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Which items do you always buy branded?

108 replies

Bourbonbiscuits20 · 19/09/2020 17:34

I buy lots of supermarket own brand things and will always give a supermarket brand a go, but some things just don't measure up for me!

Some of the things I always buy the big brand are Birdseye peas and McVities rich tea biscuits.

What are yours?

OP posts:
thefourgp · 19/09/2020 17:45

Nutella
Frosties
Weetabix
Irn bru

Everything else tends to be store named

Terralee · 19/09/2020 17:46

Babybel Light cheeses
Alpen Protein Berries bars
Eat Natural Maple & Pecan protein bars
Kenco Americano coffee
Sheba cat food
Heinz baked beans
Nando's Mild Perinaise
Dorset tea bags

Usually get Coke Zero but trying Tesco Xero as it's much cheaper

Bourbonbiscuits20 · 19/09/2020 17:46

Hadn't thought of crisps, I'm not too bothered which crisps so I just tend to buy whatever's on offer, not tried own brand though! Any use?

OP posts:
sorryforswearing · 19/09/2020 17:48

Cereals and baked beans.

BearSoFair · 19/09/2020 17:50

Branston beans
Weetabix
Heinz ketchup
Pepsi

FinallyFluid · 19/09/2020 17:51

Taylors coffee

Yorkshire Gold Tea Bags

Heinz ketchup

Copella Apple Juice

acocadochocolate · 19/09/2020 18:01

Marmite
HP Sauce
Naked bacon

acocadochocolate · 19/09/2020 18:02

Williamson tea

AgeLikeWine · 19/09/2020 18:09

I don’t buy many branded foods, but there are some things for which there is simply no substitute :
Yorkshire tea
Coca Cola
Cooper’s Oxford Marmalade
Marmite
Lurpak

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Usedorno · 19/09/2020 18:12

Tetley tea
Hellman’s mayonnaise ( salad cream I like any cheap brand)
Heinz beans and spaghetti

Whatwouldscullydo · 19/09/2020 18:12

Heinz ketchup
Branston beans
Birds eye garden peas
KTC chick peas and kidney beans

Thats about it really anything else as long as its reasonable quality I dont really care

runningtogetskinny · 19/09/2020 18:16

Longley Farm cottage cheese, any other brand is no comparison

greenlynx · 19/09/2020 18:16

DeCecco pasta,
McVities rich tea biscuits - they don’t have palm oil, others usually have it.
Lurpack or President butter for eating ( but any unsalted butter for baking)
Only branded yogurt: Oykos, Skyr, Activia
Hellman’s for mayo
Baileys - and only original
Fairy platinum
Dettol wipes and spray

WarmSausageTea · 19/09/2020 18:23

Hadn't thought of crisps, I'm not too bothered which crisps so I just tend to buy whatever's on offer, not tried own brand though! Any use?

Tesco Finest and the Asda equivalent are lovely, and £1 per big bag, which I think is half the price of Kettle Crisps and similar brands, if not less than.

Autumnleaves200 · 19/09/2020 18:23

I forgot about washing up liquid. That has to be a brand, but I’m not fussy on which brand

AyDeeAitchDee · 19/09/2020 18:34

Oh yes also Yorkshire Tea.

Except my DH has gone and bought a huge PG tips and already opened it.

So now I have a few weeks of lesser tea.

Jfw82 · 19/09/2020 18:36

Lurpak
Yorkshire tea
Birdseye chicken dippers
Coke/Diet Coke
Robinson's fruit and barley
Heinz baked beans

sillybean · 19/09/2020 18:41

Cadbury's chocolate fingers
Proper nutty peanut butter
Batchelors super noodles
President butter
Heinz beans
And all the sauces as others have said

nettytree · 19/09/2020 18:44

Always the original dairy liquid.

polkadotpjs · 19/09/2020 18:45

Sacla pesto. Even tried my own but I prefer theirs. I was going to say not a lot else but marmite for sure and bread when I buy sliced. I also now want de Cecco lady pasta. My son says birds eye chicken dippers too but I wouldn't buy them at all if I had more time and a husband who cooked occasionally

AndNowItsHappeningInMine · 19/09/2020 18:49

Colmans mustard
HP sauce

LunaLoveFood · 19/09/2020 18:50

Branson beans
Andrex loo roll

That's about it I think.

OhTheRoses · 19/09/2020 18:50

Pasta de Ceccio
Coffee
Tea
Ketchup
Houses of Parliament sauce
Maldon Sea Salt
Philly

Emma1962 · 19/09/2020 18:53

Heinz tomato ketchup
Heinz tomato soup
Branston baked beans

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