Reduced food item challenge Sunday 23rd Sept. - Saturday 29th Sept.

Lynsey

Another week, another challenge (no coupons or staff discounts).

Just a bit of fun, but shows what can be achieved and from where.
Some great bargains last week, will this week be as good ........... or even better??
Please post store name and time that you bought reduced items.

SHOW ME YOURS AND I'LL SHOW YOU MINE.

Good luck all.

Lynsey

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I'll happily follow this thread, not sure if I'll be going yellow label hunting this week but always curious to see what other people buy for cheap. (inspiration etc)

aric

Hi,

We are a family of four and realised that our food bills were going sky high. We've gone from doing a large weekly shop to a number of smaller shops and I tend to stop off at our local supermarkets on the way home from work to try and find bargains.

Its a bit mixed but I tend to get a few half price meat, salad and vegetable bargains 4/5 times. I arrived on yesterday just as the mark down chap was starting and I did feel a bit odd :embarassehanging around as he either further reduced existing products in the mark down section or picked produce from the shelves to mark down and place in the section... but hey ho I think I got some really good bargains!

We don't mind mixing up the menus as it keeps things interesting!:cool2:

We're trying to fill up the freezer with meat this week. Other weeks we plan to only buy essentials and if possible mark down fruit and veg. This week we have managed to find the following bargains:

Sainsbury

Pack of two Finest lamb burgers £1.50 from £3.29
JS Lamb cutlets £1.99 from £4
12 Butchers choice sausages 99p from £1.99
JS Raw King Prawns £1.50 from £3.29
Another JS Raw King Prawns £1.50 from £3.29
JS cod and chips 300g £1.00 from £2.50
Another JS cod and chips 300g £1.00 from £2.50
Finest mozarella and tomato pork sausages £1.30 from £2.79
JS Chicken breasts £2.99 from £6.00
JS Lamb chops £2.99 from £6.00
JS Breaded chicked escalopes 99p from £2.00
Another JS Breaded chicked escalopes 99p from £2.00
JS Finest Whisky smoked salmon £2.49 from £5.00
Vilvadi potatoes 80p from £1.50
Charlotte Potatoes 70p from £1.40
JS small steak pie 29p from 69p
Another JS small steak pie 29p from 69p
Finest Large steak pie £2.15 from £5.50
Le Pie D Anglots cheese 79p from £2.00
JS Diced Pork Leg £1.50 from £3.50
Another JS Diced Pork Leg £1.50 from £3.50
Bag of Powters chipolatas from the meat counter £2.00 from £4.28
Venison and red wine finest sausages £1.35 from £2.79
Finest pork and herb sausages 79p from £2.79
Another Finest pork and herb sausages 79p from £2.79

So I spent £34.18 on items that would have cost £73.54, a saving of £39.36 :j

Tesco

Round Lettuce 9p from 35p
Another Round Lettuce 9p from 35p
Pack of two strawberry cupcakes from bakery 36p from £1.80
Pack of two chocolate cupcakes from bakery 26p from £1.80
pack of chocolate cookies from bakery 26p from £1.50
pack of mini butter croissants from bakery 40p from £2
Flowers Gladioli 45p from £3
Pack of two organic romaine lettuce hearts 10p from £1.00

So I spent £2.01 on items that would have cost £11.80, a saving of £9.79.


Ant.

rachbc

Didn't get to alsi at the weekend so went last night and hit 30% of tiem on fruit and veg got lots reduced

raspberries
figs
corn on cob
red peppers
sugar snap peas
spring greens
green beans
deli rolls
warbies

and best of all 2 sirloin steaks for OH and i to have a dte night dinner!

doodoot

Went to Mr T's yesterday and got four packs of ciabatta rolls (16) for a total of 40p...making a saving of £3.60!

So that's lunches for the kids sorted for the week, and scrummy rolls to go with my hubby's home-made chicken soup.

cherrypies

2 X large bags of spinach from Mr T's - 2p down from £2
3 X bags of apples, on offer for 2 for £2.50 but I got for 4p each.

8 x packs of baby vegetables / exotic stir fry veg, should be £1.89 each, got for 20p each.

Lynsey

Not much for myself this week as I've been mainly coupon shopping.
Last night late (9pm) I did get from Sainsbury's:

1 litre Tropicana was £2.59 - 10p
Pack of 4 apples was £2 - 19p
2 yellow peppers were 80p each for 10p each - 20p
Should have been £6.19 - was 49p

Also got a pack of corn breads were £1.50 - 10p earlier in the week form Sainsbury's and 3 packs of naan breads from Asda @ 12p per pack.
The other "bargains" were the Sainsbury's were some of the BBQ frozen range reduced from £2.49 to 50p per pack (chinese belly pork etc).

Lynsey

Ken68

Dijon mustard from Lidl 49p for 200g....Tesco is 59p for 185g. Sains is 69p for ?