down the scale, the sizes got more varied and more of the pieces were broken rather than cut and you got more pointy ends and then more stem ends. the most downscale product (sold to prisons) had various sizes, broken beans, lost of ends and were allowed to to have failed at filtering out a larger percentage of leaves and stems. there was only one leaf in the can they opened, but they pointed out that in a can that size, having several pieces of leaves and stems would have been legally acceptable. They were the same beans from the same farms, but there are multiple stages of sorting and cleaning and cutting, each of which leaves edible beans behind, which are then separated or combined with other rejects from the top line, cleaned and sorted again before being judged good enough for this or that brand/price point, and cooked and canned. The same sorts of sorting and divisions exist in every canned or frozen produce item, and even in fresh foods, the nicer stores pay the premium for fresher goods and stores with less money to spend, buy produce that didn't sell the day before, and leave it out on their sales floor longer too.
Love this video! I think the problem of cheap bread is that they have to add a lot of chemical stuff and preservatives etc to make its shelf-life longer, and it kind of changes the texture of the bread.
I like the Tesco noodles, they have two varieties, 9cent and 12 cent I think. So great to add to a stir fry just at the end. I also make all my own sauces so the own brand tomatoes 29 cent a tin, kidney beans 23 cent, chick peas for hummus 29 cent (great for curries too) . 3kg of Penne €2.65. Their frozen veg; brocolli 1kg 45cent, 1kg peas 64 cent , spinnach 900g 1.27. I always stay stocked up with these means I can always make a dinner( Bean Chilli, Indian Curry, Pasta with tomato sauce- just by adding herbs/spices/garlic/onions.
I work in Tesco and they got rid of the value stuff ages ago, it's all t.e Stockwell and red mere, rosedene, ms Molly, willow farms, hearty food co and Boswell farms now, but it is Tesco value just a different name and packaging.
Totally agree with your opening statement. Value items are fine and also as someone the same age as you I’m not someone to spend money on things that are branded for something that tastes just as good as a value item. Great video. Thank you for highlighting cheaper food especially as lots of people have money issues. Anyway sorry for the long ramble. Your just great at doing these videos.
i love this video! i am a uni student and a lot of my friends complain about having no money to eat, they really should see this video thank you for making this Grace xxx
My bf heard me watching this video and he was like “are you watching the news” and I was like “no” and he was like “oh she sounds like an announcer”. 🤣🤣 So I guess you sound like an announcer Grace
The cashews ARE sorted for prettiness, and the "ugly" ones are discounted. The skinny biscuits are so that when you share (or ration yourself,) they go around further without costing more for the total weight. Same for the thin bread slices, except that the bread and probably the crisps are made with cheaper ingredients as well. Sometimes lower price means lower quality. Sometimes it just means you're not paying for branding.
