Buying off name brands is not a mark of less then stellar food. If you are wise in what you choose then you will be enjoying great food at much less the cost.

Frozen vegetables are a great example of where the lower price brand is just as good as they higher priced one.  Since these are frozen at time of harvest not cooked as with can, they can be just as nutritous and yummy as those by the big names.

The same can be said for fresh produce, since with that you can pick which is the best.  Those two areas alone could make a significant dent in your budget.  Finding the cheapest food that taste as good as if not better than a known brand can be like finding extra money in your shopping cart.

When you take into account that off brand products don’t worry about advertsing, special prizes, or coupons to have you try them, their overall cost to produce the same products is less.  They just pass that savings on to us by having lower prices.

Now as a word of warning not all food and products we find on our shopping list can be easily replaced by off brands.  Some just don’t do the job that the more expensive brand name products do.  Since your individual taste will need to decide what ones work for you.

So next time your shopping and see that box next to your regular product pick it up and try it.  If it works great! if not the cost should be small enough to not matter.  Just remember that because one doesn’t work that they are all the same.  I have found a tiramsu that is better then I eat at a resturant and bigger (about triple) for about $3.00, at an off brand store.  So if you look you will find great food at even better prices.

Good Luck!