M&S Grocery Shopping: HOW MUCH WE GOT FOR THE MONEY AND WHAT WE EAT IN A WEEK. 

Becky from Acre Homestead here on RU-vid says that in the USA eggs need to be refrigerated because they are washed and European/British eggs are not washed. Apparently washing removes a protective coating on the egg. Really enjoying this channel. Love a supermarket video! Thank you for this one!

Sophie, that’s my daughter’s favorite grocery store in London, she’s a barrister in training there and she compares M & S to Trader Joe’s here in NY. I keep telling her to look out for Sophie and please tell her she’s my fav RU-vidr and my daily dose of happiness❤😃

We say receipt not sales slip. A sales slip for us is something that is hand written and was used more often in clothing stores and such about 100 years ago lol. The cargo pants are cute! There is a chain called Fred Meyer’s, has clothes and a grocery store. Targets and Walmarts often include groceries as well but they didn’t always depending on where they are located.

Hi Sophie - As someone with food sensitivities (all the big ones - gluten, dairy, corn, soy, etc) I had to learn at a fairly young age how to eat very differently from most people. It was painful to do so (nearly impossible)... the world has come a long way in a decade. I am also all about food quality which is difficult given the state of the food supply in the US, which is where I am. Seeing you and David pick out your groceries and hearing what you eat made me feel like the two of you are my kindred spirits. I also eat lots of high quality meat and tons of veggies and fruits (berries every day), sweet potatoes, little processed food, no bread, and have a bit of dark chocolate as my only sweet. I also check the ingredients on any packaged foods (and vegetable oils are a big ☠). Thank you for making me feel less alone in my quest for healthy foods! Besides, I just came back from LA and if you ever go, you absolutely have to check out Erewhon, an upscale grocery store that is only in the LA area. It is pricey but literally everything in the store is organic and/or the highest quality that you can find. I stumbled upon it when I was shopping in the Golden Triangle of Beverly Hills... walking down Rodeo Drive... there's Gucci, Celine, Loewe, EREWHON... l did a double take... a grocery store seems misplaced?! 😂 Even the deli food is fantastic... being free of gluten and dairy, I was able to get rotisserie chicken with a kale salad and sweet potatoes and all of these items typically I would expect to be super bland, but in fact the way they were prepared, they were delicious. From what I hear this is the grocery store of choice for Hollywood celebrities, just a little tidbit 😂 Given all of your recent videos on grocery shopping, thought you might find this interesting. Thanks for this brilliant video!

I love seeing what the grocery shopping is like in different stores and countries! Thanks for a great video, Sophie!! We buy very similar things, so it's good to be able to compare.

From LA here and I love M&S. I guess the closest is Target for variety of merchandise or Trader Joe’s/Wholefoods for grocery items but definitely not Ralph’s (food there is terrible lol). Keep us posted on your US trip…if you’re visiting Southern California, Premium Outlets and vintage stores are a must for your channel, Sophie! 💕

This was a fun video to watch 🙂. I personally love watching grocery shopping and cooking vlogs with you and David. My favorite videos are your Christmas grocery shopping and cooking videos.

I do really like M&S for everyday clothes but I think they go through phases where it's more interesting. I was buying a lot from them about 6 or 7 years ago but more recently I've not loved the ranges. I need to look again. I like the Collection range they do. I do like their food to but we don't have a big food hall. One is being built to open in the summer so will be nice to see what they stock. A friend really likes their gluten free range as she has coeliac. The eggs thing is because in the US eggs are washed which removes the protective layer and makes them porous so bacteria can get on. We don't wash them in the UK so they are shelf stable for a while.

Sophie if u dont want to try pants on at the store, take the waisf of the pants and put it around ur neck. The circumfrance on ur neck and ur waist are somehow the same. So if the pant's waist can wrap around ur neck, the pants will fit. I do this all the time.

I’m from U.S but I LOVE, LOVE M&S. I just wanted to bring back a whole suitcase of snacks and jams from M&S 😁.

