Is there any point a £20 a week Tesco shopper going to the discounters

maman

I agree that it's probably worth sticking with Tesco in your circumstances. I think you're doing remarkably well to manage on £20 a week.👏
 I'd welcome hearing what you buy and how you do it. 🤔😊

lovelifer

I don't know what your local Tesco's is like but I love mine as they have excellent reductions/yellow stickers on a range of fresh and food cupboard stuff. so, I can get some excellent bargains, particularly  late afternoon

MikeJXE

Lol Funnily enough and I don't know why but I put my receipts on the kitchen window cill and when I decided to bin them I found they went back to April 5th, due to items going through the roof I decide to enter them into a spread she as I like playing with numbers. I'm 82 and live on my own in a 2 bed flat, Tesco is over and down the road a bit 300 yards, Aldi is on the same side as me and a bit closer about 200 yards walk. I don't eat a great deal and I like simple things, first tea coffee cereal with milk.  My main meals are either,  2 bacon thick cut 1 egg large, 1/3 tin of Heinz's baked beans 1 toast... or Frozen chicken fillets, 1 potato a good size, 4 frozen veg and gravy. Between I have a sandwich or 2, banana, ham, corn beef, paste or cheese on toast, I like a treat of chocolate or sweets, choc ices. I have always been about ten and a half stone and too my horror I'm eleven and a half so I am now trying to lose some weight, also to my horror when I set the spreadsheet up my biggest spends were sweets and chocolate, lol, I don't buy cakes anymore either. I tend to buy Tesco brand except beans. I did love Kellogg's cornflakes when they were £2 a large box, I hated Tesco ones. Its surprising how nice Tesco cornflakes can be at 90p against Kellogg's at £2.85 For the same amount.  I also buy household goods, washing  and bathroom products from Tesco in my totals. . My total spend from 5th April to 1st November was £603 for 30 weeks. I don't scrimp and save I get what I want, I go out for a meal about every 2 weeks and I'm happy. 

maman

Thanks so much @MikeJXE. You're doing brilliantly and good luck with losing weight.

As Aldi is so close, it might be worth walking down there and trying a few swaps and checking the prices. I like their bacon (smoked back). Their chocolate is great but that's not what you want to hear. 🤣

MikeJXE

I would never get all I want from Aldi and there is now way I'm doing 2 shops, no I've knocked off chocolate sweets and cakes but I did miss a few things like sausage rolls, fruit pies, pancakes, pork pie, crumpets all which I buy occasionally 

Coffeekup

MikeJXE said:

I'm an 80 year old pensioner, I live alone and my food bill is around £20 a week on average inc household. I'm not wealthy but I'm ok for now. I buy Tesco brand bread milk cereal bacon eggs, frozen veg potatoes Heinz's beans, some sandwich fillers. The Tesco extra it's a nice shop round the corner and I know where everything is so it's no hassle, incidentally Aldi is a touch closer but a lot smaller.  I'm not interested in saving a couple of pounds to take on any tress but would like to know the thought of discount shoppers in my situation. 

In my experience Aldi would be cheaper.

I'm unsure and doubt if the price match thing works against certain products like the ones you buy... As it's their own it's own brand cereal egg's, milk bacon and eggs.
You may get away with a brand match on Heinz beans if it's the same sized tins, and same pack size.

I'm pretty sure you'd save on veg and a few other items going to Aldi, but if u do but fresh item's from Aldi they won't last as long as Tesco (again in my experience).
That being said I find some thing nicer than than the big supermarkets we all know i.e. cheese from Aldi is far better as is certain pate's, yogurt's cheaper but no difference in taste etc etc.

For me I go to Aldi for a few select thing's these day's, 1 because their noticeably cheaper and or 2 because that particular is the same price or cheaper and the product is better. But I don't do the whole weeks shop there. 

mjm3346

The latest Which survey had a trolly from Tesco at around £87 and Aldi were about £10 cheaper  - if you use a Tesco Clubcard you will reduce the cost of your Tesco shop so making any difference between them and Aldi even smaller.

MikeJXE

Yes I have a club card. £87 is almost a month shopping for me and I wouldn't buy that much at once anyway, milk doesn't last that long for a start 

GaleSF63

MikeJXE said:

 I did love Kellogg's cornflakes when they were £2 a large box, I hated Tesco ones. Its surprising how nice Tesco cornflakes can be at 90p against Kellogg's at £2.85 For the same amount. 

Conversation in Tesco:
Friend's husband:- "Look what I've found!" waving pizza reduced to 10p.
Friend:- "But you don't like pizza" 
Friend's husband:- "I do at 10p!

YoungBlueEyes

Could you maybe try one or two things from aldi as a tester, if you don't want to risk a whole week's shop?

From the list of things in your previous post, I'd recommend aldi cheese/ham/bread as particularly good.

The quiet time in mine is around 9.30 - 10 ish. Folk stream in the door when it opens, but once the 'work day' starts it empties out.