Best place for nice-but-cheap coffee & tea

Natbag

I'm organising a nearly new sale event this Saturday and need to buy some tea bags and coffee, plus milk and sugar too. All proceeds from the refreshments are for charity, so it needs to be cheap as possible but not taste like dish water! Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

McKneff

Home bargains have typhoo tea always on offer at abut £2.49 for 300

Sugar per kg bag is 69p

Milk, supermarket.

shopndrop

How about the Basics teabags from Sainsburys. Think they are 28p for a box of 80 - they taste fine. Milk seems to be on offer in all supermarkets at the moment. I know Sainsburys is 75p & Tesco and Morrisons have theirs for 65p but it works out about the same price as the Sainsburys is a slightly larger carton.

paulwf

M&S have a half price instant coffee at the moment - not sure how much of a bargain it is to you as it will depend on the size of jar you require. Still, if you're passing it should be on a promo end with other half price groceries in the food section.

Debt_Free_Dreamer

Pop to any of the big supermarkes and take a letter saying you are organising an event for charity and explaining who you are, who the charity is etc.,

Ask to speak to a Manager and you will more than likely come away with some free stuff.

I have got loads of free cakes in the past from Tesco and Sainsburys for a charity event(s). Gift vouchers from the major chains in the town too.

If you need cups for squash for kids, McDonalds is you place. Again ask to speak to a Manger. Always used to get loads of free cups for my youth club.

Natbag

Ah that's interesting DFD, I hadn't thought of that, thank you. There's a Tesco opposite the charity event venue so I might pop in there with my official charity letter.

Failing that I'm off to Home Bargains this week so will check out sugar in there and Sainsbury's tea bags (I can always test them myself first LOL!)

Thanks all.

loobyloo2

If you consider using Tesco (as in the post above), they have 50 bonus clubcard points on their finest range tea, ground coffee and 40 points on 2x2litre cartons of their own milk. So an extra 140 points on just these few items, worth £5.60 in clubcard deals:p

Penny-Pincher!!

If you have a Poundland near, they do 100g Nescafe for a quid and Tetley 160 (100% free atm) for a quid...obviously:D

Sainsburys Basics t-bags are fine and I am fussy!

Aldi is cheap for fresh milk at 49p.

Sugar in Morrisons is 2 bags for £1.50 atm.

HTH

PP
xx

Bitsy_Beans

I vote for Sainsbury's Basics Tea Bags. I thought my H would be really sniffy about them but he's drinking away. I think they taste fine.
Would be great if you could get stuff for free though!

grunnie

Natbag wrote: »

I'm organising a nearly new sale event this Saturday and need to buy some tea bags and coffee, plus milk and sugar too. All proceeds from the refreshments are for charity, so it needs to be cheap as possible but not taste like dish water! Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

Are you near a Co-op supermarket which sells Fairtrade products. Our local Co-op donates the tea and coffee and sugar for most of the local charities when they are having coffee morning etc. If you buy the milk there too you might get a discount on that too. :T

1carminestocky

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

I vote for Sainsbury's Basics Tea Bags. I thought my H would be really sniffy about them but he's drinking away. I think they taste fine.
Would be great if you could get stuff for free though!

Ditto. In fact, I'd be surprised if caterers could get cheaper tea bags even buying in massive bulk. 28p for 80 fairtrade tea bags that taste fine is a bargain of billy proprtions!