There’s no substitute for ……

marmite

The only branded food I buy is kellogs cornflakes

Tiptree tomato sauce.

Hellmann’s mayonnaise.

PG tips

We did try a cheaper loo paper but have gone back to Andrex, I buy in large bags which is cheaper per sheet but still more expensive.
Good meat we have tried supermarkets own and can manage through the week but at weekends it has to be Independent butchers.
We always bought Illy coffee beans but have been using Sainsbutys fair trade and we like them better.

Yorkshire tea, Mornflake oats - and Nuts about Nature peanut butter (the KG tub).

Me

Maris Pipers

Husband's requests

Frank Cooper's Original Marmalade
Waitrose toilet rolls
Dove soap

Both of us

Cortado coffee pods
Smoked bacon
Waitrose Chorizo sausages
Heinz beans
M&S Chicken Kiev

Oh forgot he must have Scots Porridge Oats as opposed to Quaker Porridge, or any other for that matter.

I agree, Marmite.

I used to only drink Yorkshire Tea but have become less picky of late.

I'm realising my needs are quite modest compared to husband's he also insists of Fairy washing up liquid, complained when I tired to palm him off with some cheap substitute such as Morning Fresh, what can I say though he's pretty much the washer upper in our house. Everything gets washed before it goes in the dishwasher, but that's a whole different thread that has been covered in depth

Is there any susbstitute for Marmite apart from that Vegemite stuff they eat in Australia ?

Biscuitmuncher This thread isn't about branded foods. It is about foods we could not do without.

To marmite I would add, High welfare organic meat, we manage the expense by eating smaller portions.

Bread. My main comfort food. I need to eat less of it and manage this by only buying 100% wholemeal which I like less.

Definitely Marmite for me too. I have tried various 'own' brand substitutes over the years, but it's got to be the original. I buy it in big tubs from Costco.

I thought it was about the brands!

Hellmans
PG Tips
Nairn porridge
Andrex
Kleenex
Cadbury's wholenut

New potatoes and other veg harvested from your garden and cooked/used within a couple of hours.

Fresh pesto as opposed to that yucky stuff in jars

I have only ever liked Branston Pickle - no other make of pickle. But Mr R once picked up a jar of smaller diced BP and I found I liked that better.
I also only eat Royal Gala eating apples.
Other than that I am not fussy!

I’ve just thought of another two -HP sauce and Lea and Perrins sauce, nothing else I’ve tried tastes the same at all, they are all too sweet.

The OP mentions brands. I thought Marmite was a brand

Heinz tomato soup, especially when I’m poorly. I know it’s a ridiculous price but no other tomato soup will do,

M0nica it’s all about the brands. The OP says “Have you got any ‘no substitute’ brands that you really don’t want to live without?”

I speed read it too Blossoming!
So, sweetex sweeteners, Worcestershire sauce (as Casdon said), Nizoral shampoo and that’s about it.

I used to think no other cocoa but Bournville. Then Tescos stopped having it, I was forced to try their own make.

Liked it better, and £1 cheaper.

my branded items are

haywards pickled red cabbage
branston fruity sauce
warburtons blue bread

the cabbage i buy 12 jars in my monthly shopping.