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I also like getting store-brand bottled water, if I need to get some. Giant has a 35 pack of Arcaida that is $2.99 for the pack, as opposed to a 24 pack of say, Dasani which was $4.99. Yep, gonna go w/ Giant brand.
Also the pasta sauce I had the past few times is better than Prego and Ragu, and a huge price difference. At Giant, their store brand sauce (with my Giant card) was 89 cents, and Ragu in the same jar was 2.79, Prego was 2.59 I think. and the sauce tasted JUST like Ragu if not better. Yum...definitely buying this more often.
I really like Aldi's version of Frosted Mini-wheats over Kellogg's.
a lot of aldis stuff is great. the other day my mom served her friends some baked potato chips that i had left there (purchased from aldi). the ladies were raving about it and desperate to know where they were from. i thought it was funny considering these are not the type of ladies that id expect would shop at aldi.
i get a lot of kirkland stuff. mostly, its because its much cheaper and as good as name brand. i believe my wife prefers the kirkland baby wipes over the name brand.
I usually buy store brands for most of my dairy products. About the only thing dairy wise that I always buy name brand is ice cream and yogurt.
When I lived in Texas, I shopped at HEB and I always bought their store brands for many things. They were really great. Even their soft drinks were good. I liked their private label version of Dr. Pepper better than the real thing.
So I'm sitting here eating a snack and it got me to thinking. What are some store brand items that you prefer over name brand?
What started me to thinking about this:
Kroger Brand dry roasted peanuts. To me they are ten times better than Planters dry roasted. I'm not quite sure why, I think it's the seasoning they use on the peanuts (it has paprika in it).
I bought a jar of the Planters peanuts and I'm sitting here wishing I had the Kroger brand ones.
i can't think of a store brand I prefer over name brands, but many we like as well.
When I lived in Switzerland, I used their store-brand pasta sauces. I could not find anything comparable back here in the US (both store-brand and name-brand pasta sauces.)
Kroger canned chicken and beef broth are better than Swanson's. We did a blind taste test, and we all agreed. Just warmed it and drank it straight - haven't bothered to buy the brand stuff ever since.
Kroger canned chicken and beef broth are better than Swanson's. We did a blind taste test, and we all agreed. Just warmed it and drank it straight - haven't bothered to buy the brand stuff ever since.
I use the Kroger Brand broth quite a bit too. I actually really like the Kroger Brand.
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