Do you like to use the store brand?

I am all about saving money at the grocery store. I like to use the store brands, but I'm usually afraid. What if it's not any good? Then you've wasted all that money. Well I am all about going to great lengths for my readers. After using my sister in law's Western Family cooking spray, I knew what I had to do. My mission was clear. There *ARE* differences between the various store brands and generics. I had to tell the world.

In a side-by-side comparison, you can clearly see a difference in the two products. On the left we have the Western Family cooking spray, and on the right we have the Great Value (Wal-mart) cooking spray. I think the picture speaks for itself. When you spray that Western Family spray, it just runs everywhere. My husband being the scientist that he is, had to know why. Well here's our hypothesis. If you do a side by side comparison of the ingredients on the back, you will see that the Western Family brand includes water. Why on earth would you put water in a cooking spray? I have my guesses as to why. I mean seriously is soybean oil that expensive? All of the other ingredients are virtually identical except for the addition of water. Mystery solved, case closed. And there you have it.

PS. The butter smell of the Great Value spray is a bit funky.