I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

chardonnay_2

hello steph i'm from bonnie scotland too x

the mr t thing stems from people not wanting the stores to be able to google the store name or location in case the see glitches and fix them some abbreviate the locations or put # in t stop them from doing it. so you don't have to if you don't want to.

steph most stores do their reductions at least 3 times a day. if you are lucky you can get things 90% off at tesco sometimes at 7.30 -8 and sometimes closer to 10pm. depends on the store & reducer and how busy they are. your tesco may be a 24hr if so they tend to bin the leftover reduced stuff just before 10pm, so best to get there latest 9.30. it's just luck more people seem willing to buy when not much off, whilst hardened bargain hunters like me will walk off in disgust :rotfl:. best thing is to try at different times, around 5pm they also reduce but not as much as later. the sunday bargains mostly are referring to english stores as they have sunday trading laws and shut early unless they are a small store. as we have 24hr shops on sunday it typically is no different.

sign up for aldi and lidl's newsletters so you know when the best deals are to plan a visit. to save the most money you need to shop around for the offers. the mysupermarket link is good. most of the big supermarkets have value lines such as teesco everyday value and asda smartprice, these are loss leaders for the stores and compete to draw you to their store. most often the prices are identical, but then sometimes they start a price war on a particular product to entice you in.

hotukdeals is a good website if you search for grocery deals you can often find bargains worth travelling for x

AmericanInScotland

Thanks to you both, Welsh Poppy and Chardonnay!

Tea ended up being hm oven chips from some of the potatoes I got on offer today. I couldn't be bothered to do more since it's just me.

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hello all
just checking in again

steak and kidney meal last night was amazing had it with the leftover sprouts and parsnips so they wont be bothering us anymore!

have freezer hunted and taken out block of cheese, portion of pepperoni pizza, 2 soft rolls, and a pack of bacon.

tomorrows plan is to have porridge for breakfast, then rolls with leftover ham + salad in them for my work lunch packup, then the pizza with some oven chips when I get in from work. DM will be making herself a corned beef pie while I'm out for her dinner.

using up cereal, bread (for toast) and rest of porridge for breakfasts this week.
planning to have tortilla wraps with l/o salad and dairylea for thursdays lunch, and same for lunch friday. another ham + salad roll lunch packup for saturday.
dinners undecided - probably waffles and sausages thursday night, and then yellow haddock on friday night. will have portion of pizza & oven chips again on saturday night after work again though as its simple and theres a lot of it to get through!

will check in again later in the week as will be doing a mini shop on thursday after I'm done with work

zafiro1984

Thanks Welsh Poppy the mincemeat ice cream recipe sounds really good. Will make some and try it on OH. I always find traditional Chris pud a bit heavy so looking for an alternative for the big day. If you manage to get your mum's recipe I'd be interested. Many thanks.

Lynsey

Morning all, very cold last night and hard frost this morning which is thawing now.

NSD yesterday and only £2.35 spent this week so far, but shopping today and I'm making a list of just what is needed and will only buy extra if reduced. I will get £2'ish of stuff free from Tesco when getting more L'Oreal wipes. Probably buy bread from Tesco.
Need today - eggs, potatoes and carrots from Aldi. Frozen peas from Lidl if I'm passing, plus Linda Mc sausages if still on offer. Crisps and maybe nuts from B&M's??
This could be the last cheap week of the year, £20 - £25 would be nice.
We've got a Groupon or two to use up, hubby is on works "do" on Saturday and we've free tickets for the "Dogs" on Friday - free food and drinks if we go (see how cold it is).
Pork to cook tonight with sage and onion and veg. Maybe the same tomorrow also as pork joint is bigger than I expected - more room though. lol

We're dropping my Brother off at the ferry port later, so might try my luck again in the M&S Outlet.

Stay warm and hope all and their families are well, especially those suffering of late.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Morning all. I've was paid a bit of cash yesterday so did some Christmas shopping. Bought my mum a lovely 3 tier cake stand by Royal Worcester, from TKMaxx, for £16... rrp £45. Hope she likes it! Also bought cards and some Puy Lentils from Tesco to try. Too much watching Masterchef lol.

No idea about meals today. Maybe a nice warming soup for dinner and lo spag bol for tea perhaps.

Will be giving the shops a miss today, too cold to venture out!

ETA - anyone else looking forward to after Christmas and all the cheap whoopsies? I am! lol. Hopefully I can make my sausage meat and apple plaits again on the cheap.

just_trying

Afternoon all, oh my it's cold today have had a few flurries of snow today. Well the food plan today is brekkie had toast, lunch either soup or noodles and dinner will be chilli con carne and rice. Keep warm everyone. Yes lip_stick looking forward to the whoopsie shopping to my oh starts his christmas holidays on the 21st and the freezer is alot emptier so i have room, I got lot's of bargains last year, i laughted at one woman, their was just me and her there to start with and she only took 1 packet of sausages and there was heaps, she actually asked me if it would be okay if she took another packet !!. I said off course first come first served and i said why not take some of the other meat and put it in your freezer.

Edwardia

Got my Shorters order today, only ordered Saturday. It's a bit of work to compare prices against mysupermarket but I saved more than the 3.99 delivery charge so it's all good

OH is away comes back today :j Just hope he'll be in a good mood am making him a hearty soup using Laverstoke Park Farm beef bones from the freezer and overflow veg box veg.

It's colder than yesterday here, dawg didn't spend much time on his morning inspection of the garden

Anyone succumbed and broken out the mince pies yet ?

Tumbleweed will be appearing in my freezer soon, when Christmas is over it's getting defrosted before I start restocking...that's if we don't succumb to the Apocalypse on 21st December first.

If it looks dodgy I'll hole up in bed with the chocolate cheesecake, blood glucose be damned.:cool:

Hope everyone has a bargain buying freezer emptying day !

Lynsey

Lip_Stick - normally some really great bargains, especially Xmas eve.
I could do with cheap sausages, getting low on them.

Next year with no budget, I'll buy all the great "whoopsies" at 75%+ off, especially quality meat. Though I don't need any pork chops!! I can't resist Sainsbury's offers though, always good quality.
I'm getting short on beef joints and steak mince, so they are also targets along with maybe chicken breasts.

No opened any mince pies Edwardia, but opened some nice shortbread (I was going to keep) for elevenses today!!

Temperatures not really picking up and another cold night ahead!!

Lynsey

Welsh_Poppy

Zafiro

I will ask her tomorrow for recipe but she can be forgetful

We have Mincepie every evening with coffee or should I say Hubby has one his fav taste the difference from sainsbury he never liked a mince pie before these he started 1st December.

I am going to send hubby out Christmas eve for bargains...hopefully, I am busy at church as I arrange the floral displays and there all day getting church ready!(my first year)

Dinner will be Hm bacon pasta out of freezer I shall have spinache pasta.

I have stocked up on hubby sausage and bacon enough for 5 months .

lip stick
We watch the Australian versus of Masterchef and the meals I prepare whilst it is on all very sophisticated...I love it would not watch the uk version you should see the 9 year olds in Australia put a lot of adults to shame.