To ask your "same but cheaper" hacks?

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I've read that
Blue tin Nivea is a cheaper version of creme de la mer so I've bought 3 tins!

Please can Anyone recommend anything that is as good as the branded version but cheaper?

Can anyone recommend a smell-alike for Paul Smith Floral? It's been discontinued and I've been stockpiling from eBay but would love an alternative. TIA 😘

Poundland for toothbrushes and toothpaste,

Tesco value peanut butter is my favourite. Iv tried other supermarket value ranges, organic ones and sunhat but tesco 62p value one is the best. Great thread. I love a bargain

Dry pasta - unless you want the healthier wholegrain ones or the multicoloured ones, you really might as well go with the cheapest as they're pretty much all the same

They really aren't. De Cecco is a million miles away from Tesco value pasta. Its not made the same way at all.

I shop at asda lidl and aldi mainly I'm happy to try own brands apart from diet pepsi and heinz tomato soup, had some of lidls own diet coke at my mums and it wasn't that different and less than half the price, tried aldis own this week and it wasn't very nice. I still don't think you can beat heinz tomato soup but the kids like asdas own.

Pet insurance policies are not all equal even if they are underwritten by the same company. I'm a vet and unfortunately have extensive experience of arguing with pet insurance companies on behalf of my clients/the practice. PetPlan are by far the best and easiest to deal with; they offer the most comprehensive cover, seldom if ever quibble claims and pay out very quickly. I have worked in several practices and PetPlan is the only insurance company that they are happy to deal with directly because based on experience a lot of the others will do anything to avoid paying out and claims can drag out over weeks if not months.

My DM is a pharmacist and uses/recommends generic everything. They are all the same. I get bad hayfever and there is absolutely no difference in Piriteze at nearly £5 for 12 (active ingredient Cetirizine Hydrochloride 10mg) and generic cetirizine tablets, e.g. Numark Pharmacy brand which are about £1.50 for 30 (active ingredient Cetirizine Hydrochloride 10mg).

If you want decent dupes for make up, sign up to Mrs Gloss & the Goss on FB.

L'Oréal infallible is the same as one of the mac foundations.

Dupes galore on that fb group!

This is just 3 from a post created by one of the admins a while back. This site saves me so much money!

For health and environmental reasons I started to use basic ingredients rather than buy the 'manufactured' food product - but I've been shattered by how much you can save. Basically you end up with really excellent, organic, food for less than the 'non-branded' equivalents in the supermarket.

A crockpot (around £20) means you can cook your own:
Red kidney beans and all other beans
Chickpeas (so hummous)

You can buy milk and cream from organically-reared, grass-fed cows and make:
Yoghurt
Greek yoghurt (the supermarket stuff isn't real Greek yoghurt anyway)
Crème fraîche
Paneer
Butter

With a decent food processor you can make:
Tahini
Coconut milk
Mustard
Curry paste
Stock
Nut milk
Flour

the list is endless. It's all either cheaper or the same price but the quality is vastly superior and you know precisely what's in there. It's also, amazingly, often quicker - but I do have a Thermomix so this may not be quite the case with other processors.

It's just like with the programmes other posters have mentioned ('Shop Well for Less' etc.) - it may be a relatively small amount on one individual item, but it adds up to huge savings every year.

As for the taste, knowing that what is in your food, and the sense of satisfaction that you've made a dish genuinely 'from scratch' - nothing beats it.

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Agreed, Lidl's Hortus gin is FAB, only £15.99 for 70 cl, and very tasty too.

I think this thread was probably started by the Nivea PR team. Pisses me off

Anyone else?

Croissants and Danish pastries from Lidl are fab. Flaky and buttery tasting, amazing value at only 29p each and taste great.

Beast of
But is that because the customer service/experience is different or the actual polices?

Genuine question

Another vote for Aldi nappies - vastly superior to Pampers yet less than half the price. 14 week old dd is yet to suffer nappy rash and they easily keep her dry over the 12 hour night time stretch.

Aldi wines are also very good many have won wine awards and blind taste tests against other supermarkets. I think most of them are below £6. Their Argentinian Malbec at £5.99 is lovely and best a £10 one from Waitrose.

*beat.

Asda smart price nappies! £1.20! One pound twenty FFS. I can't tell the difference. Asda organic veg is so cheap, they deliver, and they even have tins of organic stuff. Much cheaper than anywhere else, and often the same brands, such as Tarantella tomatoes etc. Also, I bit the bullet and went from my 'essential' Frenchy posh skincare products, and moved over to No. 7 and have never looked back. That being said...You will have to pry my selection of Nars and Mac lipsticks from my cold, dead hands.

Local market for fruit, veg and meat. Offers yesterday included 3 aubergines for £1, 5 pointed red peppers for £1 and two large punnets of blueberries for £1.50.

Lidl have some good wines, their cava is pretty good and way cheaper than the brand's.

creamcheese I'm a big fan of this Malbec, it's lovely for the money!
I also like Aldi dishwasher tablets, I haven't noticed any difference from Finish quantum.
Against my better judgement, I tried Aldi washing gels and thought I would hate them. It took me a few days to get used to a 'different' smell but I'm converted now, and they do a colour one I don't like their cleaning stuff or bleach though.
We buy most things from Aldi but occasionally, things like chicken aren't the best so have started getting from a butcher and the eggs from the farm shop near us are so much better than any supermarket eggs we've had so we buy them now. I also don't like their milk and will only get from Tesco or coop (I drank 4-6 pints a day pregnant and there's a big difference. DP taste tested me as he thought I was talking rubbish!)

Their floor cleaning wipes are brilliant and a must with two young children.
Their porridge oats are rubbish but everything else that I haven't mentioned I've tried is amazing. Their bread for 45p is the same as branded to me and lasts much longer. Also another concert for Aldi wipes and nappies! Toilet roll is fine as long as you get the 3ply stuff, the 2 ply stuff is rubbish but they have to cater to different budgets.

I love the fact you don't have to stock up when things are on offer mostly as we're limited on space but I always felt the need to buy brands when they were on 'offer'.

Aldi's caviar creme has been compared to the La Prairie stuff and has good reviews. At £7 a tub you're laughing! I really love it. Looking at all the responses Aldi's punching above it's weight...

Aldi mamia nappies and wipes
Waitrose cheerio style hoops
Embarrassingly, Spar cornflakes. Everyone knows Kelloggs are the only ones so I pitched a huge fit when dp came home from a "shopping trip" went to petrol station as couldn't be arsed W supermarket with cheap subs. He got both barrels about how We Are Worth Better then i actually ate some this morning and they are fine!

My dh swears on Asda crunchy nut cornflakes rather than Kellogg's or any other brand.

Nivea Blue and soft creams are both awful. They sting and do nothing for my skin.
Pond's cold cream is what my late Gran used. Nivea blue is overrated imo

I have found that Next's 'New York' scented candle is a very good dupe for The White Company's 'Blanc' scented candle, and is £20 cheaper.

Does anyone know a good dupe for Angel by Thierry Mugler? I get through loads of it, especially now the DDs have taken a liking to it [glares at DDs]

Kellogg's used to have an advert saying that they don't make cereal for anyone else.

I recal a while ago reading about a factory that made tea cakes. They made them for all the supermarkets. They said that Marks and Spencer's got the highest ratio of fruit with extra spices and stuff. They then reduced the extra stuff as the product got cheaper.