What food from Waitrose do I need to try?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

I've never shopped at waitrose, apart from popping in for an emergency water bottle, kind of thing. I'm an Asda/Lidl budget shopper 🤭

I've got a voucher to use there for an online shop, £15 off of an £80 shop.

So which food would you recommend i buy? Which food tastes amazing and is a must try? I'm thinking of venison, never had that

Is the pasta superior? Any seasonings?

Do share x

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Frozen bakery stuff like breakfast pastries

£1 a tin 😩

But judging by the reviews on the Asda site, they're worth it, so im gonna have to try it out! My usual just essential ones are watery 😒

I did have a lovely steak pie from lidl the other day - £4 - usually way out of my budget but I got it for free and it tasted amazing! That's what's solidified my decision tbh, I've been eating terribly my whole life 🙃

Omg do not be embarrassed 😄, this is the info i need in my life

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You should see me speed past the lidl bakery section. Can't let myself loose there for a second!

That said, this basket is full of stuff from the bakery 🙃🤭

Obsessed with all things paris, ringarde woman that i am

Thank you 😊

Okay on it 🤭

Im desperate to try this orange wine as everyone's talking about it but will temper my hopes

I just had a very useful email from Waitrose telling me there will be 20% off items at the cheese counter every Thursday. Great, except they've just closed our deli counter!

Much like all wine - just because the ones you have tried are like that to you, they won't all be! If you don't like the tangy-ness (tannins), try a lighter grape. Orange wine is wine that has been left 'on the skins' during production, and the tangy-ness you're getting are tannins that come from the skin of the grapes.

Austrian skin contacts are usually lower in acidity, more complex and fun.

Bakery bread, in particular the sourdough
No1 coffee ice-cream
Duchy organic burgers (although they used to be much better value, not worth the price anymore)
Cheese - goats cheese, Reblochon, burrata and buffalo mozzarella are my favourites
Some deserts - raspberry tart, salted caramel and chocolate tart, basically I liked everything I've tried from their No1 range
Sweet Kingdom carrots are so tasty
Frozen pastries
The meat is good, just not sure it's all that much better than other supermarkets for the price difference

In that case, this is a lovely selection of French cheeses but it’s probably better value and a safer bet to go to the cheese counter, try some samples and buy your favourites. They have some amazing cheese biscuits called Drinks Biscuits by The Drinks Bakery on the cheese counter at my local Waitrose (especially the Lancashire cheese and spring onion). You will need something to nibble on with the orange wine 😂

www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/haute-fromagerie-les-medailles-cheese-selection/974581-829977-829978?srsltid=AfmBOorPmeLfNFzVox0iGLTLYRz30yxtL6sd---eJkqjFWO1SkojRrEx

Sorry to disappoint you but there’s nothing ‘must-try’ or amazing at Waitrose. I shop there occasionally if I want a nice cut of meat, but everything else is much the same as at Tesco or Sainsbury, in terms of range and type of products. It is definitely the most expensive supermarket. I’d suggest just use your voucher to do a standard shop.

i find their ready meals very disappointing, nowhere near as good as M&S.

The crab pate is delicious!

Mutti tins of tomatoes are so good you can eke them out a bit with water! I know that sounds bonkers but I still think that's better than watery tins of tomatoes if you know what I mean

The double cream Brie on the cheese counter is nice

THEIR ALMOND CROISSANTS!!!!!!!

I think i'll have to go there and try it out as well - I'll go there first and then do my proper online shop, so I can see what I'm getting

I want to try the meat because this steak i bought from lidl literally just made me throw up!

The steak kind of swelled? As I was cooking it? It was both chewy and practically raw, it's gone in the bin

Currently eating a kit kat to recover 🤭

The coffee shortbread has sold out and I'm blaming this thread. I was going to add some for my lovely mum.

I live on their red pepper hummus. It's the best I've had and not ultra processed like most. Unless you count lemon juice concentrate which I don't because it's not a large amount.

The Colombian coffee ice cream is good my mum says.

I use their Gold tea bags, weetabix, organic baked beans, breads, muffins (toasted, although now make my own). Their fruit is much better than Asda which is my closest supermarket although their clementines have been rubbish lately. The chilli cheddar is lovely. The veggie crispbakes. I bake a lot and use their essentials range for butter and flours. I use their bread flour for bread, pizza, muffins .

The offers are often good and their prices on basics are often cheaper than Asda. Kerrygold is usually cheaper at Waitrose.

Just goes to show the difference in personal taste as most of the post completely disagree with you

Hopefully, your local branch is good! TBF, there does seem to be a lot of variation as they are often smaller than some of the other supermarket chains and seem to tailor what they stock to local demand. My local one is amazing with a fresh sushi counter, fishmonger, butcher, bakery cheese counter and deli. The slightly smaller one 10 minutes away is a bit meh in comparison. The Little Waitrose convenience store is a waste of space with mouldy fruit and veg! The food hall in the nearby John Lewis is the best of the bunch for wine and floristry, they have a climate controlled cheese room 😂 and a fancier deli counter and have preprepared fresh food but not much every day stuff. The branch closest to DS has an amazing range of garden plants but doesn’t have all the fresh counters or as much choice as my local branch, even though it’s bigger 🤷‍♀️

If your branch has a butcher and cheese counter, as well as having some different items that they don’t sell prepackaged and being able to buy exactly the amount you need, they are often cheaper per kg than the same products prepackaged.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-dark-chocolate-ginger-florentines/618649-828415-828416

Plus the other two sorts of Florentine biscuits in the same range. But the dark choc'n'ginger are the best....

I have found the staff in Lidl really sullen to the point of being downright rude.
The staff in Waitrose will actually show me where things are.

Essential sausages - really good, particularly the chipolatas. Small beef meatballs, perfect with pasta and sauce. There's a pizza - garlic, mushrooms and spinach that I could eat every week.