Where do you do your grocery shopping?

agrinnall

What on earth has this got to do with Budgeting and Bank Accounts? I think you need to get the thread moved to a more suitable board.

bigadaj

agrinnall wrote: »

What on earth has this got to do with Budgeting and Bank Accounts? I think you need to get the thread moved to a more suitable board.

I suppose the argument is it's a very specific form of budgeting.

Personally I've never really seen budgeting and bank accounts as obvious bed fellows but others have different opinions I suppose.

DCFC79

No Aldi don't have a bakery section but maybe its something that will happen in the future.

We shop at various places, don't stick to just the 1.

Are they cheaper than Lidl?

Maybe about the same

What's it like to shop at Tesco?

Just like any other supermarket with foodstuffs on the shelving and other customers around and the odd 1 or 2 who dont look where they are walking.

jamesperrett

I started going to Aldi for nappies when our lad was a few months old and now, 5 years later, I go there for the majority of the weekly shop. I've never found them to be more expensive than the more established supermarkets and they're usually much cheaper for a similar quality product. If I can't find what I want at Aldi then I'll go to the Waitrose next door.

Deep_In_Debt

I don't have an Aldi near me so I can't comment as I've never been.

I do have a Tesco, Waitrose and Lidl nearby. I tend to shop in Tesco because it is the most convenient. My local Lidl has very limited selection especially on fresh fruit/veg and meat so I tend just to go in there to get household bits that I've run out of.

datlex

I tend to use Tesco for most shopping. We have an Aldi but they have limited choice. Poundland can seem deceptively cheap, but you have to be careful on pack sizes. I also use Iceland.

To the person who said what is food shopping to do with budgeting and banking. Planning your shopping is budgeting. This board has far too big an emphasis on banking rather than budgeting. Nice to see a thread related to it!

ceredigion

suki1964 wrote: »

It's lidl for me

Yes lidl is no longer the cheap place it used to be, BUT, the quality for the price is fantastic

Apart for some of the fruit and veg

I spend on average £25 a week for 3 adults in lidl and pop into perhaps tesco or sainsburys to pick up the few bits I need that lidl don't stock

Are you honestly telling us that you spend 23pence per day per adult on groceries.

Cornucopia

homeisthecalm wrote: »

Do Aldi have a bakery?

They sell bread, cakes and biscuits, but no in-store bakery, no.

Are they cheaper than Lidl?

Slightly. The bigger bonus of Aldi over Lidl is that it is more "British". More familiar product types. More products suited to British consumers' tastes.

What's it like to shop at Tesco?

More expensive than Aldi, Lidl or Iceland. In my experience, there's probably on average 20-30% price difference between Tesco own-brand and Aldi, it varies by product area, though.

Where do you shop and do you shop there because it's important to you or is it just because it's local?

I shop mostly at Aldi & Lidl, with one or two products to fetch from Morrisons. My town doesn't have a useful sized Tesco, the Asda is a bit grim and Sainsbury's is in an inconvenient location (and way too expensive).

pinkdalek

Spoilt for choice where I live, but I always do my main shop at Aldi.

The odd things I then pick up from Morrisons.

I find Aldi has excellent value for money and you don't tend to impulse buy.

They are good for domestic stuff such as washing poweder/bleach etc.

I only find it frustrating when you go on say a Saturday afternoon and the fruit n veg section looks like a plague of locusts has attacked it as everything seems to sell out quick. If you can a good time to go is an hour before closing, it's quiet and the shelves tend to be being restocked.

Paul_1977

Aldi and Lidl branded stuff does not taste that good. I don't go there.