Bogof?

natlie

Hi I find with the BOGOF offers it is usually on the expensive "brand" items, I tend to go for downgrading, buying teco's own, for example tesco pasta sauce is lovley cheaper than dolmio/ragu and eldest daughter prefers it plus you get more in the jar even though its cheaper, you can do this with loads of items tesco wheat biscuits are nicer than weetabix and so on. Next week downgradea a brand and see how much you save there are plenty of options I buy all own brands now apart from tea and coffe which I always buy fairtrade - as an ethical consumer, plus don't forget to take your own bags and you'll have extra points too
Nat
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Mirtos

natlie wrote:

Hi I find with the BOGOF offers it is usually on the expensive "brand" items, I tend to go for downgrading, buying teco's own, for example tesco pasta sauce is lovley cheaper than dolmio/ragu and eldest daughter prefers it plus you get more in the jar even though its cheaper, you can do this with loads of items tesco wheat biscuits are nicer than weetabix and so on. Next week downgradea a brand and see how much you save there are plenty of options I buy all own brands now apart from tea and coffe which I always buy fairtrade - as an ethical consumer, plus don't forget to take your own bags and you'll have extra points too
Nat
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Problem is, we do this already! Only branded thing I have is shampoo, as a mini treat once a month!

kevin_M

i spend around 60-70 a month for a family of 3. normaly get asda delevery £35 with £10 off online voucher and quite a bit of using multisaves

i use the voucher boards to get the discount code then do a few small orders rarther than 1 big order

all_hours

kevin_M wrote:

i spend around 60-70 a month for a family of 3. normaly get asda delevery £35 with £10 off online voucher and quite a bit of using multisaves

i use the voucher boards to get the discount code then do a few small orders rarther than 1 big order

That's very good! How is asda's online shopping - do you get most of what you've ordered or do they have frequent out of stock?

Mirtos

wow! How do you manage that? Doesn't the delivery cost mount up though?

lynzpower

Mirtos,

If you have loads in the cupboards, try to do a store cupbaord style challenge to clear it out a bit.

Last night watching the F word I remembered Ive got a bag of pudding rice in my cupboard that we havent used yet, might knock up that appley pie Hugh whittinstall did. It will save me 50p on another "pudding" later on in the month. IYSWIM

Mirtos

I'd thought of that, but it isn't stuff that 'needs using' it's stuff that I use so often I always keep a stock in - chopped toms at 8p a can etc.. Not sure if that makes sense, but I know what I mean

lynzpower

yeah it does make good sense to me know what you mean completely

It does sound to me like you are doing OK

Your not overspending, you are making good budget choices etc, so theres every possibility you are doing fine

If you are looking for further savings then look at R&R if you are not doing that already?

Mirtos

What's R&R???

lynzpower

refund & replace.

What that means is, if youve been charged higher than the price on shelf, packet etc, then report to CS, and they give you a refund & you keep the product. In grabbit theres a massive thread (tesco misprice) and there are some very seruous R&R finders in there.

Also happens at asda where you get 2.00 giftcard for them overcharging you, altohugh Ive never used this one.