Oh, I LOVED this! I'm a sucker for vlogs of grocery stores and drug stores. Wondering if you could do a walkthrough of Boots or Superdrug and what kind of skin care, body washes, shampoos, cosmetics you have over in the UK. Might be kind of mundane or down market, but I find all of that fascinating. Thank you, Sophie, as always for bringing us along. Loving the new channel! Be well!

rockit apples are just the variety of apple (like jazz, gala, mckintosh etc), but not all apples are available year round due to harvest times

That was such fun. So nice seeing David!

I love watching you two get excited about the deals lol thanks for bringing us along :)

I love your day in a life vlogs. It is so fun seeing a different side to you!!

Great vlog Sophie! Really enjoyed seeing you both food shopping 🤞 the cute cargo pants are a good fit xx

I really like this new chanel of yours, love this. 😍

Back in 1992-1996 i lived and worked in the UK. A special treat was going to m&s food. ❤❤❤

I cant believe Im enjoying watching you go food shopping. I hate food shopping. Get mine delivered 😂😂😂

I live in the USA, but I love to go to M&S when I’m home in England - love the quality and choices there! Thanks for taking us with you. ☺️💕

Grocery store geek here, I love grocery shopping!! I’ll go with you two any type of shopping!!💕💕💕💕💫

Have to agree the food in Mark's and Spencer is top quality. Everything looks so fresh and restaurant quality. I've tried the Ceaser Salad and its amazing!

Thank you so much for showing what you eat. I am newly gluten free and it’s so good to see someone else eating the same as me ❤

Love the new channel! Hate the pink cargos but love your outfit!

Hi Sophie, yes Father's Day in the states is in June. This year it's the 16th. There aren't any M and S near where we live, but I have always enjoyed shopping there when in the UK. They do have a bit of everything don't they. I love those pink cargo pants, I hope you will do a subsequent vid to show how they fit and if you got the correct size. They looked so cute and totally my style. Really enjoyed this video, thanks for posting. I always enjoy you and David on your outings. It's rare to find a man who actually seems to enjoy shopping! Have a nice weekend.xx

Sophie, I can't wait that you coming to States this year! Can't wait for the vlog too.

Love this video ❤Love M&S ! Really miss M&S crisps and the sandwiches… very difficult to purchase in HK😊

Hi Sophie! a long time follower from Mexico City, I really liked this video, I too sit in the car with my partner to discuss the ticket prices against other stores so I really enjoyed your vid. Greetings!

Thanks Sophie. Loved the video xoxo

Hi from Connecticut USA, checking out this additional channel. I was not too interested in the clothes and bags - there was a time when I could only afford a "pleather" hand bag and I don't miss it. Liked the grocery shopping, esp. when you mentioned your regular/utilitarian eating. Thank you for this video. 🫐

In Canada, I don’t recognize most of the brands you showed for food. Due to price increases, I buy frozen vegetables and fruits.

Hey Sophie (and David) thanks for uploading and congrats again on your driving licence. Our Marks and Sparks here in Canada has most of the stuff you have in the UK, thanks for showing the pink cargo pants we have them and I think I will go check them out. They look good. VIDEO IDEA; Can you do a video on yellow sticker foods but for a gourmet three course meal possibly from M&S and Waitrose to see who is best qality and selection?. Hugs from Canada 🥰🥰

i always wondered wtf an m & s was haha. i love these random personal videos they are so chill!

Wow prices in the UK are mad cheap compared to Canada 🇨🇦 I think I need to move soon

Love this grocery haul

I live in Arizona and never heard of Marks & Spencer. We arrive London Christmas Day so I will make it a point to visit one while there!😁

I LOVE grocery shopping. Really miss UK supermarkets. Keep up the vlogs, dear Sophie.

In Australia Father’s Day is in September and Mother’s Day is in may.

Hello Sophie. You are coming to the states! I hope you have a wonderful time.

