We have been able to save alittle on groceries in the past month. I switched to Aldi's coffee and their brand of chocolate syrup. Dh hasn't said anything . Plus he has given up Mt Dew, so that is saving us at least $20 a month (he drank alot of it).

that's like my dad.
if you tell him dinner is "healthy" or diet. he says: i dont like it.
if you dont tell him,
He likes it!

anyways, great for you,
thats how you save $$, a little bit in a lot of areas...it adds up

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My family can't tell the difference between anything Aldi's and the name brand. Of course, at my house, no one was used to name brand anyway

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That is so funny! I recently switched our coffee as well ~ DH has always been a snob about his coffee. What I did was emptied the Aldi coffee into the Maxwell House container, so he doesn't know the difference. I do that with a lot of things now from Aldi ~ I think if you don't see difference in the packaging, you won't notice a difference in the taste. (for most things) I think it is because you aren't really "comparing" it to what you think it is.

Congrats on the savings! I love aldi - but I have to say, it is easy to overspend there too! I was in there yesterday just for bread, sugar & Clancey's (the nacho cheese chips) and I ended up buying so much more! They had great deals that I did not want to pass up! (so $25 later... oh well ~ I got two bags full of stuff!)

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I am A Coffee Drinker and its all About How its Brewed and tempature and what You Add to It.

I Would Never Have A Cheap Coffee maker ,
But all Brands of 100 % Columbian coffee Brew and Taste the same.

Dh and the kids didn't know when I switched from beef to turkey burgers and hot dogs. I once did veggie burgers and they didn't know.

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There are only a handful of things that my family prefers name brand. Everything else is pretty much generic or whatever brand is on sale that week. :-)

There are only a couple of items that we use that are name brand otherwise we prefer generic brands. I know when I switched the majority of our soup to store brand no one noticed until I asked what they thought of it and they were like what kind is it, it's really good.

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