Food shopping & groceries

🛒 Useful Forum threads from this board: * Driving to different supermarkets to save? * The Great ‘shrinking food and other items’ Hunt * Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping * Comparing the rising cost of milk Spotted any other interesting food shopping/groceries threads? Let me know! 🍽 Official…

This is the new Lidl and Aldi buying thread. Please report any good/bad deals, good/bad offers and good/bad products. The old thread can be found here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5960153/good-and-bad-buying-at-lidl-and-aldi-please-dont-expire#latest

Under Lidl's revamped loyalty scheme, which launched today (Tuesday 5 May), you now earn points for each pound spent, which you can either convert into money-off coupons or use to claim 'freebies'. But Lidl shoppers say they may now need to spend £10s or even £100s more to earn similar discounts to those they'd earn under…

🚨 Sainsbury’s shoppers - CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS TODAY 🚨 I placed an online grocery order with Sainsbury's yesterday with an estimated total of £92.93. After substitutions and one missing item, my bill should have been around the same but I was actually charged £102.59. After going through everything line by line, I found:…

Noticed yesterday in the Heron I visited: . Packs of 8 Activia yoghurts 2 for £1.50. Dates were 13th-15th Aug, depending on flavour . Marmite Peanut Butter (smooth) 2 jars for £1 or 69p each. Date on them was mid Sept. Searched for other HF threads and they were really old.

Welcome to The Foodbank Donation Thread How can we maximise contributions to foodbanks, while keeping it MoneySaving? ------------------------- A note: this post does not seek to pressure people into donating to food banks. Not everyone is in the position to be able to donate alongside providing for their own family,…

Anyone else doing these? Currently I qualify for 600 points or £6 in vouchers. If I spend £44 on certain items in the next two weeks, this increases to 2950 points or £29.50 in vouchers. As I have two easyJet holidays to pay for this means I get £59 off. I'm sure I could get even more. I haven't actually bought anything I…

https://toogoodtogo.org/en You sign up on the app and supermarkets (from my use of the app its Spar, Co-op and Budgens), independent shops and some eating chains. For a few pounds - you can buy items of food that would have gone to landfill. It's known by TGTG as a 'magic bag'. A friend of a friend uses it most weeks and…

Currently, you only earn Clubcard points at Tesco and 13 other retailers. But from Wednesday 14 October, Tesco is launching a rewards portal, where you can earn Clubcard points at 500-plus stores when shopping online. We've analysed how much you can earn and compared it to other supermarket reward and cashback schemes……

If you want your Christmas food shop delivered to your door, you'll need to pounce to get your preferred slot. Supermarkets including Morrisons and M&S are already taking bookings, and there's a trick to get early access at Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda – with early access at the latter opening TODAY (Tuesday 13 October)……

anybody used the news Lidl & Go scan as you shop in the app?

Standard 145g chocolate orange 95p from £2.50 until Sun 11 Oct.

Hi, I went into a well known high street shop on Friday at 0700 hrs and ordered takeaway food and coffee. After drinking the coffee, I began to feel like a burning, painful sensation in the lower regions of my gullett. I believe that they must have washed the coffee machine with dishwasher detergent but forgotten to rinse…

The Iceland/Food Warehouse bonus card offer is back for christmas. Load £100 of new savings onto your Bonus Club account in one or more transactions by 5th November and you receive the usual £5 bonus (£1 FREE for every £20), and a £15 bonus. That's a total of £20. The standard £1 bonuses will be loaded onto your account…

morning all, So I took the recent wine wharehouse deal and received it already ! great . Did anyone else have a payment taken from their account to "wines of the world" on the same day ? Its only for £11.93 but seems strange its on the same day as the Virgin wine payment and I have never heard of them before (totally…

Does anyone know if items are not on the shelf, do the pickers check out the back? Maybe someone who picks for online shoppers can answer this.

Back in 2009 I used to get the largest tub of 2.3kg Optimum Nutrition Whey protein for about £36 from Tropicana Fitness. Nowadays I am reminded in the shops about it but you're looking at a tiny bag for the same price now. Anyone got any tips to find value for money? Are supermarkets ripping us off?

Asda has rolled out its 'Asda Rewards' loyalty scheme nationwide after trialling it in a small number of stores in England. The move means shoppers across the UK can now earn money-off vouchers to use towards their shopping at the supermarket chain. Read the full story: 'Asda launches first-ever loyalty scheme offering…

Just seen Waitrose Christmas 2026 Delivery Slots have been opened for booking. However note the delivery fee is raised from the normal £2 or £4 upto £6 or £7 over this period, depending on date. Don’t recall them doing this previously. I phoned customer services and they had to speak with another dept who advised it’s to…

My midweek pass is due for renewal in the next few days & I was intending to upgrade to a 7 day pass . However I am now seeing this message.. Delivery Pass Information We've paused the sale of our Delivery Pass applications for the moment. We'll continue to review this to make sure that we're best supporting our elderly…

Has anyone else noticed milk going off quicker recently? I'm talking about fresh milk from a new bottle that's well in date, not stuff that's been sitting for days. I've stopped buying it from my local convenience store because over a couple of weeks something like 1 in 3 bottles was already curdling when first opened. But…