Weekly Waitrose shop cost

[AlternativelyWired]

If you shop at Waitrose for your main shop, how much do you spend for your family?
I've just received my vouchers and was very excited as they promised to be the best yet and they were for £17 off if I spent £170!! There's 3 sometimes 4 of us and there's no way I'd usually spend that much. I shop for my mum in that shop and at most it's £150 and that's when we are buying in December for Christmas.
I've not done a shop (for me) there for a while for various reason but having done an online shop today I can't believe how much things have gone up. My mum's ready meals (needed due to disability if I can't cook for her that day) have jumped by a pound in the space of a week! Pasta has shot up. Hell, most things have shot up. It will be a once or twice a month order now with top ups from Asda as I pass there daily.

If you have a family of 3 or 4 people how much do you spend approximately? Including household items as we buy those there too. I'd easily spend £120 if I could but try to keep to £80.

We eat mostly organic, shop between Waitrose and Aldi. Weekly spend £80 at Waitrose and £50 at Aldi. All cleaning products at Aldi plus other bits, potatoes, carrots, milk some seasonal stuff, cheese nuts and eggs.

I went to Sainsbury's at the weekend, it was more expensive than Waitrose.

@AlternativelyWired where is there a Booths near the seaside ?

I get sent the £8 off if you spend £40 vouchers quite a bit. When I do , I go in and stock up on their own brand dog food which DDog likes and toilet rolls, their own brand toilet rolls are fantastic quality. Their essentials range is good too.

I spend £65-£95 on delivery from Waitrose. I find the prices to be same as Tesco but the quality is better.

I see all sorts in Booths, @MayDaze , you’d be fiiiiiiiine!

I spend £60 a week for myself, teen boy and 10yo. One shop a month from Sainsbury's and other weeks I use Lidl.

And yes, everything has shot up but I can't afford to spend more. I got a top up from the food bank last week and will have to do that sometimes now.

We spend around £185 per week at Ocado, before the pandemic is was around £120 I really don’t see how people are coping with the rise of everything, gas and electric has gone up £50 for £258 a month, it’s ludicrous I would mind paying for gas and electricity if I hadn’t been freezing all winter!

If I shopped in Waitrose, which I don't because there isn't one nearby, I'd have no difficulty spending £170 on a week's food just for DH and me. I'm a sucker for food that looks pretty or is a bit of a novelty and interesting ingredients and condiments. The fruit and vegetables, meat, cheese and deli counters in Booths are also credit card Armageddon.

Interesting about the vouchers. I get a bunch of vouchers for Sainsbury's from time to time, and they're always for just over the amount I'd spend on a normal weekly shop so I don't use most of them.

Just done the weeks waitrose shop and it came to £65 for 2.5 adults (dd is only with us for a long weekend). That excludes bread and milk and I didn't need any cleaning stuff but it included some beer for DH and some nibbles etc.

That's me. I go in booths for milk, think "oh that looks interesting", spend a fortune and realise I've bought wraps large enough to turn the cat into a burrito or something equally random

Two adults, two children under 10, no pets.

We spend approx £100 a week in Tesco, including household stuff and some toiletries (but we don’t drink at home so rarely buy alcohol!)

If you need to pay attention to the price of groceries, you can’t afford to shop at Waitrose.

We have a weekly delivery. We are never sent the 'money off if you spend over x amount' vouchers. I wonder why? All we get are the leaflets through the letter box ones but they can only be used by new customers. We do now get the smaller value loyalty vouchers to add online or use in store. That means we get a newspaper free with the weekly delivery and can choose 2 more vouchers to save 50p-£4.50 off certain products. Waitrose have had a lot of complaints about the new loyalty voucher scheme for use in store. There's the delivery fee of £3 to factor in, but it saves on petrol as we don't leave very near any supermarkets or pass any. Like pps I sometimes find vouchers online, last month £18 and £20 off, which is only ok if you usually spend over a certain amount or can afford to stock up of course. I always check the price per 100g/100ml to find the best value products. I agree that the Essentials range is very good.

