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?

Danpak from Lidl. Lidl fresh fruit juices. Lidl deep pan pizza, it’s £1.19 and we love it.

Their brown sauce and salad cream is also my go to now.

Absolutely agree. 3 ply and 32 rolls for less than a tenner.

Anyone have a recommendation for olive oil?

@wizzler i was using Lidl olive oil

M&S baked beans, ketchup and brown sauce. I stock up on them, I'd never buy Heinz or HP again.

Tesco sage and onion stuffing. I bought it because I refused to pay £2 for Paxo, and it was exactly the same taste and texture for something like 50p.

The Aldi Specially Selected extra virgin one recently won a Good Housekeeping award for best budget olive oil. I buy their rapeseed oil as I switched over to from olive to rapeseed for most things a few years ago, and it's excellent. I think the olive oil is £4 for 500ml. The rapeseed oil was £1.49 for years which was incredible. Its now £2.49.

Lidl mayonnaise, salad cream and tomato ketchup.

Aldi Specially Selected olive oil is nice, I also like the organic Terra Delyssa EVOO from Morrison’s. And Morrison’s scalloped sea salt and black pepper crackers rather than Jacob’s crackers.

Aldi organic cider vinegar, with the nuts, seeds and preserves, not where the other oils and vinegars are.

On the back of this thread I bought some primark foundation. Wasn’t 100% which one the pp meant, but went matte foundation.
oh my god it’s fantastic.
thank you!

M&S crunchy peanut butter is nicer than any of the others we have tried

I didn't notice anyone mention that. I need some so I'll look.

There were a few but I couldn’t decide between one with rose oil or the matte one. But I’m lazy and don’t use powder so matte it was!!

thank you for starting this thread, I would have never known!

I think Pink Stuff is one of the best brands for cleaning. Much cheaper than method. As you say, it's the smell with Method I find attractive.

Love your name 😁

You can add a couple of drops of essential oil to cleaning products. I also put a drop on a bit of loo roll or kitchen roll and vacuum it. Vacuum stays smelling good for a while (until empty) I use essential oils for allsorts. They need diluting with carrier oil for skin contact apart from a couple. Lavender and tea tree are ok. Possibly others?

@VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji I don't use foundation now but started thinking I might when I go out. I'm mid 50s and have good skin but think a bit of foundation might be good when I go out. Any I have needs chucking so I'll try Primark.

Lidl's ketchup....my ones will take anything, but are so fussy about their ketchup. I bought lidl's ketchup and they love it!! Total shock, but it's 69p whereas heinz ketchup is 3.00!!! Great save.🤗🤗🤗

Bit niche but Home Bargains sell bags of chestnuts for £1.29. They're £2.50 in Tesco for the same brand and amount.

Yep our little M&S food hall is cheaper for lots of things than our big Tesco.

I'm going to pop to our m&s on Monday. It's always busy. Has a nice cafe too

I can’t believe the number of people who are saying Weetabix substitutes are ok. They are one of the few brands we can all spot a sub for in a heartbeat. Weetabix is one of a handful of brands we don’t try to change anymore.

The others are Branston beans, Longley Farm butter and Seabrooks crisps.

@LenaLamont , I've only tried the Tesco 'weetabix' and they were inedible.

The Longley Farm butter is lovely, but I'm happy to eat any British butter.
The spreadables are IMO best avoided.

i can’t remember if it was lidl or aldi that had a cheap weetabix and a main line one. The cheap one was terrible, even my birds wouldn’t touch it.
but the main one was perfectly acceptable

everyone has different tastes though and lines you cross. I love the French waitrose unpasteurised butter, but couldn’t buy it every week (think it’s £3.30!) so normal aldi british is fine!

@VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji , my Tesco one was the cheap one. False economy as I didn't manage to eat more than a mouthful.
It went in the compost bin.

I agree with the regular butter being fine. Please buy British when you can because our farmers need support and we have plenty of delicious butter without importing it.

Cat food. My cats love own-brand tinned in jelly food but won't eat cheap kibble unless it is hidden in other food. They won't eat Lidl cat food, which is a pain because I prefer Lidl to Aldi.

Fortunately our two moggies (actually beautiful Siamese ) like the Lidl Coshida dry stuff.

However, there is no substitute for Dreamies. What is in them that makes them so attractive to all cats?