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  • Asda £1.26 for rose wine (found it online shopping) plsu if you phone them and say your free delivery code is not working they will add one to the account for you! £1 for 4 heinz beans but that might of stopped, plus brill offers like £5 for 2 cathedral bell cheeses, quid each for light philly.

    Also check out what ur local fruit and veg co-op is doing, mine is doing this amazing hamper all locally grown for £65

    10lb-12lb turkey or 6lb-7lb beef join/gammon/pork/lamb
    1lb sausage meat
    1lb chipolatas
    1lb bacon
    14lb potatoes
    1 cabbage
    1 cauliflower
    4 onions
    2lb carrots
    2lb sprouts
    3 parsnips
    1 swede
    2 leeks
    1 broccoli
    1 celery
    2 peppers
    1 dozen eggs
    1 box of stuffing
    1 net of mixed nuts in shells
    1 jar of pickled onions
    2 cooking apples
    4 kiwis
    3 lemons
    1 pineapple
    6 red apples
    6 green apples
    6 pears
    1 melon
    12 satsumas
    6 bananas
    1 iceberg lettuce
    10 tomatoes
    1 cucumber
    1 red onion
    1 punnet of cress
    1 bunch of spring onions
    pack of dates

    not bad ay????
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  • I have a few things stashed away, i have a tin of quality street, a tin of celebrations,tin of foxs wonders (half price as were normally £9:eek:, for biccies, i know they are luxury but still....), ummmm, what else, chocolate coins, ritz crackers, custard, breadsticks, and i am going to get my xmas pud this week, oooooh how exciting:j
    :j:j:j
  • Well.. I already prepared a list to make this christmas.
  • Hello i buy a few bottles of this every year,it always looks festive with the little deer on the bottle and not too expensive, have stocked up on chocolate coins, those christmas tubes of sweeties and some chocolate liquers from Lidl .I do have to hide it though in the back of the cupboard because if my lot know its there it won,t be there long. :)
  • i like the food from iceland at xmas. they do some lovely things..yum yum
    skint
    x
  • kippers
    kippers Posts: 2,063 Forumite
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    I got my turkey crown frozen from Aldi (bought last month) and i bought my xmas pud in Tesco sales in January. I've make my xmas cake and mincepies+fillings. I grow all my own veg. So all i need tobuy now are my pigs in blankets (i do this as it's easy to just bung in on xmas day).
  • Got turkey crown from Morrisons reduced in price. Other
    food will be bought using saving stamps from Morrisons, receipt
    saving thing from Morrisons, pincone research vouchers saved all
    year and thats about it. :)
  • sarah1972
    sarah1972 Posts: 19,455 Senior Ambassador
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    Turkey ordered from local butcher, veg all home grown, xmas pud already made, mince pies will be homemade and wine already home made and bottled. :beer:
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  • ixia
    ixia Posts: 1,338 Forumite
    i will probable get a few bits from marks and the rest from tesco.
  • Ordered the lamb for Xmas day picking it up on Sunday and sticking it in the freezer, also starting to get the odd bag of nibble and stashing them such as posh nuts etc Just to spread the cost really
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