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With grocery prices at the highest ever, I find myself gravitating towards more of the Generic items. There are just some items that I have to go for the Real Thing, though.

Mayonaise, diapers, orange juice to name a few.

Are you spending less money on the generic items lately? What can you just not skimp on?

Diapers and wipes are the two things I will not skimp on! I just can't do it.

I use some generic (doesn't matter w/ diapers or wipes since we use cloth ) but many things I still like name brand.
For OJ: I grew up near groves. Tropicana is not real juice..... But I also never buy OJ in the store -- I have my mom bring it from back home.

Though there isn't always a difference, even w/ some meds there is, IMO. For instance, the generic Allegra does nothing for my mom so she pays extra for actual Allegra....

I am better than I used to be, but I know I still buy a lot of name brand. (Clothes -- always. )

More often than not I am buying store brand(generic) these days. There are certain items that my husband refuses store-brand on though, like coca-cola and cereal. He can even taste the difference in Malto-Meal cereals! But just about everything else, I've been buying store-brand these days (even meds, like aspirin and tums). I've been pretty happy with the storebrand name from Publix and Walmart. My son lives on instant mac-n-cheese on the weekends and the only one he likes is Walmart brand!

When Aldi's opens here (I can't wait!) I'm going to give them a try and see if we can't save more money.

I agree with the diapers and wipes! Generic brands are just NOT the same!

Other than that, we buy A LOT of generic to save money!

I am with everyone on diapers and wipes . . . I love my Pampers.