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It is a mix in my house. My son knows the difference and has a clear preference on certain things, so for that I buy what he likes.

I often buy the CVS brand, too!

Its a mix for me! For instance generic cheerios are gross! I like the real ones only!

Also I read not too long ago that Target's Market Pantry line was VERY close in taste to Hellmans Mayo and Heniz ketchup! Some even preferred the Target brand. Mayo is like $4 here which is crazy so I plant to buy the Target one next time!

Everything generic for us. I get frustrated when there isn't a generic of something.

I do. I buy a mix of both.

Yep- for random items that I need

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.

I usually at least try the generic.

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).

DH does!

Oh yeah. I HEB brand stuff!!

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.

@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.

Sometimes. I really like that my usual grocery store has their own generic line of organic products now!

@Corduroy: Yes! This is so true!!

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.

Both. Depending on sale and coupons store brand isn't always the cheapest!

@mrs. bird: oh, no, no. Only Heinz Ketchup. Only.

@locavore_mama: no, heinz has high fructose corn syrup, yucky! trader joe's is actually really tasty & doesn't have any yucky ingredients, i've even converted SO who is a ketchup snob

@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 & bought store brand, it was so gross, i made him eat it and bought my own jar of jif

all day long. especially target brand. but i love some kroger peanut butter.

Only Wegman's or Whole Foods because I know them to be good.

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.