Nothing compares to Ocado and I miss it

[cultkid]

Aibu?

I am shopping at Asda I am really missing Ocado I miss their range and the customer service but it is far far too expensive

I agree with the broccoli I don't get their broccoli or those types of things but I did get their prunes, hams and deli stuff

Fully with you on the broccoli and like £8 squashes 😂 wild!!

Oh and the point on Ocado charging a premium for substitutions

How d’you mean? That’s not my general experience with them.

@BarbaraofSeville

Going to look at eat well for less
I know where the money was going though it was pretty clear to be hams and fresh meat
Eggs
Cleaning products
Wet wipes
The fact the children consume like 500 fruits each per week
Coffee and the copious amounts my husband drinks

The 6 packets of crisps that last a day...

They eat so much more then me I don't eat that much. But the comment about my weight has really upset me @BarryK3nt I really would like you to come back and respond to that because it was totally cruel and nasty of you

Do you say that to people who can't pay their bills? I have very disordered eating and was teased for being chubby by my parents when I was a teenager when I was just normal and going through puberty. I rushed to lose the weight I gained in my third pregnancy and I change outfits multiple times a day. I know on paper I'm not over weight but I look in the mirror and see double chins and huge legs and I turn off the lights to have sex with my doting husband who tries to reassure me I am beautiful

How dare you treat me like that. You are a horrible horrible bully.

Check your bills before you accept subs - I initially assumed that they would do as other supermarkets and price match the subs but I've found that is not always the case. You have to check each bill - it seems to vary.

BarbaraofSeville I thought so too, Ocado still stocks the usual brands, it’s just Waitrose out M&S in that really changed.

@WeRateSquirrels
Thank you for this I feel a bit attacked, nobody would ask me what the fuck I was thinking if I spent it on a bag? So why is grocery shopping (which is genuinely a leisure activity the food for my family) become so emotive and give people a hall pass to slag me off? We are all different and I feel like people think I am a bad, fat, snobby person for feeding 5 people for effectively £10 a day all in... when you put it like that..
honestly I feel really hurt by this I don't know why I bother sometimes. I thought it was supposed to be a supportive forum. Your comment means a lot x

@C8H10N4O2

I used to just fill out the form and ask them to refund the difference and they always always did, especially during covid and the drop off deliveries or also as I had so many bags often 20 bags of shopping, the driver would be unable to find it.
They also said that they have to throw out the item at the end of the day so it makes no difference, that is a dreadful waste of food isn't it?

That's really interesting we do have a Morrisons local to me but it's very small which is a shame. I kept hearing brilliant things about their meat, but they didn't have the stuff we eat in an organic or free range option local to me. I think it's very much a northern supermarket they seem to be pretty good up there (when I've visited)

Ocado to Asda seems quite extreme. Waitrose or Sainsbury’s provide a service comparable to Ocado.

The problem for me when Ocado switched to M&S is that they simply don’t have a big enough range of products. They have some French foods I can’t get elsewhere, but that’s not sufficient to induce me to to shop with them regularly any more.

The fact the children consume like 500 fruits each per week

You mean you buy them all that fruit. Fruit is good for kids but they don’t need to be eating the most expensive kinds. And they don’t need to eat crisps at all. I don’t know why crisps are seen as a diet mainstay in the U.K. in Europe they’re seen as a party food.

@AriettyHomily

Seems so, because how dare we have different circumstances? I don't ever grill people on their finances and this wasn't even a post to do with my spend, it's a small point of the post nothing to do with cost and budgeting but it's about missing Ocado and how brilliant I found it for a plethora of reasons, none of which I should have had to justify to anyone nor should anyone have commented on my weight? People are really cruel aren't they?

My husband eats the crisps and I don't want to change our eating habits very much as it works for me without going into private specifics of my children and their eating habits. All fruit is expensive. We eat with the seasons but a tangerine or banana get boring really quickly..

