Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

vintagerog

Try Morrison's Brittany butter with salt crystals. Yum.

Doc_N

vintagerog wrote: »

Have you tried Bahlsen chocolate half coated butter biscuits. Now try Lidl's Sondkey, same product at half the price, and I swear they're nicer!

I'll vouch for that. Except that they're no nicer. Exactly the same in every respect (apart from the pattern on the chocolate).

The ingredients are absolutely identical, and even the codes on the packaging are identical. Obviously made in the same factory to the same recipe.

vic.star

If you like kinder happy hippos/bueno, you'll love Aldi's Spirals. It's 99p for a pack of 6/7 (i'be forgotten) but they taste just as nice and cheaper than the beuno

Also agree on the tom soup, always have bought the value range as i find heinz very sweet and sore on the throat.

Aldi's mayonnaise in a squeezy tube is also just as good as hellmans too.

robarnold_

Two disguised goods I found a while ago were Boots own paracetamol and Ibuprofen. Who seriously pays for Nurofen when the money that can be saved on a cheaper alternative is huge!

Take their 'Value Health' range in white and red boxes. Their 500mg Paracetamol for 16 caplets is only 16p! Boots own (with the Boots logo on) 500mg Paracetamol caplets (for 16) are 45p.


Now, even the Boots own brand is a huge saving on the price of Anadin (£1.45 for 16), but the 'Value Health' range is produced in the same factory as the Boots own brand. And Paracetamol is just Paracetamol. Do you think the NHS buys Anadin?

Keep those eyes peeled!

Flibsey

I always go for generic painkillers, cleaning products, and mostly for breakfast cereals. most of the time we will try a generic product and if we like it, we switch. there's not much more we can downshift on. I don't like sainsbury's baked tinned spaghetti, but love their beans. none of us like waitrose essentials beans, asda's own beans, tesco's etc, so it's sainsbury's or heinz.
the only thing I'd love to see is a generic lactose free milk. I'm not talking about a milk alternative, I am talking about cow juice with the sugars removed. the whole family are lactose intollerant, and we use Arla's Lactofree (works out cheaper than a lot of the milk alternatives anyway, I can't have soya and the non soya alternatives are expensive)... but it'd be lovely to spend less on that lol.
and since trying generic bread, we all decided that actually, all of us prefer home made so I try to find deals on flour rather than bread. I can now knock out a loaf for an average of about 50-60p. and it's a big loaf. I've not weighed one, but it fills a 2l casserole dish lol.
when I started making bread, I tried using dried active yeast in the sachets and i worked out terrible, but Allinson yeast in a small yellow tin works out cheaper per loaf, and works better. weird. I always thought yeast was yeast.

I tend to shop for mostly economy brand veg too. i's a bit ugly, but I don't care what it looks like and I wish supermarkets would realise there's so many people out there like me!!!

jenniewb

I don't know if they still do, but Boots used to make Neurofen. They were the same brand but this I was told about 10 years ago. To be honest though, Boots Ibuprofen is the most expensive generic brand and not that much cheaper then Nurofen, there are far cheaper versions out there.

ger27

Worked for a company that made baked products (muffins) for several well known supermarkets.They were NOT the same. All "names" had their own recipes and specified the quality of ingredients. The Coop specified free range egg for example.

In this case anyway,YOU GOT WHAT YOU PAID FOR.

patman99

Watchdog did a good expose of the pharmed industry. They compared Nurofen & Nurofen Express & found they were identical so would work the same. The speed of effect is purely mental as you think 'express' means faster acting.
The secret is to look at the license number for the drug you are buying. If this is identical across both branded & unbranded, then it IS the same drug.

richmond78

hi there i used to work in a youngs fish factory and they used to make fish cakes for tesco asda kwik save ,nisa also crab sticks and frozen prawns for the major super markets :T

Oasis1

moxxy-girl wrote: »

Sorry if this already posted - but Berocca soluble vitamin tablets in the tube are around £4.50 in Boots.
Sainsbury's , Tesco both do same tablets with EXACTLY same ingredients , but slightly different flavour for around £2. And the Bodycare chain do their's for under £2! :T:T

Berocca 15 packs are now around £4 in supermarkets (e.g. ASDA). However, I've found Amazon to sell them much cheaper - for example, one seller prices 4 x 15tablet packs at under £10. That's less than £2.50 each delivered to your door!

Will check out the Bodycare chain though! :j