Approved Foods thread

jo58

debtfree2010 wrote: »

Hi Guys,
If you have registered with approved food my never actually ordered from them you can get free delivery on orders till Thursday at midnight
last night i was on there website putting stuff in my basket, but i never completed the order, so i was very happy to get an email this morning about free delivery :j

I spent £45, but the RRP price was over £120, now i just need to sort out the cupboards to store it all :j

New Customers can also try the other food websites in this thread :

Online Clearance & Short dated Grocery sites

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Heisenberg_2

brogusblue wrote: »

Well my £1 box arrived .. It was a box inside a box

4 x M&M chocolate brownies
1 x Big D Salted peanuts small bag
2 x Soda Water can small
1 x Tizer 330ml
1 x Snack Size Soreen
2 x Quavers standard bags
2 x Seabrooks Ready Salted standard bags
1 x Chargriled Sundried Courgette
1 x Dorset Cereal Bar
1 x Coco pop Cereal Bar
1 x 5 pack of Galaxy mistletoe kisses cake bars

Not bad .. one thing i will bin is the sundried courgette .. yuk

Picture of whats in the box

http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c320/srs101/?action=view&current=IMG_0471.jpg

Glad you are happy with your box for £6.25. Personally I think that is absolute crap. IMO you'd be better off getting deals from supermarkets of items that you actually wanted or even the pound shop.

Best of luck anyway.

I keep browsing through their site, due to their relentless emails, adding things to my basket and then noticing it is around £25 and telling myself that I wouldn't buy this rubbish normally so why am I now!?

Ironically I have just been through my fridge and cupboards and thrown away a load of sauces that I bought because they sounded nice and with such a big discount off RRP. It was a waste of money because they were hardly used and tasted disgusting!

Nothing wrong with the actual products - not spoiled or anything - just taste rough - lol!

One piece of advice - stay away from the Crosse and Blackwell White sauce now being cleared at 20 for a pound - it is utterly vile.


Don't know if anyone has an answer for this but I bought some free range eggs from Aldi at the weekend and the box had a Best Before date on them - not a use by date - anyone know why because I thought eggs was one product where use by was quite stringently upheld?

Turkishdreamer

I know there is a lot of negativity about AP, but I always look for their flour/home baking offers, although have nver ordered as yet.

Just noticed I had missed a free delivery option, which would have been worth it for me to try a few bits.

Doves Farm Gram Flour - Gluten Free is on offer for 69p per bag or 2 for £1.60. Says it retails at £1.75 per bag, but know that you can get it for £1.56. Still a great deal, BBD 31/01/12, which is not a problem. Still using bread mixes bought from BBFL with a BBD of 09/11 with great success.

Quite a few other store cupboard, baking offers on too, so probably worth a go.

Hope this helps the avid bakers amongst us.

Gleek

Fab lucky box today:

Crunchie Biscuits
Kinder Bueno Biscuits
Blackjack tube of sweets (yum!)
Wham bar
Choc covered almonds
Monster energy drink
Cherry coke
Packet of space raiders crisps
4 nutrigrain bars
Full size sorreen

All yum

The 79p Burger Sauce is nomable, so much so we ordered 2 more bottles to come today.

The Dolmio squeeze tomato and cheese thing is nice too, but if you can get to a Home Bargains (we spotted them when we visited Scunny) they're in date and 3 for a £1.

The pasta/pizza and chicken spices (four in a pot) are AWESOME too, we have 2 of each.

Raine_E_Day

I unsubscribed from their (annoying but often tempting) emails in December. I had loads of groceries from them last year, and still have food stashed away everywhere which will take months to get through - and I don't even fancy it any more. I have given some away and chucked a fair amount. Also, I found myself ordering things that weren't too heavy to keep the weight down for DPD driver who struggled up the stairs to my flat, which isn't really my problem but I felt sorry for him as the box was nearly as big as him!

I appreciated the fact that AF addressed the packing issue and it was handy having an exact time allocated for delivery which was always kept to. However, eating too much unhealthy food - all the snacks, choc, cake etc has meant I'm having to buy more clothes to fit my larger size. Hardly money saving - and not a healthy lifestyle. I've never been this heavy before! I'd rather get fit by walking from Sainsburys to Tesco to Lidl and ending up at M & S each day as they all do pretty good reductions on freezable and fresh healthy food, so no more AF for me.

mcallister1

Definitely much thought is needed before ordering, especially if there are not many at home. Like the mini prawn skewers I bought after the summer from sainsburys and we still are using up... Even delicious things can be too much of the same. Now there are only 3 of us at home instead of 5,I'm ordering much less frequently. Having said that, there is a little fondue chocolate set for 2 which they are offsetting against postage. While I'm still making packed lunches for a teenager, I'll still be ordering. Decent price on buttrrkist popcorn packs, which I buy for school, 2 for price of 1. And decent reduction on ribena, and Dorset cereals.

ChrisEvanson

Turkishdreamer wrote: »

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Doves Farm Gram Flour - Gluten Free is on offer for 69p per bag or 2 for £1.60

69p a bag or two for £1.60???

moggymutt

I've just had a large delivery of stuff from them- soya dessert and gram flour- all delivered within 2 days of ordering. Well chuffed. The soya dessert is well out of date but is still fine., and about a third of the normal cost, same with the gram flour.:).

I only order from them occaisionally- I'm a gluten free vegan with very picky tastes (hate veg), so when I spot something that I use a lot of anyway, I really stock up well. I'd never buy anything that I dont usually eat.

BitterAndTwisted

I put an order in to AF every four months or so. I don't buy processed food for the most part but have ordered couscous in the past, so I've got a load more of that coming and am giving the spelt a shot. A £28 order this morning and not a single biscuit, cake or chocolate bar. That's medal-worthy for a start. Can't wait for the package to come, it's a bit like Christmas.

moggymutt

just ordered more gram flour, but all choc soya dessert now gone, only vanilla left:(

Reckon that apart from fresh fruit, I've enough food for over 6 months:)- its really weird not going shopping when I go into town- used to always pick up food of some form. Good start to surviving on a pension.