A question of quality

[Liz]

Going back to labels, I am an avid label reader never without a 1€ magnifying glass in my bag. I use it to avoid gluten which hides in all sorts of goods, from tinned goods like pulses to chocolate and charcuterie aside from the obvious culprits like biscuits.
As I have never been one to buy ready meals, I don't look at their ingredients - now or before I was diagnosed as Coeliac. I have never ever bought a chilled or frozen pizza so I'm not sure how I got French nationality
BTW I also have to check all medicines, from cough remedies like Strepsils (they contain gluten) to antibiotics and anti-inflammatories and everything else.
Doctors often prescribe without thinking, I ask them to check then double-check myself at the pharmacy.

[Spectrum]

Tend not to look at labels as same as others we don't buy much processed food, what I have learnt in the quality department is loo rolls, most people buy the cheapest, next time you go for a shop, you pinch your normal roll from the centre to an outside edge, thumb and finger will do, I bet you can compress it a lot then try on the expensive loo roll, very difficult to compress, also the thickness of the sheets will be thicker as well so you end up using less of them, the manufacturers set the rolling machines at different tensions depending where the loo rolls are going.

[Blaze]

Ah, loo rolls. Neither of us likes the thick stuff so favoured in Britain. The cheap stuff here dissolves instantly (ideal for septic tanks, caravan loos) but the loo paper we like best is Super U's compact. It's by far the most economical, and recently our local Lidl has started selling something similar.

[Hotrodder]

I'm not a fan of the thick stuff myself. Too much like cardboard.

[MAD87]

I don't buy the thick stuff either - a leftover from our decades of fosse use, even though we've had mains drainage for nearly 5 years.
I don't read labels as it's difficult for me, but then there's very little processed stuff in my trolley. I had no idea that medecines contained gluten though.
On the wider subject @tagh, the FR media has taken a great interest in cost/quality of late, given the (sometimes huge) increase in prices.

[Polarengineer]

Loo rolls! We abide by the mantra "nothing goes down the toilet that has not been eaten first" having fitted bidet seats to all the toilets (heated seats."Top toilets" €200..bliss). Toilet paper is only for drying off and binning. This way less paper is used and we search for a quality for drying and not wiping strength. The fewer solids getting down into the fosse the longer between emptying.

[L Austin France]

The fewer solids getting down into the fosse the longer between emptying.

How long is "the longer between emptying."?
There's only the two of us, family holidays excepted, and the only time we've had our 3 cubic metre FTE emptied in the 20 years since I fitted it was about 9 years ago, ie. after 11 years of pooing, when, according to the Spanc guy who checked it before it was done, "on current usage it shouldn't need emptying for another few years."
I'll await the next Spanc visit for them to dip the tank before deciding it needs doing again. From memory, emptying should be done when there is 1/3 solids in the fosse.

[Hotrodder]

Lucky you. Ours needs to be emptied just over twice a year at about €260 a pop.
It's just a sealed tank, in case you were about to ask why.

[Hotrodder]

Going back to labels, I am an avid label reader never without a 1€ magnifying glass in my bag. I use it to avoid gluten which hides in all sorts of goods, from tinned goods like pulses to chocolate and charcuterie aside from the obvious culprits like biscuits.
As I have never been one to buy ready meals, I don't look at their ingredients - now or before I was diagnosed as Coeliac. I have never ever bought a chilled or frozen pizza so I'm not sure how I got French nationality
BTW I also have to check all medicines, from cough remedies like Strepsils (they contain gluten) to antibiotics and anti-inflammatories and everything else.
Doctors often prescribe without thinking, I ask them to check then double-check myself at the pharmacy.

I had no idea about the gluten thing until we invited a friend to a BBQ last summer. We knew she was gluten intolerant so I carefully read the labels on everything we were planning to serve on the day. My Dog what a chore. Clearly a real bother for the poor souls that have to live with it. How can anyone risk having a meal in a restaurant with all these allergies and food issues waiting to strike. My only problems are with goat's cheese and mussels. I consider myself lucky.

[L Austin France]

Lucky you. Ours needs to be emptied just over twice a year at about €260 a pop.
It's just a sealed tank, in case you were about to ask why.

No need to ask why as you've previously recounted the story about your tank hole digging exploits.
Assuming it's a true FTE you've fitted,at €520 a year for emptying there must be a very good reason why you haven't finished the job by installing the filter etc.