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

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

Her chicken was yellow sticker. Don't often find free range organic for a quid

Yep exactly midnightstar66 although even without the reduction the chicken thighs are only £2 for a pack of 5.

The chicken all needs eating today, already made a 3-4 portion curry to freeze, 3 portion lemon and olive chicken to freeze and now doing a 6 portion coq au vin as we have some cheap cooking wine.

12+ meals from £5.50 worth of chicken is pretty good I thought. You'd pay that for one small packet of organic thighs at Waitrose or Ocado.

Definitely under £50. Those chicken thighs are only about £1.50 a pack at the moment.

I much prefer it when they sell their broccoli loose. The packaged stuff always sweats and I'm more likely to just take off what I want for a meal for 2 of us, then chuck the middle away because it's gone mushy.

£45 - £55

@Xmasbaby11

£60?

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

You can’t get a weeks food in M&S for £60. The quality is fab though definitely worth the money. I don’t use a corner shop or order many takeaways so I don’t mind paying M&S prices.

£40-50 (but probably more in M & S)

PickAChew me too. They didn't have any loose broccoli today or loose tomatoes.

You can’t get a weeks food in M&S for £60.

I reckon you could with a bit of careful planning but it wouldn't include stuff like loo roll or tea bags (which we buy from Poundland)

I'm up for the challenge

In m and a I think that would be around £60. I can’t afford M and S, I would pay about £40 for similar items in Tesco going for wonky veg etc.

I doubt it. I shop in there for my weekend bits. There’s less of us though. If you could get a weeks shop in M&S I would do it regularly if that’s all it was £60. I find the portions are smaller for the extra money you pay. Still worth it though.

Absolute bargain!

I shopped at Sainsbury's yesterday, didn't buy anything for main meals as I managed to find ingredients for 7 meals out of the freezer and cupboard - so I was only going for basics, bread, milk, eggs cheese yogurt etc, juice, snacks crisps biscuits, I got some washing powder and fabric softener and some dog food for 2 dogs plus fresh fresh fruit and veg.

Spent £105 🤦🏼‍♀️

This was for 6

@passthemustard I find Sainsburys so over priced I don’t know how anybody shops in their. They never have offers on. I think it’s literally like shopping in Waitrose.

£40

That’s a lot of chicken...

£57.54 that’s not a bargain, and even with the items you mentioned there isn’t really enough food for a week.

Decent

Its rarely mentioned but I think the co-op is really expensive! Our co-op has very few own brand products and is way more expensive than sainsburys and tesco. (I imagine it would give m and s, or waitrose on prices but I dont shop in either of those often enough to make a direct comparison)
I bought a jar of (branded)mayonnaise in the coop for 2.20 the other day the same brand as i normally get from tesco (tesco seems to have stopped doing jars of own brand mayo). The tesco one was 2.50 for 600g, compared with coop 2.20 for 400g.

It’s decent but all the yellow tickets make it cheaper so isn’t really comparable with a regular shop!

I agree re sainsburys. Use to be my go to place but last time I did a full shop there it cost me a fortune!

Co-op is pricey too I agree although I think of it as a corner shop.

@BiddyPop I think amount of food would be about €140 in M & S in Dublin! I'm cocooning but really miss their lemon pastry thingy for €1.60 I think it costs, and their bread which is about all I'd get there along with the occasional dine in offers! And there were never many yellow sticker reductions anytime I was in there.

Yes that is good value

@Hollyhobbi I tend to pop into Grafton St rather than Henry St, and often pick up yellow stickers there. Not all the time, but Mondays and Tuesdays can be good after weekend offers some weeks, and generally veg etc too. Then again, there are many days that they have nothing at all of what you're looking for, let alone yellow stickered. So it can be hit and miss.

£68?

Bargain!