Supermarket vs Budget – Cost comparison a real example

// This was what we bought in the very first week of the experiment, our weekly shops at ALDI (plus our local butcher) still comes with in our £30 to £40…. we’ve actually had a few weeks at under £28. Obviously every few weeks or so we need to stock up on basics and so we’ll use all of that £40 budget. Below is our original page post with what we spent in that first shop and the cost comparison to some well known stores.//

We sat down and worked out how much we (two adults, two 5-16s and one under 5) would get on rations.
We started with good old http://www.mysupermarket.com/, which we had used regularly in the past to do our online grocery shopping.

The total cost of our grocery shop minus vegetables/ fruit (which would be bought fresh daily) is…

Tescos = £58, 7
Asda = £61, 27
Sainsburys = £66, 93
Ocado = £70, 62
Waitrose = £73, 15

At the time we added the items to the ‘trolley’ Tescos was the cheapest but items change regularly

At Aldi on Tuesday we bought our rations, vegetables, toiletries and washing powder (same items in the tescos trolley) and paid a whopping (sarcasm) £27.29… thats a £31, 42 difference…. more than enough to buy that shop all over again.

Just to remind you of what we got for our money heres my shopping list:

Fresh whole milk
raisins
brussel sprouts
carrots
cabbage
500g margerine
washing powder
baby wipes
minced beef 500g
chicken 500g
toilet tissue
sugar 1.5kg white
brown sugar 500g
orange concentrate
4 tins of baked beans
500g lard
250g salted butter
250g cheese
small 250g jar of jam (to last the week)
250g ham
250g bacon
6 eggs
honey (before we found out honey is part of the preserve ration)
a bock of chocolate as an occational treat (which makes up part of the family sweet ration)
1.5 kg flour x2

It doesnt look like that much, but imagine paying Waitrose’s £73.15 for it. (difference of £45.86)

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I suppose a bit of both … we’ve previously shopped at all these places so we know more or less how much a shop cost in the bigger supermarkets and how little it cost in the budget stores.
It wasnt too difficult to get the exact prices of the website http://www.mysupermarket.com/ and compare those prices with our grocery receipts.