“It was all just Red Leicester to me!” - Leeds locals reflect on value ranges at supermarkets - video Dailymotion

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Many supermarkets now offer their own budget brands to help shoppers save money. What do you think of these cheaper alternatives - are they just as good as the big-name brands, or do you notice a difference?

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00:00I tend to go to an Avda, which is local, and they have their own yellow brand, and I can't fault it.

00:06I had a piece of, a joint of beef that was as good as any I've had.

00:10You can have, like, the most cheapest of ingredients, genuinely,

00:14and yet you can produce, like, exquisite, like, mac and cheese, for example.

00:18I've experienced this with, um, well, I think it's Sainsbury's I had this,

00:21with, like, their Taste the Difference cheese, I think it was.

00:24They had two cheeses out in front of you.

00:26One was Sainsbury's brand, and one was, like, Taste the Difference or something,

00:30and I genuinely, I had both.

00:31I'm not even joking, absolutely no difference.

00:33It was all, it was all just red Leicester to me.

00:35I do actually go to Morrisons, and I use Savers a lot.

00:38There's a lot of Savers products there, which are a lot cheaper than, actually, other main brands,

00:42and, for example, Morrisons do their own, um, soups as well,

00:46and their soups are much cheaper than Heinz's,

00:48and I saw a survey recently online that said that Heinz's tomato soup is a very good soup,

00:53but it said Morrison's was better than theirs.

00:55It's usually, like, sauce and stuff that I get,

00:57you know, like, ketchup and brown sauce, whatever, that's it.

“It was all just Red Leicester to me!” - Leeds locals reflect on value ranges at supermarkets

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