Cheaper than the real thing

If you didn't know better, could you really tell a Lion bar from a Roar or Kit Kat from a copycat?

Some people refuse anything but brand-name goods, turning their nose up at supermarket knock-offs, but can you really tell the difference?

It's not unheard of for sneaky individuals to buy the supermarket version of a product and when they get home 'repackage' it in a branded box for the benefit of the brand snob, who is none the wiser.

Looks the same, feels the same but does it taste the same?

Much to the ire of the brands, supermarkets are now even nobbling their packaging now too, making their product look deceptively similar to the upmarket brand's.

Supermarket own brand goods are usually much cheaper – often up to 25% - so it can be worth downgrading and experimenting really is the way forward.

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The most popular supermarket own brand products, such as toothpaste, tea, bread, butter and more, have replaced the big brands for a large percentage of us, but there have been a few rude awakenings too with inferior products too.

With some things there's no room for compromise

For many there are some things that have to be the big brand or nothing. Baked beans and ketchup must be Heinz and coffee must be reassuringly more expensive than the own brand – no names but one particular £1 jar on a skint week still makes me shudder, although I did still use it all in true cheapskate style.

A recent taste-testing experiment with wine also yielded some interesting results. The blind test at Edinburgh Science Festival found that wine costing less than £5 a bottle can have the same effect on the palate as those priced up to six times as much.

The experiment saw 578 members of the public correctly identify the "cheap" or "expensive" wines only 50% of the time.

It just goes to show it's worth having a go with downgrading your brands and potentially saving yourself some money.

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