Favorite bargains

TopGun_3

Hi,
I am a newbie here and this is my first post, so please be nice...

Could everybody post their favorite bargains they like in day to day shopping??

I start with mine: 15 Eggs from Iceland store for only 99p! The best i've found in town.

handsomeDaddy

welcome...

in somerfield, vitality yogurt drinks (six-pack) bogof at the moment

nuttyrockeress

Bounty kitchen towel at Tesco - half price (Fat rolls)

Jakejakejake

XXX Mints 3pk
79p BOGOF at Morrisons

Lola23

12 Pack of Discos £1 in Farmfoods

4 Packs of sweets for £1 in Farmfoods....old favourites Sherbet Lemons, Strawberries and Cream, ABCs, Rhubarb and Custard and the other jelly sweets that the kids like. They are all really nice.


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papawaigo

Hi and welcome topgun,

Do you know if the 15 eggs for 99p are free range ?

I know we all like to save money and i dont want to sound like i'm preaching but i can't believe people still buy battery eggs. I don't think its fair that loads of chickens have to suffer just so we can save a few pence.

LucyLocket

papawaigo wrote:

Hi and welcome topgun,

Do you know if the 15 eggs for 99p are free range ?

I know we all like to save money and i dont want to sound like i'm preaching but i can't believe people still buy battery eggs. I don't think its fair that loads of chickens have to suffer just so we can save a few pence.

I agree with you on the battery farm issue and I always buy free range. If
you do so too then it will have been pretty obvious to you that the OP's iceland eggs are unlikely to be free range as the price of free range eggs rarely falls that low.

In my opinion you do sound like you're preaching " I can't believe people still buy " is hardly objectively balanced language.

The bigger problem though is that you are off topic. The OP asked people to list their favourite bargains he / she didn't request your opinion of other poster's shopping habits . Like most moral issues food production is full of grey areas. Many vegans would feel that consumption of eggs at all is morally objectionable but relatively few would feel feel the need to hijack the thread and tell us so.

If you would like to post a separate thread (say in The Moneysavers Arms) entitled - Papawaigo's Opinions on Battery Farming that would of course be fully appropriate, although possibly little visited

Ken_Korda

I must say i do agree with papawaigo.

Although his post maybe "off topic" i think his point his a valid one and one worth posting in such circumstances. I have found chickens to be a most pleasant creature and i do not delieve that the often stated argument that they are merely a simple beast is reason enough for the outrageous conditions they must endure just so we can enjoy ludicrously cheap omelettes and other delicious egg based culinary treats.


On a more valid point I have been known to frequent the often derided, yet unquestionably cheap, supermarket store Aldi to purchase there rather superb extra virgin olive oil. Also i find that one can pass many an hour browsing the often comical faux brand names attached to their products and often chuckle at the incredible inventiveness involved.

arnold.rimmer_2

Salutations Topgun,
Heres hoping you are a Maverick Moneysaver and not a Goose ! I think you have inadvertandly stepped on a sore point of the moneysaving comunity - just how far are we willing to go to be "moneysavers" and at what cost to our moral beings ? Do we have a responsibility to balance our relentless moneysaving with some kind of ethical standards

Thats enough High-minded, Hippie, flower-power mubo-jumbo me thinks.

By the way LucyLocket you do seem awfully feisty for a fairy. You appear to have gone "off topic" during your dictatorial post, i didn't realise fairies could be so domineering ! You don't seem to have added a valid favourite bargain to this post, why did you not highlight people to the rather incredible offers on your website at the moment: http://www.lucylocket.co.uk/latest.php?ID=16 .


I feel i, Arnold J Rimmer, am now also becoming an "off topicer" so i shall give you my recommendation: Morrisons own brand herb and spice range are faboulous value !


Over and out,
lickety-split !

wishingonastar_3

back to bargains, mine is sainsburys basics beans, as good as the pricier varieties, and about 18p a tin i think. yummy on toast.

LucyLocket

arnold.rimmer wrote:

You don't seem to have added a valid favourite bargain to this post, QUOTE]

Apologies Arnold, you are absolutely correct ( the feisty fairy's blushes are outshone only by her gleaming jackboots ).
Tesco Value Range includes
toilet roll 2400 sheets 12 pack £1.14
butter 250 grams 53p
longlife milk 38p a litre

Home Bargains stock Nescafe 200 grams at £1.79 ?

Poundland have had Nescafe 100 grams in and they stock branded teabags Typhoo? which work out at 1p each. They also have packs of 36 sheets of brightly coloured tissue paper and packs of 3 large holographic gift bags which save me a fortune on birthday wrapping for DD7 's friends.