How to know if supermarket brand products are up to those of the brand? We reveal how to find the best your own brand offers without compromising taste.
Staying up to date with the cost of food as a student is difficult. But, buying many brand products in your weekly store will significantly increase your food bill.
We have gathered our heads to list all the best brand alternatives to these brand articles, so you don’t have to do it!
In the end, we have also included total prices to compare all supermarkets with brand items.
The best your own brand supermarket products
These are the best supermarket brand offers:
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Ketchup tomato
Heinz Ketchup: £ 3.40, 460g (£ 0.74/100g)
Sometimes, there is nothing like Heinz. Or is there?
With a fairly high price at £ 3.40 for a bottle of 460 g, this can delay it.
We have listed below the cheapest options of other supermarkets for their own brand ketchup versions of your own brand.
Heinz’s best ketchup alternatives
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.82, 540g (£ 0.15/100g)
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.87, 550g (£ 0.16/100g)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 1.00, 550g (£ 0.18/100g)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.82, 460g (£ 0.18/100g)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 0.95, 470g (£ 0.20/100g)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.90, 450g (£ 0.20/100g).
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Mayonnaise
The true mayonnaise of Hellmann J: £ 2.49, 430ml (£ 0.58/100ml)
We are Hellmann fans. But, honestly, we believe that it cannot try much difference between this and the brand version of a supermarket.
It can be worth buying Hellmann if you are in a special offer or in Poundland, for example, but at a total price, we believe it would be better to go to one of the following.
Best Hellmann mayonnaise alternatives
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.79, 500 ml (£ 0.16/100ml)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.75, 450 ml (£ 0.17/100ml)
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.95, 500 ml (£ 0.19/100ml)
- Morrisons brand: £ 1.25, 500 ml (£ 0.25/100ml)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 1.25, 500 ml (£ 0.25/100ml)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 1.40, 450ml (£ 0.31/100ml).
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Baked beans
Heinz Baked Beans: £ 1.40, 415g (£ 3.37/kg)
There are really no beans like Heinz. But if you are a student with a budget, £ 1.40 A is not affordable.
We have traveled the rest of the supermarkets to find the cheapest similar beans. Maybe you can try them all and find your favorite?
The best baked beans alternatives with Heinz
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.27, 410g (£ 0.66/kg)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.27, 410g (£ 0.66/kg)
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.28, 420g (£ 0.67/kg)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.28, 420g (£ 0.67/kg)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.27, 400g (£ 0.68/kg)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 0.55, 420g (£ 1.31/kg).
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Flour
McDougalls Flat flour: £ 1.65, 1.1 kg (£ 1.50/kg)
Does brand flour really make a difference in your baking?
We always buy the cheapest flour, since the back ingredients seem to be the same. You can help you save money when you pancakes with your floor.
Better A Pride HomePride smooth flour alternatives
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.70, 1.5 kg (£ 0.47/kg)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.70, 1.5 kg (£ 0.47/kg)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.79, 1.5 kg (£ 0.53/kg)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.79, 1.5 kg (£ 0.53/kg)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.79, 1.5 kg (£ 0.53/kg)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 0.85, 1.5 kg (£ 0.57/kg).
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Chopped tomatoes
Napolina chopped tomatoes: £ 1, 400 g (£ 2.50/kg)
We love a rich tomato sauce when making spaghetti bolognese. But does it matter if your chopped tomatoes are marked or not?
From experience, we have discovered that using a cheaper can of chopped tomatoes makes the trick when adding a tablespoon of tomato puree for wealth.
Best napoline chopped tomato alternatives
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.39, 400g (£ 0.98/kg)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.39, 400g (£ 0.98/kg)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.39, 400g (£ 0.98/kg)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.49, 400g (£ 1.23/kg)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.55, 400 g (£ 1.38/kg)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 0.70, 400g (£ 1.75/kg).
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Salsa folder
Loyd Grossman Pasta Salsa: £ 3.75, 660g (£ 0.57/100g)
Pasta sauce can always be done to know better with some herbs and spices.
