Approved Foods thread

sarah1972

Zoobzi37 said:

If you want a brilliant deal then Poundstretcher have everything at half price at present. The deal has been on for over 4 weeks now. Just spend a fiver and then it's all half price. 
I was a Hexham Poundstretcher yesterday and saved £33 on my £66 shop.
I am not allowed to drive anymore due to disability but if I had a car still, I'd load up with a years supply of household items. 
It's an incredible deal and they have some really decent stock. 
I am really struggling with price rises, esp my 105% fuel energy increase. So any saving like this is a real boon. 

As much as this is a great deal. This is the approved foods thread that hasn’t been commented on for a year so it might be a good idea for you to post this is a new deal as only people looking for approved foods will read this. 

Coffeekup

Zoobzi37 said:

If you want a brilliant deal then Poundstretcher have everything at half price at present. The deal has been on for over 4 weeks now. Just spend a fiver and then it's all half price. 
I was a Hexham Poundstretcher yesterday and saved £33 on my £66 shop.
I am not allowed to drive anymore due to disability but if I had a car still, I'd load up with a years supply of household items. 
It's an incredible deal and they have some really decent stock. 
I am really struggling with price rises, esp my 105% fuel energy increase. So any saving like this is a real boon. 

Personally I wouldn't be fooled by this 50% off deal. They've been putting the prices up heavily over the last year and advertised a 50% off which it is compared to their March's prices. However it's just brought them in line with places like home bargain's, farmfoods and Iceland.

cloughja

I used to use approved foods quite a bit but stopped a couple of years ago. The reason was the savings were often not worth the delivery price. Often I found I was buying rubbish I didn't need just to make the required spend. 

deannagone

Tried looking at the website, same as I did with another link MSE gave some time ago.  Website so clunky and slow, takes forever to find what you are looking for.  Prices aren't massively reduced, not worth the cost of delivery and long long time waiting for website to load for each page.  Not a lot I would want on the website either.

Not really worth it. With a bit of shopping around Farm Foods, B&M, Poundland, Lidl etc, I can get what I need for similar prices without half the bother.

stoneman

I  bought off of approved foods once, never again. The biscuits were almost all broken and soft. The chocolate had a white haze over it. 

whydoineedone

Just looked at their website - didn’t seem much cheaper to me than Aldi or Lidl? Nor did Iceland tbh. 

HHUK

I tend to use Approved Food when MSE has a code for an extra 10% off (as they do currently)

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/approved-foods/#55855

Never had any issues with delivery or the packaging, but admittedly don't order much that is delicate or fragile.

My partner gets through loads of soft drinks, and always insists on having the 500ml screw top bottles - normally the dearest way to buy - so they don't go flat. When as now they have the brands she likes at a time when I can use the MSE code then I tend to go for it, juggling the quantities of the drinks to make full use of the 25kg limit on the first box. Their prices for the soft drinks are pretty good. If all the ducks are in a row and they have exclusive MSE deals and other items I know I will use on offer, then so much the better.