General Chat

There is only the two of us but we have noticed that our food bill has gone from £60 to £70 a week, now it's more likely to be £100 to £110. Grr.
PS. Since the Coronavirus has kicked in I mean.

I think I am buying too much, in case I can't get a delivery next week.

Mine has gone up, but nothing like as much as yours, ZZzzz.

Some of it is due to Brexit. I shop at the Coop, which sells UK stuff where possible, and only things like oranges and bananas are imported.

Me too, Sharon, but as I always stock up for the winter, nothing will go to waste. I am only stocking up a tad early. ;-) :-D

And of course the prices will come back down when all this lockdown stuff is over..... NOT.

Barbara, I don't know about Asda, but I do shopping at Tesco and the £4.50 is a fixed one-hour slot. Have you looked at the flexible choice?

It's only £3.00, and if you are at home most of the time, as many of us are at the moment, you choose a 4-hour slot. On the day in question they ring at about 8.30 am (for an afternoon slot) and give you the one hour slot when they will deliver.

I do either Iceland or Asda shops, Iceland is free over £35 but not such a good choice and in our area it's got worse as they have started doing big packs of things so we have to be careful as to freezer space. I had an Asda delivery today which was £2.30 charge but tomorrow would have been a £6 charge which is a big difference I think.

I have noticed my bill going up over the lockdown but not by any more than it would normally do over a year I think, but I have been buying more some items as have got a store cupboard of tins etc which I never used to have.

The main thing I have noticed is the price of toilet rolls and they seem to be getting smaller as well as more costly.

We go for the cheapest option for delivery which means we do have our groceries come at some very odd hours but do factor in the cost of the fuel for one of us to drive to the supermarket.

Sadly, an Aldi click and collect can work out as more expensive than a Sainsbury delivery and Lidl has been out of the question.

I use Iceland and order over £35 worth for free delivery. They recognised my password from the 1990s.

I use Waitrose and pay no delivery charge but there may be a minimum purchase for free delivery that I am unaware of. They emailed me last March offering me free deliveries as they noticed I was over 70.

I use Sainsbury which used to be free delivery but it's now £1.

I've also noticed that our weekly grocery bill is getting higher, and there are only 2 of us.

OH still shops in person at our local Safeway/Sobeys, and picks and chooses the fruit and veg, trying to keep it to produced in Canada or South America and Mexico rather than the US ........ with the US often being a little more expensive.

JustGinnie ............ I've noticed that toilet rolls have got narrower over several years, and there seems to have been another reduction over this past year ......... rhere's a lot more of the metal roller visible now than there used to be!!

I forgot to mention that Ocado emailed me a week or so ago offering me a free delivery. I have yet to see whether it's a one-off offer but my delivery comes tomorrow.

It made me wonder, but I need to check, whether M & S food sales have gone down during the pandemic because it does not have its own grocery delivery service and Ocado began to sell its stuff after it jettisoned Waitrose deliveries - last summer, from memory. (Waitrose is well-organised for its own delivery service anyway.)

As far as I am aware, Ocado is the only company that, along with its own picks, also delivers a limited amount of M & S produce.

I have checked the Ocado site a few times during the last six months or so because there are a handful of M & S goods that OH and I particularly like but the delivery charge always put me off using it. I suspect this has been noticed, hence the free delivery offer.

Joy-Louise, can't you keep anything to yourself?!

As a recovering addict, I was tempted to look at the Ocado site and there they were!

I have been so strong about not having any of those egg, potato and tomato salads when I was up to two and tree a day at one time, and now I am pestering again!

They are nice though Sharron. :-D