The Reduced section: Your best bargains

Trinny

Sa$nsbury had disney cake with "belle" sticking out of the top and the dress made of cake. Original price £12 - we got it for a quid, and it was for a birthday party.

Result!

Trin

tessie_bear

what are the lidl sunday freebies ? what it says i suppose but sounds very interesting.....

catch_me_if_you_can

We picked up leeks and bananas last night marked down to 30p/kg.
SA put them through at 3p/kg.
Nice lot of leek & tattie soup in the freezer now!

natlie

I just got back from Mr T lol - White loaf 11p, Bara Brith (welsh cake) 23p and 4 finest scones £13p over £4 saving!
Last weekI had 2 kilos of onions 30p, 4 corgettes 30p, white cabbage and a cauli 43p each, finest rice pudding 99p instead of 2.39, mince £1.89, a whole roast chicken on the hot counter £1.69, Finest Sweet Chilli Sausages 99p, 2 custard slices 56p, chocolate caramel fudge pudding 99p, 2 syrup sponge puddings 89p - there are a lot of puddings in there but I wouldnt buy them if they werent on offer - our tesco has only been open a few weeks I think there will be less offers when they work out what people are buying
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xxvickixx

Result tonight - Bought 5 tapas dishes on the reduced counter all marked down to 63p each so £3.15 in total, but the till took of £3.50 as they were on a multibuy. Just had them for dinner and it was delicious, but possibly even more so because they were free!

MarilynMonroe_2

tessie_bear wrote: »

what are the lidl sunday freebies ? what it says i suppose but sounds very interesting.....

Rather than selling stuff off they just put stuff at the window and you can help yourself.

Thinking back I've had magazines, newspapers, flowers, plants, bags of chocolate bars,frozen party food stuff, bread, juice, yoghurts .. somethings I dont bother with and everything is in date, and it's usually a Sunday when it happens. They must try and make room ready for th eMonday deliverys.

MarilynMonroe_2

Trinny wrote: »

Sa$nsbury had disney cake with "belle" sticking out of the top and the dress made of cake. Original price £12 - we got it for a quid, and it was for a birthday party.

Result!

Trin

You jammy dodger :T

Sue14

My OH came home with a bargain today, 2 half legs of lamb, which were originally £7.99, for £2 each as the supermarket he works for were selling them to staff, and he got his 10% discount!

Liz_M

Today I got few things like bread/pastries which I get very often, and got some puff pastry for 50p. I also got a pack of 2 fancy chicken breasts for £1. They were free range and corn fed and had skin on and everything! :P Think the original price was £5.69 or something ridiculous like that. I'd never have bought anything like that for full price, and not sure that I would even if I could afford it! I like getting reduced items that are things I wouldn't usually buy - so I get something fancy or try something new when usually I wouldn't be able to, and if it's an ingredient I don't generally buy, I enjoy working out a nice new meal to make with it.
It's also handy getting things you use or like anyway, like the rotisserie chickens I occasionally buy one for about £4.40, but when reduced to £1.80 I always get one! On sunday I got a bag of organic parsnips for 30p which was handy for the roast and a nice change as I've not done parsnipsin ages.
I do think some people are a bit harsh on judging the kind of people who buy bargains though. If someone buys all of something I would have wanted then yeah it's a little bit annoying, but I don't feel like I'm missing out because it's not something I went there planning on getting anyway - if I'd got some it would be a bonus. I've never encountered people physically pushing or elbowing, so if there are actually supermarkets that do this then that is bad :S And I really don't think that only people who 'need' bargains should get them - people with money are just as entitled to them as we are, and just because someone looks posh or rich doesn't necessarily mean they are rich. The only ones that do annoy me are people who grab everything and you can tell it's for a restaraunt or business.. although again I guess they have as much right as we do, and if they can make a bit of extra profit then I guess it will help them to treat their kids too.
Another thing I've learnt is to only buy what you need too, and be organised with storing it! In the past I've got a bit carried away when things are bargains, and bought things that I won't end up using. Either that or I've bought too much stuff that won't keep, or just couldn't decide what to eat first so thought I'll put it all in the fridge for now... and then forgotten to put it in the freezer. Learnt that one pretty quickly though and now hardly ever throw whoopsies away.