Supermarkets

I can't get to any shop under my own steam, so its all a bit pot luck.
I have to consider taxi fares on top of whatever shopping I buy, or the sheer panic of being driven by my boy.
All in all, online seems safer.
If i could get around easier, I wouldn't spend my time going shop to shop, anyway.

I don’t want to shop on-line, I like shopping and it’s often the only time I meet and speak to other people.
On-line pet foods are the more expensive options. I have reluctantly changed my furry darlings to supermarket junk food because it’s the cheapest and one cat is on Metacam for life (like Ibuprofen but £50 for a small bottle from the vet instead of 60p for a pack of tablets for humans)

I prefer in person shopping.
When i was working, I'd often get off the bus and nip into whatever shop caught my eye.

I like fruit, for example, but what fruit depends on the texture, cost, ripeness, and you can't really get that online (although tesco guarantee things to last a week, ten days etc)
No doubt it's more expensive online, too.

If you went wetherspoons each day for a week it would cost you £35 and that's a meal with a g & t, or whatever

Should you be advocating a G&T every day? A daily greasy spoon doesn’t sound either the healthiest or most tempting of diets- where do purchases of food for breakfast, supper, things like milk or loo paper feature in this.
Of course for the latter I suppose you could go wetherspoons as you suggest.

I appreciate your point, jakuss

Its quite sobering (excuse the pun) to realise you could get out and about, eat, stay warm, and well
.. be comfortable for so little.
I wish i had a Wetherspoons near me, now!

I shop at Tesco and have done for over 20 years. Have tried all the others but always end up back at Tesco. Weekly bill varies between £80 and 120 a month. We do go to Costco where we buy our washing detergent, conditioner, kitchen and toilet rolls, black rubbish bags, beef joints and chicken pieces but only go once every 3-4 months.

I do our main shop (£65 or so for two) at Ocado where they supposedly match price match Tesco, but pick up odds and ends over the week if my GC are here for supper or we run out of something.
I use our local Lidl and Morrisons too but can't get everything that I want which puts me off doing a whole shop there, though they do seem to be cheaper.
Having pets must add quite a lot to your bills now, or if you drink much alcohol. My husband likes a drink in the evening but gets that himself from a little local shop.

WelshPoppy

I shop at Tesco and have done for over 20 years. Have tried all the others but always end up back at Tesco. Weekly bill varies between £80 and 120 a month. We do go to Costco where we buy our washing detergent, conditioner, kitchen and toilet rolls, black rubbish bags, beef joints and chicken pieces but only go once every 3-4 months.

My girl always found tesco online the best value, because of the long sell by dates.
She found it easier to have a vague meal plan and buy from tesco because it didn't go out of date before she got round to cooking it.

There are 3 main supermarkets in the town I shop in the most.

One of them does the "we compare our prices to Aldi" whatever the words are.
So I thought right, I may as well go to Aldi in that case,
I am quite often pleasantly surprised at the bill at the end.

Though probably depends on what items you like to buy.

I shop at Aldi weekly. On my own and £38 a month, no way. What are they buying, carrots, potatoes, 4 pack of toilet rolls, small milk and a loaf of bread each week.

I suppose if you were to live on tinned rice pudding, rice potatoes, peas, cheapest toilet roll[perhaps they buy that elsewhere] etc, it would be possible.

AI Overview Aldi is offering major price cuts on over 200 summer products, meaning you can complete a large basket of groceries for a fraction of the cost. Consumer champion Which? named Aldi the "Best Value Brand of the Year", with a typical big basket coming in tens of pounds cheaper than traditional grocers.

You should ask your Vet for prescriptions and get your Metacam online watermeadow. It’s half the price you’re paying and you could get several bottles.

youtube.com/shorts/4sNiecyCWf4?si=trXZBjME_Vm-CqRI

This woman does a weekly shop from a different place each week and spends £35.

We have one MissAdventure their jacket potatoes are lovely, I have tuna or beans.
Their hotels we’ve stayed in have pristine rooms.
A g&t a day is within guidelines Maw.
We mainly use Tesco, our delivery today included white Magnums half price, that’s pud for after tonight’s family bbq sorted.

youtube.com/shorts/gwCms53Dc58?si=XzdFpy_SThH0qP-6

We use mostly Ocado although I use all others at times, and buy meat, fruit and vegetables locally. Ocado has a very wide choice and some really good offers. I’ve often had a refund if my shop was deemed more expensive than Tesco.

I like to cook everyday from scratch apart from Saturday. I spend alot of money on food with no waste. We are on good pensions worked hard for it. If some people eat out everyday rather than cook that's up to them.
At our time of life live a bit and include whatever drink of choice. One life that's all we get this is not a practice run.

Whatever floats your boat, i reckon.

Local ALDI with a little bit of Sainsbury thrown in for treats.
Don't rate LIDL. ASDA and Tesco too far away

Used to be able to get weekly Ring and Ride for shopping. But no longer as Transport for Greater Manchester have made a real mess if this service.

Thank You
Andy Burnham

It's such a shame to see really useful, person centred services go down the drain.
I don't think people appreciate how out of the loop it makes you feel - I didn't, until it happened to me.

You have to shop around. Waitrose costs a fortune

MissAdventure

It's such a shame to see really useful, person centred services go down the drain.
I don't think people appreciate how out of the loop it makes you feel - I didn't, until it happened to me.

If that message was about my post and the Ring and Ride

Thank you very much Miss Adventure. Love your name
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It was indeed.
Thank you, re: the name.
It ahould really be MissDoNothingGoNowhere, I think.