Approved Foods thread

Approved_Food

Hi, Your email should have been replied to. If you let me have your order number, I'll pass it on to the guys in the office and ask them to contact you.

calleyw

gnvqsos wrote: »

My email has not been answered and I have rung numerous times and have yet to receive an answer or even anybody at their HQ.

I e-mailed via the website weeks ago about my order with the fact that most of the tins I ordered where dented.

And I never got a reply. I do understand that things can slip through the gaps when busy. But I doubt that I will order again.

Yours

Calley

MummyOfTwo

Hi all, just discovered this site and i wondered if any of the OS crew had any hints/tips before ordering? Ive seen quite a few things I wouldnt mind stocking up on...

cheerfulness4

There is a whole thread about them on the Food shopping board on main forum.

Some people are most enthusiastic about them, no longer me unfortunately. Got sick of placing orders based around a few select great bargains only to find they were constantly the ones missing from my order.

Have a look tho. Other have had much better experiences.

Badrick

We've found the fizzy drinks don't seem to have much fizz left in them, apart from that everything else we've had has been OK.
Just be aware some of the stuff is past the sell by dates, but still usable.

Penelope_Penguin

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

There is a whole thread about them on the Food shopping board on main forum.

Some people are most enthusiastic about them, no longer me unfortunately.

I don;t think you're the only one. Most days there's a thread on here of someone wanting to "use up" an Approved Foods purchase. It's only a bargain if you're going to use it Seems like it's lots of processed foods, too.

I'll move this over to the Grocery Shopping Board

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Swan_2

HERE is a link to the latest thread about them

if you do a search in the Food Shopping & Groceries forum you'll find some older threads, if you fancy a very long read!

missychrissy

I recently placed an order with Approved foods. The cost of the goods I ordered was approx £10 but postage came to slightly over that so that my order was in excess of £20. I ordered a large bag of dog food that was badly split in 2 places and several cans of peas most of which were very dinted. The jury is out on this one: I'm not sure whether the high postage is acceptable for the lower prices of goods that are already near or passed their best before dates; I have accidently bought a dinted can in the past that has been off when I have opened it so they give me cause for concern; I thought that most of their food was highly processed anyway; I bought several bottles of hair conditioner that I have yet to try but admittedly was very cheap; I havn't completely ruled them out but I am not sure of how good value they really are and I am reserving judgement.

Wintermute

missychrissy wrote: »

I recently placed an order with Approved foods. The cost of the goods I ordered was approx £10 but postage came to slightly over that so that my order was in excess of £20. I ordered a large bag of dog food that was badly split in 2 places and several cans of peas most of which were very dinted. The jury is out on this one: I'm not sure whether the high postage is acceptable for the lower prices of goods that are already near or passed their best before dates; I have accidently bought a dinted can in the past that has been off when I have opened it so they give me cause for concern; I thought that most of their food was highly processed anyway; I bought several bottles of hair conditioner that I have yet to try but admittedly was very cheap; I havn't completely ruled them out but I am not sure of how good value they really are and I am reserving judgement.

Unless you live in the Highlands or Islands the postage is £5.25 up to 28kg so the £10 carriage charge was probably due to the weight of your items. To be honest I think the £5.25 is extremely reasonable and I doubt they're making any money on it, both of my orders have been just under the 28kg limit since I've changed quantities and removed items to keep me under as I wasn't going to order enough to justify the higher carriage charge.

mcallister1

missychrissy wrote: »

I thought that most of their food was highly processed anyway; .

They always have lots of highly processed items. However, they also have stuff coming in that is quite specialised and often organic or even demeter ( apparently that is even more right on than organic) . I just recently got some demeter apple juice. Also they get lots of gluten free things periodically.It is inevitable that their food is processed- it has a best before date, so can't be freshly picked.