Ocado-Aldi

[HappySunflower]

I've been on a bit of an economy drive lately.

I used to shop at Sainsburys, but noticed that I was drifting from my shopping list and chucking more stuff in my trolley and my food bill was going through the roof.
Anyway- I've been shopping online at Ocado for the past few months and did comparison shops at tesco/Sainsbury/Asda and found that I was actually spending less through Ocado- so all good.

Anyway, this week I took it one step further and did all my shopping at Aldi.
With some items I found that I bought larger quantities than available at Ocado, just because it was all that they had.

Despite that, I spent £24 less this week than I did doing the same shop for £75 at Ocado 2 weeks ago and everything I bought looks great- and that includes cleaning products.

I am an Aldi convert. I always shopped at sainsburys. Aldi dishwasher tablets are the best I ever used. Chocolate great! The cheeses are very good and mostly vegetarian even the feta, which is important to me. I just have to stock up every now and then of things I can't get in Aldi.

:)

Yep Aldi for me too, not always the best for fresh-& I hate the way EVERYTHING is packaged, but overall loads cheaper. Working my way around the freezer bits too over the weeks, can recommend the pizzas & the mozzarella sticks are yummy!

I know what you mean about packaging!

I'm astonished at how much cheaper it was- and some things are far nicer tbh

You see this is the interesting thing - I'm a Sainsbury's shopper, and swapped to Aldi, but I found my bill to be the same! But then I only buy offers in Sainsburys except for things that are rarely on offer (for example black peppercorns) so I think that might be why.

From what I've gleaned from others who have tried asda/ocado it is comparable in price.

If you keep it up Happy you'll be £1200 a year better off. I got our weekly shop for £27 this week. Thats breakfast, lunch dinner for two adults who like large portions (theres a joke there but I'm not going to make it) and then an extra £6 for the cat with hollow legs.

MIL has tried some stuff from there but seems to almost hold the food by the fingertips! eg she wont buy the ham as "I wasnt sure what it was like" well how do you know what anything is like unless you try it? .

Her weekly food bill is £70, for two adults who have tiny portions, honestly I couldnt have that much for dinner I'd be starving an hour later.