Who is wrong

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Me and husband did a small shop today. We went to Aldi. I like Aldi for many reasons. It has great choice and value.

Came home and told mother in law where we had been she said why did you to there I don't like eating s**t food.

He idea of good food is shopping at waitrose. Its nice but expensive. I know we can get the same quality and value of food from aldi and save a little to.

If I am honest a carrot is a carrot wherever you buy it.

Is she wrong to say that the food in shops such as aldi and Lidl are s*t?

It’s utterly irrelevant where you’ve been shopping, I cannot believe the MIL speaks to you like that! What did your husband say?

My aunts like this- thinks food has to come from waitrose- except she forgets she lives in a household of 1, no mortgage and a discount having worked at John Lewis. She claims it’s only an extra few pence here and there- but times by 50 items etc it’s a huge amount.
Honestly I’m with you a carrot, pasta, a biscuit- I honestly don’t care where they come from.

I don’t understand why people fawn over M&S food, it’s no better than Tesco.
I shop everywhere and cherry pick the things I like.

Mil can shop where she chooses as can you. Food snobbery is ridiculous.

Your MIL sounds charming. No one will force her to eat it
Nothing wrong with having a preferred shop but no need to be rude about where others choose
Tell her it's all from F&Ms next time and she'll wet her pants with the excitement

I would have shown her the door

Of course MIL is in the wrong. What does it have to do with her anyway? It's your shopping, not hers. I'd be telling her 'thank you for your unsolicited opinion, we like their food thank you and will shop where we like".

I'm not sure what your mother in law thinks it's got to to do with her, but if she spoke to me like that in my house she'd be off up the road.

Does your MIL live with you?

I never understand why some MILs think they can speak to their children's spouses this way. You hear it quite often on here. Imagine if the tables were turned and you were that rude to her if she were kind enough to make you dinner in her home

There isn't a right or wrong here. It's personal opinion and you are both entitled to hold different ones.

In blind taste tests there’s plenty of people who are smugly confident that they can tell the cheap vs the expensive brands who are subsequently quite embarrassed!

Yep, a carrot is often just a carrot.

I knew someone who worked in a biscuit factory once. The Jaffa cake line made (where all the Jaffa cakes were obviously all made the same) were packaged in about 5-6 different packages- with a huge price variance between cheapest to most expensive. Psychology, innit.

It’s none of her business where you shop unless she is paying and if she doesn’t like it she doesn’t have to eat it.
However, while some things in Aldi and Lidl are of the same quality as M&S or Waitrose not all of it is. Also I wouldn’t buy meat from the budget places as I have had some bad experiences and I do find the fruit and veg doesn’t last as long.

If you are happy with Aldi food then her opinion is completely irrelevant.

Just don't tell her where you shop.

My Nan is like this. She will only shop at M&S and thinks any other supermarket is dire, especially for things like salmon. She lives alone on four separate pensions and is mortgage free so of course she can afford M&S food. Meanwhile, in the real world people shop according to their budget and ours only stretches as far as aldi.

She sounds like a snob.

came home and told mother in law where we had been she said why did you go there I don't like eating st food
Your response should have been "you're more than welcome to go home and eat your own food".

Aldi is better quality

Why was she at your house? Does she rock up and poke through your bags?

Food snobbery generally indicates someone who is insecure about their perceived social status.

Also feel free to swear properly, we’re all (mostly) grown-ups here.

She sounds horrible

I don't like Lidl, I think the quality of their food is low (goes off way too quickly, especially their veg) but I love Aldi! They have so many good bargains and the food has always been lovely. They have the best shampoo too, the only one that works with my hair.

You MIL is a snob.

I like Waitrose and M&S for their ready-made pulses and grains, but I wouldn't mind buying from Aldi. I don't like Tesco though, I think I've lived near too many awful Tesco Expresses and Metros.

We specifically head to Aldi because some of their things are the best we've found and nothing else we've has been disappointing - especially at the price point.

However I've been disappointed with things bought in M&S or Waitrose as a 'treat' because they aren't any more special than Aldi things but often cost 3 or 4 times as much. We no longer 'treat' ourselves to more expensive supermarkets, it's pointless.

As a complete aside though, I wish their foil would come back into stock! We've had none in our area since November.

A lot of food in different supermarkets is the same, it's just packaged differently.

Mil is wrong. Clearly. And very rude.