How much would you pay for this shopping?

[SapphosRock]

Weekly food shop done in M&S to feed a family of 2 adults, one child, one baby for a week. We already had basics like bread, milk, eggs and pasta.

Partner 1 thinks it's excessive

Partner 2 thinks it's a bargain

I now buy loads of snacks & household stuff from Aldi & find it very good value.

Are you going to tell us then?.... God sake

Pre mat leave / Covid money worries we wouldn't have thought twice about spending £57 for a meal at Pizza Express so I thought it was good for the amount of meals it will make.

Ahhh my phone didn't load all of the comments. Awks

It’s good value. I’d rather spend that in M and S than Aldi as it’s far better quality. I’m not bothered by the packaging

£80-£100

Seems a bit excessive for what you got, so much meat too

@Nsky

Seems a bit excessive for what you got, so much meat too

What’s wrong with buying meat? Are we not allowed?

I would've expected that to be a lot more being M&S and as meat is so expensive. It's healthy food with no junk food, some would be suitable to freeze too if need be.

I thought that was a bargain for the quality of food.

I think people delude themselves about how much better the quality is in more expensive supermarkets. My DM shops in Waitrose and turns her nose up at Aldi, but when she eats at our house, she's forever saying "Ooh, that's really good, where did you get it?"and is constantly astonished when I say Aldi.

£60?

It's not a week's worth of food!

just seen the price. I think that's fine! I tend to find the meat and fish v good quality there.

I love M&S and think the quality is excellent. Some of my shopping there ends up cheaper than sainsburys

I don't think it's a lot of food for that price tho. We couldn't afford to buy that amount of food. from M&S. unfortunately

Im with partner 1!

Theres no fruit or breakfast or lunch and not enough meals for the week. Or tea or coffee etc.

We spend quite a bit on fruit.

I wouldn't shop in m&s too expensive for weekly shop in my budget. I would pay £40 in aldi for all that under m&s would be more.

Just seen how much thats pretty good for m&s

£56

A lot of stuff you buy in M&S is the same you would buy in aldi. It's supplied by the same factories. You just pay 3 times more in M&S.

I'd get a week's shopping for 4 adults with big appetites in Aldi for that much, sorry.

But the meat was reduced, with yellow stickers M&S is great.

@AllStartedWithUSA fair enough, it's driven by my mil raving about M&S meat and saying that you don't get the same in those European shops 🙄

I just feel like a greedy little piglet. We eat so much more than that in a week...

I'd get a week's shopping for 4 adults with big appetites in Aldi for that much, sorry.

Would you honestly get 5 packs of chicken, 5 salmon, 2 seabass etc for significantly less? I don't see how. You might eat different food and meals but like for like how much would it be in Aldi?

A lot of stuff you buy in M&S is the same you would buy in aldi. It's supplied by the same factories. You just pay 3 times more in M&S.

While it's try it might come from the same factory, doesn't mean the product is the same. Digestives and rich tea could be made in the same factory, they don't use the same products just the same machinery. Other things that same factories such as beans for different stores are clearly different in the sauce and bean size for example. I worked in a chicken factory for a while school and birds eye absolutely got the better quality meant because they paid more for it than farm foods for example. There were different QC standards and different bird batches used. You finished the Birdseye order before you moved on so it wasn't mixed or the same.

If you can afford M&S why aren't you buying free range/organic chicken?