To think there's nothing wrong with own brand stuff?

[AverageGayLad]

Was in the supermarket earlier and a woman asked her friend to get her some butter - but "a brand, none of that cheap shite".

What is wrong with own brand? :( Sometimes/Mostly that's all I can afford! Isn't it all the same food anyway?

I am disputing the people claiming to be Queen/King of the yellow sticker for that is in fact ME. I am Queen enough to know that whereas Asda and Morrisons have yellow stickers, Co-Op's are orange and Waitrose's are red and white.

I always make a bee line for the reduced counter, haven't bought full price fish or meat for months. Usually Asda reduces by about 20% first thing, and then more later on in the day. I'm usually in there in the morning, rarely in the evening. They do seem to have a mega mark down session of the bread around 7pm - popped in the other night with my daughter and filled a basket with sandwich thins for packed lunches, packs of bagels and rolls for 10p a pack.

Waitrose seems to reduce more to start with, and again around 7pm. We have had some really good bargains in there like posh sausages marked down from about £4.50 to 50p, bags of salad for 12p and packs of 2 chicken breasts in sauce for about 80p. We also have a small Co-Op near us and got two packs of puff pastry in there this morning for 19p each. Straight in the freezer, will make a pie with left over chicken sometime.

Yep, that one randy. I have been drinking it for two decades and genuinely like the taste. Real coffee passes me by completely. When I tell friends in RL I may as well admit to eating McD's daily or having a minor cocaine habit for the reactions I get

Luna When's the best time to go to Morrisons?

Very rarely in Morrisons TBH, would imagine evening. Seems that most supermarkets mark down their meat/dairy early on in the day and then their bread in the evening, along with any meat/dairy which hasn't sold.

I got three Ripe and Ready avocados for 27p

Beat that Luna

My DH is a bit of a brand snob when it comes to stuff like golden syrup. He likes it on porridge or anything else he can sneak it on to. Only Tate and Lyle will do.

So, when the tin ran out, I purchased a jar of Sainsburys own brand, cleaned out the T&L tin, and filled it with the sainsburys version.

The ploy worked well until DH found the jar with about an inch of golden syrup in the bottom. Where's this from? He asked. It was the syrup I couldn't fit into the tin!

He's now v suspicious of anything to do with golden syrup... But he has no idea I'm doing it with other stuff, too

Haven't RTFT but some own brand things are inferior - for example washing up liquid which has been watered down, making it a false economy.

Waitrose's are red and white.

They're too discreet for my eyes Luna, but I suppose that's because it's Waitrose.

cocoa Why didn't you throw the tin away?

Depends on the product.

I buy Lurpak, Yorkshire tea, Heinz ketchup and Lavazza Qualita Rossa coffee because I prefer them.

I but own-brand breakfast cereal, washing powder, cleaning products, yogurt because they are cheaper and I can see no difference in quality.

Tis a perspective. If you have no food and haven't eaten for days the brands don't matter. Food and clean water do. I thank my lucky stars I'm not a refugee

I get own brand all the time. I refuse to pay the full price for stuff that is probably packaged in the same factory anyway. There are some exceptions (Heinz Ketchup) but mostly the own brand is as good as the branded.

Chopped tomatoes £1 vs 30p
Herbs and spices £1.50 vs 80p
Kidney beans (see chopped tomatoes)

I started doing this a couple of years ago and knocked about a £100 off my shopping bill. I do it with laundry, dishwasher and household cleaning products too.

I bought some Aldi chicken dippers & DS could tell the difference and doesn't want to eat any more. Bugger.

Average I presume you meant to ask why I hadn't thrown the jar of Sainsburys own brand away...?
It's because there was more in there than could fit in the Tate and Lyle tin!

I love lidl stuff but I'm a real food snob and have to have Heinz beans and ketchup and salad cream 😂😂😂

Tinned stuff - bread - cheese - pasta etc all happy to have own make

I really wonder if own brands were decanted into the branded boxes, tins, jars whatever, would anyone know the difference?

Probably was said before but I am tired and just scattered through the thread.

I do it with handwash, teabags, "weetabix", and so many other things that I can't help laughing my cotton socks off when no one bats an eyelid!

It's hilarious TBH.

My stepdad worked at Heinz and says they make a lot of supermarket own stuff

Theres nothing wrong with own brand but there are things that I can tell. A mile off and prefer the brands.

Beans, ketchup, weetabix, crunchy nut cornflakes, Worcestershire sauce, teabags, cheeses.

I also never ever buy own brand meat / eggs / dairy as I am pretty sure that to get prices so low that animal welfare must be compromised in there somewhere!

Yes maninawoman - as the Lidl advert says "Where does it come from, where's it sources?" Those adverts are SO scripted! Cue posh bloke waking over lamb: hey, let's get the MC brigade into Lidl!!

I read a post -Brexit article about supermarkets and apparently Lidl and Aldi won't be affected at all as those two companies are working very closely with British suppliers to capture their stock. The others who, allegedly, make lasagne using meat from a collection of different countries, will be the worst affected.

But it was just an article. If anyone's got any inside information that contradicts this, I stand corrected.

Shit. That looks like a different word. I typed WAXING lyrical but auto correct turned it into self pleasure.

Stopped using Heinz beans when I discovered branstons, better tasting beans and a less watery sauce than heinz, will try find a cheaper one that's on par with branstons, but heinz can keep their shite. The ones with sausages in are even worse (if you can even call them sausages), and again branstons are better, I believe either lidl's or aldi's own were good as well and had things that resembled actual little sausages, instead of whatever reformed mush heinz force through a machine to make sausage shaped.

Medications are the same, BUT the branded people are the ones who conduct the research, I'm happy to pay for that.

Generally I agree that own brand is just the same and that is what I usually choose.

The only exception is corn flakes. Years ago a friend of DH who worked in the food industry told me Kellogs make theirs using a special patented process and they don't produce any own brand stuff. You can tell the difference with own brand there.

Randy try Sainsbury's own brand. I prefer Branstons to Heinz but I like these too. Not the Basics ones.