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I buy Aldi spreadable butter, as well as their blocks of Welsh butter and pay about £3.50 for one of each... and can't fault either one of them. If I bought the same stuff "branded" in any of the larger supermarkets, I'd be paying almost double that.

Likewise, I'm rather fond of the HP Fruity sauce... £2.50 a bottle or more... Supermarket branded variety... tastes the same, £1.10 a bottle.

I've switched from branded stuff to Aldi own brands a lot since the COL crisis a few years ago, that is still ongoing.... Not noticed a single drop in quality. But even Aldi have hiked their prices a lot. Frozen beer battered haddock used to be £3.19, is now £4.79, fresh quality sausages used to be £1.79 (6 pack, not the paste filled 8 packs) for caramelised onion/pork/apple/lincolnshire/cumberland and are now £2.49.

My avg food bill for 2, each month used to be £200-220, including food, drink and cleaning supplies... it's now £300-320, whilst cutting back on a lot of the luxury items, opting for cheaper things in some places or reducing the number of times we buy them... so steak one every 8 weeks instead of once a month. No fish and chips at home, only as a treat if we go out for a meal (not to a chippy as they're all bad here).