I did my grocery shopping. My current job is just next to a Waitrose, so I'm now doing about 50% of my shopping there rather than my usual Tesco down the road from home. The quality of Waitrose food is so much higher, esp. their fresh produce & meat. And their Essential range is a nice compromise between price and quality. But Tesco is still cheaper for branded items. So I'm mixing and matching my shopping between the two places; most fresh food from Waitrose, everything else from Tesco.
Waitrose rocks. All sorts of funny little things you can't find elsewhere. Their staff seem to be a trillion times better trained than Tesco's, too. They don't look as though they want to strangle the next customer, which is reassuring.
I've found they sell a few name brands cheaper than the rest, surprisingly enough! Certain types of soya sauces, for example, and some very good teas, among other things I can't remember off the top of my head. Very honest pricing for the quality in my opinion.
I shop at least 4 different supermarkets throughout the week, going to whichever place does each item best. Not as hard as it sounds as they're all practically next door to each other. I think I've become almost Jewish or Italian-like when it comes to attention given to food. Sadly, my cooking is not quite up to those heights yet.
It literally took me 45 minutes to put the frakking thing together. But it works like a dream and you can actually rinse out the compartments in it, as well as the filter. I will let it dry for at least 24 hours before I use it again though. It's a nice vacuum cleaner and we got it on sale at Kohl's!!!! It's regularly more than $130..we got it for $72! What a steal!
