Your best ever bargain supermarket shop

professionalaccountant

Wow - some of you have managed to get some great bargains. My best has been a whole cooked chicken for 5p at a local ASDA, although I have never managed to repeat it despite loitering around the hot chicken counter around closing time on many occassions.

For those of you who do not get employee deals, or those of you who cannot get to the supermarket at the best time for deals it is still possible to save some serious money if you shop smarter.

Miss_Laid

Snugglebunny8 wrote: »

OMG thats amazing!, I really need to go in late to my local Sainsburys, as I always shop first thing after dropping children at school and starting work, need to change my habits, well done you! x

This was several years ago not sure if the link buys work now, it had been a horrid day lashing rain I'd been stuck on the motorway due to crashes in the rain so it was late and very quiet when I got to Sainsburys

Middy

Miss_Laid wrote: »

This was several years ago not sure if the link buys work now, it had been a horrid day lashing rain I'd been stuck on the motorway due to crashes in the rain so it was late and very quiet when I got to Sainsburys

If a product is on BOGOF in the reduced and buy two of them, you still get them at BOGOF. I have purchased asparagus, pizzas and fresh soup in the reduced and they were on BOGOF as well.

Begize

Miss_Laid wrote: »

This was several years ago not sure if the link buys work now, it had been a horrid day lashing rain I'd been stuck on the motorway due to crashes in the rain so it was late and very quiet when I got to Sainsburys

Afaik, they don't normally work anymore - I've read somewhere (I think on the reduced shelf edge) that multibuy discounts do not apply to reduced products.

That said, in our local Sainsburys a few weeks before Christmas, I picked up two packs of diced venison. Normally they were £3 each or two for £5 but were reduced to £1.80 ish each. When they went through the till, I still got the pound off too.

SAVVYSHOPPER

My local Waitrose has fantastic end of day bargains and the discounts also seem to come off on bogof and buy two for £3 for example if they have been reduced significantly it takes money off the rest of your shopping because the discount also kicks in. Has anybody else found this in their Waitrose?

xxSS

welshbookworm

I bought 2 bunches of flowers in Waitrose because they were reduced and they had buy 2 and save £1, they had reduced them so much the lad on the till told me he owed me 35p. I said Oh you can't give me money, I'll buy some thing else. He called the supervisor who told him to give me the money!
First time I've been paid to take stuff!

beachie

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I would not buy ready meals even reduced but each to their own (and if you can use them!)- well done!!
My best one so far was 4 x 250-300g packs of local steak mince, each reduced to about 40p/pack- kept us in mince for a long long time!
There have likely been others too, but I tend to forget once they are in the freezer lol!

I don't normally buy ready meals, but these ones are tasty and useful when I want something quick after a long day at work.

They are weight watchers ones with meatballs in a tomato sauce with spaghetti and are really filling!

Reduced for £1.60 ish to 20p.

beachie

Managed to get a massive box of Mushrooms today from the bootsale for £2.. :-)

sarahg1969

I bought 6 sides of salmon from Tesco last week for just under £40. Which sounds a lot, but I managed to cut it into 60 substantial pieces for the freezer. It was on special offer at £11 a kilo, down from £14, or something like that, and it obviously hadn't proved very popular. There was a fridge full of them marked down to £3.50 a kilo.

On NYE, I bought loads and loads of fruit and veg from Asda, that was all reduced to 5p and 10p. Apples, clementines, big bags of onions, bags of peppers, baking potatoes, leeks, celery, huge bags of mushrooms, sprouts and carrots. I think it cost me about £2 in all! Tons of prepared veg now in the freezer, gallons of soup made and we've still got some in the fridge now.

katie89

I got two loaves of wholemeal hovis for 10p each last night at co-op, one for now, one for freezer! Very happy