If you want to make a tomato -based dish, we suggest you use chopped tomatoes for a more profitable meal.
Best Layd Grossman’s pasta sauce alternatives
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.47, 440g (£ 0.11/100g)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.47, 440g (£ 0.11/100g)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.47, 440g (£ 0.11/100g)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.47, 440g (£ 0.11/100g)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.50, 440g (£ 0.11/100g)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 1.00, 340g (£ 0.29/100g).
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Chocolate
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate: £ 1.49, 110 g (£ 1.36/100g)
It is difficult to compare any chocolate with milk milk. However, the price seems to be up and up, which makes it less affordable for students to buy regularly.
Fortunately, you can make great savings by obtaining the supermarket’s own brand chocolate.
Better Chocolate with Dairy Milk
- Own brand Aldi: £ 0.49, 100 g (£ 0.49/100g)
- Morrisons brand: £ 0.49, 100 g (£ 0.49/100g)
- Tesco own brand: £ 0.49, 100 g (£ 0.49/100g)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 0.58, 100 g (£ 0.58/100g)
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 0.60, 100 g (£ 0.60/100g)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 2.00, 180g (£ 1.11/100g).
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Cheese
Cathedral City Cheddar: £ 3.50, 350g (£ 1.00/100g)
There is something quite pleasant in having toasted cheese with cathedral city.
But, if you are looking to cut some cents from your grocery store, you may have to reconsider. Here is how much I could save.
The best cheese alternatives in the city of the Cathedral
- Sainsbury’s own brand: £ 3.25, 600g (£ 0.54/100g)
- ASDA OWN BRAND: £ 4.50, 750g (£ 0.60/100g)
- Own brand Aldi: £ 2.49, 400g (£ 0.62/100g)
- WAITROSE OWN BRAND: £ 3.95, 550g (£ 0.72/100g)
- Tesco own brand: £ 3.00, 400 g (£ 0.75/100g)
- Morrisons brand: £ 2.80, 350g (£ 0.80/100g).
Best supermarket brand ranges
The price is added by weight/volume of all brand items reaches £ 11.62. This is how the price of brand items with supermarket brand ranges is compared:
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Aldi own brand
In general, Aldi came out as the cheapest for his own brand products. When buying all these essential elements of the closet, the total price by weight/volume was £ 3.69.
That means you can save around 68% by exchanging brand products (above) with the versions of Aldi’s own brand, a great savings!
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Tesco own brand
Tesco has some great offers, often coinciding (or even overcoming) Aldi prices.
Looking for the price by weight/volume of the previous products, Tesco brand products are added £ 3.85.
And if you are buying in Tesco, look for ClubCard prices in case you can get greater savings.
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Sainsbury’s own brand
Sainsbury’s own brand products in this guide have a price combined by weight/volume of £ 3.87.
In general, Sainsbury’s can be a rather expensive supermarket. But, we have noticed that their own brand ranges are often quite affordable (especially their Cheddar cheese!).
Similar to Tesco, see if any of your Sainsbury groceries can be bought for less with nectar prices.
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Asda own brand
While you can get good offers in Asda, your own brand products are not always the cheapest.
The total price by weight/volume of ASDA products in this guide was £ 4.14making this the fourth cheapest supermarket on the list.
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Own morrisons brand
Morrisons has really surprised us!
When looking at all its own brand prices, the store was quite expensive, in £ 4.27 For the total cost of price by weight/volume of the products.
We will have to leave the taste test … Do you think it is worth it?
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Own waithrose brand
In general, the range of Waitrose brands worked as the most expensive of the supermarkets we have compared here. £ 6.26 It was the total price by weight/volume of the listed products.
Your own brand versions can still help you save money compared to the purchase of brand products.
But, that said, you can spend less on your weekly food store by changing to a cheaper supermarket like Aldi.
Do you need more tips? Try the descending change of the supermarket.