I've noticed Waitrose prices shooting up in some cases. Two rolls of kitchen roll for £5 for example! No thank you. Also some cheaper products from the Essentials range are often out of stock - teabags, for example - or disappearing completely - lemonade and tonic water, for example - which pushes you towards having to buy much more expensive branded products.

And don't get me started on Waitrose short use by or best before dates. They increasingly seem to think if everything fresh or chilled they send you will last for only 2-3 days, that's ok. Especially on a weekly delivery, it's really not ok.

We found Waitrose and Tesco responded best to lockdown deliveries in our area, and Sainsbury's was awful.

At Christmas, we found that a box of naice Waitrose biscuits was exactly the same as a box from Aldi, only much more expensive and in a different box of course. I'm sure there are many more examples of that.

as we don't live* very near

I had a Waitrose shop in my online basket I'd forgotten about. It was £95 for the week.

I popped in yesterday to look at something and the same shop jumped up to £117 as the basket recalibrated itself.

Just shows how much food has jumped up.

My answer is about £95 a week. I rarely do a Waitrose shop.

There are two of us and they recently sent me 8 vouchers for £15 off a £150 shop (to be used in 4 weeks).
Waste of time.
I would rather have £5 off a £50 shop as would have some chance of using it.

We have a weekly Waitrose delivery for 2 adults and 2 large teens for £160. Thats for 3 meals a day, 7 days a week and all household items like loo roll etc. I do cook from scratch and we eat alot of veg, beans and fruit which I find good quality and not too expensive. Waitrose gives you lovely pre-prepared options and treats which adds to the cost if your not strict!

I spend £85 a week at Waitrose. That's two of us, all meals and snacks. Always cook from scratch and very good at using up ingredients across more than one meal to reduce waste / cost. I shop for Waitrose own brands but not stinting as such.

Just to add, yes to strict meal planning and not going off piste

Fifty quid a week for two of when I was shopping at Ocado last year. DD doesn’t eat a lot, but is super fussy and food and drink is my vice, so I didn’t mind - I never went out or did beauty stuff or anything. But I was buying milk from the milkman and sometimes meat from the farm shop, plus little luxuries like fortnum and masons earl grey and coffee pods and stuff.

It was more expensive, but there was value in the convenience and some (but by no means all) things are better quality. Some things are just the same wherever (milk is milk!) some things the same in different packages (bread, say,) some things are very similar packages but different quality (Ridge Valley Tonic!) and some are different but not better or worse (like breakfast bars). I do find the fruit and veg doesn’t last as long, but I think it’s ok apart from that. My kid likes their junk just as much as anywhere else’s and I can’t buy ready made stuff anyway. I think Aldi is quite ethical, in terms of fair wages as so on, which used to be important to me.

Then I fell on hard times, AND the interest rates rose AND the cost of living rose (stupendous timing at Casa Eeksteek, as usual!), I try to keep my Aldi shop to £20. They are not even remotely comparable shops, though - we’ve given up meat and fish, almost no ready made stuff just a few bits for lunchboxes, and few treats. Needless to say, there is no Fortnum and Masons tea! One day…..

Idiot's comment, totally meaningless or trying, and failing to signal, 'what a lovely caring person I am'!

I spend about £80 per week for two adults. That includes cleaning products and toiletries (except my shampoo). I meal plan and take a list.

For 3 of us we spend about £70-£80 a week in Waitrose. Last week I got £6 off £30 vouchers which is handy! But they are usually very tight on the vouchers.

When DP is here, we shop at waitrose as he has certain things he likes from there. We spend about £80-£100 for two of us. Then there will be too ups throughout the week (normally things like coffee pods, milk etc). That’ll be at least another £25 ish.

When I’m alone, I’ll shop at Sainsburys/Aldi for a main shop. Will come to about £30 for just me. That’s a lot of fresh produce - we only have a tiny box freezer so need to by fresh fruit and veg weekly. Normally I make that last just for me. And I will add, I am vegetarian so that cuts down the cost!

WHAT?? Have you been to France, Italy or Switzerland???!
What are you on about??

Perhaps variety of international groceries is better no doubt and that's only reflective of where you live even on the UK. But quality and shopping experience? Seriously?