Brand name or store brand?

[jjdward]

What are some things that you and your family have to have the "name brand" of? Mine are:
Blue Plate Mayo
Kraft Cheese

My other "pet peeve" is milk. I don't have to have brand name but I just can't drink milk if it is close to being old.

 

[Bedste]

some store brands taste watered down....some don't. I will try anything once.. but that is it.
Helmans Mayo.... Ice Cold Cold MILK.... and noname unsalted real butter.... o yea and REAL half and half with my REAL coffee.....

 

[Southernbelle]

Heintz ketchup
Cattlemans BBQ sauce
Claussen dill pickles
Mountain Dew
Cheerios
Rice Krispies
Marie's Thousand Island Dressing
Duke's Mayo

DH insists on Texas Pete hot sauce

Everything else is generic: canned fruits and veggies, flour, sugar, pastas, other cereals, soda, snacks, milk, juice, spices, medicine etc...

 

[Whispering Winds]

Folger's Coffee
Miracle Whip
KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, one or the other

That is about all I can think of, because most of the store brands are pretty good. I like good ketchup, but found that Aldi's is pretty darn good, and so much cheaper.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I have to have real Pop-tarts. Other than that, I'm not too picky. DH is definitely better at telling taste differences between brands than I am.

 

[DuckLady]

Folgers or Pleasant Valley Farms coffee
Kraft Mayo
Campbell's soup
Sweet Baby Rays
Orville Redenbachers popcorn

Ditto on the PopTarts.

The ducks prefer the store brand cheerios, but will eat real Cheerios if they are on sale.

 

[goobhen]

KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Hellman's Mayo
International Coffee Creamer, no generics!
Coffee Mate
generic wheat bread okay
no generic white bread though
Dawn dishwashing liquid, allergic to some generics, don't want to figure which ones! Rash on arms, no more!!
Shampoo, doesn't matter, love Sauve!
no generic toilet paper, except for Meijers premium brand is fine!
Some generic cereal okay, others forget it.

Most things I will do store brand, love Marsh 2% or 1% milk, don't like Dean's


My other "pet peeve" is milk. I don't have to have brand name but I just can't drink milk if it is close to being old.[
are you sure you are not my DH's long lost sister? He is the same way!! Theresa

 

[MandyH]

Pepsi
Luzianne
Bama
Borden cheese slices
Blue Bell homemade vanilla

 

[Camelot Farms]

Tide
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
PopTarts
Hellmans Mayo
Jif PB (for baking, sandwiches can be generic)

 

[Hippie Chickie]

Lay's potato chips with ridges. I got the store brand once on sale and ended up throwing them away.

I figure that since I only buy them a few times a year I might as well get the real thing.