Healthiest Promotions? Who is the best?

matt_u72

Walking around the supermarket you always notice the ambient stock, all your tins and non-refrigerated goods and non-food are almost 90% of the shop floor. The remainder consisting of your fresh fruit and veg, meat and dairy and ready meals.

In my hour or so of shopping, the promotional ends of pizzas and ready meals, butter and cheese, the crisps and chocolate, fizzy drinks and biscuits all seem a bargain, but what you save in money, you gain in pounds...in weight!!!

It seems that despite the odd flourish of promotional veg the supermarkets never ending promotional buying in centred around the 'naughty-but-nice' treats that simply are not good for us.

I'll visit the fruit and veg and see cucumber are £1, same price as the 'great deal' Dairy Milk round the corner, or '2 for £3' on Peaches and Nectarines, but BOGOF on £2 pizzas.

The supermarkets are well in the knowledge we will by fruit and veg because if you care an ounce about your health, you will be impulsed to purchase the fruit here and there, the health yoghurt or fruit and nut bars, perhaps a bag of Alpen instead of Wheetos.

We all care about ourselves and families, i believe we need to emphasise the 'healthy' Supermarkets, the offers we might miss and maybe, that trip out of the supermarket and to the local market stall, might just be worth saving pound off both hips and account.

This might fail to take off, but i enjoyed expressing my opinion never-the-less.

Eliza_2

The only health in supermarkets is the health of their bank accounts - at our expense. They're not stupid, why should they bother giving offers on healthy stuff? As Martin has frequently said, they don't exist to be our friends or to help us, they're here to fleece us.

There are loads of threads on this forum about abandoning supermarkets and buying at markets and small independents. There are also threads about spotting the best offers, but I think the way forward is the 'old style' thread, becoming as self sufficient as you can and not being held to ransom by the insidious activities of supermarkets who try (and frequently succeed, however clever we are) to pull the wool over our eyes about their offers.

If you want supermarket offers on fruit and veg, the only suggestion other than grow your own, or co-operative community ventures, that I can suggest, is Aldi where there are often super 6 offers, many for 39p, (your example of a cucumber was 39p the other week) on a range of fruit and veg.

I agree with you in principle, but would prefer that we gave the supermarkets a miss altogether.

geordie_joe

Eliza wrote: »

They're not stupid, why should they bother giving offers on healthy stuff?

To make money, just like any other offer. Morrisons regularly have offers on fruit and veg.

Most of the time it's not the supermarkets that have the offers anyway, it's the manufacturer. This is why the same offers will appear in different supermarkets, or "do the rounds" from one to another.

stephen77

It can easier to do offer on non fresh produce as you can build up stocks in advance etc.
THings like fizzy drinks are often priced on own brands so they can afford to do offers more often as there margin is bigger.

I often see offer on fruit and veg.

Callie22

matt_u72 wrote: »

The supermarkets are well in the knowledge we will by fruit and veg because if you care an ounce about your health, you will be impulsed to purchase the fruit here and there, the health yoghurt or fruit and nut bars, perhaps a bag of Alpen instead of Wheetos.

Alpen isn't really that healthy (and it tastes like the contents of a hoover-bag). Far better (and cheaper) to buy plain oats and make your own 'muesli' - and remember to buy your nuts, fruit etc from the baking aisle rather then the snack aisle. It's a heck of a lot cheaper as you don't pay VAT on that kind of stuff when it's sold for baking, but you do when it's tarted up in fancy 'snack-packs'.

abailey54

The thing that irritates me is that when I went and picked my own strawberries, they lasted over a week and still seemed fresh as anything, whereas I buy it in a supermarket and it barely lasts 48 hrs, broccoli in my local is already a bit bendy before I even buy it (am I the only one who snaps off the stalk when you pay by weight?) and though the quality is going seriously down, the prices continue to increase dramatically

Growing your own is defo a good idea (you can get some seeds for free on internet, pots from freecycle and some places have community compost sites) but for most people it can only supplement stuff you buy rather than replacing it

Middy

Callie22 wrote: »

Alpen isn't really that healthy (and it tastes like the contents of a hoover-bag). Far better (and cheaper) to buy plain oats and make your own 'muesli' - and remember to buy your nuts, fruit etc from the baking aisle rather then the snack aisle. It's a heck of a lot cheaper as you don't pay VAT on that kind of stuff when it's sold for baking, but you do when it's tarted up in fancy 'snack-packs'.

If you have a scoop bin shop near to you, then you can buy what you want and how much you want in your muesli.