Food shopping & groceries

Tesco is launching a new Clubcard Plus subscription service, which gives customers a number of perks including discounted shopping, for a £7.99/mth fee...Read the full story: 'Tesco announces Clubcard Plus loyalty subscription service' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

One of the most complained-about adverts of the year – from food delivery service Deliveroo – has been banned by the advertising regulator...Read the full story: 'Deliveroo advert banned for misleading customers' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

25p for 500ml bottles "Regular" Pepsi Coke Life Lucozade Zero calorie Orange May be more , but these were the ones I noticed/bought

Supermarket Morrisons is trialling a 30p charge for its reusable plastic bags in some stores in Wales...Read the full story: 'Morrisons trials 30p plastic bag charge' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

Aldi will be launching a trial of paper and compostable carrier bags across its stores, after it stopped selling 5p plastic bags earlier this year...Read the full story: 'Aldi to run paper and compostable bag trial across all stores' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

With the news that 100s of Starbucks stores are now selling half-price food an hour before closing, we want to find out which other national chains offer discounts at the end of the day. If you've seen this happening, we want to hear about it. Thanks in advance. [purplesignup][/purplesignup]

MoneySavingExpert: Revealed: Tesco to offer Clubcard holders huge discounts on groceries and more in May. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2019/04/tesco-clubcard-customers-to-be-offered-huge-discounts-in-may-as-/

The Government has announced plans to increase the minimum 5p charge for buying a plastic bag in England to 10p and extend it to all retailers, in a bid to cut plastic use...Read the full story: 'Plastic bag charge to double to 10p and apply in ALL shops' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum…

Just wondered what anyone thinks is the classiest/best tasting instant coffee? I want to make up a small food-related gift for someone and include coffee in it. I know they don't have a coffee maker and are too lazy to make it from beans so thought a good jar of instant would be a good fit. They buy Gold Blend for…

I used to use sainsburys online to do a big shop, but stopped when I became the only person in the house. I want to go back to it, I think it will be easier as I'm struggling a bit on the bus:(, but I'm not sure who to shop with. When we first chose sainsburys, about 10 years ago, I think it was because people used to…

Aldi has stopped selling 5p single-use plastic bags across its UK stores, which it says will remove 80 million plastic bags from circulation every year...Read the full story: 'Ovo Energy to hike prices and remove online discount' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

Tesco Clubcard customers won't be able to spend their vouchers with train ticket site RedSpottedHanky from February next year as part of a revamp of the loyalty scheme's deals, MoneySavingExpert can reveal...Read the full story: 'Tesco Clubcard offer to be scrapped' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already,…

Just a warning to those who ask for cash back when buying their groceries. Apparently they're trialling it at selected stores as a way of getting customers through the tills quicker.

A dad of four has amassed almost £7,000-worth of Nectar points in the past four years - and is now hoping to use them to buy a family holiday to Florida...Read the full story: ''I collected almost £7,000 in Nectar points in four years'' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

Thousands of Iceland Bonus Card customers have been caught up in a security breach which saw criminals illegally access accounts and a large number of cards cancelled as a precaution, MoneySavingExpert can reveal...Read the full story: 'Iceland freezes Bonus Card accounts after 'illegal access'' Click reply below to…

Having realised that a Tassimo machine wouldn't take any generic discs, I sold it and got a Nescafe Dolce Gusto one, not realising that it takes the bigger pods rather than the wee ones. I wasn't worried because according to the Web, Aldi (my supermarket of choice) do compatible ones which get great reviews. But I can't…

Where I live (South London) I am not finding navel oranges or Williams/Comice pears, which are the best. I have tried, Sainsbury's, Tesco's, Lidl, Iceland and Morrisons. Only Sainsbury's is selling navels but pre packed. Four in a net at 2 pounds. The quality is still poor. The only pears sold loose are conference. Again,…

Without wading through supermarket sites, does anyone know which is the cheapest for delivery? At present I use Tesco but they have a penalty charge of your 'basket' is less than £40, which is £4 and then packing and delivery is on top of that. Because of this charge, I always buy more than £40-worth but it would be good…

I am thinking of using these but am wondering which brand to buy. Looking for recommendations....thank you.

This deal is back at Asda. Some other supermarkets followed suit last time so may be worth having a look. Official MoneySavingExpert insert Tue 23 Oct: You can get 240 Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea bags for £4 (norm £6.99) at Asda. We’ve asked Asda how long the offer will last but it hasn’t got back to us yet, so go…