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Do you get more meat from one large chicken or two small chickens?
Just wondering what is more economical - to buy two small birds (e.g. 1.3kg each) or one large bird (e.g. 2.2kg)? So far, I have only ever cooked small birds (about 1.3 kg) and usually end up with 550g - 650g of edible chicken from a small bird plus stock. I'm not sure if large chickens have the same proportions of…
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Food and living alone
I love Brains Faggots. Though, supermarkets always do promotions on the 6 pack. For example at the moment, Iceland have them at 87p and the packs of 2 - £1. It is very difficult to divide the pack into 2 or 3 as the faggots are not evenly distributed in the foil tray and sometimes cannot see them at all. Once I ate all 6…
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Things which AREN'T worth buying...?
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Seabrooks Crisps multipacks have shrunk!
I bought three multipacks today as I usually do, as they are normally three for x amount in Asda. Today they were three for £3.50 but they have been three for £3.00 before now. I am really very disappointed to discover that instead of containing six 31.8g bags, they now contain six 25g bags and they are no cheaper. This is…
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Lidl Half Price Weekend Offers 14/09 and 15/09
Hazelmeade Farm Wafer Thin Smoked Ham or Roast Chicken 400g 89p Loose Vine Tomatoes 99p/kg Gibellini X-bolt eau de toilette for men 50ml £1.99 Suddenly Madame Glamour Eau de Parfum 50ml £1.99
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M&S £10 dine in
MAINS Pork Loin with Apple & Caramel Sauce Rotisserie Whole Chicken Haddock Gratin Gastropub Paella Pork Medallions* Lasagne al Forno Spinach & Ricotta Chicken Chicken Davidstow Salmon with Soy & Ginger Mushroom Pappardelle BBQ Chicken* Breaded Topped Plaice SIDE DISHES Potato Rosti Cheddar Cheese Mash Rosemary Potatoes…
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Aldi tinned tuna
Is it any good? I wanting to buy as a replacement to Sainsburys' Basics tinned tuna as I used to buy it at 45p-59p. Now it has been 79p for yonks.
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Lidl half price weekend offers 7/8 sept
in Oxfordshire 2 decent meat offers in a row + chocolate :) "Hazelmeade" Pork Loin Joint ( Honey & Mustard , Mixed Pepper ) 500g £1.99 Potatoes 1kg 64p "Fin Carre" Milk Chocolate 100g 17p "Northwood" caramel Shortcake 240g ( Pack of 4 ) 49p
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Need cheap butter
Have a huge amount of baking to do and need cheap butter. Does anyone know where's the best place to buy? Thanks in advance PP xx
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Low sugar Low salt Beans etc
I have been trying to reduce the amount of sugar and salt in my food I was quite alarmed at the amount of sugar that's in a tin of baked Beans,tinned Spaghetti, Brown sauce, tinned Tomatoes etc so I am looking for advice as to where the best place to buy them so far after looking on the Tesco website I have seen the beans…
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Morrison's 50p veg offers (until 8th Sept).
Just seen an ad on tv promoting Morries 50p veg offers. Some of the pack sizes seem to have decreased (carrots and onions), but still good value. Top end of my price-band for a swede, just hope they are a decent size. Lynsey Official MoneySavingExpert insert: Morrisons has confirmed these offers are available in most…
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Where are the booze offers this weekend?
Hi all Does anyone know where there are any decent booze offers at the mo? Need to do a stock up for my hen party coming up soon
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Gumtree Daily Deals
I placed two orders with Gumtree Daily Deals and Not Another Gift - in Feb, delivery within 21 days it said and I still haven't received the goods. I got a message from Gumtree saying they apologised and the goods would be sent out from the UK 9th March latest. I still don't have the goods and Gumtree and Not another gift…
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My 1st tesco value shop!
Hi all I did my shop online last night and brought quite a few value range items including 2 x toothbrushes 18p :eek: Value shampoo 40p 1ltr - tried this last night seems ok, my hair is greasy and i have heard that this is a bit drying so may be good for me, smells nice too Value rim blocks 20p each - i have three toilets…
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Nakd banana bar buy 1 get 3 free plus postage.
If you buy a lot this works out good value even with the postage. 18 box is usually about £11 so with this deal you can buy 20 bars for £8.09 or obviously amount you want in multiples of 4.. The cheapest I've seen them in supermarkets is 75p…
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'DIY' Downshift Challenge
What do you make for yourself rather than buying it ready made? I'm not talking about bread and cakes or good old fashioned home cooking, but more 'treaty' type things. I was a bit addicted to Nesquik chocolate drink. But I now prefer to mix 1 tsp of cocoa (not drinking chocolate!) with a tsp of sugar, mix to a paste with…
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Lidl 900g sausages £1.50 + more weekend & XXL offers
Weekend offers With the usual "your store may be different" the Lidl half price weekend offers in Oxfordshire (including the Monday Bank holiday) are : Pork Barbecue Spare Ribs 500g £1.49 Cherry Plum Tomatoes 250g 49p Mini Salami 2*25g 34p "CrustiCroc" Meaty Crisps 24*25g £1.07 XXL week offers And for the whole week on…
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Cheap Tassimo coffee pods anywhere?
Hi there, I got one of the bargain coffee pod machines recently and after using all the pods I got on the offer that came with the machine I am having a job to find any cheapish pods. i'm sure my Lidl used to sell them but they only have coffee pads now. Any ideas anyone please? Ta
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6 magnum icecreams 62p
Via 10 ways Only in t#sco Express, currently magnum multipaacks are buy 2 for £3 but are scanning at 62p for 2. Enjoy.
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Which groceries do you spend more on?
Which grocery items do you think just aren't worth buying cheap versions of? I buy better quality bread, orange juice and toilet paper (cheap toilet paper is definitely a false economy ...)