{"id":36613,"date":"2026-06-15T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/36613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:35:12","slug":"i-always-shop-at-aldi-and-sainsburys-but-i-always-buy-1-thing-at-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/36613\/","title":{"rendered":"I always shop at Aldi and Sainsbury’s \u2014 but I always buy 1 thing at M&S"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually stick to Aldi and Sainsbury’s to keep costs down on grocery shopping, but there’s one thing I can’t resist from M&S\"Thurrock,<\/p>\n

I usually stick to Aldi and Sainsbury’s to keep costs down on grocery shopping, but there’s one thing I can’t resist from M&S(Image: Nigel Harris via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It was only a few years back that I chose to alter my grocery shopping<\/a> routine to cut my monthly food<\/a> expenditure. Rather than consistently visiting Sainsbury’s<\/a>, I’d initially go to Aldi<\/a> just down the street to locate all the essentials on my list.<\/p>\n

Then, if Aldi didn’t stock everything I required, I’d head down to Sainsbury’s to complete the remainder. Admittedly, it may appear like additional hassle, but it has lowered my weekly and overall monthly shopping costs.<\/p>\n

Examining the prices between Aldi and Sainsbury’s continues to astound me, particularly when I notice the price labels gradually and discreetly increase over time.<\/p>\n

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There’s a new M&S Food Hall in my area… this is a recipe for disaster(Image: Ellen Jenne)<\/p>\n

Milk, bread, eggs, whatever it might be, the prices make me grimace. If I succeed in securing an item for less than \u00a31, I feel like I’ve triumphed.<\/p>\n

Regarding my groceries, I’d like to regard myself as financially prudent. That’s why you’ll never discover me doing my weekly shop in Waitrose or M&S, despite both being within walking distance from my house, reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I’ll confess, I have one vulnerability that completely contradicts my attempts to be financially responsible. I can’t resist… Every occasion I enter an M&S<\/a>, I go directly to the sweets and chocolate aisle, hunting for one of the finest supermarket<\/a> chocolate bars available.<\/p>\n

I’m referring to the \u00a37.50 chocolate bar recognised as The Big Daddy Bar. In any other situation, I would decline, recoil and dismiss paying a full \u00a37.50 for a chocolate bar, but I have no restraint when it concerns this specific chocolate bar.<\/p>\n

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The Big Daddy Bar is my kryptonite(Image: Ellen Jenne)<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with The Big Daddy, it’s a substantial milk chocolate bar crafted from smooth milk and rich dark chocolate, combined with caramel, peanut butter and roasted peanuts, bearing more than a passing resemblance to a Snickers.<\/p>\n

It garnered considerable notoriety when it first appeared on shelves, largely due to its extraordinary price point.<\/p>\n

I held out against the temptation for as long as humanly possible, until a visit to my parents’ home revealed my mother had bought one. It proved to be the finest decision she’d ever taken.<\/p>\n

From the very first mouthful, I was completely smitten. This chocolate bar has become my ultimate weakness, and I’ll go out of my way to get my hands on one.<\/p>\n

The chocolate is wonderfully smooth without being overly sweet, complementing the caramel perfectly, which itself avoids being cloying.<\/p>\n

The roasted peanuts provide a depth of flavour that counterbalances the sweetness, rendering the entire experience nothing short of heavenly.<\/p>\n

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\u00a37.50 for a chocolate bar in another other setting is ludicrous, but at M&S, I’ll spend it(Image: Ellen Jenne)<\/p>\n

I’ll confess it openly \u2014 I can devour an entire bar in a single sitting. Once I begin, there’s simply no stopping me.<\/p>\n

There’s no logic to it whatsoever; all rational thinking abandons me the moment I step into an M&S.<\/p>\n

Matters have become considerably more precarious since a new M&S Food Hall has opened locally, making it far too straightforward to find myself wandering inside.<\/p>\n

Call me foolish, call me daft, but given \u00a37.50 to spend, I’m purchasing the Big Daddy every time. I’ve accepted the price tag, and frankly, you should too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I usually stick to Aldi and Sainsbury’s to keep costs down on grocery shopping, but there’s one thing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21128],"tags":[21143,10216,21790,27288,7322,21144,21494],"class_list":["post-36613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aldi","tag-aldi","tag-food-and-drink","tag-marks-spencer","tag-sainsburys","tag-shopping","tag-sud-nord","tag-supermarkets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}