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21. Got to have good toilet paper. You buy the cheap and youll either go through.........you know what I mean, or your behind will break out!LOL.........use a coupons and buy on sale ! 22. I won't buy store brand potato chips and colas, although I don't buy those often to begin with. For baking, I absolutely will not buy store brand chocolate chips and flour. The quality has never been good enough for me. 23. I cannot use store brand toilet paper, oreos or cereal. Certain store do have high quality products. I can deal with Krogers's Big K soda. 24. WELL I AM AN OLD BIRD SET IN MY WAYS BUT I DO HAVE MY FAVS.EGGO WAFFLES A MUST.KRAFT LITE SALAD DRESSING, BREYERS I/2 THE FAT ICE CREAM VANILLA AND STRAWBERRY.AND LEMON SCENTED PINE SOL. I DILUTE IT AND USE IT IN ALL MY TOILETS ITS A SMELL SAVER,FRESH AND CLEAN, USED IT FOR YEARS ALL THE OTHER STUFF IS SO EXPENSIVVE THIS IS SO ECONOMICOL.ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY FOR A SWEETNER. INSTEAD OF SUGAR.AND FOLGERS COFFEE AND THEIR FLAVORED COFFEE,,, A LUXURY 25. Consuming only organic products is not "pretentious" - it is healthier. Trader Joe's store brand products are more trustworthy as far as quality of ingredients and the prices are not outrageous - considering the value they provide. If you read labels, you will see that canned veggies have a great deal of sodium as do canned soups. Frozen veggies (TJ brand) have very little sodium as do TJ soups. 26. Well, another minor controversy involving personal bias. This is the kind of commentary that is interesting to read as long as noone starts a fight. 27. It's pretty funny, but I work for a company that makes the powder that goes on some of those store brand "cheese curls" that you talk about and I see a lot from THIS side of the grocery aisle. There are companies out there that want to sell you the CHEAPEST (not the most INEXPENSIVE, mind you, but cheap) products possible so they can make a buck off of you through their store brands. Look for "whey" and "maltodextrin" to be pretty high on their ingredient declarations that are used as fillers. Then there are those store brands that are willing to put forth a bit of their resources and ask us to formulate some very decent products that don't add as many fillers and flavors. 28. I shop primarily at Safeway, and their store line is usually great. Better tasting many times! I also love their organic line. 29. I prefer store brands at Publix. They have very good quality. I also buy walmart brand cola. 30. Another Trader Joe's house brand loyalist here. Amongst my favorites: their 28-oz. cans of whole, peeled Roma tomatoes with basil (no salt) for $.99, the crunchy peanut butter (peanuts and salt only, NOTHING else), and the organic broths in asceptic boxes (chicken and vegetable). One actually has to work hard to find high fructose corn syrup and/or partially hydrogenated oils in most TJ's products. 31. i like the pc ice cream at fred meyer (kroger) their mint chocolate chip is the oly store brand that has flaked chocolate like baskin robbins. but it has to be heinz, jif, and charmin or nothing...... safeway's sodas are pretty good, and i love wild oats sandwich cookies- lemon or chocolate. 32. Hellman's mayo, real Oreos, Yuban coffee. 33. There are two items where I'll only buy store brands: dishwasher detergent ("Great Value" from Sprawl-Mart is truly astonishing, and is dirt-cheap) and paper towels (Costco's Brawny knock-off). Laundry detergent is a non-starter; I've yet to find anything that gets out grease on cotton knit polo shirts like Liquid Tide HE, even when I'm a little neglectful in the pretreating. I will not buy store-brand flour - it's usually not as consistent as King Arthur. I would sooner die of dehydration than drink store-brand soda - they usually lack much body/flavor depth, and there's no way in heck that I'm going to even *consider* store-brand ice creams - as a rule, they are ridiculously lean, high-overrun (fluffy) and have a lower level of variegates than bigger brands. They're intended for people who need to feed a gaggle of kids cheap. Blech. Oddly, I will eat store-brand novelties, because since the decline of the Ben & Jerry's Brownie Sandwich, there's really not a multi-unit-pack high-end ice cream sandwich worth eating. 34. Hellman's/Best Foods! 35. I agree with peanut butter, although for me it has to be the Smucker's all-natural. My favorite is the creamy, no-salt-added kind, although it leaves me wondering if I can't just make it myself with a bunch of peanuts and a blender. 36. dear julie, 37. All these people who love Oreos...sigh...I miss Hydrox... 38. Store-brand copies of Cheerios fall apart into a disgusting oat-slime instantly in milk. 39. there are just over a handful of products that are "must haves" that i won't substitute: heinz ketchup, helmann's (best foods) mayo, cheerios, ziploc baggies, temptee cream cheese, and coca cola. anything else, i'm amenable to cheaper versions, store products, or just preparing them at home. i look at reviews, ingredients, other people's opinions, etc, but just won't compromise those few :) 40. Oh and just one more item, lol...soap! it definitely has to be ZEST....nothing else will do, Zest is the only soap out there thet never leaves that filmy tight dry feeling on your skin yuck!!! and since I do have sensitive skin it's the only soap that doesn't leave me itching all over, ahh and most shampoos are ok, some off brands are just as good, but the off brand Conditioners tend to dry your hair out, as well as your scalp, I'm picky with my conditioner and some shampoos. |
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