What brands are you completely loyal to?

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Me:

Ecover multi-purpose cleaner in a spray bottle thingy (for cleaning kitchen surfaces and table) - never use anything else.

Yorkshire Tea.

Persil washing powder.

Lurpak butter.

Anything else I will experiment with, but those are my constants.

None I think!!

oh possibly Hellmans

although why advertise on here if most of us wont buy anything else? surely you should spend your money elsewhere

Coca Cola
Kellogs Cornflakes

Thats it, everything else we have found alternatives for if brands aren't cheapest/ on offer!

Marmite
Birds custard powder
Rose's lime marmalade
DM boots too!
Nairn's oatcakes
Lidl Toujours baby wipes
Fry's Turkish Delight

Marmite - obviously
Paradontax toothpaste
Oxo cubes
Branston pickle
Paxo stuffing
Heinz beans
HP sauce
Marlboro red
Pernod not Ricard
Anything else I tend to buy whatever is cheapest. Most of the above isn't available in the countries we've lived in, so an empty bag on the way out, becomes a full one on the way out.

Cafe Noir? you mean the shoe brand or something else?

vegemite not marmite (sorry, dh is half aus)
fairy liquid
heinz ketchup
neal's yard skincare
tea direct tea
colgate
de cecco pasta
andrex quilted loo paper (is quilted loo paper dreadfully Hycacinth Bucket? ah well)

dh insists on kellogg's rice krispies and sunpat peanut butter

I think that's it

won't touch lurpak but can't remember why , perhaps because prefer to buy British? tho I often buy French butter so that doesn't make much sense.

Am such a whore with loyalty cards etc that I don't think I am giving away any great secrets here (also, sometimes I think I quite WANT the marketers to know exactly what I like [naive emoticon])

heinz ketchup...everything else tastes bleugh
naturebaby nappies as they are the only ones that i know won't give ds2 nappy rash
lea & perrins clearly

that's it really. anything else I"ll mess with.

I must be a marketer's nightmare then because I have absolutely NO brand loyalty whatsoever. I am a complete brand tart- will change my mind on a whim.

In fact my children claim that the Value cornflakes from sainsbos taste way better than any other and are miffed if we succumb to an offer on branded ones.

Hellmans Mayo'
Tesco unscented baby wipes
Golden Olive
Dyson
Apple
Smirnoff vodka
Diet coke
Lexus
Birkenstock
Mini boden
Uniqlo +J
Uniqlo skinny jeans
Clarks school shoes
Bare Escentuals mineral makeup
Boots no. 7 moisturizers
Philip Kingsley hair products
L. Vuitton bags

Last not not least, Lil Lets tampons, nothing else compares and I've tried them all.

Neal's Yard skincare

Italian olive oil

Twinings teas

Clipper teas

Kikkoman soy sauce (very upset if can't find it)

Green and Blacks

Any fair trade South America coffee, Colombia and Peru my faves.

Salty butter - Welsh, Jersey or Brittany. Yum

Laundry stuff - whatever I can bulk buy or is on offer.

HSBC - the best bank ever
Mary Kay light coverage foundation

Mooncup - if you can be brand loyal to a product that lasts 10 years.

Apple Mac - I did once contemplate switching to a windows-based PC laptop for cost reasons but physically couldn't make myself do it.

I'd have said John Lewis for guarantee EXCEPT that I got a Denon hi-fi as special birthday treat there some years back, it had a fault and they mucked me about no end! Had to take it to independent shop in the end as we discovered it was covered under Denon's own guarantee and shouldn't have been sent off to the cowboy repairers that John Lewis used... Really dented my faith in them.

But re brands, I'd go with Heinz baked beans, and Clipper tea. Don't think there's much else I'm particular about...

Ariel non-bio
Lavazza
Dorset muesli
Total yogurt
Mooncup (but if I had to use an alternative ANYTHING but Tampax - they are utterly shit and I am perpetually amazed at their continuing existence)
Nature nappies, or failing that Huggies
Apple
Bionsen deodorant
Jason shampoos
Alverde Naturkosmetik (bargain euro drugstore organic skincare/beauty products)
Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser
Lipstick Queen lipsticks
Bourjois Coup de Pinceau concealer
Kickers shoes for DS - indestructible and so worth the £
Zara kids clothes
John Lewis and Waitrose

If someone could please make some maternity underwear that isn't minging I will gladly whore my brand loyalty your way.

Me
Coca-cola
Nivea Deodorant

DH
Heinz Tomato Ketchup (have bought others which have been rejected
Hellmann's mayonnaise (see above)

Cat
IAMS cat food. Turns nose up at cheaper imitations

General
Fairy non-bio washing powder (not sure why - started using it when DS was born and get big boxes of it. Think about changing but never do)

DS
Lego. My mum got some cheaper fake lego. Was not good

DD
Hello Kitty. Would like entire Hello Kitty range. This is not going to happen

Huggies nappies
PG Tips
Hellmans
Coca Cola

every one else woo me with your offers

PG Tips teabags
Heinz baked beans and ketchup
Readybrek
Dove deoderant
YSL Touche Elat
Elizabeth Arden 8 hour lip balm
Maybelline pressed powder
Goodies raisins

John Lewis & Waitrose
Heinz beans and ketchup
Lea & Perrins
Supermarket brand toilet roll
Huggies (hate Pampers with a passion)
Usually Colgate toothpaste
Playtex tampons from the US - nothing compares
Tylenol for kids and Advil for adults (ditto)
Ziploc bags (ditto)
Cravendale milk
Ritz crackers melt

Oh and Gap and Mini Boden for kids
My own clothes can come from Freecycle

Species totally agree with the Dove deodorant, I use the prescription strength variety available in America though

Biotex

the most amazing product ever made for getting clothes/sofa covers/anything clean. fantastic.

Benefit You Rebel tinted moisturiser - unfailingly makes me look a lot less shit in the mornings.

I mess around with absolutely everything else - even ketchup, baked beans and toothpaste!

Want to add more, but will stick to one other:

Schleich for plastic animals and dinos (essential of course)

Kelloggs cornflakes
Heinz beans
Heinz ketchup
Heinz tomato soup
Hp brown sauce
Koka noodles ( my guilty pleasure!)