If you shop at M&S/Ocado...

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How much do you spend a week on food, and for how many people?

No... that's not what I was saying.

@uhOhOP ugh I'm being dense. I get you!

Well, fuck me, have you never seen quotation marks used before?

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Weekly Ocado delivery of around £80-90, and couple of top up shops at M&S around £30/£40

2a and 2c

@uhOhOP nothing to see here

Buy a bench or something OP (one for the oldies there)

£80-110 plus £15-20 at our butcher for two adults and a teen. It includes alcohol, lunches for the two adults and toiletries.
We switched from Sainsbury's to Ocado last year after the quality went greatly downhill. I find the fresh stuff lasts so much longer and the quality is ten times that of other own brands so I find I'm buying more Ocado branded stuff. M&S is often cheaper than you expect and they do some great deals. Ocado have also price matched a huge amount of products to other supermarkets so they aren't more expensive at all. I have continued to compare a lot of their prices to Sainsbury's and often they come out lower.

Spend 120-150 a week for 2 adults and two adult sized teens, no alcohol, no pets, includes household stuff and mainly stick to ocado brand rather than m and s.

About £150 a week for 2 adults

Weekly Ocado, family of 3, between 90-110 a week, typically, with a 30-50 top up through the week from Morrisson's, Waitrose or Aldi, depending on where I find myself.

Ocado price check with the big supermarkets and let you know if your shopping is cheaper with them than elsewhere and by how much. 2 weeks ago my shop was £2ish less than at Tesco. Last week it was £2.50 more so they've given me a voucher to that amount off this week's shop.

I don't think that's bad at all. Their reputation is based on selling Waitrose and then M&S food, I think, but they sell a hell of a lot more.

I always allow £200 pw for the food shop, usually comes in around 170. Family of 4 and a cat. Includes the necessary non-food stuff too for the week, toiletries, detergent and so on.

£150ish a week - 2 adults and 2 dcs - but eldest of those is a teen who eats as much as an adult and this includes lunches for all family members as dcs don’t have school meals, I take packed lunch and dh WFH. Oh and we have a dog, but main dog food bought elsewhere, just poo bags and treats go on the Ocado order.

this week it was £200, but also bought cleaning products and toiletries.

id got it into my head it would be cheaper to go to tescos and did that last week. Quickly realised nope, food is just spendy at the moment. I think cleaning stuff and toiletries would be cheaper from other supermarkets, but actual food is very little difference.

I've just placed an order about an hour ago that came to just over £130, that's for 2 adults, 1 teen, 2 cats and 2 dogs and I let DD sit and add snacks she fancied before I quickly found cheaper alternatives(I'd say our typical shop is around £110 depending on what I'm cooking/what household stuff needs replenishing).

I've only recently started shopping there, I had a code to get £20 off my first 5 shops plus smart pass for 3 months(and a free toy ocado van lol). I think this is my 7th or 8th order and I've been very impressed with the quality and the cost plus they seem to offer freebies/vouchers often (they had a free £20 food bundle a few weeks in a row).

£120 for 3 or 4 adults and a teen.

The last couple of weeks Ocado have sent a email to say I’ve saved compared to the same shop in Tesco, £4-£6, but I do look for offers and base my meals
around those.

I shopped there for 7 years- but no more.

I only shop if there is a special event because they are much more reliable- e.g. if I am making a birthday meal and I need x, y and z, I will use Ocado. I've found their delivery much more reliable and they ping you when they have pulled up outside.

I love the fact the groceries are sorted and the bags colour coded. I find their website much easier to use and I love the fact you can just add all of your weekly favourites with one click.

However, the prices are now....ridiculous. And the veg has always been rubbish.

If you want to do just one shop a week (which is what we do) then it helps to plan your meals. It's a boring job but I've found it so much easier- on a weekend, I note down which are our late nights, who is having lunch boxes on which days and whether I am in during the day (to cook a meal) or back in late and need to chuck something in the oven. I then just order what we need.

1 veggie adult, 1 older teenager, 2 cats. I buy cat food/litter from other shops; cleaning products from £1 shop or Aldi/Lidl, apart from washing powder which is only at Sainsbury. Toilet rolls and real coffee/coffee pods come from Amazon (subscribe and Save). And biscuits/cake/wrapped bars etc - again £1 shop or Aldi/Lidl. So to Ocado. Normally a big shop every 2 weeks (teenager not with me full-time). That includes alcohol, some meat (normally the deals) but ham & cheese, and some ready meals. We both need/prefer to take food to work/college. My bill is normally £120 but can be up to £150. I add a lot of fresh veg/salad and we live like royalty the 1st few days. Normally the quality of veg and salad is very good. I was fed up after the switch to M&S when the pricing seemed so off. eg a pack of M&S custard creams - 35p in store, 50p on Ocado. So I complained. That is a very unreasonable mark-up. But the service is exemplary. Drivers fabulous, customer services fabulous. Custard creams are now only 30p and they have started price matching to Tesco. I went to Sainsbury last week on the off-Ocado week - my bill £150! But that included quite a lot of slightly-discounted meat and more cheese, but less alcohol!

£275 -350 a week for two adults and two kids. It's always more expensive if DH does it. The man looks at the price of nothing and never checks what is already in the fridge.

Ocado are price matching Tesco on like for like items at the moment. They sent me a coupon for 26p this morning because had I gone to Tesco for yesterdays delivery which cost £75 it would have been 26p less.
During lockdown I used Tesco all the time but have become a recent convert to Ocado. I like the wider choice they offer and whilst I thought they might turn out to be far more expensive I haven’t really found this to be case.

What a silly comment! No one can possibly talk about anything in that case!

I shop at Ocado and it’s cheaper than Tesco - they even send emails detailing why - and pretty much everything is always delivered.don’t see why it has to be justified - it’s nicer and therefore better value for money.

3 people - 2 adults and one teenage dustbin son - about £130 a month. If 19 year old son is also back from Uni then it goes up to about £170 but I don't often shop there when there's 4 of us

What's it like for Christmas slots? I would be scared to lose my Tesco priority slot!

And can you build sparks points in Ocado?

2 adults, 2 dc, half a teen (we have him half the time), we spend about £150-200 a week. We get all our household stuff in bulk from Costco, probably quarterly? And we spend about £100 then too.

The trick is to also read the comments people are quoting and responding to.

1A 2C - ca £80 per week depending on alcohol/housey or cleaning stuff.
I was fed up of short dates & crap substitutions from sainsburys found morrisons had increased loads & slot availability limited & the send me loads of % off vouchers week by week!
Midweek we have busy day/evening so always get dinner & top up in sainsburys so around £15-20 more.

I have given up Ocado in the last six months due to the prices. I was finding it harder and harder to get what I needed at a level we could afford - we were spending about £125 a week. I've switched to Sainsburys, and it is so much cheaper. I go back to Ocado when they send me a voucher.

I miss the app, I miss the colour coded bags, I miss some of the food. But not enough to be a smart pass customer again, and I was one for nearly twenty years. There's less waste too, because if I just need a couple of leeks, or a certain number of baking potatoes I can choose that. I don't have to have the prepackaged stuff.