Will you/have you stopped buying “branded” food?

[BabyofMine]

I remember a few years back a nice thread about what branded foods were good and worth the cost. I remember a lot of people thinking Napolina tomatoes were really tasty compared to “own brand” tinned tomatoes.

With the price of food going up and up, I wonder whether the devotees of certain brands will be still getting them because they’re worth it, or making sacrifices to save some money?

So if you’ve been a devotee of a name brand food, are you giving it up?? What would you be really reluctant to ever compromise on? What’s a false economy? I’m not asking if you are going to be making savings/changes overall, but if you were really dedicated to one particular brand would you give it up??

My favourite “branded” thing is Hellman’s mayonnaise and I’m not planning on giving it up but I am using a lot less and being more careful to only put a little bit on my plate so I don’t waste it.

YABU= I will NOT be giving up my favourite branded foods.
YANBU= I will be giving up my favourite brands to save money.

Spreadable lurpak for bread products, but any own brand butter for baking/cooking

kelloggs crunchy nut cornflakes, nestle Shreddies and proper weetabix

ariel washing powder and liquitabs

fairy washing up liquid

Colgate toothpaste

Nescafé gold blend instant coffee

lil-ets tampons

Diet Coke

anything else can be own brand or usually whatever is on offer

i actively choose Waitrose essentials tomato ketchup over Heinz

My DS would be the same (not the Rugby Team , obvs , no young man wants to think of his mother DTD )

He was "ok" with Lidl ketchup but doesn't beat Heinz .

"Don'r be chintzy Mother" would be his answer .

We have swapped most stuff not because we had to but because I was sick fed up spending so much on food. The only two things I buy is Heinz tomato sauce and decent kitchen roll. If I buy cheap kitchen roll I end up going through it faster as I use more than i would normally.

Surprised how many people are so tied to Heinz products. I don't like them at all.

We don't generally use ketchup and either hang on to the odd sachet or McDonalds pot that comes our way or buy some from whatever supermarket we're in when we feel the need. The current bottle is from M&S, half used and over a year out of date, which suggests that it's been on the go for a couple of years at least.

The only canned soup I eat is tomato, other flavours I make my own, and I vastly prefer Baxters to Heinz, but since I discovered that M&S and Waitrose own brand is more or less the same as Baxters and only 50 p a tin, that's what I buy.

(We don't get all our shopping from M&S or Waitrose btw, most of it comes from Aldi, just get some bits from these two when I have a discount coupon of some sort usually).

Beans, we get Branston, due to preference, and get them from Costco, or in multipacks when on offer.

I wonder how many people could A. pick out Heinz from a genuinely blind taste test and B. actively prefer it to cheaper alternatives?

M&S beans for Heinz also their digestives for McVities. Cheaper and just as good. Their frozen peas much cheaper than Birds
Eye. Tried Sainsbury Fruit and Fibre. Not good at all or their digestives.

I also buy M&S tinned tomatoes which are cheaper and buy supermarket laundry products but can't seem to give up Fairy washing up liquid.
Basically if the non branded product is as good as the branded I will swap.

Try M&S which I find just as good and cheaper.

@PeloAddict my kind of woman! I bloody love gherkins 🙌

Own brand everything except for Nescafé Azera (I get it cheap in B&M).

The best own brand ketchup I've found is M&S - it's 85p and so tomatoey, we all love it.

We hardly buy any branded stuff anyway, unless it's on a really good special offer.

A few things I don't swap:
Cheerios
Sharwoods egg noodles
Coke zero
Dairylea

I've tried alternatives to all of these before and they just weren't good.

The supermarket laundry liquid I buy is Sainsbury's colour bio but I can only get it in the smaller bottle and haven't been able to get the larger one in months. Also their non bio with softener has disappeared from the shelves. Very frustrating but then I'm in NI.

I buy a mixed bag of branded items and supermarkers budget brand , own brand and luxury brand.
For now we will.continue as we are, I've recently been diagnosed with coeliacs so I've had the added cost of buying GF for me but we've made a saving by cutting out takeaway

The only branded items we buy are marmite and hendersons relish, apart from that we buy own brand, usually the value range for things like beans, tomatoes etc.

I'm not giving up skips - I have allergies and they're the only crisps I really like. Handy for throwing in my bag for when I need to take tablets. I also don't want to give up my Ecover zero dishwasher tabs and laundry detergent because smell triggers my sensory issues and I haven't found any cheaper that work for me 😳