That was excellent thank you Sophie ❤

Thank you Sophie and David. That was fun! ❤🛒🍇🍎🍒🍓🥑🌶🥖🧀🥚

Haha, I just bought that white gardigan and thought exactly the same. With a white T and baggy jeans, it's a lovely combo 😍

❤. Great options thanks for sharing.

Im a great fan of M&S jeans. They last a long time and there is such a big variety of styles 😊

Would love to see vlogs that show your approach to accomplishing something/problem solving. For example, dinner party for friends and a vlog where you show your approach to the menu and house and hosting and what you do and David does. Or a travel oriented vlog where you decide what to pack and style the outfits based upon what you will be doing. Or how you prepare for a work presentation similar professional meetings. And of course home decorating etc.

Ralph's only sells food stuffs and odd holiday themed sandals or sometimes a granddad t shirt in the holiday cards and candles aisle (a really small section), Walmart and Target is what is most similar in terms having both pretty good quality clothes as well as normal food in there, although of course Target doesn't have a full deli in, but they will have about 30-40% of what a full-on grocery store will have and cover all the basics you need nowadays with their offerings in store, good for students who often have one nearby in their college towns and can't store a lot inshared spaces.

Really love this video Sophie. Maybe you could do full day of eating if you don’t mind. Im really interested to know! ❤

Have a nice weekend, Sophie! 😘

Hi Sophie!!! Over 3 hours late, whoops!!! Have a good weekend, think the weather is going to be kind to us🤞. Hugs xx

When I visit Scotland I always go to the M&S Foodhall. Especially in December it is fun to walk around. I always fill my suitcase with biscuits.

Hi Sophie, out here in the west coast of America. We have a store called Gelsons. That’s very upscale which might be equivalent to Marks & Spencer. Ralph’s is just a common grocery store except it’s really big. There’s also one that may be just a west coast company called pavilions. Anyway, loving the new videos.❤️💕✨

Canada here. We had M&S up until about 2000 when they suddenly closed. We had clothes AND food. I really miss them. When I visit the UK a visit to M&S is a must. I still order their tea from a British store.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I buy everything in pink too🩷 this color just makes me so happy . I also have the same vivaia sneakers in pink and i love them . Its the perfekt pink shade 😅 and they are so comfortable

I’m in Canada and we used to have M&S stores for a short time but they didn’t make it !! When I visit the UK which is yearly ,I always shop there for food and clothes

Looooove that jacket Soph!!!! ❤

It's always great to find bargains where food shopping is concerned. Prices are going up in some places other markets just charge high shelf rent.

Have you tried Ocado? There's M&S Food and all the big brands and it's delivered to you so you don't have to walk around the supermarkets every week.

I ran straight to the comments to see if the US has M&S food!! That's the best part of M&S

Very interesting video and would like a Tesco's comparison. I always thought M&S were more expensive than Waitrose but may need to rethink that. Thanks for sharing your food plan for the week - also really interesting because you both look so healthy it is nice to know how you cook/eat 😀 I have just discovered mashed cauliflower instead of potatoes and a game changer!

Hey Sophie!! hope you are well - just wondering what did you have on your skin? It looks so lovely, is it skincare or makeup, looks great xxx

That gluten free isle speaks to my coeliac soul! Whenever I’m back in the UK I’m stuffing my suitcase with all those treats😍

We can order from M&S in the US but we don’t have stores. The closest thing we have to M&S in the US, at least on the East Coast, would be Target. Clothes, bits and bobs, and groceries.

I need an M&S in St. Louis! Last Christmas M&S did a collaboration with Target and carried their shortbread cookies and chocolates. I hope they do it again!

Love the M&S store❤😊

m&s definitely seems to have much better prices for veggies and fruits and salads than here on westcoast canada. The same stuff here is much more expensive. Much more. I couldn't believe how cheap those salad pots were!! 😮 Same for the bath items! Soo much cheaper in the UK!!

