Waitrose food & drink

[Notworthy]

I made this this week Sausage & Broccoli Gnocchi Carbonara Recipe | Waitrose & Partners
It wasn't a cheap meal as the Sausages were a fiver, but it was bloody lovely and very easy.
I did buy all the recommended ingredients but it would be easy to economise on the Sausages (although the garlic sausages are lovely) and eggs.

 

[ktcrg]

Love Waitrose - I make a game of going every Friday after the gym to get whatever ‘treat’ food is on offer. The other week I got a big bottle of Innocent apple juice (free for hitting a spend threshold in the Waitrose app), a pack of chicken thighs & a pack of 4 kiwis (both yellow sticker), a bottle of coconut water (free with Checkout Smart app), and a pint of posh organic milk (no discount, I was just feeling fancy), and I effectively paid £3.70!

I love the Torres crisps they do, can usually only find them in posh delis, and the San Nicasio crisps are even better as they don’t have seed oils in.

The Ottolenghi miso pesto, and pomegranate, rose & lemon harissa paste are divine and often on offer. Also Ottolenghi ice cream is lush.

Tom Parker chocolate milk - oh my! A great weekend breakfast treat.

Not usually on offer but SO GOOD I don’t care - Waitrose raspberry yum yums

The Bonne Maman sweet & crunchy peanut butter is lush - my new fave snack is sliced apple with a layer of PB on top.

The Waitrose app is great as it saves everything you buy in its Favourites list, and you can see at a glance what’s on offer.

Also strong recommend for Checkout Smart and Shopmium apps as they frequently have cashback offers (usually 50% off but sometimes 100%!), you just filter by supermarket. The Trolley app is also good for seeing what’s on offer in different supermarkets, just save your favourite items in a list.

 

[pommynoir]

The Bloody Mary crisps are great!

They are! Also on this months reward if you spend over £50. Has anyone tried the Steak Diane ones? I’ve two of the Bloody Mary in the press so might get those instead.

 

[i'm.just.highly.selective]

For anyone who hasn't picked up the free Fever Tree drinks yet, the Mediterranean ones are refreshingly citrus-y and very nice on their own or with OJ.

Pinched from elsewhere:

Spoiler: August Little Treats

£50 spend - Graze oat bars or Waitrose Free From Sicilian Lemon and White chocolate cookies
£100 - Manilife nut butter or rowse honey
£250 No.1 Sausages or plant based alternative

The cookies are actually really nice.

I've only had 2 vouchers for 'usuals' the last few weeks - and for items that are not even available - with a third for something seemingly random that I'll never be buying.

 

[alafolie]

The Bloody Mary crisps are great!

 

[kev1974]

Yep I worked for Waitrose as a delivery driver for a couple of years during covid, so I was extremely familiar with everything they were selling and coming out with back then; two years on I go in now and almost everything is exactly the same, nothing new at all. All the ready meals are the exact same, the premium stuff like Levantine Kitchen hasn't been changed or replaced with new ideas, even stuff like the grab and go sandwiches theres no special editions. Very disappointing.

They have loads of plants for sale outside in the spring but their staff / store managers don't seem to have the simple sense that they need to water them every day or two. So they just dry up and die within days and then they either end up selling the dead remains off for 10p or they actually have to pay their waste contractor to dispose of them all.

My store still has the fresh meat/fish/deli counters but my Mum has never stopped lamenting that they took that out of her very nearby store and also that they closed the bigger Newcastle store altogether. How they hell they could not make that very centrally located mid-size store work is absolutely beyond me.

Very badly run company now and as a former employee it pains me to see it.

 

[uberoblique]

I’ve claimed it to try Darjeeling but I’ve a whole press full of tea bags so I probably didn’t need it.

I claimed ours to put in the food bank box in the village

Twinings tastes like the dregs of the washing up bowl to me. My MIL whinges that my preferred cuppa is too strong (Yorkshire Gold) so we have enough half finished boxes of her Twinings floating around already.

 

[uberoblique]

My pizza crackers got subbed for the chicken ones and I can't bring myself to try them, the thought of chicken flavour is really putting me off. Has anyone tried them?

