The sadistic think about brands is that people are paying for marketing team to continue to lie to them and brainwash them, to convince them to continue buying their products!
Media is full of brands - gosh I wonder how they have all that budget for expensive marketing campaigns !
It's so incredibly hard to wean someone off brands. I've been campaigning my family for years, but they still seem allergic to Aldi/Lidl etc.
Take cereal (eww):
Aldi Corn Flakes (500g) - £0.75 ($0.93)
Kellogs Cornflakes (500g) - £2.25 ($2.79)
3x more expensive! THREE. (some people might be thinking that $2.79 is nothing but just think in relative terms)
Yes Kellogs Cornflakes taste a bit nicer but that's not the comparison to make: a small serving of oats with some fruit is a MUCH better breakfast meal. Oats are roughly same amount of calories per gram but much more filling and less sugar, salt, fat etc and double the protein. But we're all addicted to cereal because the adverts brainwashed our parents in to thinking it's a healthy meal to have in the morning.
(EDIT: oops guess I'm a hypocrite) And has anyone tasted a McVities Digestive biscuit recently? (similar to a graham cracker, a distant relative of the shortbread - very very popular in the UK)? Absolutely vile. If you're still buying them you're literally an idiot and COVID must have destroyed your taste buds. Aldi own brand digestives taste like the old recipe of McVities Digestives at 1/3 of the price!
Breakfast cereal, namely corn flakes, is a mass psychosis. Have them sometimes if you like as a treat, but even then you might as well eat a bowl of ice cream. The idea of eating cornflakes was invented by a guy who gave his "patients" yogurt enemas. Why in 2023 are we still taking his advice?
the choice as you say it's not between kellogs vs aldi cereals. But between highly processed and industrially produced crap and organic high quality raw foods. I personally don't buy any of the products on this list. But for a lot of people, there isn't a lot of choice but to go to a discount because that's literally only thing they can afford unfortunately.
The sadistic think about brands is that people are paying for marketing team to continue to lie to them and brainwash them, to convince them to continue buying their products!
Media is full of brands - gosh I wonder how they have all that budget for expensive marketing campaigns !
It's so incredibly hard to wean someone off brands. I've been campaigning my family for years, but they still seem allergic to Aldi/Lidl etc.
Take cereal (eww):
Aldi Corn Flakes (500g) - £0.75 ($0.93)
Kellogs Cornflakes (500g) - £2.25 ($2.79)
3x more expensive! THREE. (some people might be thinking that $2.79 is nothing but just think in relative terms)
Yes Kellogs Cornflakes taste a bit nicer but that's not the comparison to make: a small serving of oats with some fruit is a MUCH better breakfast meal. Oats are roughly same amount of calories per gram but much more filling and less sugar, salt, fat etc and double the protein. But we're all addicted to cereal because the adverts brainwashed our parents in to thinking it's a healthy meal to have in the morning.
(EDIT: oops guess I'm a hypocrite) And has anyone tasted a McVities Digestive biscuit recently? (similar to a graham cracker, a distant relative of the shortbread - very very popular in the UK)? Absolutely vile. If you're still buying them you're literally an idiot and COVID must have destroyed your taste buds. Aldi own brand digestives taste like the old recipe of McVities Digestives at 1/3 of the price!