Iceland vs Tesco??

skipton · 18 July 2006 at 10:23PM

Milk is cheaper in Iceland. 2 litre bottles are still £1.

amosworks · 18 July 2006 at 10:27PM

Milk, ughh

_pale_

nomoneytoday · 19 July 2006 at 9:30AM

Why don't you do your next big shop at Iceland, and compare stuff over the week as you use/eat it?

black-saturn · 19 July 2006 at 9:53AM

I run an OS kitchen and I do all my shopping at Iceland. The only exception was that last time I did the shopping I was ill so I decided to try and make life easier for myself by doing it online as Tescos. I found that I didnt really get much for my money compared to Iceland. I spent the same at Tesco as I do at Iceland and only got half as much. They do sell a lot of processed foods at Iceland but they do at Tescos also. But Iceland also sell individual ingredients for stuff that I can make my own meals from and they also sell fresh meat. The other good thing about them is that you can pick what you want yourself from the shelves and as long as you have spent £25 you can have it delivered for free. With Tesco they do the shopping for you and they sometimes get the order wrong.

COOLTRIKERCHICK · 19 July 2006 at 10:11AM

i havent been to iceland for years, but what i found was that the basic goods not in the freezer.. like bread, washing powder etc was at the top end of the price scale.....and also the quality of some of the frozen was not that good either.. like farmfoods....for what we eat in our house.... they are a total waste of time.... mainly processed... or junk food......

if you got the time and its not going to cost you a fortune in petrol...do a list of everything that you buy, and then go round the shops and write the prices down, so you can find out where is the cheapest for what, and when you go shopping...either go to a few shops in one shopping trip for one week fo to iceland for the cheapest things on your list, and then the following week go to tescos... for the cheapest things there.....:rotfl:

gallygirl · 19 July 2006 at 10:11AM

amosworks wrote:

I'm not overly fussed at the crap that I eat, provided it's diet compatible (meat and fat). You can't really get meat too wrong, and as I'm nowhere near a fussy eater, suits me fine.

But, I still tend to shop more at Tesco and Lidl, even though admittedly there is a little extra inconvenience distance-wise. But Tesco is cheaper (well, free for R&R :rolleyes:) and Lidl just goes crazy on some prices every week you're stupid to ignore it (have you subscribed to their newsletter??).

But, thanks for the nudge, I'm tempted to pop in again soon and have a nose. Never say never!

Amos, didn't know they did a newsletter! just been on site to sign up - wow, some great bargains, and lots of building 'toys'!!!!!!

Coupon-mad · 19 July 2006 at 10:17AM

Tesco wins for me as most stores will knock money off for any money-off coupons I have (without buying the product).

Go buy 3 copies of today's Daily Mail at 45p, cut out the lovely £1.40 off vouchers from page 53 (Prima Baby but not relevant) then offer them with your Clubcard at Tesco. Even if your local store will only take one at a time it's still cheaper (and nicer food) than Iceland.

Check out the newspaper coupon summary on this site every day if your local Tesco is as friendly as mine.

isgman · 19 July 2006 at 10:36AM

You can get some great deals at Aldi,, Its a germany firm and they have some good stuff

Cantdance_2 · 19 July 2006 at 11:55AM

I personally find that Netto sells the majority of my basics (fruit and veg, tins of tomatoes / tuna / sweetcorn, pasta, bread, dog food) the cheapest out of all the local supermarkets - and for anything I can't get from there I go to Aldi.

Aldi does some very nice food - whereas Netto can be quite basic. If I want a treat I'll go and get some nice bits from Aldi (nice ice cream, cakes, sandwich fillings, smoothies, etc). Netto does the storecupboard ingredients cheaply and good quality too (and also a lot of branded stuff cheaply butit's still cheaper to buy Netto's own so I usually do.)

Very, very rarely there is something I can't find in either shop and then I'll go to Tesco but in all honesty I now haven't been to Tesco in about 2 months and I haven't gone without anything so that's good news!

For toiletries and cleaning stuff, the best place to go is Wilkinson which is cheapest for 99% of that kind of thing (except one or two bits which I found cheaper in Netto)

Like CoolTrikerChick said, the best thing to do is go around all of your local supermarkets and shops (for me, this meant Tesco / Asda / Sainsbury's / Waitrose / Netto / Aldi / Lidl / Wilkinson / Local butchers and grocers) with a list of what you usually buy, and see what is cheapest where. I managed to slash my budget in half by doing this...

It's a bit of a hassle to start with but you only need to do it once and then you can make monthly shopping lists based on each shop.

Gradually I found that it wasn't worth my while travelling to Tesco to get a couple of bits and I stopped buying them and got something else instead from Nettos.

James

Cantdance_2 · 19 July 2006 at 11:58AM

Oh, one thing to note though is that if you find something appears to be cheapest in Tesco, watch out because they are forever changing their prices. So one week something will appear to be good value and you go back for it the next week and it's gone up.

In the end I got fed up with this and decided to stick with Aldi / Netto whose prices are very consistent.

James

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