Also I get the bread and fruit from Sainsbury's as well as other items I can't get at ASDA. Considering rather a lot of it is branded such as crisps, stock cubes, salt, tinned tomatoes, pasta, baby milk and food, wet wipes, body washes, it doesn't make a difference and if I'm buying organic and free range meat at Asda it's the same as going to sainsburys. I have been frightened about the instability of prices in the future and I don't think it's insane at all to try and draw in the purse strings rapidly. Have you been worried or are you outside of the UK? I can nearly guarantee every single person on Mumsnet in England has been worried about the cost of living and if they can, they save money. It doesn't make a difference to me if the organic meat came from sainsburys or Asda and to be entirely honest with you I personally have NOT noticed a difference with them, I think the only comparable difference is the Ocado range including all of their niche farmers. If there was a difference I would be happy to go to sainsburys but I've not noticed it and I also don't even think sainsburys is so amazing. I'm just glad they have Jackson's bread to be honest, it's annoying they don't stock that at Asda.

Why I wouldn't want to keep money in my bank instead of someone's else's is not rocket science given the current state of affairs here.

Have you thought about buying meat from an online butcher rather than a supermarket, OP?

I don’t eat meat but over lockdown several relatives and friends had to find alternative sources when Ocado stumbled - and none of them have gone back to supermarket meat. (Mostly they say they’re buying less but better.) I’ve heard good reports of several on this list:

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/food-reviews/g36337226/meat-delivery-boxes/

I had caterpillars all over Ocado broccoli once. To be fair it was a long time ago. OP you're allowed to feel what you want and do what you want but I think people might think it a bit insensitive to mourn the loss of your very high weekly spend on luxury food when perhaps they are choosing between heating and eating. You are perfectly right to want to budget, times being as they are, but you must see that it's difficult to sympathise if someone complains about cutting down the diamond spend while you're struggling for bread. You can assume the really mean comments (as you perceive them) come from that.

The fat comment was just intended to hurt both you and those of us who are fat and should be ignored.

We can afford the heating BUT I am worried about the future and I want to save the many thousands of pounds now that is the difference, because I do not KNOW what life will be like in the future with energy bills, the heating is on at 22c but I don't want to have to turn it down, so I want to have more savings then we historically had, each month. That's the point. Not that I have to choose, thank god for that I don't have to choose, because so many people I know do, and it's not about choosing Asda or Ocado, it's about choosing to eat or heat and it's fucking grim unfair and awful. I hate hate hate how unfair things are for so many families at the moment, my heart aches about it.

This is a really really helpful post

Thank you so much

Don't know if it's been said already but for any new customers, you can get £20 off a £60 spend and free delivery. Just go on the Ocado website and the voucher is on there. Valid till 29/11/22 but doesn't include alcohol unfortunately. Obviously you only need to get one delivery and aren't committed to any further shops. New customers only!!

I stopped using ocado when they switched Waitrose for Marks and Spencer.
I've used Iceland since. I can't fault them.

Cheap meat is a false economy. I don't mean cheap cuts- I use them in my slow cooker- I mean cheap bad meat. I cannot eat it.

You can easily spend hundreds on Ocado-- there's M&s, all those groovy artisan brands; prepared fruit and salads, gourmet ready meals......etc etc.... but Ocado's own brand things are generally good value, and even some M&s stuff is fairly cheap ( tin of m&s beans 40p, m&s microwave rice 50p- yes i know they're probably half the price at Aldi or Asda).
But what I'm trying to say is, don't just opt for brands you've bought in the past, but shop around on Ocado to look for their best prices ( and step away from browsing the New Products!).

Even more helpful:

farmstofeedus.org

Set aside an hour and scroll to ‘View the database.’ It’s honestly life changing - you may never shop in the same way again!

Amazing thank you ❤️❤️❤️ I'm all for the best welfare and quality I can get
I like the idea of buying meat from a small farmer I'll look into that and try it x

Totally totally agree with the exception of Bernard Mathew ham 😬😬😬 guilty pleasure

@C8H10N4O2

you are correct re thé charging if subs
its a disgrace

What even is Ocado?

InTheNavy
some households don’t have any choice to buy cheap meat!

How old are you? You sound about 6 to be honest! And exceptionally over sensitive. Also why do you keep insisting that no one would say anything to you if you were spending it on a bag? Posters get ripped to shreds on here for saying they want/are buying a designer handbag.