We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
than nothing.
Mostly.
Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the worst,
not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar. There was
nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from their brick-like
composition.
With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
Polly

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

>We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
>than nothing.
> Mostly.
> Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the worst,
>not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar. There was
>nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from their brick-like
>composition.
> With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
>found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
> I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
>hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
>rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
>and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
>Polly

Kirkland (Costco) brand anything. I may have found one thing that I
didn't care for. It wasn't that it wasn't an excellent product, just
that I didn't care for the seasoning. Don't remember what the frozen
product was.
Janet US

On 02/08/2012 11:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
> We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
> than nothing.
> Mostly.
> Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the
> worst, not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar.
> There was nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from
> their brick-like composition.
> With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested
> and found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
> I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the
> other hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that
> my crispy rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than
> the name brand and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my
> cereal bowl.
> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly
> awful? Polly


The President's Choice store brands, carried here by Zehr's, Loblaws and
No Frills, are quite good. I used to occasionally buy Frosted Flakes
and found the PC product much better, as are their version some of the
other brand name cereals. They also have a line of sauces and dipping
sauces that are quite good.

"Polly Esther" wrote in message ...

With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
Polly
**************
I'm not about spending money. I'll pinch a penny until it cries But
yes, I want to get quality for that penny. In my experience store brand
cereal is just as good as the more expensive name brands. I buy store brand
corn flakes, not just to eat as cereal. Crushed, it makes a nice crispy
coating for baked chicken It's much cheaper than buying a box of
Kellogg's Corn Flake Crumbs! I buy the store brand toasted oats cereal,
too. I've found store brand canned soups to be exactly the same as
Campbell's. Same thing with canned beans and the like. (I buy a lot of
these things at the dollar store.)

Publix premium whole wheat bread is great. I can't see paying $3
(guestimate) for a loaf of bread when I can get better (store brand) for
$1.63 a loaf. (I don't eat much bread so I buy a few loaves and stash it in
the freezer.) Publix brand natural peanut butter is fantastic.
Ingredients: peanuts, salt. (Unfortunately, the price of PB has
skyrocketed, regardless of brands. Wish I'd stocked up!) A few times a
year I buy a half gallon of Publix coffee ice cream. Good stuff! (It's
also a true half-gallon container.) Oh, and Publix canned cat food is the
same thing as Fancy Feast but costs much less per can. (Persia can't tell
the difference.) On the non-food side, I buy store brand paper towels at the
dollar store (it comes in select-a-size rolls). I'm sure there's more, I
just can't think of anything else at the moment.

Jill

I have been happy with just about everything from Aldi. I also buy a
lot of the store brand items at Kroger and Publix.

Tara

On Aug 3, 8:10*am, Tara > wrote:
>
> I have been happy with just about everything from Aldi. *I also buy a
> lot of the store brand items at Kroger and Publix.
>
> Tara
>
>
Same here with the exception of Publix. There's not one near me.

On 8/3/2012 12:47 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0500, "Polly Esther"

>> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?

> Kirkland (Costco) brand anything. I may have found one thing that I
> didn't care for. It wasn't that it wasn't an excellent product, just
> that I didn't care for the seasoning. Don't remember what the frozen
> product was.

You're right. I don't even think of them as 'store brand' but of
course, they are. I buy a lot of their products and I don't remember
having a bad experience.

nancy

On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:46 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 8/3/2012 12:47 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0500, "Polly Esther"
>
>>> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
>
>> Kirkland (Costco) brand anything. I may have found one thing that I
>> didn't care for. It wasn't that it wasn't an excellent product, just
>> that I didn't care for the seasoning. Don't remember what the frozen
>> product was.
>
>You're right. I don't even think of them as 'store brand' but of
>course, they are. I buy a lot of their products and I don't remember
>having a bad experience.
>
>nancy

Did you ever get to try their ice cream bars? They were available
maybe 10 years ago. We still look in the ice cream case in hopes
they've brought them back. Those ice cream bars beat the socks off of
Dove , etc. Shame that they discontinued them.
Janet US

On 8/3/2012 9:10 AM, Tara wrote:
> I have been happy with just about everything from Aldi. I also buy a
> lot of the store brand items at Kroger and Publix.
>
Aldi produce is good, but I won't be buying their 'cheddar' ever again.

