To do my online shop at Ocado even though I am supposed to be on a budget?

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I usually do my online shop with Ocado but DH says I need to cut the food bill for the next few months so I tried Asda. I wasn't impressed with the two deliveries I got from them; there were loads of substitutions, they were 20 minutes late, they charged £6 delivery because of the bad weather but the roads here had been clear all week, and I sent some substitutions back for a refund but I haven't had the money back yet (over 10 days!) They haven't responded to my email either asking why I haven't had a refund...

I've just done a shop at Ocado again and managed to do two weeks worth of food shopping for £104. Yes I have bought loads of Waitrose Essentials stuff but I think they're good anyway and I haven't bought loads of the crap that I usually buy with an Asda shop but we could do without that anyway!

DH thinks IABU and that actually because we aren't buying the branded stuff a lot of the time from Ocado that it isn't actually cheaper?! I think that he is wrong. I came in at budget, we have food for two weeks, the Waitrose Essentials stuff is better in some cases than some branded stuff (I can't find a better disinfectant than theirs! Or juices/tinned tomatoes)

AIBU?

Ocado don't deliver where I live. We've tried other deliveries, but have since decided that its better if we go ourselves as by the time we've checked through substitutions and the quality of the fresh stuff, its easier to do it ourselves.

In answer to your question though, £104 for two weeks shopping is bloody good. We easily spend that for two weeks in ASDA.

YANBU ocado are great and asda are shite.

I have just started shopping with Ocado and I will never go back to Sainsburys now.

YANBU

There's a budget, you're keeping to it by going to Ocado, you're eating good home cooked food. So what is he moaning about?

He should be lavishing praise on you, tell him to stop moaning and enjoy his food.

When we were very very skint about 15 years ago, I still shopped at Waitrose, because I'd rather eat less of something when you know it's brilliant quality, than eat a lot of shit.

"He should be lavishing praise on you, tell him to stop moaning and enjoy his food."

Yeah DH. READ THIS YOU FUCKER.

Also ocado has the best iPhone/ iPad apps :) meaning we can shop in a few clicks whilst on a bus/ waiting for kettle to boil etc.

I downloaded the Ocado app last week and almost spafed my pants in joy.

YANBU I've tried Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose.com and Ocado is definitely the best and no more expensive if you shop carefully (I agree online is defo cheaper than in store because you're not walking past all the "offers") and their receipts are in use by date order for fresh foods, I absolutely love that!

YANBU. Nice stuff is always better value than shit stuff as well because you get more enjoyment per £. When we both worked I would occasionally do a whole week's shop at M&S and it always felt like good value too - because everything was eaten and enjoyed, no waste, no hassle and I didn't get bored halfway through the week. I do cook more now (and enjoy doing it) but still say value is about more than price.

A ZOMBIE thread. Searching out Ocado pancakefan ? fishy as fuck.

Topical zombie alert !

I find Ocado to be fantastic value for money as the quality is so good. I also spend less because I'm not going round, hungry, stressed or tired and getting distracted by new stuff that I don't need.

It's also easier to meal plan by shopping online.

Damn!

zombie thread! But still quite keen to try Ocado based on what’s been said. Have just about given up on Tesco who failed to deliver a butternut squash and provided as a substitution a bloody packet of nuts 🙄🙄🙄

Methinks there was a motive to bringing back this zombie thread.

I'll be astonished it it brings back as many customers as they have lost over the recent scandal.

Hashtaglil and AuntBeastie Really? With all the threads running about how Ocado think that the term 'woman' is offensive? Have you been asleep?

Do you work for Ocado pancakefan?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3376466-ocado-boycott-after-support-of-primesight-action?msgid=81393429

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mums-call-for-a-boycott-of-ocado-in-backlash-over-transphobic-billboard-ad-a3950011.html

pancake has appeared on both these these restarted zombie threads.
Pathetic failed attempt to divert the issue.

@scaryteacher not asleep no, I just happen to agree with Ocado’s stance and disagree with the incredible mischaracterisation, misinformation and occasional outright lying I’ve seen on many of the recent Ocado threads. I was considering switching to Ocado anyway in support of them upholding trans rights, then I saw this thread which I assumed was Ocado doing some PR until I saw it was a zombie thread. It might have been resurrected for political reasons but presumably the good opinions of PPs are genuine! So it’s reinforced my feeling that I should give them a try.

I won’t engage with anyone on the original dispute, btw, so if your fingers are itching to bash out ‘please explain why the word woman is offensive’, let me save you the effort.

I've asked you why transwomen's rights should trump those of adult human females on another thread!

I don't normally get that riled about much, (except Brexit) but when I was explaining about this to a friend, she wondered if the aim was to silence women completely. Both of us are in our 50s, so have grown up with being seen as second class citizens at school (go and do typing dear, computers are for the boys kind of thing). This does worry me, and it's even got my Mum thinking as well. There must be a way to afford rights to transwomen, without trampling all over the rights, safe spaces and terminology used by adult human females.

Pancake must really be scraping the barrel for good threads about Ocado if they're having to go back to 2013.

pancake is a previously banned poster (MNHQ has confirmed on another thread)