Brands that just can't be swapped out

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I'm taking food.

For example, I'm yet to find a decent alternative to Quavers. Supermarket brands are crap!

Ditto Marmite

Pepsi/coke, although I prefer Pepsi.
Hellman’s mayonnaise

Most stuff I’m too tight to pay for the name brand though.

Diet Coke (+ caffeine free version)
Ribena
Branston’s Beans
Bisto gravy
Lurpak lighter (also agree that President is good)
Heinz cream of tomato soup

Tayto cheese and onion crisps, all other cheese and onion crisps are pathetic.

My cat will only eat Sheba food. I’ve stopped wasting money trying other brands now, but the neighbour cats have done well out my failed attempts

For myself I haven’t found decent swaps for mcvities dark chocolate digestives or Heinz ketchup (but I did pick up Tesco own brand cornflakes today and now I’m scared they’ll end up in the bin)

There are no substitutes for:

HP Sauce, original variety
Colman's English Mustard
Branston Pickle
Lurpak butter

I haven't tried many ordinary mayonnaise brands but I do prefer Morrison's to Hellman's.

Tunnock's caramel wafers
Heinz beans & ketchup
Diet Coke
Cheerios
Kellogs crunchy nut cornflakes
New York bagels

I'll happily go own brand/Aldi/Lidl for most other things

Yorkshire Tea
Lavazza Coffee
Clover

BTW, Lurpak was £1.77 in Morrison's yesterday. I don't know what happened to separate lines in my previous post.

Heinz ketchup.
Another fan of Tesco red label.
Coffee. Tesco own used to be good but isn't now, so get dear stuff on a deal.

I agree with you all. Adding John West's red salmon - for tea time sandwiches.
Elderflower cordial in the long green bottle.
Cadburys milk chocolate, so often rubbished, not pure ......and yet

I was just coming on to say Marmite, and you've all got there before me - Diet Coke also.
Hellmann's mayonnaise
Walkers cheese and onion crisps
HP Sauce
Worcester Sauce
Colmans English mustard
Mars bars
Kit Kats
Roses lime marmalade
Heinz salad cream
Nescafe decaff
Flash liquid cleaner

DH has just joined the fray - he says it used to be Cadbury's chocolate, but not any more. There are loads of other makes (we particularly like Aldi Moser Roth) but none of it is the same as the taste of the old Cadbury's.

Yorkshire tea
HP sauce
I think that's it! Even when I was a poor student I just stole the teabags from my parents...

Heinz beans are sour. Waitrose Essential are like bullets and the one I bought had beans with grey bits. I only eat ADSA saver beans. Nice thick sauce and well cooked beans.

Perrier water.
The Processco with the green label in Waitrose or the rose on offer at Valentines. They are better than supermarket brands.

Heinz ketchup
Hellman’s mayonnaise
Heinz baked beans
Oatley oat milk -(all other non dairy curdle - must be my water?!)
Frazzles
Wotsits
Nairn’s oatcakes
East end tinned chickpeas

HP Sauce
Rose's Lime Cordial
Rose's Lime Marmalade

Coke
Lavazza coffee beans
Nescafe gold blend
Bisto best granules
Marmite
Every thing else I will happily buy cheaper.

@Binting my cat (we shall just call him 'the Little Prince) will only eat Gourmet Mon Petit, thank God it's on permanent offer at Sainsburys. That cat is spoilt rotten

Also Marmite, Diet Coke, Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce'

HP brown sauce
Marmite
Lurpak
PG tips
Heinz beans and sausages

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
Hellmans Real full fat Mayonnaise

I'm genuinely trying to think but a this moment I can't come up with any thing except

Dp only likes pg tips

Or il have the occasional cup of something else if Im visiting a friend but I only buy Nescafé barista coffee for myself but only when it's on offer and I buy 3 or 4 at a time.

Diet Coke
Heinz ketchup
Beans
Cathedral City
Dime chocolate

I tried Tesco’s marmite this weekend- strangely runny texture and veering towards the vegemite. Nope.

Branstons beans are way better than Heinz but agree you can't downshift brands on beans.

I like Sainsbury's ketchup though.

Frazzles

Was going to say fairy liquid but you don’t that so, marmite, weetabix, hovis seeded bread and anchor butter.