On 8/3/2012 9:57 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:46 -0400, Nancy Young

>> You're right. I don't even think of them as 'store brand' but of
>> course, they are. I buy a lot of their products and I don't remember
>> having a bad experience.

> Did you ever get to try their ice cream bars? They were available
> maybe 10 years ago. We still look in the ice cream case in hopes
> they've brought them back. Those ice cream bars beat the socks off of
> Dove , etc. Shame that they discontinued them.

No, I never did try them. When there's a coupon for the Haagen Dasz
bars, I buy those, but otherwise I don't buy ice cream there. Oh,
same deal with the Edy's fruit bars/coupon.

As far as frozen food goes, I buy their raw shrimp and I like their
panko shrimp, too. I don't really have freezer space for any big
boxes.

nancy

On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:46 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 8/3/2012 12:47 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0500, "Polly Esther"
>
>>> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
>
>> Kirkland (Costco) brand anything. I may have found one thing that I
>> didn't care for. It wasn't that it wasn't an excellent product, just
>> that I didn't care for the seasoning. Don't remember what the frozen
>> product was.
>
>You're right. I don't even think of them as 'store brand' but of
>course, they are. I buy a lot of their products and I don't remember
>having a bad experience.

The "Best Yet" brand from Grand Union is as good if not better than
the big national brands.
http://privatelabelmag.com/issues/pl...ing-design.cfm
And Walmart's "Equate" and "Great Value" brand products are
significantly better than the big national brand counterparts.

In article >, "Polly Esther" > wrote:

> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?

Here in Southern California, the Kroger chain is called "Ralphs".
Sporadically available is a Ralph's "Private Selection" hot dog that is
astonishingly good - enough for me to write the company and praise them the
first time I stumbled upon them. If the filling isn't quite as good as, say,
a Hebrew National hot dog, the delightfully crunchy casing makes the product
unique, as far as I can tell, among non-butcher-shop hotdogs.

I'm generally happy with store brands, with the exception of soap products.
But most of us don't eat those, so it's irrelevant to the newsgroup.

Art

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:59:31 PM UTC-4, Polly Esther wrote:
> We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
>
> than nothing.
>
> Mostly.
>
> Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the worst,
>
> not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar. There was
>
> nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from their brick-like
>
> composition.
>
> With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
>
> found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
>
> I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
>
> hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
>
> rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
>
> and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
>
> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
>
> Polly

I will sometimes buy the housebrand of:

kitty litter
oatmeal
a.p. flour
cornstarch
raisins
sourcream
yogurt
frozen veggies
cranberry sauce
pasta ( some )
dish liquid
all-bran cereal
honey
milk
sugar
brown sugar
MAYBE choc. chips if they're for, say, a pot-luck or kids.

I may be forgetting somethings -
I figure what I save by doing this is to splurge on stuff like Tree of LIfe peanut butter and some imported cheeses, fresh fruit and vegs.

Polly Esther wrote:
>
> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?

I buy many store brand items and they are just as good as the brand names.
One exception at my regular store is their store brand cheese....yuk

If you have a Food Lion store, their "Hot Dog Chili Sauce" is pretty
tasty.....better than the brand names. It's also good just to eat without
the hotdogs. There's no meat in it but it does include beef fat.

Here's something disturbing for sodium watchers though and actually I might
not buy it anymore after noticing this:

One 10.5 oz can
18 servings per can WTH?
Sodium 80mg per serving

So that's 1440mg sodium for only a tiny can?

It tastes good but I should have known something was wrong.

G.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:09:07 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

> In my experience store brand
> cereal is just as good as the more expensive name brands. I buy store brand
> corn flakes, not just to eat as cereal. Crushed, it makes a nice crispy
> coating for baked chicken It's much cheaper than buying a box of
> Kellogg's Corn Flake Crumbs!

Not a big cereal eater here... but I've discovered that ground up corn
chips (doesn't matter what brand or what type) make a very tasty
coating for baked chicken. As a result, I've made more baked chicken
lately than I have in decades (two whole times).

