What own brand have you found that's just as good but astonishingly cheaper?

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On the way to work yesterday I needed to buy a tin of soup. We eat at work and I didn't want anything expensive. Plus I love soup. I popped into Morrisons daily and Heinz was £2.50 a tin. Morrisons own was £1. I bought their minestrone and it was lovely. Who is buying these expensive tins?

Have you bought anything own brand that's worth it? And as good as leading brands?

Ocado toilet rolls £4.50 for 9 or 2 packs for £7.
Farmfoods back bacon 16 rasher packs 3 packs for £7
Farmfoods 1kg bag granulated sugar £1
Farmfoods 6 400g tins of Napolina tomatoes £1.99
Farmfoods stonebaked pizzas £1.50

Farmfoods often have the 80 or 100 wash boxes of soap powder brands like Bold, Daz or Surf on for under £10 & the professional size Lenor or Comfort for £8.

Before I was ill I used to do as much of my shopping at Farmfoods as I could, saved me loads of money.

Lacura Mens sensitive shaving gel 99p it's a dupe of the old King of Shaves which was £4.

I did Aldi nappies have always been great for my children.

Just checked and it’s a combination of pine nuts and cashew.

I saw a thread recently that said they don't have Waitrose in the North. Must have been hallucinating when I shopped in the Hexham one 😉

Waitrose essentials pesto has been price dropped to £1.35 and is made with pine nuts

Aldi's Lemon dishwasher tablets.
Sainsburys own Non bio gel.
Lidl's tinned tomatoes.

Just come across this thread.

Billy has been today with our Northumbrian Gold loose leaf - and Brazil nut biscuits.

Can also recommend Waitrose toilet roll, we started buying it when we lived abroad and it was cheaper than Andrex.

Ponteland and Jesmond definitely have Waitrose.

@Cyclingmummy1 our Ringtons man is Peter 😊
I've run out of ginger biscuits but he comes Mondays. Doubt he'd come bank hol and I'm away anyway.

I know. And it was someone up north who said it? 🤣

Someone in my neighbourhood bought 24 tins of Aldi baked beans during lockdown. They went from house to house-each family trying one tin, realising they were vile and passing the rest on. It was like a bizarre reverse progressive dinner......

Depends what they meant by 'north'. DH is from Yorkshire and I can't think I've ever seen a Waitrose near my MIL.

You've reminded me that there's a box of chocolate brazils in the pantry.

@Cyclingmummy1 there's one in York.

Can't believe those brazils survived. They're gorgeous.

My online shop used to come from the Hexham branch (a 60 mile round trip!) It now comes from Poneland. My chap last night said he had to go up to Craster to deliver to a holiday cottage. Of course they hadn't arrived yet. Happens a lot apparently; people ordering food for Friday night arrival with no guarantee you'll get there by then.

Agree there's branches of Waitrose in Yorkshire too. Perhaps not so prolific as down south.

I'm pissed off that I still can't get Ocado here in NE England.

There's a Waitrose in Preston too

Sainsburys tomato ketchup. Tastes really good and a massive bottle is about £1.50 compared to £3 odd for heinz.

Waitroses in Otley and in Harrogate. Of course there's one in Harrogate!!

@RainbowZebraWarrior can't you get Ocado? Must admit I've never tried, but just assumed you could. Abel&Cole will delivery 3 streets from me but not to me because we're in a different postcode.

@CurlewKate Harrogate - of course 😆

@Ulysees they were hidden behind something else. DH didn't tell me he'd bought 3 boxes so I assumed we'd eaten them all.

I assure you there are many branches of Waitrose even here in the wilds of Yorkshire.

Sheffield, Leeds, Otley, Harrogate and York, off the top of my head.

@Cyclingmummy1 no, I keep putting my postcode in to check on Ocado every six months or so. For the past 10 years it's been telling me "we don't deliver to you yet, but we are on our way" To be honest, I've also never seen an Ocado van in my region.

@RainbowZebraWarrior now you mention it, I've never seen one. But I won't if they don't deliver here. The things you don't know that you don't know!

Did he have to go back?

I think that supermarket own brand beans are nicer than Heinz. Heinz used to be nice with a nice thick red sauce. Now the sauce is salmon pink with lots of mushy bits of crushed beans and the actual beans sit at the bottom of the tin under that nasty liquid.

DD loves Heinz ketchup, I have tried all the supermarkets own brand and she hates them all. I bought Daddy’s the other day and she likes it 🎉 it’s half the price of Heinz.