Formula - Store Brand vs Name Brand

Hi L.,

I used Kozy Kids through Amway!! Same ingredients as Enfamil!

I have always been a fan of carnation Good start. I feel it is the closes thing to breast milk that you can buy. When my children were on similac and enfmail they would spit up a lot and it would stink terrible. Once I switched to carnation there spit looked and smelled like breast milk they did not get upset stomach or constipation. My newphew was on similac and was severely constipated and I told my sister in law to switch and she did with in a day in has fine and never had anymore problems all three of my children were on it.. Plus it is much cheaper than the other brands but not as cheap as the store brands.

My son was on the enfamil prosobee and we swithched him to the target brand with no problems.

My husband researched this on the internet to see if there was a difference. He found that they are pretty much the same, except for the cost. We use Parent's Choice (Walmart Brand) soy formula and it works well for our 5 week old.

As everyone said, it had the same active ingredents. For us, we tried the Target soy and it has more DHA compared to Similac. My daughter did not do well with it. That was the only difference we found. I wish she had liked it, it would have been SO MUCH cheaper. My doctor said it was fine if the baby was fine.

My oldest daughter was on a soy based formula. For both of our daughters we used either the Target or Walmart brand (depending on what store we were heading to). Although, personally, I liked the Walmart brand better. We weren't happy with the Meijer brand, although the reason escapes me now - I'm thinking they were gasier on it.

Hello L., My oldest daughter is a chemical techniction, and said that yes the store brand is the same as the name brand. She used the Walmart brand, but it was not soy. Good luck and congrats!!

A lot of store brands are made at the same facility and same formula as the name brands. Read the lable and compare the ingredients. That should tell you.

Hi L.
I used Sams Club brand for my kids. They have the same nutritional value as the name brand ones. If you use Sams Club or Costco you will save a fortune, they also do their own wipes and diapers.
The reason they can sell them so cheap is not becaue they are sub-standard but because they do not advertise their formulas and do not give away millions of sample cans each year. Both mine had the store brand ones, once I had finished nursing, and they thrived on them. I had complaints at all.
You can go into Sams Club and Costco as a guest to check out their pricing or go to their websites and see how much you can save. It is well worth the membership fee, especially if you're saving on your diapers and wipes too! They do also sell the name brand formula so if you chose not to switch you could still save money buying the name brand formula there.

You're pretty much right. Check it out! I buy my sons formula at Target...I get the target brand (it's now called "up and up") and before I bought, I compared side by side this and the enfamil lipil. They hold exactly the same amount of nutrients. The best thing I could tell you, is compare containers side by side to see if it's a possibility buy the off brand. It'll save you a bunch in the long run!!