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:02:15 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>On Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:59:31 PM UTC-4, Polly Esther wrote:
>> We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
>>
>> than nothing.
>>
>> Mostly.
>>
>> Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the worst,
>>
>> not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar. There was
>>
>> nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from their brick-like
>>
>> composition.
>>
>> With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
>>
>> found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
>>
>> I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
>>
>> hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
>>
>> rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
>>
>> and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
>>
>> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
>>
>> Polly
>
>I will sometimes buy the housebrand of:
>
>kitty litter
>oatmeal
>a.p. flour
>cornstarch
>raisins
>sourcream
>yogurt
>frozen veggies
>cranberry sauce
>pasta ( some )
>dish liquid
>all-bran cereal
>honey
>milk
>sugar
>brown sugar
>MAYBE choc. chips if they're for, say, a pot-luck or kids.
>
>I may be forgetting somethings -
>I figure what I save by doing this is to splurge on stuff.

All those housebrand items are fine, but not housebrand cat litter.

"Arthur Shapiro" <> I'm generally happy with store brands, with the
exception of soap products.
> But most of us don't eat those, so it's irrelevant to the newsgroup.
>
> Art

Well, yes. Perhaps not relevant but interesting and usually part of our
grocery shopping bill.
You know who would say it is not logical but after DH's by-pass
surgeries, he was allergic to most bath soaps. ( Go figure.) We discovered
that he was just fine with the cheapest soap we could find at the Dollar
Store. No perfume, cream, additives, preservatives or magic claims, just
soap. Polly

On Friday, August 3, 2012 4:58:48 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 11:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
>
> > We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
>
> > than nothing.
>
> > Mostly.
>
> > Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the
>
> > worst, not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar.
>
> > There was nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from
>
> > their brick-like composition.
>
> > With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested
>
> > and found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
>
> > I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the
>
> > other hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that
>
> > my crispy rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than
>
> > the name brand and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my
>
> > cereal bowl.
>
> > What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly
>
> > awful? Polly
>
>
>
>
>
> The President's Choice store brands, carried here by Zehr's, Loblaws and
>
> No Frills, are quite good. I used to occasionally buy Frosted Flakes
>
> and found the PC product much better, as are their version some of the
>
> other brand name cereals. They also have a line of sauces and dipping
>
> sauces that are quite good.

Jewel Tea in Chicago carried President's Choice products for years, I guess until Supervalu took over.

Loblaw's used to own National Tea in Chicago, until they suddenly shut it down in the 1970s. Their logos closely resembled each other for a while. (Turn the LLL on it's side and it became an nnn.)

l, not -l wrote:

> I checked when I stopped at the supermarket earlier today; the poor quality
> brand (not store brand) that some stores carry is ValueTime

Isn't that the brand in the dollar stores?

jmcquown wrote:
> "Polly Esther" wrote in message ...
>
> With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested
> and
> found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
> I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
> hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my
> crispy
> rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name
> brand
> and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly
> awful?
> Polly
> **************
> I'm not about spending money. I'll pinch a penny until it cries
> But yes, I want to get quality for that penny. In my experience store
> brand cereal is just as good as the more expensive name brands. I buy
> store brand corn flakes, not just to eat as cereal. Crushed, it makes
> a nice crispy coating for baked chicken It's much cheaper than
> buying a box of Kellogg's Corn Flake Crumbs! I buy the store brand
> toasted oats cereal, too. I've found store brand canned soups to be
> exactly the same as Campbell's. Same thing with canned beans and the
> like. (I buy a lot of these things at the dollar store.)
>
> Publix premium whole wheat bread is great. I can't see paying $3
> (guestimate) for a loaf of bread when I can get better (store brand)
> for $1.63 a loaf. (I don't eat much bread so I buy a few loaves and
> stash it in the freezer.) Publix brand natural peanut butter is
> fantastic. Ingredients: peanuts, salt. (Unfortunately, the price of
> PB has skyrocketed, regardless of brands. Wish I'd stocked up!) A
> few times a year I buy a half gallon of Publix coffee ice cream. Good
> stuff! (It's also a true half-gallon container.) Oh, and Publix
> canned cat food is the same thing as Fancy Feast but costs much less
> per can. (Persia can't tell the difference.) On the non-food side, I
> buy store brand paper towels at the dollar store (it comes in
> select-a-size rolls). I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of
> anything else at the moment.
>
> Jill
The Jill the narcissist count:

"I" 11
"I'm" 2
"I'll" 1
"My" 1
"I've" 1
"I'd" 1

Total is 17!

EarlTheFaggot wrote:
>
>The Jill the narcissist count:

Earl gotta be a faggot, wouldn't know what the **** to do with a
"count"... you QUEER POS.