Dear Sophie, although I love your channel (I’ve already subscribed the new one) and I’ve been following you for more than four years, since I’m sure I started watching you before the pandemic, I believe this is the first time I comment. Those don’t look AT ALLL like Portuguese custard tarts, have you ever come to Portugal and tasted the real deal? A word of advice: don’t go the famous Pastéis de Belém in Lisbon, you’ll face long queues of tourists and I find the tarts too greasy. Look for Manteigaria or Aloma, they have several shops in Lisbon. You’ll think you’ve died and went straight to heaven. They cost around €1,00. 😂 Speaking of prices, I always thought London was an obscenely expensive city, but the price for eggs is simply outrageous! In Portugal, depending on the type, you won’t pay more than €2,00 for half a dozen! BTW, we had M&S in Lisbon many years ago, late 80s/early 90s. Two shops, only the big one had foods. I think they both closed before 1992. Love from Portugal 🇵🇹❤️

I live in Midwest (Nebraska) I've never heard of that store. Btw, I subscribe to both channels, but I LOVE this channel

My local M&S closed and took the rotisserie section with it! The second closest M&S refurbed but doesn't have the fresh pasta/salad/rotisserie section, I'm so disappointed. I used to get the rotisserie chicken and the Greek salad and it was amazing. I still go to M&S every week though haha. Would love a Waitrose video! Supermarkets in the US are regional, sometimes state-only (with the exceptions of Aldi, Lidl and Trader Joes - my hometown didn't have any of those until 2019 and the first Lidl in 2023!) so it's hard to compare.

It would be wonderful if you could please consider doing some fave recipe vids. You buy a lot of fresh food, would be great to see what your go to meals are, and promote healthier eating for people

I loved M & S when we visited the UK, I really don't know of any grocery stores in my area that truly compares, probably the closest for my area would be Trader Joe's or Wegmans. Both of those are just grocery though, no clothing or home goods, etc. It looks as though it's strictly an online thing in the US with just clothing, but I would love to see one of their grocery stores here! I'm a rotisserie chicken fan too. It's so convenient sometimes with some other easy sides.

This was really good. I toured Britain with my family in a camper van back in the 70s and Marks and Spencer’s was an absolute Aladdin’s cave for food. We don’t have anything like it in Australia since the David Jones food hall closed down, about which I was not happy. I am sitting here having brunch and watching this wearing my Autograph knitted pyjamas. It’s winter here. I have had 3 pairs for over five years and they are so warm and snuggly that when I started wearing them I was able to turn the heating down 4C. They were expensive but they paid for themselves in reduced heating costs in the first year. You can buy Autograph through Millers in Australia. We don’t have any M&S stores here but we do have a website. They only have clothes though.

Man, I miss M&S here in Canada; they had so many great items! The last time I was in London, I went crazy in the Food Hall lol.

Loved this one, interesting to see the difference in shopping in uk! ..I'm in us

we're from the US and have been to London multiple times and love M&S. Ralph's is NOT like M&S. M&S is so much more fun and better than Ralph's; we may be biased but we love going around M&S and getting all the M&S snacks.

I love this kind of vlog. I call it a receipt, not sale slip (California).

Interesting. Thank you

I mix and match my food shopping between M&S and Sainsburys. Would love to see you do an Aldi or Lidl shop and show everyone the crazy middle aisle 😂

Food always brings people together and then you panned across something called "NY dinky dunkers"I had a lmaoooo moment.. what's that??I bet even New Yorkers have never heard,but im from way out west in Rockies maybe it exists??-we have many grocery options,and tbh i shop Walmart,the best bang for your buck with lots of organic options,and they also have clothes that have experienced a 'glow up' in recent years-Sofia Vergara has a beautiful range there& got a faux mink jacket i wore all winter for $40& it was warm and awesome,everyone loved it&freaked out when i said where i got it- No M&S,reminds ne of Target, but everything looked delicious...You and David shopping is so perfectly sweet, love it all beautiful Sophie xx🍎🥑

It's crazy how I find those prices quite affordable compared to what I buy in Toronto, Canada. Yesterday, I paid $39 for 2 of the same size stakes, which weren't even organic.

