Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

Kirri

Hello Lynsey ^ hope you're not stocking up your freezers too much or you'll have to put in an appearance on the other thread

rachbc

Monk fish, beef ribs and dry cure bacon all half price yesterday

Lynsey

Only spent 59p today on grocery shopping and only reduced item was a bag of salad reduced to 9p (Morries famous 9p's).
The other 50p was on bread buns (5 x large on offer at Morries).
I needed fresh bread. lol

Kirri - I'm still being frugal, but easier to meal plan now. No plans on going back to paying full price ............................ all that effort has left it's mark.

Lynsey

noirist

geordie_ben wrote: »

It's no secret that I love the reduced fridges. My heart flutters when I see a reduced yellow sticker. Even to the point that for my birthday last year, my missus decked out our fridge as a reduced fridge - gotta love her

I've reached/sank to a new all time high/low, depending on how you look at it

I've decided to keep a spreadsheet of all the reduced purchases I make for the next year. It shows what the full price would be, and what I paid for it

So far I've bought 61 items, which bought at full price would have cost me £153.43. The actual total price I paid was £33.73

That's a saving of just over 78%

I'm planning on popping back each month with a new updated figure

Share the information with us, when you're done?

sexki11en

We popped into Tesco at about 6pm on Tuesday and just happened to be in the meat aisle when the chap was reducing a load of minced beef. 750g for 60p!! I grabbed 4 for the freezer but there were about 20+ more. Also got beef steaks £3 from £6.

It's rare we find anything worth buying in Tesco but I was pleased with that haul!

SK x

zafiro1984

Went shopping last night to Sainsbury's at about 7pm - first time in over 3 years, with the idea of ys shopping.
The ys items didn't look too much of a bargain, most only had a few pence knocked off, nothng like the bargains others seem to achieve on reading these posts. Mince was reduced from £3.49 to £2.99, is this the usual practise or was I unlucky in my timing? So bought nothing except potatoes at full price which I needed anyway.

I have put the 'food' money I have budgeted for the week in a seperate purse. I hope that will help in keeping the cost down. Has anyone got any more tips I could use to stop me spending?

Ezmondino

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Went shopping last night to Sainsbury's at about 7pm - first time in over 3 years, with the idea of ys shopping.
The ys items didn't look too much of a bargain, most only had a few pence knocked off, nothng like the bargains others seem to achieve on reading these posts. Mince was reduced from £3.49 to £2.99, is this the usual practise or was I unlucky in my timing? So bought nothing except potatoes at full price which I needed anyway.

I have put the 'food' money I have budgeted for the week in a seperate purse. I hope that will help in keeping the cost down. Has anyone got any more tips I could use to stop me spending?

Timing. I tend to find that they reduce it much later nowadays. My local Sainsburys shuts at 11pm, so there is no point going before 9.30pm.

zafiro1984

Thanks Ezmondino, I'll give it a go and actually it would fit in very well with my routine as it means I can get tea out of the way first before venturing out

Edwardia

I managed to get reduced price organic raspberries 20p at Sainsbury's and stuffed em in the freezer. OH unearthed them and used apples from my mother's garden and rhubarb to make fruit crumble He said that putting the raspberries in frozen rather than thawing them out first, stopped them turning into nasty mush.

I'm on the hunt for more YS organic fruit this weekend

:grouphug:to Lynsey and Kirri

carrie2402

Last night in my local tesco I got 2 kingsmill 50/50 no crust loaves (kids hate crusts) for 4p each and kingsmill 12 pack of rolls for 12p all had use by dates of 9/9 :j