Defraud your children of branded products
If your kids want branded products like proper Weetabix or cola, simply buy the proper ones once and then on future shopping trips buy the supermarket's own cheaper versions and then refill the Weetabix box with the inner packets of the "wheaty biscuits" and refill pop bottles with the cheap pop.

Very few kids will notice the difference because it's all about the packet.

Also: You'll have to buy the branded products every so often to keep packets not looking too worn.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:47, 4 replies)

Particularly with cereals
it's all the same stuff from the same factory, with different boxes. Except the Smart Price (and equivalent) stuff which is about half the time actually cheaper made.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:11, closed)

with the exception of Kellogs...
( Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:46, closed)

Quite right,
kids are idiots.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:18, closed)

I'd rather buy supermarket own brand and keep it in its own box
Just teach your kids that it is just the same as Kellogs but cheaper, and therefore better, and not to be fooled by the advertising, as all it does is to add to the cost of the product.

If you start teaching them young enough, they accept it as fact (fact!).

They may even tell their friends. If you don't fight pester power from the get-go, it will just get worse and worse and worse.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 8:39, closed)