Sugar prices

SoScrooge

Hi

I am going to make loads of jam this week and wonder if I could save any pennies on sugar.

How much do you pay for sugar and where, please?

PS: just normal sugar (not custer, brown, jam, icing, etc :rolleyes: )

Many thanks.

CM86_2

the only thing I can suggest is getting one of the 5kg sacks (around £3.30?)from the supermarket?

Failing that, go to all the cafés in your area, and steal the sachets.... But you'll have to rope some friends in to help you open them... and then you'll have to give them some jam.

thriftlady_2

I buy the big 5 kg sacks of sugar but they aren't cheaper than small sacks at least not in Tesco- check the unit price. Granulated is the cheapest sugar and just what you need for preserving.

Jam sugar has pectin added and is only useful if you're making jam with a fruit low in pectin like strawberries or are not adding lemon juice or apple which are high in pectin. It is expensive.

Preserving sugar has large crystals which are supposed to dissolve faster/slower (can't remember which) and is expensive and unecessary.

Gingham_Ribbon

Where are you based, SoScrooge? This question might be better on a local moneysaving board incase there is someone near you who knows somewhere nearby with a good offer on.

newleaf

The last sugar I bought was a 5kg sack of T&L from Costco, and it cost £3.45.

SoScrooge

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Where are you based, SoScrooge? This question might be better on a local moneysaving board incase there is someone near you who knows somewhere nearby with a good offer on.

Hi Gingham Ribbon

I am in SE London.

My local tesco sell granulated sugar at 72 p a kg.

I am going to check Lidl tomorrow.

Thanks.

lyns_2

I also get mine at costco but you do have to buy 15 bags it works out 58p a bag.
Its one of those things i forget to buy untill i have run out and have to pay 96p from the corner shop