Buying yellow sticker/reduced 2012 challenge

enaraven

there is little bit confusion how it will reduces it challenge

gailey_2

Morning guys

love reading about your bargains not been since sat haviing with drawal symtoms although not much in co-op sat and hubby brought some crusty bread thursday which keep telling him does not freeze well.

might venture up shop later will see how it goes today as quite enjoying relaxing in the house.

plan to hit few new places on the hunt this week.

nikkala- crikey 3freezers full lucky thing. we havent brought full price bread in ages.

enaraven-welcome aim challange really is get as much reduced as possible as with rising grocery bills even value it only way to keep costs down.

I couldent live on reduced alone but would say on average each day have least 3-5reduced things.
some meals work out cheap per head as mostly reduced ingrediants so no feed family for a fiver here much less.

i do

shop the offers
shop around several places
buy reduced
buy own brand and value.

but we family of 5 with 3kids , 2 in nappies.

abitofhelp

Morning all, i think i may be allowed this afternoon to a supermarket. the reason being the other half i shall rename him as alpha male (thinks he is in charge but he isnt really) watched the Mr M advert last night. Going for about 4:30 for some 30p veg and possible some yellow stickers. youngest child has friends over today so if we drop them home for 4pm we can whizz up to Mr M, i am sure i can then talk him round to allowing me to go to Asda as we will pas it on the way home. Be rude not to try. Enjoy your day.

Thrifty_Sister

nikkilala wrote: »

Just thought I'd pop in and say hello, I didnt know this thread was here and I'm whoopsie mad:oI've got 3 freezers and all full. I have'nt paid full price or a piece of meat for over a year:TSaw someone mention bacon earlier, the best thing that ever happened to me was when the reducing machine in T's broke so they stuck 20p handwritten stickers on everything!! and they seriously had about 100 packets of bacon and that is something I always find hard to get, so got 20 packets and stuck it all in the freezer, Basically if it's not reduced or on a glitch I won't usually buy it it:oIt's like finding kindred spirits on here:)But I'm a whoopsie snob, I confess, and peel the reduced stickers off before I freeze it:rotfl::rotfl:

Hi Nikkilala :wave:Nice to see you over here for a change lol You're in good company - everybody here enjoys the whoopsie challenge. Good luck

Thrifty_Sister

chardonnay wrote: »

managed to get packs of mushrooms, peaches and tomatoes for 6p each just before the reducer put it all in the bin. as soon as we walked away at 9.45 she put all fruit and veg in the bin:eek:. such a waste it was all perfect didn't even look like it was todays date. a few minutes later we passed her at the reduced bread where she was putting it all into binbags:mad:

not her fault, but you think they'd leave it till almost midnight incase someone bought it rather than chuck it.

Hi chardonnay - what store was this that is open until late on a Sunday?

flippin36

nikkilala wrote: »

Just thought I'd pop in and say hello, I didnt know this thread was here and I'm whoopsie mad:oI've got 3 freezers and all full. I have'nt paid full price or a piece of meat for over a year:TSaw someone mention bacon earlier, the best thing that ever happened to me was when the reducing machine in T's broke so they stuck 20p handwritten stickers on everything!! and they seriously had about 100 packets of bacon and that is something I always find hard to get, so got 20 packets and stuck it all in the freezer, Basically if it's not reduced or on a glitch I won't usually buy it it:oIt's like finding kindred spirits on here:)But I'm a whoopsie snob, I confess, and peel the reduced stickers off before I freeze it:rotfl::rotfl:

Hiya! Really? I'm the other way. It bugs me when my OH tears the sticker off because I want to be reminded how much a meal is actually costing several weeks down the line - it tastes much better knowing it was a bargain .

Welcome and post any tips - you sound like you have it sussed :T

flippin36

Great sunday afternoon for me (first ever good Sunday). I don't normally bother but needed a few bits.

fruit salad 39p
peaches 99p
mr kipling cakes 39p
bread buns 9p
lamb 1.19
cabbage 20p
white slice 15p
whole cooked chicken 1.99

Definitely worth leaving it later (3.30 Sunday afternoon).

rachbc

gailey wrote: »

thanks rach for mouse does it not need any gelatine?

No - just eggs and choc. So easy and so lovely. Think will make for valentines dessert and reckon should be able to cobble togehe a decent meal from what we have in - and save the £20 would have spent at M&S

pinksk8

Hi Guys

Im loving reading all your weekend bargains! I dont usually go weekends as Im busy but will be going Morries tonight and possibly Tescos.

Getting worried about how violent people are getting for the yellow stickers, i know times are hard but manners cost nothing!

x x

victory

pinksk8 wrote: »

Hi Guys

Im loving reading all your weekend bargains! I dont usually go weekends as Im busy but will be going Morries tonight and possibly Tescos.

Getting worried about how violent people are getting for the yellow stickers, i know times are hard but manners cost nothing!

x x

They are pushy aren't they?:rotfl::rotfl: I get old people standing square on so you cannot see around them, wheelchairs that are placed in such a way it is practically impossible to see, the ones that take it all as soon as it is put down, especially the meat and hang the rest of us, off he goes with 6 lots of meat, not even looking back.

Then you get the ones like me and others that share, I mean if there are 2 and he has expressed an interest share, one each no point otherwise, if you go back another time they will remember what you did and look out stuff for you.

I often ask what they want and if I am nearer grab it for them.

You get the chatty ones, the rude ones ,the pushy ones, the tell you their life story while you wait ones:rotfl: the loud ones 'reduce this for us love, come on, have not got all day':eek: ones seen them all, heard them all, I used to be a little bit set back and let them get on with it and go iin when it was over and get the stuff but not so much now, I go in with them and try to get it into my basket.

The other day I left my basket on top of my shopping trolley and a lady came over and started taking stuff from it:rotfl: the man who I had been talking to saidto me to watch my basket as things were going out of it, when I explained to the lady that it was mine she put it back and walked off:rotfl: