what brands won't you give up?

mrscb

mine are
Heinz beans
Hellmans mayo
Carte noire coffee
Finish Quantum dishwasher stuff
Listerine
Malibu
Wkd
Batchelors condensed tomato soup
Salted lurpak
Walkers ready salted crisps
and OH will only have fillet steak!!!!!!!!(not very often may I add:rolleyes:)

jenniewb

toomuchmess wrote: »

love the thread

ours our
heinz salad cream
hellmans mayonnise
nescafe coffee (other halfs)
birds eye peas-don't think these have been mentioned yet!
tried asdas,horrible,no one would eat them!
ds likes his cathedral city cheddar
pepsi max

oh and the cats prefer whiskers! elderly and fussy

i can't think of any others at mo,will give most non branded stuff
a go

At least your cat was not as bad as my mums last cat who would starve for many days, willingly if she did not get Sheba or another luxuary brand whose name I have forgotten. (I know, I looked after her one week and tried to feed her Whiskars for probably too long, before proving my mum right and feeling I had lost a battle of wills to a poddy-tat!)

She would however, break this fast if she was offered Mc Donalds Big Mac burgers.

Strange animal!

Birdy12

It's another vote for Heinz tomato ketchup and Heinz beans. Mainly because of OH. Branston baked beans are not the same!

Pepsi - again because of OH.

Fairy liquid - the bubbles from any other liquid disappear after washing 2 plates.

Cheerios - I tried my DS with the own brand alternative, however, he was having none of it.

Kerrygold//Anchor - for some reason, can't bring myself to buy supermarket own brand butter. Don't know why - I'm sure there's no difference whatsoever.

Same goes for toothpaste, have to buy a brand name. Which is ridiculous really as a dental hygienist, (who comes to the school I work at once a term for a 'fun' lesson on keeping teeth clean), told me that as long as the toothpaste contains an acceptable amount of fluoride (round about 1400 ppm), then any value range of toothpaste is good. Still want to see Colgate sitting in my bathroom though!

Happy to buy value range tinned tomatoes, kidney beans and sweetcorn. The kidney beans and sweetcorn are just as acceptable as other brands after a rinse.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

bex2002 wrote: »

got to be heinz tomato sauce and salad cream - nothing else will do!!

Me too...........

1carminestocky

Birdy12 wrote: »

It's another vote for Heinz tomato ketchup and Heinz beans. Mainly because of OH. Branston baked beans are not the same!

Pepsi - again because of OH.

Fairy liquid - the bubbles from any other liquid disappear after washing 2 plates.

Cheerios - I tried my DS with the own brand alternative, however, he was having none of it.

Kerrygold//Anchor - for some reason, can't bring myself to buy supermarket own brand butter. Don't know why - I'm sure there's no difference whatsoever.

Same goes for toothpaste, have to buy a brand name. Which is ridiculous really as a dental hygienist, (who comes to the school I work at once a term for a 'fun' lesson on keeping teeth clean), told me that as long as the toothpaste contains an acceptable amount of fluoride (round about 1400 ppm), then any value range of toothpaste is good. Still want to see Colgate sitting in my bathroom though!

Happy to buy value range tinned tomatoes, kidney beans and sweetcorn. The kidney beans and sweetcorn are just as acceptable as other brands after a rinse.

Did your DS know they were an alternative brand when you gave them him? Reason I ask is, OK not cereals, but my kids had always resisted any other brand of ketchup than Heinz when the Asda or whatever bottle appeared in the middle of the table. They used it but forever moaned. It got to me so much because i was convinced they were esentially tasting by vision (it's a powerful thing hence why the brand names are always so elegantly packaged). That's when I hit on the idea of decanting the sainsbugs basics ketchup (75% cheaper!) into the Heinz bottle and waited for them to moan. and waited. And waited. Nothing. No reaction at all. Then after a good while of this happening, I placed th actual sainsbugs basics bottle in the middle of the table and they reacted as normal - until I told them that was the ketchup they had been using for ages! :rotfl: Result? 2 deflated teenage brand snobs. cured.

stressedaah30

heinz baked beans and hp brown sauce and nescafe carte noir coffee
everything else im willing and regulay buy shops own and value brands

Glpark01

Heinz ketchup/salad cream/bbq sauce anything else bring my little boy out in a rash on his face, persil or ariel and comfort or lenor for washing as anything else reacts with oh and my little boy, decent coffee, fairy for washing up as i find anything else runs out quicker and doesn't clean as well. Apart from that im happy to change to whatever is on offer, i find wilkinsons and poundland good for my shampoo etc as i get decent brands but cheaper although hubby always uses aussie for his hair care, i prefer boot own baby wipes over branded and im prefering sainsburys little ones nappies over pampers atm.

L.L_2

Heinz tomato soup, everything else I am sure I could change. I haven't found any tin of soup to taste even near this!

before_hollywood

i have to have decent beans and sausages of all things, the cheap sausages in the beans and sausages are vile :eek:

also any type of personal hygeine thing- soap, shower gel etc has to be a named one
original source shower gel
dove soap
wash and go shampoo

wheretheresawill

Branded:
Heinz tomato ketchup
fairy liquid ( its comforting knowing it works!!!)
Coca cola (all varieties)
Quaker oats - sainsburys and asda not as nice
Dolmio lasagne white sauce - hated the sainsburys one
Frusli red berries - not found an alternative yet
Heinz tomato soup
Quorn
I do enjoy cadburys a little too much as well!

Everything else I've managed to go down a brand ......even tampons which made me nervous but tesco & sainsburys & asda were fine and a LOT cheaper or use basics unless the branded stuff is on offer and works out cheaper