'Home' brands or the 'Big' brands?

So basically, when shopping, or your parents are, either way, which type of food do you buy?
The fancy big brands with their package designs etc that generally cost more but have more reliable taste, or the 'home' brands, that just have a simple design, usually it's the same design for everything, cheaper but you don't know how it will compare to the big brands' taste.

I complain to my mom whenever she buys these 'home brand' cereals. I absolutely wanted Cookie Crisp, but she bought me this cereal with a racoon on it. :-| Three days later, I popped it open and tasted it. It wasn't that bad, so I guess there really isn't much of a difference?

To answer the topic, yes, I generally buy 'big brand' cereals. ;3

I'm usually pretty cool with buying store brands. I have rent and bills to pay on top of feeding myself, and store brands are typically cheaper and don't taste that different to me.

Sometimes, though, I'll buy name-brand anyway. Like with orange juice, I never get the store brand, and I have no idea why either. o_O Or in the case of my favorite cereal, I can't seem to find a store brand for it (or at least when I go out shopping for it).

We normally buy big brand names instead of home brands, but every now and then a good home brand shows up (that we tend to use for a while).

I usually get the tesco and that sort due to it is cheaper

They all taste pretty much the same to me, so I just buy whatever's cheapest.
Unless, of course, it comes to milk. Because I only like a certain kind of milk, it's really creamy and delicious. And there's a certain brand of milk that we've gotten before which tastes sour right after you open it.

But besides that, given the choice, I'd pick the generic brand any time, they just seem to have more taste to me.

As other people have said it depends on what I'm buying.

For example when I want Cheetos I get Cheetos not Cheesey Krunchy Bits. In this case I know the home brand is going to have a stale texture and chemical tasting cheese.
When I want some bread though I just grab the cheapest loaf. I don't taste the difference between Sara Lee and Bill's sliced bread.

If I'm getting a drink I get the home brand since they're only 90c for like 1.25L.

I work at CVS, which is basically like a mini-store with a pharmacy. In some ways, it's like Walmart, only a lot nicer. The CVS I work at has pretty much everything I need, apart from clothes, soup and salad, which are essentials for me. When I'm looking to buy something, I usually buy the CVS brand for two reasons.

a. I get a big discount on all CVS products, along with my employee discount.
b. The money I save from buying CVS products goes into my employee account and allows me to get more rewards and generally save more money, which is rather obvious.

Saving money is important for the younger people in today's world, such as high-schoolers and college students, as well as... well, everyone else. But if you learn to save your money as a high-schooler, then you're going to have it made when you find yourself with four kids and struggling to meet end's meet, like my family has been doing for years.

The only big brands I've bought from are clothing brands, like Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, and Aéropostale (which isn't even that expensive).

Big brands, almost all the time. As for why, I am not sure. The closest we got to home-brand was for a plastic bag from Rite Aid or something. xD

Definitely, the big brands.
The quality of home brands are rather so-so to me. :/