Earl wrote:
>> The Jill the narcissist count:
>>
>> "I" 11
>> "I'm" 2
>> "I'll" 1
>> "My" 1
>> "I've" 1
>> "I'd" 1
>>
>> Total is 17!
Oh good grief, Earl. She was invited to express her store brand findings.
What pronoun would you have preferred? Polly

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 22:50:52 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

>
> Earl wrote:
> >> The Jill the narcissist count:
> >>
> >> "I" 11
> >> "I'm" 2
> >> "I'll" 1
> >> "My" 1
> >> "I've" 1
> >> "I'd" 1
> >>
> >> Total is 17!
> Oh good grief, Earl. She was invited to express her store brand findings.
> What pronoun would you have preferred? Polly

Earl's sole mission in life is to troll Jill.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:51:50 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

> I haven't found any store brand cheese that I like.

I like Safeway's Lucerne brand Colby-Jack cheese.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

"Polly Esther" wrote in message ...


Earl wrote:
>> The Jill the narcissist count:
>>
>> "I" 11
>> "I'm" 2
>> "I'll" 1
>> "My" 1
>> "I've" 1
>> "I'd" 1
>>
>> Total is 17!
Oh good grief, Earl. She was invited to express her store brand findings.
What pronoun would you have preferred? Polly


The Royal WE, perhaps? TROLL

Jill

wrote in message
...

On Aug 3, 8:10 am, Tara > wrote:
>
> I have been happy with just about everything from Aldi. I also buy a
> lot of the store brand items at Kroger and Publix.
>
> Tara
>
>
Same here with the exception of Publix. There's not one near me.


I know how you feel. Sorry, not one near me I do buy store brands where
available and don't usually have a problem with them.

Jill

"Brooklyn1" wrote in message
...

On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:46 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 8/3/2012 12:47 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0500, "Polly Esther"
>
>>> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly
>>> awful?
>
>> Kirkland (Costco) brand anything. I may have found one thing that I
>> didn't care for. It wasn't that it wasn't an excellent product, just
>> that I didn't care for the seasoning. Don't remember what the frozen
>> product was.
>
>You're right. I don't even think of them as 'store brand' but of
>course, they are. I buy a lot of their products and I don't remember
>having a bad experience.

The "Best Yet" brand from Grand Union is as good if not better than
the big national brands.
http://privatelabelmag.com/issues/pl...ing-design.cfm
And Walmart's "Equate" and "Great Value" brand products are
significantly better than the big national brand counterparts.

Grand Union went bankrupt years ago

"Polly Esther" wrote in message ...

We quickly learned that anything shipped in here post-Katrina was better
than nothing.
Mostly.
Learned to be glad to have any brand of anything. I guess the worst,
not that it was a truly big deal, was the boxes of brown sugar. There was
nothing short of napalm that would have blasted them from their brick-like
composition.
With that preamble, I'm wondering what store-brands you have tested and
found to be as good as or maybe even better or at least acceptable.
I like to spend money; one of my favorite indoor sports. On the other
hand, I do truly hate to waste it. For example, I've found that my crispy
rice cereal for a quick breakfast is one dollar cheaper than the name brand
and is quite as charming if I have time to listen to my cereal bowl.
What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?
Polly

A local stupidmarket around here is called King Kullen. They got rid of
their King Kullen
Store brand and now sell Food Club brand. The labels tout them as a 'Food
Cooperative'.
The products are not too bad, except for their chicken and beef broths-they
are nasty.
But I don't buy the brand much, except for flavored club soda. Forty cents
a bottle
compared to Schwepps and the like for around $1.19.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:21:18 -0400, Gary wrote:
>
> > Here's something disturbing for sodium watchers though and actually I might
> > not buy it anymore after noticing this:
> >
> > One 10.5 oz can
> > 18 servings per can WTH?
> > Sodium 80mg per serving
>
> The serving size is 1 tablespoon since it's a "sauce", but a chilli.
>
> > So that's 1440mg sodium for only a tiny can?
> >
> > It tastes good but I should have known something was wrong.
>
> They have to match the saltiness of the hot dogs, otherwise it would
> detract from it's own flavor.
>
> -sw

And the stuff really does taste good. I heat up the leftover amount (after
chili dogs) and just eat it as regular chili.

Speaking of regular chili...time to make that soon too. Haven't made it in
2-3 years. The only time I make cornbread is when I make chili. Goes
together well.

gary

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 03:37:50 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

> I do buy store brands where
> available and don't usually have a problem with them.
>
I'm always surprised by how good store brands are and don't think
twice about buying them.


