What food from Waitrose do I need to try?

I don't eat meat or fish or milk so that has bypassed me but it's good to know. Animal welfare standards are so horribly poor generally in food production.

However, in Hexham Waitrose this week, I picked up vegan products that I buy in Sainsbury's and Morrisons and they were 40% more expensive in Waitrose- same brand, same size.

Madagascan vanilla custard mmmmmm
also if you need nappy bags their essential nappy bags are 1£ and the best smelling ones in my opinion.

Yes agree with you @ObliviousCoalmine

@LuluBlakey1 also you are just incorrect. They could have similar product coming from the same factory but very different specs.
Admittedly some products may be extremely similar e.g. milk and beef mince but WR have higher animal welfare standards than other retailers, that's what you pay for.

Don't they do a price match with Tesco? That's what I understood from the radio advert I heard.

There are a few things I can only get at Waitrose and I get the bus or a train to a nearby branch especially.

They do a great precooked cheese soufflé that just needs heating up in the oven. It's a delicious veggie option at a roast dinner and equally nice with a salad as a quick lunch or dinner.

The Red Choice tomatoes are delicious.

Their own brand Essential houmous is my favourite houmous.

i also love the sausages /sausage meat with nutmeg and black pepper . With the addition of some dry roasted fennel seeds and softened onion they make the best sausage rolls and Christmas stuffing I've ever eaten.

My adult DD loves the chicken Caesar salad so if she comes over for the night I buy one for her to take to work the next day.

The own brand champagne is also excellent. I drank a half bottle last night. It was delicious.

Finally - the frozen Sofrito mix is an absolute game changer. It's cheaper than buying the individual veg fresh and so quick and easy to fry as a starting point for any soup/chilli/casserole/stew/paella.

Yes I agree, but choose a lightly baked packet. The dark ones are nowhere near as nice.

Their spice pickled shallots. Divine!

I recommend their sushi. They do a £5 Meal deal where you can select sushi for main and sushi for the snack and then pick a fancy drink, adding up to way more than the fiver you pay! They do lovely fresh mushroom ravioli.
They also have fabulous selections of lovely biscuits, wines and cheeses. In summer they do half bottles of a lovely rose wine on special offer. V handy! ……I’m going to try ice-cream next after suggestions on here.

To be honest if you are just going to Waitrose to buy the very same stuff you can buy anywhere then you are missing out. Be adventurous, and stray from the shopping list and forage into pastures new 😂😂

Probably 😁

You, are Waitrosing wrong.

Essential sausages - really good, particularly the chipolatas. Small beef meatballs, perfect with pasta and sauce. There's a pizza - garlic, mushrooms and spinach that I could eat every week.

I have found the staff in Lidl really sullen to the point of being downright rude.
The staff in Waitrose will actually show me where things are.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-dark-chocolate-ginger-florentines/618649-828415-828416

Plus the other two sorts of Florentine biscuits in the same range. But the dark choc'n'ginger are the best....

Hopefully, your local branch is good! TBF, there does seem to be a lot of variation as they are often smaller than some of the other supermarket chains and seem to tailor what they stock to local demand. My local one is amazing with a fresh sushi counter, fishmonger, butcher, bakery cheese counter and deli. The slightly smaller one 10 minutes away is a bit meh in comparison. The Little Waitrose convenience store is a waste of space with mouldy fruit and veg! The food hall in the nearby John Lewis is the best of the bunch for wine and floristry, they have a climate controlled cheese room 😂 and a fancier deli counter and have preprepared fresh food but not much every day stuff. The branch closest to DS has an amazing range of garden plants but doesn’t have all the fresh counters or as much choice as my local branch, even though it’s bigger 🤷‍♀️

If your branch has a butcher and cheese counter, as well as having some different items that they don’t sell prepackaged and being able to buy exactly the amount you need, they are often cheaper per kg than the same products prepackaged.

Just goes to show the difference in personal taste as most of the post completely disagree with you

The coffee shortbread has sold out and I'm blaming this thread. I was going to add some for my lovely mum.

I live on their red pepper hummus. It's the best I've had and not ultra processed like most. Unless you count lemon juice concentrate which I don't because it's not a large amount.

The Colombian coffee ice cream is good my mum says.

I use their Gold tea bags, weetabix, organic baked beans, breads, muffins (toasted, although now make my own). Their fruit is much better than Asda which is my closest supermarket although their clementines have been rubbish lately. The chilli cheddar is lovely. The veggie crispbakes. I bake a lot and use their essentials range for butter and flours. I use their bread flour for bread, pizza, muffins .

The offers are often good and their prices on basics are often cheaper than Asda. Kerrygold is usually cheaper at Waitrose.

THEIR ALMOND CROISSANTS!!!!!!!

The double cream Brie on the cheese counter is nice

Mutti tins of tomatoes are so good you can eke them out a bit with water! I know that sounds bonkers but I still think that's better than watery tins of tomatoes if you know what I mean