Hows everyone doing with supermarket reductions?

Alphamare

Personally for an item I would have bought anyway half price is a bargain. I very rarely do any better than that but it's enough for me really.

toastmonster

Popped to supermarkets at lunchtime. Not much in terms of bargains.

Got selection of veggies and fruit for £1.49 (Some reduced plus full price onions as we had run out.)

Bitesize Shredded Wheat for £1.49 in Waitrose (£2.99 in Sainsburys)

Picked up free magazine with My Waitrose card. It has a collection of recipes using seasonal fruit and veg. Very useful for knowing how to use those "random" fruit and veg bargains.

tpsjrm

I popped into Glos Cattle Mrkt Mr T's last night, to get a refund on a reduction that had mis-scanned as full price, and had a mooch in the reduced sections. Wow, such bargains - got practically a whole week's fresh food for £6.53. The best bargains were a pack of pork chops plus a pack of lamb chops, for 80pence each, which (because they were part of a 2for£7/3for£10 offer) actually had another £1 knocked off at the checkout. Woop woop! Meat for 4 days for us at 60pence the lot. Hovis loaves at 36pence, which are always marked down two days before their bb date. The same with some finest ham, which was 55p a pack with two use-by days still to go. Even got a small peperoni pizza for 12p. And lots of veg for pennies. I felt quite blessed! All my 2013 luck used up in one day, probably.
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kendall17

Last night picked up a beef rib on the bone joint from the butchers counter in Mr Ts. £14.54 @ full price. I paid just £3.56
Also got about £5 worth of ham cooked on the bone for £1.40
2 packs of doughnuts (£3.60) for 36p

Alphamare

Could have picked up a tray choc cake for £1 but it would have been a unhealthy and b a waste. Sad to think its now in a dumpster
Got some reduced mushrooms for a cottage pie and had slightly reduced green beans last night. The best was three avocados for just under £1.

Sellurgranny

Fab-est bargain ever for me in Morrisons on Tuesday evening. Packs of Morrisons mature cheddar originally £1.99, now 19p. Loads of them there so I grabbed 11. They're now in my freezer and should really help out in these tight winter months. We use loads of cheese! Hope it keeps ok, I read on here a while ago that cheese keeps ok in the freezer and these packs are vacuum packed so I think they'll be ok. Also got 3 packs of mini-indian bites reduced to 15p from £1.99. I love a bargain!

Middy

On Tuesday, I bought in Sainsburys the Thai curries boxed meal for £1.99 (was £8) - getting green thai and red thai curries, 6 spring rolls and a bag of prawn crackers.

When I opened the box, the curries had dates on the film for Wednesday!

cannyscot_2

The trouble is you see a bargain and then it is so nice you wish you had got more!

On NY eve there were honey gammons reduced to £1.17-my DD loves it so bought 2 -there were about 20 and not many people about. At the same time my hubbie picked up one ,when we realised we had 3 we put one back for someone else but we had 6 meals from the 2 hams and DD was so disappointed when it was all gone.

What do you think is a reasonable amount to take of reductions-1 or more than 1.

I did get 5 loafs for 10p on NY eve which will do me all month.-Is that too much? I am concious of the fact that we are just cost cutting to pay debts from crap spending where as some people really are not coping.

Lip_Stick

cannyscot wrote: »

The trouble is you see a bargain and then it is so nice you wish you had got more!

On NY eve there were honey gammons reduced to £1.17-my DD loves it so bought 2 -there were about 20 and not many people about. At the same time my hubbie picked up one ,when we realised we had 3 we put one back for someone else but we had 6 meals from the 2 hams and DD was so disappointed when it was all gone.

What do you think is a reasonable amount to take of reductions-1 or more than 1.

I did get 5 loafs for 10p on NY eve which will do me all month.-Is that too much? I am concious of the fact that we are just cost cutting to pay debts from crap spending where as some people really are not coping.

Depends how many there are and how much you like it lol. I could never take all of an item (unless it's just one or two), I'd feel greedy. Some people will say 'oh but you don't know their circumstances.'. Yes there are some people living on the bones of their proverbial. But, they've managed til now, and there could always be someone worse off just around the corner. Saying that, I think that most people who take the lot, of one reduction, are just plain greedy and don't give a toss about the person next to them.

I get a lot of satisfaction pointing out to someone a great reduction, and hope they'd do the same to someone else at some point.

cannyscot_2

I just hate hearing about people not eating ! cos they cant afford anything. We live very nicely on reductions and sainsburys basic range.


We have one waitrose in a high income type of area they have brill reductions but there is a consultant from a local hospital who hovers mid week nights about 8pm and can pick up about 8 roasts at atime -I probs think this is way too much.

Funny thing is one of my single parent friends who has not 2 brass farthings to rub together would not be seen dead at the reductions counter!-lives 2 mins walkable from Waitrose fantastic reductions shelf!