--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:56:48 -0400, Gary > wrote:

> The only time I make cornbread is when I make chili. Goes
> together well.

Same here! The only time I make cornbread is when I make chili and I
don't make chili very often. I got away from the dogmatic type of
chili this year and have made it a couple of times with beans and "not
beef" for meat. I've decided I really like chili with a mixture of
pinto and black beans... and using the canned variety is super easy.
Hmm. I should make some soon.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Two more items I've found to be as good as or even better are the no-brand
jellies and jams, and the non-stick spray for bread pans is even better. I
was hoping someone had found a cheese that was okay but reckon that's just
not going to happen. Polly

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 10:18:56 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

> I
> was hoping someone had found a cheese that was okay but reckon that's just
> not going to happen. Polly

I guess you must not have Lucerne back East.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

sf wrote:

> I'm always surprised by how good store brands are and don't think
> twice about buying them.

Store brands of cookies and crackers tend to be horrid.

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 10:18:56 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

>Two more items I've found to be as good as or even better are the no-brand
>jellies and jams,

Walmart's Great Value jams/jellies are actually Smucker's... even the
jars are exactly the same but minus the Smucker's name in the
embossing. They cost about 30% less, I like their raspberry,
blackberry, and apricot pineapple.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Valu...18-oz/10315450

>I was hoping someone had found a cheese that was okay but reckon that's just
>not going to happen.

Walmart's Great Value packaged sliced cheeses are as good as any;
Swiss, pepper jack, and provolone are favorites... packages open and
reseal easily and slices are easy to separate:
http://www.walmart.com/search/search...h_constraint=0

On 8/2/2012 11:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:

> What have you found on store brands that is as good as? or truly awful?

With raw ingredients (not necessarily raw as in uncooked, but raw as in
something to use in something else) I don't find store brands to be much
different from major brands. My only exceptions off the top of my head
are peanut butter, American cheese, prepared spaghetti sauce if I use it
instead of homemade, and not much else I can think of.

Speaking of homemade spaghetti sauce, I used the baking soda suggestion
for the first time today and what an amazing difference! It really
almost explodes in the acid and then calms down while stirring and the
sweetness of the tomatoes comes alive all on its own.

jmcquown wrote:
>
> "Polly Esther" wrote in message ...
>
> Earl wrote:
>>> The Jill the narcissist count:
>>>
>>> "I" 11
>>> "I'm" 2
>>> "I'll" 1
>>> "My" 1
>>> "I've" 1
>>> "I'd" 1
>>>
>>> Total is 17!
> Oh good grief, Earl. She was invited to express her store brand
> findings. What pronoun would you have preferred? Polly
>
> The Royal WE, perhaps? TROLL
>
> Jill
Since there is no "we", that wouldn't work. It's not all about YOU, Jill!

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:45:41 -0400, Earl >
wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > "Polly Esther" wrote in message ...
> >
> > Earl wrote:
> >>> The Jill the narcissist count:
> >>>
> >>> "I" 11
> >>> "I'm" 2
> >>> "I'll" 1
> >>> "My" 1
> >>> "I've" 1
> >>> "I'd" 1
> >>>
> >>> Total is 17!
> > Oh good grief, Earl. She was invited to express her store brand
> > findings. What pronoun would you have preferred? Polly
> >
> > The Royal WE, perhaps? TROLL
> >
> > Jill
> Since there is no "we", that wouldn't work. It's not all about YOU, Jill!

Give it a rest, Earl.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

"Polly Esther" wrote in message ...

Two more items I've found to be as good as or even better are the no-brand
jellies and jams, and the non-stick spray for bread pans is even better. I
was hoping someone had found a cheese that was okay but reckon that's just
not going to happen. Polly


I don't know what stores are near you. I buy Publix (supermarket) blocks of
cheese all the time. Swiss, sharp cheddar, colby, colby-jack. It's every
bit as good as any name brand cheese.

Jill

On 8/4/2012 1:54 AM, Sqwertz wrote:

> Why are frozen chubs of sausage so much cheaper than fresh, BTW? I
> couldn't really care less if my sausage chubs are frozen. They thaw
> out really quick in a big bowl of warm/hot water.

I don't know where I've been but I've never heard the term "chubs"
before. It makes me giggle.