M&S is my go to once a week for bread(fresh) fruit/veg/ the meat packs £12 for 3. They sell hot chocolate flakes which I use to make myself a hot choco in my milk frontier machine. Yellow stickers are great 🎉

The price of our groceries here in the states are outrageous…you have such good prices and everything looked great!

Davids response to the chicken was such a dude response. Loved it! Sometimes a rotisserie chicken is all it takes 😆

My hens don't have a fridge in their house 😉 I believe keeping eggs in the fridge dries them out. Enjoying this new channel 😘 x

Grocery stores in the US are kind of crazy... there are two major parent companies that own about 40(?) different brands/chains that are very specific to certain regions or states. So, the grocery stores in California are completely different than the ones in Florida. For me in Illinois, I'd say M&S grocery is most similar to Mariano's. We don't have M&S stores in the US, but Target has been teaming up with them for the holidays to offer special treats, such as shortbread, chocolates and I think some Percy Pig candies! My favorite M&S thing is a Wensleydale cheddar and carrot chutney sandwich... it is so unbelievably tasty. Sorry for the long comment! It was fun to go along on your grocery shopping trip!

ive got those exact green cargo pants

I do love Aldi for staples but for fresh produce it’s always M&S. I wish my M&S football had a deli counter. I always stop off at the one in cribs causeway and the salads are 👌🏽

Father’s Day in Portugal and Spain is on the 19th of March, St Joseph’s Day, since we are traditionally Catholic countries.

I don't know what it is, but I really enjoy seeing what other countries have in the grocery shops compared to Australia.

Rockit apples! From New Zealand? Developed and grown on the east coast of New Zealand - my dad leases out some of his land to Rockit Apples that he once grew grapes on. One of the pickers took my mums undies off the line in front of her eyes 😂😂 but they are yummy!

I think that m&s is like target. They do both. The clothes from target are very cute n quite cute too. Can't wait for your trip to the USA.,🎉 Ev

Yes, Father's Day is the same here in Canada :).

I like Rockit apples due to the small size. Unfortunately, my U.S. grocery store also stopped stocking Rockit apples. 🤷‍♀️ U.S. Fathers Day is June 16 this year.

Father's Day is Sunday, June 16th here in the U.S.

The US is actually so huge that most grocery stores (if any) don't exist from coast to coast. That being said I have no idea what either Marks & Spencers or Ralph's is like 😆 but that's okay I'm just imagining your average "grocery store" or maybe a Target since you mentioned clothes and food. Also 'sales slips' are called receipts where I'm from.

Waitrose Essentials bio laundry pods are VV cheap and as good as branded, esp,for hand washing.

Hi Sophie! Any chance of meet and greet in the US? 😆 I could wish for it I guess.

We wash our eggs which takes of the “sealing” that protects the eggs. So we have to refrigerate ours.

I’m British living in the states, we don’t have a marks and Spencer, is it only one store and where is it?

Food always brings people together,then I saw you pan across something called " NY dinky dunkers",and lmaoooo, what's a NY dinky dunkers?? I bet even New Yorkers don't know, I'm from way out west in the Rockies,we have lots of grocery stores and options galore,no M&S which seemed like a target to me, but honestly I shop mostly Walmart,it's best bang for the buck and there's lots of organic options tbh,and they have many clothes that have gotten better over years-Sofia Vergara has a decent range,and I have lots of "generic" lounge pants that look like Lululemon &hold up just as well,if not better-- if there's some bougie organics or meats I do go to whole foods or Sprouts... I'm excited to hear you're going to visit USA...xx beautiful Sophie

I'm from NY. Never heard of Ralphs. We have Gristede's etc.