What branded products can you not live without?

SCFC1961

Birds Eye cod fish fingers and their peas/petit pois - all other brands don't taste as good. Nicky loo rolls are the softest of the value brands.

Otherwise Smartprice and Basics are the ones for me.

frugal_shopper_2

I can't think of any branded products which I must have, I just tend to go for the best deal available at the time when buying things. I might reject something based on the ingredients but not the brand.

bessie1001

Soups - all have to be Heinz
Branston Beans (used to be Heinz but I'm now converted)
Heinz Ketchup
HP Sauce
Peter's Bakery bread rolls
Bisto Best Chicken Gravy
PG tips
Aldi tinned mushy peas
Aldi tinned garden peas - in water
Cravendale
Cadbury's Chocolate
Lift lemon tea
Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce
Schwartz Chilli Mix
Cadbury's drinking chocolate
Andrex toilet roll
Cif for bathrooms
Asda Light Salad cream
Valfrutta (costco) tinned tomatoes - in a thick sauce rather than a watery juice

everything else is down to what's on offer

recovering_spendaholic

Ilona wrote: »

Nescafe for me and Felix for the cats, everything else is negotiable, I buy on price. I shop at 7pm or later to get the last date reductions. I cook from scratch lots of vegetables, no ready meals or junk. I buy out of date food from a cash and carry. That's why I live as cheaply as I do. My name is not Meanqueen for nothing, I am a Super Scrimper. :rotfl:
Ilona

Where do you find cash and carry out of date food places?

AppleTurnover

For me it has to be......

Heinz ketchup
Sure deoderant (have tried so many others - end up smelling like a Russian cab driver!)
Clover

Most other things are negotiable.

TravellingAbuela

Kraft Garlic & Herb dressing - my salads just don't taste the same with anything else on.
Branston Beans (and to think I used to prefer Heinz!)
Laughing Cow cheese triangles
Flora lighter than light spread (the lowest fat spread I have found)

Apart from those few items I am more than happy to settle for Aldi or stores own brand.

Oh, an afterthought, Napolina tinned tomatoes - both cherry and plum!

fishooX

trail mix (no special brand)
fisherman's friend
high quality tea brands

raven83

Bold washing powder
Lenor (comfort smells nice in the bottle but crap on the clothes!)
Marmite
McCain Oven Chips
Anchor, countrylife or lurpack, don't like the others
Radox but only buy this when on offer

Everything else is whats on offer or whats cheapeast, i love asda 9p bags of 500g of penne pasta ( thought price sometimes goes up to 36p but even that is cheap) and their for bottles of fizz for £1.50, don't like value loo roll either its horrid.

reformedEffortmaker

finish dishwasher tablets - our dishwasher doesnt get the plates as clean with anything else???
clarks shoes - nothing else is as comfy
sensodyne toothpaste
ragu pasta sauce
colmans mustard
lurpak butter
branstons pickle
mcvities chocolate digestives
blackberry mobile phones

any japanese branded car

Glitzer

Heinz ketchup
Coca Cola - I buy this from Iceland, 3 litres for £1.50. Own brand or Pepsi just isn't nice and when I first got with my DH he even tried filling a coca cola bottle with Asda own thinking I didn't notice.
Sure deodrant
Radox
Maldon salt, need so little and I use cheap salt during cooking unless the toddler is eating it.
Kenco smooth coffee
Half decent wine. I always spend £5-7 in Tesco as it there are always offers. The offy does 2 or 3 for a tenner all of which just taste like vinegar.

I think pretty much everything else is value or the mid price supermarket own. Loo roll is never value and will be Andrex or Velvet when on offer.