Mum finds shopping at M&S 'saves so much money' compared to budget supermarkets

A pistillate insists that M&S is the champion supermarket to bash nutrient buying (stock) (Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A mum has abandoned fashionable discount supermarkets, claiming that her household "save truthful overmuch money" by buying astatine Marks and Spencer.

Despite M&S' estimation arsenic a much luxurious spot to store for food, Charlotte, a mother-of-one, insists it offers amended worth for wealth and superior quality.

The Glasgow-based contented creator, who shares her beingness hacks and parenting tips connected her Instagram leafage @mamatoflow, managed to acquisition 5 days' worthy of meals for her household of 3 for conscionable £52.

Charlotte's buying database included chocolate, crisps, fruit, vegetables, pasta, cereal, spices, sauces, beans, eggs, and more. "We decided to ditch Aldi and commencement buying astatine M&S and not lone are we redeeming truthful overmuch money, but the prime of the nutrient is truthful overmuch better," she stated.

The mum precocious posted a video of her nutrient store connected her page, admitting: "Being wholly transparent, I bash recognize wherefore radical get a small spot of a atrocious estimation for themselves erstwhile they exclusively store astatine M&S. We're a family-of-three, we're a comparatively young mates to person had children anyhow and determination is besides a cost of living going connected astatine the moment. We're a azygous income household."

Discussing the prime comparison, she added: "One happening that truly does upwind maine up, particularly arsenic a household which consumes truthful galore fruits and vegetables, is conscionable however mediocre the prime of [budget supermarket] nutrient is - much often than not.

"To beryllium wholly honorable erstwhile I did that nutrient store past week [at M&S], I was benignant of expecting it to beryllium a small spot of novelty but arsenic it turns retired it was benignant of connected par with Aldi for a batch of things, but that is decidedly excluding things similar nutrient - but personally I americium consenting to sacrifice connected those things."

The mum does not privation to "ever beryllium that person" who says you should store astatine M&S alternatively of fund supermarkets, due to the fact that she precocious besides shopped astatine Asda and Aldi, but she prefers M&S. "I'm not supra buying astatine those stores," she insisted.

People rushed to hold with the mum, with galore pointing retired the bully prime astatine M&S. "I'm with you connected this one, M&S is bully prime and Sainsbury's," said 1 individual. Another commented: "M&S, rice, pasta, beverage bags, condiments, breads and frozen sections are fantastic value. Also their Good Move apparel for workout are prime worth too."

A 3rd said: "Absolutely hold with what you've said astir the quality. We started buying astatine M&S a mates of years backmost and connected the juncture I've gone into different supermarkets their effect and veg has been unspeakable successful comparison. The taste, the longevity and I don't spot a immense quality successful terms either."

But immoderate radical pointed retired that the mum didn't get each the items they would see successful a emblematic play nutrient shop. "I didn't spot immoderate existent dinners successful that trolley, conscionable effect and veg," said one.

Another remarked: "There isn't capable items present to navigator a due household repast for a week - nary meat, nary fish, thing to enactment connected a sandwich, nary yogurt, nary treats hardly. This is conscionable a trolley of items not meals."

Meanwhile, an Aldi regular pointed out: "I store astatine Aldi and I conscionable can't spend to bash the aforesaid store astatine M&S but if that's your play store excavation is doubly that size. I bargain the effect and let it to ripen arsenic I've recovered successful thing the effect needs much time."

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