My shopping habits are complex. They involve empty cupboards, rhetorical questions: "what can you make for dinner with parsley stalks and three eggs?" It's only rhetorical in that I never receive an answer. And lots of ethical decisions (only British bacon, no chicken breasts, Fairtrade coffee, and a halo please).
My husband is very patient. And sometimes rather hungry. As I buy from so many different suppliers; the butcher's once a month, the farmer's market when I can, Suma every couple of months, and Ocado probably every six weeks, we are permanently out of certain essentials. Fortunately we have a brilliant corner shop, which has probably saved my marriage.
The plus side of a shopping regime which uses up as much brain space as a second job is that I get really, really cheap deals at Ocado. Because I don't buy regularly I get increasingly desperate emails every few days imploring me to buy from them at a 20% discount, sometimes even 25%. I was telling my sister this, as I assumed everyone got them, but as a more regular customer, it turned out that she didn't. Now she's a bit more infrequent and she gets the same. If you add the discount to free delivery slots and Tesco Price Match, I think it's quite a good deal. My shop normally comes to about £100 and has all the boring stuff such as nappies, washing powder. If I ever go into a Waitrose shop I come out having spent the same and I've got enough food (albeit delicious food) to last a couple of days.
Anyway, I just thought that might be useful.
You can make parsley omelette... Uuugh.
ReplyDelete(Another great way to reduce your grocery bill is to get knocked up! Wine consumption is way way down in our house. Alas this is a short-term benefit however, and eventually results in a steep increase. Pah)
Unfortunately we dont have Waitrose/Ocado up here, it's nice to read that other people have the same trauma I do when it comes to the weekly shop - a fortune spent, nothing for tea and never enough to last a week :-(, dont know where I go wrong lol x
ReplyDeleteShhh...Don't tell everyone about the discounts or they'll stop doing them! I've been holding out and just got a £20 off code this week!
ReplyDeleteHurrah! Spend it on something silly!
DeleteMy discount vouchers stopped the minute I signed up for the delivery pass. I think I became too much of a sure thing. On the bright side I spend loads less since I stopped setting foot in a supermarket and their "special" offers.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for signing up for a regular delivery slot. Forget it. Like to keep them guessing!
ReplyDeleteI was told that I had unspent Clubcard vouchers, looked in the account and had enough to buy two weeks' shopping. Or a case of Champagne. Guess which one I went for.
ReplyDeleteonlione shoppiong is definitely better value than going in store - I can't stand actually shopping in a supermarket anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you've looked at my blog at all, but my friend challenged me in the pub a few weeks ago to do posts about what you get if you have nothing (or a handful of bizarre ingredients) in the fridge and what you come up with if you google the ingredients. Have come up with 3 pretty good meals so far. Mind you, I think parsley omlette's about as good as google might come up with faced with eggs and parsley only!
http://recipe-junkie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/husband-and-i-went-out-for-quiet-drink.html (if you're interested...)
It looks amazing RJ. Very impressed.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for you KM, I am just relieved it wasn't special brew.
thanks for looking!
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