https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:27:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213865 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:46:00 +0000 artsyfartsy 1213865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. I buy walmart brand for almost everything. I find it usually tastes the same! There are a few things I refuse to buy not name brand just because I've tried before and it tastes like crap!</p> <p>I find that Great Value usually has less "unknown" ingredients in it versus brand name. Surprising. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213864 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:45:32 +0000 lamariniere 1213864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do. In general, there is way less selection here than in the US, for example, you might have 3 brands if milk instead if 10. I try to buy as much organic as possible and there are only a handful of organic brands. However, my local grocery store makes tons of store brand organics, so I buy those. Sometimes the store brand organic is the only organic of a particular type of product like milk or butter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213819 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:32:54 +0000 LovelyPlum 1213819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: @mrs. bird: lol, pretty sure I cannot be converted on the Heinz (or if I were, I don't know that I could admit it out loud). Eating something other than Heinz is considered sacrilege in our family ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213474 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:43:24 +0000 JerricaBenton 1213474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only Wegman's or Whole Foods because I know them to be good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213459 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:39:32 +0000 shinymama 1213459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Market Pantry {Target} and Trader Joe's for the win! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213453 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:37:33 +0000 jmarionsmith 1213453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>all day long. especially target brand. but i love some kroger peanut butter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213443 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:34:55 +0000 regberadaisy 1213443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: noooooooooooooooo *sadface* Why did you tell me that. I was planning on living in oblivion with my Heinz. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213441 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:34:12 +0000 mrs. bird 1213441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: no, heinz has high fructose corn syrup, yucky! trader joe's is actually really tasty &amp; doesn't have any yucky ingredients, i've even converted SO who is a ketchup snob :) </p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: ooooo, yes! i forgot about peanut butter! i want to like natural PB... but i don't, it just doesn't do anything for me, i LOVE me some jif! SO was supposed to buy PB recently &amp; bought store brand, it was so gross, i made him eat it and bought my own jar of jif ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213410 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:28:02 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1213410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some items like Publix flour or cheese or Archer Farms dips and spreads. But, ketchup is spelled Heinz and peanut butter is spelled JIF in my house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213404 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:24:52 +0000 regberadaisy 1213404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: oh, no, no. Only Heinz Ketchup. Only. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213392 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:19:27 +0000 mrs. bird 1213392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: trader joe's ketchup is the best!! i love their brand of almost everything! </p> <p>i do for some things and not for others. often i can get brand name for much less than the generic when i shop sales with coupon match ups, but if i need something right then and neither is on sale, i often go with the generic. almost all of our medicine cabinet is generic, again unless i get it for next to nothing with coupons. i do not buy generic chocolate chips, bread, soda, cheerios, pie crust dough, or frozen veggies, but pretty much all other foods i'm open to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213382 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:14:06 +0000 regberadaisy 1213382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both. Depending on sale and coupons store brand isn't always the cheapest! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213372 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:08:18 +0000 LomaLinda 1213372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookish: we love HEB brand too!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213369 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:07:41 +0000 lindseykaye 1213369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: Yes! This is so true!!</p> <p>We have a mix at our house. I used to buy the store brand more frequently (Publix is great quality) but after starting to use coupons a few years back I found that sales+coupons were cheaper than the store brand. So, when I have a sale and coupon it's brand name, when I don't it's Publix for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213356 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:01:34 +0000 psw27 1213356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we do a mix! I prefer some of the Archer Farms (Target) stuff! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213355 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:01:27 +0000 IRunForFun 1213355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes. I really like that my usual grocery store has their own generic line of organic products now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213348 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:58:41 +0000 Dandelion 1213348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I buy a mix. Some things I'm a brand-snob about, but most things I have no problem getting store brand...especially things like baking ingredients. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213346 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:58:27 +0000 LovelyPlum 1213346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: This is often the case for us, too, but there are a few things I have noticed a huge difference in with store vs. brand names. One is marshmallows-we usually buy brand name, because I think the other ones taste stale. Another is brown sugar-I don't think off-brand brown sugar packs as well or incorporates as well when baking. But for flour and regular sugar, I'm store brand all the way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213338 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:54:54 +0000 MsLipGloss 1213338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We buy a fair bit of Publix and Target brand foods! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213304 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:39:20 +0000 LuLu Mom 1213304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's a mix over here, I can't give up on my Heintz ketchup or Progresso soup. But I've switched mostly everything else to store brands, I can't tell the difference and neither can my family. I figure this helps balance out our free range meat/chicken. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213297 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:37:25 +0000 Bao 1213297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup! There are a couple things I don't like store brand of, but I'd say 75% is store brand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213292 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:35:31 +0000 Bookish 1213292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yeah. I &lt;3 HEB brand stuff!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213271 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:22:11 +0000 Ash 1213271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The majority of stuff we buy is name brand... At least 75%. I used to always buy store brand by dh tells me he notices a difference. Poo. I'm all about the coupons though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213251 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:16:53 +0000 autumnlove 1213251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH does! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213205 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:02:31 +0000 Mae 1213205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We shop at trader joes so almost everything is "store brand." At traditional grocery stores I am a bit choosier about what we buy store brand vs. brand. If it is an ingredient-type item usually store brand. If it is a finished product (like, chips) I usually buy brand name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213199 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:00:22 +0000 Corduroy 1213199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I usually at least try the generic. </p> <p>Professionally, I've developed lots of products that are exactly the same as the name brand. The give away is usually the packaging. If the packaging is the same size and shape as the name brand product is usually produced by the same company (although not necessarily the same formula or quality). Sometimes the store brands even have higher standards than the name brands (I'm looking at you Costco). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213185 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:55:01 +0000 pui 1213185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I almost always buy the "no name" brand. There are a few things I think it's worth the extra buck or two for the name brand, but most of the no name brand stuff is just as good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213184 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:54:58 +0000 nana87 1213184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends on the store. Wegman's for sure when we would shop there when we lived in DC! Also if we're at Whole Foods we buy their brand. We mostly have our groceries delivered via Fresh Direct, which we order online, and they don't really have their own brand except for things like dried fruit and nuts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213183 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:54:51 +0000 mrsbookworm 1213183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also love wegman's brand. I buy a lot of their stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-buy-store-brand-food#post-1213176 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:52:27 +0000 mrsjyw 1213176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep- for random items that I need </p>