I really like them but it’s a like in the same way that Brits think potato waffles or Findus Crispy Pancakes are nice.

 

[pommynoir]

I've one bit of Le Creuset and it belonged to one of my great-grandma's so obviously super sentimental to me. Aside from the financial aspect of buying more, it's too bloody heavy for me!

Every time I've had the money to get a new piece, my sister makes me pick it up and if I can carry it to the till, it's an acceptable purchase. Alas, my immensely weak wrists hamper me every time so I look lovingly and walk away. However, I will get one of the mugs from my local branch this year. Sigh.

Some bits are so heavy I always say I don’t need the gym after cooking a big meal. My entire kitchen is Le Creuset, other than the glassware because I’m a klutz except I gave in and bought wine glasses at the factory sale last week. I managed to get the set stainless steel set for 400, rather than the £1300 it usually costs so I’m delighted with myself and promised my husband we won’t have a takeaway for atleast a month

 

[SharkAttack]

Just staggered back from a bulky items shopping spree for which I got no help from family.
I was going to go to Aldi but was dreading the scrum The offer of £15 off my shopping tempted me towards Waitrose. That and the free coffee.
It was a revelation!!!
I was all stressed out and ratty as it was a bit of a drive and hot in the car.
It was like an oasis of peace in-store. I got a parking spot near the door, secured my free coffee and crawled round the store getting in people's way without being abused.
Instead they recommended various items, so my trolley was heaving when I got to the till.
The assistant made the checkout process a dream and calmed me down.
I staggered out to the car and found myself being counselled by a lovely customer in the car park who took my trolley away and didn't draw my attention to the fact that I'd spilt coffee all down my top.
I drove home in a daze. Shopping isn't normally like this!!!

God I love Waitrose. Reading this has made me feel calm.

 

[Catfan2]

We just had the free sourdough pizza. Went for pepperoni and it was the most delicious pizza we’ve had for ages, made even better by not having to pay for it

 

[SharkAttack]

£5 for 5 months of Good Housekeeping and a £10 JL voucher. This just popped up on my Insta while browsing - diary reminder set in phone to cancel in 5 month’s time.

Good Housekeeping Magazine subscription

www.hearstmagazines.co.uk

Thank you @Badbugger i have treated myself to this what a bargain!

I've actually gone for the year for £29.99 which is only £20 if you take off the John Lewis voucher and will set a reminder to cancel before I pay for the next year.

Bargain! What a great cheerer upper ahead of back to work tomorrow!

 

[uberoblique]

We got the red bag and it was exceedingly tacky so it went into the food drive box as they apparently always need bags.

I can recommend Waitrose bakery fruit & nut bloomer. Toasted & topped with ricotta, sliced banana and honey is a top tier afternoon snack. The UK doesn’t really do fruited breads unlike Germany but they are so nice!

 

[Bumblebee]

Julys little treats are
Candy kittens
£2.50 off
Multipack of fevertree mixers

My vouchers were rubbish this week.

 

[Carefree]

Their Christmas food catalogue is out and aside from the obvious items, I'm intrigued by these two items the most.

The ice cream already being available means another thing to look for next time...

 

[uberoblique]

What’s the third treat this month?

Bunch of carnations

 

[SarcasmSpecialist]

I got the tulips last week. That actually was a treat, the groceries I'd buy anyway.

 

[pommynoir]

I confess to only doing a top up shop on Monday so my bigger shop will take place after my coupons have changed today and will count towards my April spend.

I confess (for the weekend that’s in it) to buying 6 bottles of wine to tip me over the edge for free tulips

 

[Notworthy]

So apparently Waitrose are considering selling a minority share. A better idea would be to get rid of the CEO who has absolutely no background in retail and has been an abject failure. There is no innovation at Waitrose at all.

 

[Tangent Tiger]

Some things are really nice about waitrose, I like the sushi trimmings pots for £2.95, and buying a pastry then getting my free coffee to go with it. The price of coffee is astronomical out.

Also like the biccies and they have a wide variety of unusual herbs/spices with a nice price of course! I bought some sumac (admittedly much cheaper at an international store) and aleppo chilli mixed with other chillis for turkish lentil soup recently.