Liking things from different supermarkets - any tips to save time?

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We're a fussy bunch and like different things from different supermarkets. It's beginning to become a drain on my time.

Anyone else been in this situation have any tips on how they have dealt with this? I realise the obvious situation is just to make do with one supermarket, but we'd prefer to have what we like. Just wondering if anyone else has a more efficient way of doing it than my slap-dash, when-we-run-out approach. Not against having deliveries.

Thanks in advance.

Go to them supermarkets on rotation eg week 1 Aldi, week 2 Asda, week 3 Waitrose etc and get as much as you can for the month.

Yes. Rotate weekly. I do Lidl one week, Asda the next and pop into Sainsbury's once a month as I like the clothes.

If it's long life stuff, stock up. Or if its chilled it could be frozen?

Or are there convenience versions of the shops that you go past in daily life that might have the stuff you need?

Delivery?

The posts above are the obvious solution so I assume that's not working . Is it because you are buying different fruit and veg from different places? If that's the case a little compromise is going to be needed

I guess deliveries would work as well if cost is not a consideration

I think it's mainly being disorganised! Going to different ones in different weeks is a good solution.

Buy whole foods rather than branded products. An apple is an apple no matter which supermarket it comes from.

Rotate. And bulk buy.

Bulk buy. Lidl is easier for me to get to but there are certain things from tesco or aldi they prefer.
I tend to get a tesco delivery once a month. Shop at lidl two weeks in a row then shop at aldi for a week. Works for us.

I too like different things from different supermarkets and rotate around and bulk buy, where possible. For example, we have a nearby Morrisons and Asda and Morrisons are best for pitta breads and Asda are cheapest for Quorn products.

So if we find ourselves needing bread and milk, we'll go to one or the other and stock up on whatever is running low - we keep the pittas in the freezer and defrost/crisp them up in the toaster.

I also have lists in my sort of bullet journal, so if I find myself in one of my lesser visited supermarkets, I can check my list to see if there is something I need to stock up on - tonic water mostly as I like their little cans of Essential Waitrose tonic - doesn't go flat, no artificial sweeteners, quite sharp tasting and cheaper than Fever Tree.

The other thing I do is buy for the store cupboard or freezer, not the week ahead, so we keep in stock of things we use regularly, whether we plan to use them that week or not. Meat is frozen in meal size bags.

A lot of yogurts and cheese keep for a few weeks or even longer, so it's only really fresh fruit and veg that you're very time bound in using up.

An apple is an apple no matter which supermarket it comes from

Do your local shops not stock different varieties of apple? No one thinks a Golden Delicious is the same as a Cox's Pippen do they? I have all the normal supermarkets near me and there are definite differences in the tastes and varieties offered by each, it's OK to have a preference

Go through your cupboards and freezer take a realistic look at what you have stored vs what your family really eats. Then clear space to accommodate the latter.

Then make a master shopping list of everything you buy, ever and run your eye over it before you go shopping because something will jump out at you and save you an emergency dash later.

Once you start stocking up on the stuff you actually like eating, rather than stuff that looks interesting, that you aspire to eat, or you feel you should eat, you will automatically be more organised.

And then, as above, rotate shops weekly.

Disregard if not relevant but this was the root of my problem.