The Reduced section: Your best bargains

PipneyJane

We scored big on mushrooms last time I visited the condemned food counters at our local Tescos. It was Saturday night a couple of weeks ago, around 8pm. I picked up four bags of fresh mushrooms, total weight 3.25kg, for a total of £1.22.

When I got them home, I sliced them, fried them, divided them into "meal-sized" portions (I add mushrooms to most things) and froze them. Enough for 13 meals.

Triker

squeaky wrote: »

Hiya

We have a thread on bargains... Reduced Food Items

So I'll merge the this one with it after a while.

That other thread is from 2008 Squeaky...:eek:


I managed to get some chilli, ginger and garlic for 9p pre squeeshed in tubes, was £2.00 odd.

Best one this year was 2 huge Gressingham Ducks for 5p each. That was a few months ago.

Kaz2904

That's pretty good getting ducks for 5p!
Back in 2003-2004 we could reliably go to our local as*a and pick up a trolley full of meat reduced to pennies for joints, mince, all sorts of things. We once got a trolley full of finest Christmas food for £36. It should have cost over £300. We froze most of it and DH and DD were eating lovely sea food all evening that night. I was NOT happy, DS was well overdue by that time and just not shifting *roll eyes!*.

Ceirdwyn

I've just got my best one, a whole rainbow trout for 57p from Sainsbugs:D I usually only find the things that have a few pence knocked off, so this is a triumph for me:D

Hawthorn

I think my best for a while has been a 1.5 kilo lamb shoulder for a fiver. I never seem to find the 'pennies' ones

rosie383

You just need to be prepared sometimes to hang around. I have managed to time it right 3 times in the past 2 weeks.
I got sea bass fillets, 2 in a pack, down from £4.98 (:eek:) to just 50p. Grabbed 5 of those.
Very rare to be able to get halal meat reduced. Got 2 big packs chicken mince for 50p each, and sausages.
In total, I got around £70 worth for around a tenner over 3 visits.
My meat/ fish freezer drawer is stuffed full now and that should do me for the month.
Obviously 10p bread/ fruit/ veg etc.
It's Eid this weekend, so we will have nice grub and a bit extra to spend on treats from what I saved on the shopping.
Oh, and nabbed quite a few packets of 'slimey / spooky' Jaffa cake bars etc for 30p each, reduced after Halloween. They will do nicely for Eid visitors. I just take them out of the packets and no-one is any the wiser!

LilyMae_2

In our local M&S they have started to reduced items with a big yellow they have never done this before. I thought all the reductions went to the staff. Managed to get a huge Oakham Chicken yesterday for half price. Perfect for Christmas Day:jNow happily residing in my freezer!!

squeaky

Triker wrote: »

That other thread is from 2008 Squeaky...:eek:

Yep! They're out of date

But then - while interesting, and good finds for the posters, the majority of the finds are very local yellow stickered things and by next week very nearly all of these finds will be out of date. So they might as well join the other out of date finds

As I said... later

Eenymeeny

LilyMae wrote: »

In our local M&S they have started to reduced items with a big yellow they have never done this before. I thought all the reductions went to the staff. Managed to get a huge Oakham Chicken yesterday for half price. Perfect for Christmas Day:jNow happily residing in my freezer!!

I was in South Shields M&S recently and heard one of the assistants asking if she could start reducing yet, so I hung around and got some chilled foods reduced.;)
It was 4.30 and they were closing at 5. Maybe 30 minutes before closing applies everywhere? HTH

rachbc

My best ever was a whole shoulder of lamb for 50p that did 3 meals for 4 of us!! And 5 bundles of asparagus for 2p each.

Most recent - last night at tesco 8.30 ish lots of 6p veg, bread and some 17p blocks of cheddar and a posh pea soup with asparagus ravioli - reduced from £4 to 32p - todays lunch sorted