Is it more cost ameffective to get two online food deliveries a week?

[KillingEvesbestmate]

Just that ....?

And I always go out in between

We’ve had 2 a week for years, I hardly ever go to a shop, one of DCs homework is write a list and pick out the food in a shop 🫠

We have 2 deliveries a week and have done for years, mainly due toour kids and their friends eating so much, but it definitely works out cheaper than popping to a local shop to top up mid week. It’s also good to not have to plan around dates so much.

This makes so much sense, I don't know why it has never occurred to me before🤦🏼‍♀️

See - i do this at xmas; a 'normal' shop and then the xmas food a couple of days later, but it's never ocured to me to do it every week.

I'm going to bloody do it!

Yes, so Sunday morning covers Sunday lunch, dinners through till Weds, packed lunch stuff etc etc, fruit. Wed morning covers the next few nights, fresh fruit, weekend food.

Both teens train a lot (one more than the other) and they eat a lot. They train 4 nights out of 5 week nights, meaning a mini dinner when they get home from school then normal one after training. Weekends are competing or training, or both, so lots of fruit, snacks etc etc to take with them.

I get the 9-10 am slot for both (I work from home) and everyone knows to tell Alexa to add things we run out of the her list as they appear. The actual shop part takes me 5 mins now, they deliver to the side door of the kitchen so 5 mins to put away. It will be the 9-10 slot tonight cause we are away for a teen competition and it has kind of thrown me!

I inevitably end up in shops on occasion, and it is nice for inspiration but I always end up spending more.

I only started the second shop a few years ago, when I realised my delivery pass meant I could do every day if I wanted, so why was I trying to do a whole week's plan when things inevitably changed, and I then needed to buy milk, fruit etc.

Sometimes if life is particularly busy I do every 3 days or so, but I do find having set days that we can all expect works.

This is such a great idea! Thanks for the threat OP!

I do Click & Collect at Tesco (which only has a £25 minimum spend to avoid the packing charge, rather than £40 for Delivery & I have Delivery Saver) I do Mondays for most stuff and Thursdays for the weekend, which means I can get stuff like bread & fruit fresher.
I may switch to once a week soon though, as they are closing the road between us & Tesco for six months to build a new roundabout and I’ll have to drive right round the town to get there. It would actually be quicker to walk there to pick up as much fresh stuff as I can carry!

This is really interesting, I have the delivery saver from Tescos, but always thought the minimum spend charge still applied? To stop people just booking a slot for £10 worth of stuff - not suggesting this is what anyone here is doing but surely as a company it wouldn't be worth their while for deliveries below a certain amount?

No doubt you get off your arse and drive?

I’ve never really thought of this but maybe I should do every 5 days or so to cut out the whinging from DD and DH that there’s nothing for them to eat…

I do one shop per week. If I run out of something then we don’t have it for a day or two till I go shopping on my set day

but tbh don’t really run out of anything

The minimum for Sainsbury’s is £40, that hasn’t changed for years and with food prices having gone up so much I can easily get to that on a top up shop.

We've done two deliveries for years. One on Sunday evening for the week and one on Thursday evening for the weekend. It is more cost effective for us and there is usually less waste as result. There are four of us and pretty much everything comes from Tesco so if it looks like I won't meet minimum spend I add in toiletries or cleaning products.

More cost effective than... what?

I occasionally do a double delivery a week, usually if we’re having a barbecue.
I’ll get the stuff for that then the shop fit the rest of the week a couple of days later so there’s space in the fridge.
Or near a birthday pr Christmas.

I use my Tesco club card points to buy the annual delivery pass so costs me nothing.

I hate supermarket shopping due to other people who stop in the middle of the aisle causing a jam, abandoned trollies, people who stop at the end of an aisle to have a catch up with pals they’ve bumped into blocking the aisle.
People generally ! 😹

Not with a smart pass. My minimum spend is £40.

Of course it still applies, it's £50 minimum spend with Tesco (to avoid the extra charges) so I only do 1 pw as I live alone (£40 was better)

For what I buy though & where I live, it's better to book another delivery & pay the extra delivery charge than do woosh or whatever. IF I really need a shop. As the regular things I need are much more expensive and less fresh on a woosh order (picked from different stores)

Since having the strokes I can't drive or carry very much, so deliveries are a life saver!

Yes, although not environmentally obviously with all the extra vans pootling about.
I used to do a big shop once a week but found the fresh stuff didn't last and some went off before I could use it, plus I'd always forget an item or they would run out of certain things too!
Now I go 2/3 times a week, might only be a small bags worth but means I only buy what I need.
I have had deliveries in the past but live alone now and so find it hard to get up to the minimum spend every time and it's much cheaper to shop around, luckily I am able to do so where I live.

Surely one van pootling about delivering 5 people's shopping in a locality is preferable to 5 people separately going to the shop and back again in individual cars.

Can't speak for other supermarkets but Morrisons only show you slots that are available in the area at the time and then mark all the slots with a little green van if the van is already going to be nearby to you in that slot.

Yes, thank you. I'm aware of the £50 minimum. The way posters were talking earlier in the thread made it sound as if there wasn't an extra charge if you had the delivery pass. Maybe for other supermarkets or maybe I got the wrong end of the stick.

The Morrisons minimum is £25, so very easy to meet for a family even twice a week.

How are you keeping everything fresh for a whole week? Fruit struggles even 2x a week!

Apart from COVID years when deliveries were hard to come by, I've got 2 a week for as long as delivery passes have been a thing. Sometimes also a click and collect when we go through a salad phase.