Buying yellow sticker/reduced 2012 challenge

gailey_2

Hi guys

Thourght I best update yesterdays reductions and todays:)

Feel happy watching toddler snack on her fresh berry mix this morning

if reduced allows me to feed kids more fresh fruit and veg then worth doing!

yesterday in co-op

got reduced berry mix think £1.50 down to 75p
strawberries £2 down to £1
salad £1 down to 50p

reduced chicken pie £3.59 down to £1.59 but my numpty hubby taken 3/4 of it to work for lunch.
Good idea you might say numpty dident realise needs to be cooked! hes ate 1/4 of it.Was going to do it tonight for his tea with chips.

cheese- 2.49 reduced to 99p thourght could freeze.
chicken tikka slices think £2.79 down to £1.15.
reduced fresh pasta £1.60 down to 69p.

so not amazing reduction but all we would use.

went in spar avoided the bread!
They had diced beef but looked manky so left
fancy muller lite with choc 6pack £1 reduced was £2 on offer and £3.50 full price!
wish had brought extra now.

went to spar this morning

they have a cleanace section with reduced prices.
They had more of the foxes triple pack custard cream/cow biscuits £ down to 50 brought 2 as thats cheaper than supermarket value they biscuit monstors in my house.

got reduced pasta readymeal for toddlers lunch today

have reduced fish from co-op defrosted in fridge for my lunch to be served with on offer potatoes and reduced salad.

got 2morrsions chicken dinner readymelas defrosting ones that were 19p other night.
Think will give one to eldest and 1 for hubby as hes messed up the pie!
need to meal plan next few weeks but popping into c0-op/spar getting 1/2bits each time working ok for me we ceratinly not short of meals which is good as less than £50 left on budegt this month and need to do lidls tommorow and send hubby in aldis later for more 79p granny smiths as they only variety apples I like!

Do hope hubbys not got food poisening!

pinksk8

Hi all

Good to see everyone embracing yellow labels! Had a crappy start to the week at Morri/Tes, which was crap cos i was running relatively low.

HOWEVER!

Last Night went first to Morri as i had been to Boots and its right next door and got loads for less than a fiver, incl. two packs of GU puddings for 75p, they are my fave!

Then popped into Co-op
Got £3 parma ham for 50p
Fresh pasta 39p and loads of other stuff for £2.50

Then had to go to Tes later and got 4 huge bagfuls of stuff for around a fiver!

Happy! Looks like im spending today baking and preparing food to freeze! x

Anyone else here who simply cannot leave behind the yellow sticker flowers?! My home looks like the day after a funeral, but got a lovely bunch of £7 roses for 70p. Plus all the others, I think its such a shame to leave them there!

computerfixer

Didn't make the co-op till late on wed though got some swede and carrot mashed potatoes for 10p

Last night was all already reduced when went in about 6 got..

small rump steak - was £3.40 - 20p
4 granary rolls - 10p
soft cheese filled peppadew pepers - 10p
some GU key lime pies - 20p - (was £3.62 !!! - for 2 small ramekins !! says dont freeze though atleast you get the ramekin to use again

Hope everyone continues to do well

lindseykim13

Does anyone else get really dissapointed when there aren't any decent reducstions? lol
We don't live within walking distance of many shops, i can only manage to get the local co-op petrol station which still takes a good half an hour there and back. Make the effort to walk up there as trying to save the petrol costs and got nothing! The reductions were really bad 3.39 steak reduced to 2.99!
Anyway looks like i will have to stick to my once a week car trip to t's and take into account the petrol costs.

skintmum2012

wow second page this thread never normally makes it out of the top 4 are yellow stickers really that bad today?

kittywight

heya guys

skintmum2012 .... the yellow stickers have been that bad for a while now ... well for me anyways

today i got 2 boxes of birds eye whole chicken fillets (2 in pack) breaded ... from the freezers in the local co-op ... must be end of range or something

was £2.49 a pack, i paid 62p a pack

xx

pinksk8

I do get disappointed when there are no good reductions!

x x

flippin36

skintmum2012 wrote: »

wow second page this thread never normally makes it out of the top 4 are yellow stickers really that bad today?

For me Thursday, Friday, Saturday are no go. Tues and Wednesdays are the best days. Thursday/Friday has been so poor for reductions - my guess is that the stores are busy because people often get paid on a Thursday or Friday so the store is busy, so they don't reduce to silly prices. Even the bread reductions were a bit pants on Thursday evening. Also the busier the evening the more likely someone has wiped the shelves clean.

fruitcake_2

wow, can't believe I've been doing this for five years now and only just seen this thread. If I was taller I would be a freegen (bins are too big)
I have found that the best days are Saturday as most peeps are out making the most of the evening down the local, plenty of fruit and veg. Mind you I only have small supermarkets in town. Bread is usually as low as 10p a loaf at Sainsbury and Tesco, and as high as 60p in Coop. M and S wastes the most, but can be as low as 10p. It depends on who is reducing, in my experience. Most people are lovely and are actually pleased to reduce. I've been offered a job on several occassions as it's so easy to spot the dates on items they have missed around the store.
Best bargain this week was a shoulder of lamb for 44p instead of £4.78. Very pleased with that.
I like it when you buy two items and it knocks money off the total, for example, bogof on pizza express pizza, £4 each, reduced price 10p each, -£4 on the rest of the shop, complete bargain!! only happens occassionally, but great when it does!

wheels1970

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: "numpty dident realise needs to be cooked! hes ate 1/4 of it" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Hi, I've been lurking, reading posts and this made me laugh out loud!! thanks.

My partner got fed up of a group of women with trolleys blocking what he terms "casualty bay" in Mr T the other day. He's quiet tall, spotted reduced steak mince. Having tried to be polite he just leant right over the top of one womans head......I had to walk away in shame, if I'd have watched any further I may have had to head for the tena lady isle!!!:o A new phrase I reckon "Interception"......