£1shop or value/alternative stores thread

gailey_2

Thourght this might be helpful for tips and heads up on deals as cant compare on my supermarket.

Everyone seems to have different ones near them

hear homebargains and b&m good but none close enough for me:(

what we have is

family bargains-huge in old woolies city centre-so dont go often
large poundland-in old primark also city cenre

dont go often plus £4 bus fare into town

we have a few poundstretchers dotted about 2 short bus or walk too.

Theres another one on retail park really good but name escapes me sorry.

Our local wilkos also does food but when I last looked dident see any supercheap deals.


Things I look out for in these shops mostly branded items cheap

household
toilitries
biscuits
cereal bars
hot drinks
cereals
crisps
pop
oxo cubes
salt/pepper
tinned items
dried pasta
chilli flakes.
mug shots

went in poundstetcher yesterday always a bit messy.
missing price labels.

but things caught my eye

6pack seabrooks crisps 89p.
chilli flakes 79p nearly £2 in big 4
they had the disposble hot drinks coffee and hot choc where you just add water ideal if you commute or take to work.
cadbury options hot choc 8cups just 99p
no amazing cereal deals like family bargains.

dident get much chance to look around will be going again this week and take my notebook.

kittycatface

thanks this is a great idea. I had my first trip to b&m bargains at the weekend, I'll update my post with offers but so far:
69p Baxters soups (rrp 99p selling at 89p on approved food) hth

lyra

99p store had cereal for yep, you've guessed it, 99p! Good brands, weetabix, sugerpuffs. Alpen bars (light) & chewy bars were both 99p.

Edwardia

I use 99p Stores, Poundland and Poundstretcher and I do buy dog food and kitchen towels. There are a few offers on things like bottled water and tinned tuna but I'd say that they're all better for non-food items. Personally. I don't consider crisps, cakes, biscuits and instant noodles the basis for a healthy diet.

I have gotten fertiliser (Growmore, Sterilised bonemeal) compost, seeds, plants, mini greenhouses, winter fleece for plant protection, hardback books, DVDs, mugs, trellis, Christmas tree baubles - all sorts of stuff.

booter

99p store has 1L vegetable oil - cheapest I've seen anywhere! Like Edwardia, I dont' consider biscuits, crisps, cakes or instant noodles, but not for health reasons just because you can generally get better/cheaper with supermarket value ranges (and I don't like instant noodles anyway!)
I never seem to find any food bargains at Wilkinsons (except for the occasional "whoopsie").
Our local Poundstretcher seems to have gone quite expensive for most things. But I use Home Bargains more anyway. I don't have a local Poundland but when I have ventured into one, it all seems a bit hit & miss - sometimes they have bargains for me, sometimes not - so while they have it at a good price, I stock up!

SailorSam

At my B&M i get Cadburys Chocolate drink for 99p
At the Poundshop i've had fruit bushes, gooseberries; blackcurrants etc.

gailey_2

Thanks guys

just to reassure you guys my familys not junk food addicts.

hubby and eldest take in packed lunches and have 1pack of crisps and eldest likes a cereal bar which figure better than chocolate bar.

I dont tend to buy cakes from there but do buy biscuits which think ok in moderation and branded biscuits better value in these stores than rising cost of value biscuits rarly buy exiting range bourbans and custard creams can last for ages.

I have couple of packets emergancy food in cupboards so pasta in sauce, cup a soups good fotr hubby to take to work on cold day and my old fave student dish batchelors supernoodles which really only gets eaten when cupboards are bare .

went to postoffice shop today which is a mace and noticed some good deals there they had a pound section and had

weetabox at £1
honey puffs £1

so similar to poundshop.
also had couple of good deals on frozen again not part of everyday meals as cook 95%from scratch but I have 3 kids and im not a saint youngs 10pk fishfingers £1 san marco pizza £1.

Booter im getting really skeptical over supermarket value ranges as both sainsburys and tesco value ranges really shot up up somethjings used to buy gone up double the price last few weeks

baby value wipes used to be 17p now 46p.
sainsbury basic pepper was 17p now 40p.
basic pasta 25p now 40p.

Think if can get brand names or slightly better quality for not much more than better as hate way big 4taking adavantage of the valye shopper as cant really downsize value hence why shop mostly lidls, aldis and farmfoods the big 4getting greedy!

lyra

Ah nothing wrong with a few treats. I do find the cheap frozen stuff (think it's in poundland) fine for days I'm not well enough/too busy to cook. It's the balance, if most of your meals are homemade, then you're fine to have some crisps once in a while

maman

Great idea for a thread. I'm lucky in that I have all sorts of shops very close to home. You have to be very careful as lots of things in the £ shops aren't bargains at all.

In £ shop I thought tins of Goblin meatballs (2 for £1) were good value for those with children to feed. With a bit of pasta you could make a meal for 4 with a couple of tins.

I bought wild birdfood. I had a biggish (1kg?) bag but there were smaller National Trust brand bags too which would make lovely gifts.

Edwardia

Looked up Home Bargains but nearest one to me is over 70 miles away which is too far away. My best discount shop bargain so far was a stainless steel colander for £1.

Edwardia

maman wrote: »

I bought wild birdfood. I had a biggish (1kg?) bag but there were smaller National Trust brand bags too which would make lovely gifts.

This is the most expensive way of buying bird food. If you want to feed birds regularly, it's way cheaper to buy a huge bag from a feed merchant or garden centre. However, it does tend to attract rodents. My mother lives right out in the sticks, mice got into her garage and managed to shift 13kg away somewhere in a week !