Buying yellow sticker/reduced 2012 challenge

terra_ferma

Hello, I don't know if people have already seen it, but there is a thread with information on how/when supermarkets reduce prices, with times etc.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/419108

cardia

cardia wrote: »

i couldn't do yellow stickers a s a challange, since most have the 'use by', and by the time i remember i have it, i have a mold goblin in my fridge! Ive posted in a couple of other threads of a place i shop at, i have a referral code if your interested, just PM me. Im basically saving loads on end or near end 'best before' dead cheap...

They've jst e-mailed out an offer if anyones interested:

Special Offer

This offer is for all of you that have registered but are yet to purchase from Approved Food

This is for FIRST time buyers ONLY, you will receive a discount of £5.25* if you spend more than £30 on products and your basket weighs less than 50kg, the amount will automatically be deducted at checkout

*Equivalent to a 1 box delivery cost at National Rate, this covers all our delivery areas, offer ends at Midnight Friday 24th February

i have a reral code if anyones interested:
" approvedfood co uk/?afid=39307b "
- youll have to add the dots since i can't post links

blackandwhitebunny

Sainsbugs this afternoon (5.45pm ish):
Asparagus 25p down from £1.50
Bananas 20p down from £1
Sugar snap peas 25p down from £1
Half swede 20p down from 57p
I bought 3 lots of each so that's me and my two friends at work sorted for those.

forze

Yay, got some reduced meat for the week at my Sainsburys tonight! Love the lady staff that does the reductions, she's so pleasant.

GarnetLady

Well I was happy to be proved wrong on Friday night! Tesco had nothing, but we timed Asda perfectly!

Got -
Butternut squash and sweet potato - 10p
Tangerines - 10p
Peaches - 10p
Nectarines - 10p
Mushroom medley - 5p
Blueberries x 2 - 5p each
Extra Special tenderstem broccoli x 2 - 5p each
Diced swede - 5p
Smart price kiwis - 5p
Potato and egg salad - 10p
Berry fruit salad - 10p
Sharing fruit salad - 10p
Fruit, yogurt and granola x2 - 5p each
Fresh strawberry gateaux - £1.06
Indulgent donuts - 10p
Organic lemons - 10p
Trimmed fine beans - 5p
70g wafer thin turkey x 4 - 5p each
70g wafer thin chicken x 4 - 5p each
Chives - 5p
Stringless beans - 5p
Chicken and mushroom slices x 4 - 5p each
Extra Special coleslaw and potato salad - 5p
Great Stuff Cheesy Pasta meal x 8 - 5p each
Double cream - 5p
Apple doughnuts - 8p
Jam Tarts - 25p
Cadburys vanilla bars - 50p
Cadburys caramel bars - 44p
Kingsmill 12 white rolls - 36p

There was other meat and meals, but were only on second reduction and we were pleased with that lot!! :rotfl:

abitofhelp

GarnetLady thats a fantastic haul well done.

gailey_2

Well done everyone on bargains.

due to being busy, ill and getting online shop last week not much to report here.

got odd bits at co-op and spar.

today 4pack fresh chicken and bacon kievs half price at £1.15
5pack chicken fillets £5 down to £2.50
8pack sausages reduced down to 39p.

yesterday co-op reduced half price stawberries £1
reduced 18pack yogurt £1.49

wasent much there yesterday with little off.

last week got few cheap slices ham ,chicken and salad stuff.

trying not to overbuy

but want to build up stockpile meat
bread-as thats runb down.

buy only what i need.
made list potential meals with what i have already made list what i need so adding that to reduced hunt list.

some bad new some reduced mince I brought and froze was off had to bin so going to pick more wisely in future.

need mostly stoercupboard staples.
need fruit
need potatoes
crumpets
salad

hoping for egg bargains
valentines bit dissapointing reductions

Florenceem

GarnetLady wrote: »

Well I was happy to be proved wrong on Friday night! Tesco had nothing, but we timed Asda perfectly!

Got -
Butternut squash and sweet potato - 10p
Tangerines - 10p
Peaches - 10p
Nectarines - 10p
Mushroom medley - 5p
Blueberries x 2 - 5p each
Extra Special tenderstem broccoli x 2 - 5p each
Diced swede - 5p
Smart price kiwis - 5p
Potato and egg salad - 10p
Berry fruit salad - 10p
Sharing fruit salad - 10p
Fruit, yogurt and granola x2 - 5p each
Fresh strawberry gateaux - £1.06
Indulgent donuts - 10p
Organic lemons - 10p
Trimmed fine beans - 5p
70g wafer thin turkey x 4 - 5p each
70g wafer thin chicken x 4 - 5p each
Chives - 5p
Stringless beans - 5p
Chicken and mushroom slices x 4 - 5p each
Extra Special coleslaw and potato salad - 5p
Great Stuff Cheesy Pasta meal x 8 - 5p each
Double cream - 5p
Apple doughnuts - 8p
Jam Tarts - 25p
Cadburys vanilla bars - 50p
Cadburys caramel bars - 44p
Kingsmill 12 white rolls - 36p

There was other meat and meals, but were only on second reduction and we were pleased with that lot!! :rotfl:

Big haul there. Your list was thirty buys - I would have gone for sixteen of them - others too fattening.

GarnetLady

abitofhelp wrote: »

GarnetLady thats a fantastic haul well done.

Thanks

Went into Tesco last night as had one of the £5 off wys £40 and a whole load of vouchers from the SSM FB thing. So got -

Flash spray x4 - free
Flash liquid x2 - free
Fairy WUL x2 - free
Lenor x7 - 68p each
Comfort pure - 25p
Oral B toothpaste x3 - 24p each

Also a few reduced bits -

Ken Hom Chicken and Mushroom - 66p
Light Choices Chicken and Potatoes - 67p each
Cheese and onion quiche - 40p
Pork and egg gala slices x2 - 30p each
Cocolate mini doughnuts - 28p

So with everything else we got (all on offer, lol) The cost before the vouchers and discounts was about £77 and after was £45ish. And that's not counting the reduced prices of things. :T

I might need to start my own shop, I probably have enough to stock one! :rotfl:

GarnetLady

Florenceem wrote: »

Big haul there. Your list was thirty buys - I would have gone for sixteen of them - others too fattening.

Yeah, we have a treat a day, everything in moderation and all that! And DH and I are both lucky in that we can eat most things and get away with it.