Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

medsdemon

We often go to our local A*da on a Friday around 5.30 after work and are usually lucky at picking up fresh fruit and veg at 10p a pack. This week got Papaya 2 pack, bag of cavelo Nero, pack of baby turnips, bag of mixed leaves, tub of mixed fruit. It makes for an interesting challenge to find new recipes for things I wouldn't possibly normally buy ��.

dlusman

Nice selection of stuff from Morrisons yesterday all at 9p each

Couple of packs of Venison Steaks
Stir Fry veg pack
half a dozen packs of Warbutons thins
Couple of Spag Bolog ready meals
Couple of Green Thai Curry meals
couple of packs of Ginger & Mushroom Noodles
Packet of own-brand sausages
Lettuce

camNolliesMUMMY

My husband recently lost his job and has now gone self employed. I'm also self employed (cleaner) and with two kids and a mortgage, I've been thinking of ways to get a little stock pile going for the just incase weeks he doesn't get work?

So for the first time Monday night I went to asda and waited patiently for the reduced sticker lady (who was rude).

I came away with burgers, sausages, yoghurt, puddings, those pre prepared chicken breasts in different sauces all for 10p each. I spent a total of £3.80!!!! At full price £47.:T

Then last night I went back to asda and got x10 bags of the prepared veg packs normally £1 a bag at 10p.

Off I went to tesco opposite in a hunt for some meat....
Beef roasting joint £5 reduced to 25p :T
Quiche 8p
Lasagne meals for the boys 3p each
Burgers 15p

My shop last night came in at £3.31 but with these items full priced the shop would have cost me £67!!!!

I'm really pleased with my little stock pile ATM so I think we are good for the next couple of weeks.

I seriously need a spare freezer though!

Anybody have any tips for me best days to go? Is it worth checking the use by dates to figure out when I should go back? I'm thinking of going Sunday before closing?


Well my husband was shocked I managed to do all this and I felt a big sense of achievement if I'm honest.

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Well done camNolliesMummy for snaffling all your bargains, sounds like you are digging in and getting sorted in advance.I sometimes get reduced veg from Asdas which I make vats of soup with and freeze in those squidgy freezer bags. Pick a night when England are playing footie at the moment and hopefully the place should be empty I popped into MrTs the other night on the way home and the only thing left was a couple of those long pointy peppers ,but at 30p instead of £1.50 I was quite pleased :)

I think Sunday afternoons should be Ok I think it depends on the shops different times The Morrisons at Sittingbourne I was lucky enough to get a chicken reduced from £3.50 to 35p but it was 8.00pm probably trial and error and a few visits over a week or so should give you an idea when the best reductions are

camNolliesMUMMY

Thank you for your reply Jackie.
Do you go often? And do all the stores have a timing structure on when they reduce their food?
I went to the tesco opposite our asda and the burgers were pennies. I went to another tesco and the same burgers were still only reduced to £2? This was 9pm but as I bought some burgers for 15p which were the same I thought are all the shops doing their reductions at different times? I was actually wanting the big serloin steak x4 boxes on the shelf which was still £3!!! But as it was getting late I left it.

Packed lunches are sorted for the next week or so, and so are dinners.
I am really chuffed, and hubby was gobsmacked and said why haven't we done this before? X

VfM4meplse

Glad you got the bug for, and not from YS!

There is a thread on Grabbit (I think) where people list their YS bargains. I used to be a fan until I realised that I could do my weekly shop at Aldi for a lower price and actually eat what I planned to (healthy food). Of course, with a whole family to feed you're in a different position.

Still a sucker for YS bread though.

elsien

Mr T has turned into too much of a bun fight. They dump the discounted veg on the trays and leg it, leaving the customers to scrap amongst themselves. Can't be doing with it any more unless I was completely desperate.

HappyMJ

elsien wrote: »

Mr T has turned into too much of a bun fight. They dump the discounted veg on the trays and leg it, leaving the customers to scrap amongst themselves. Can't be doing with it any more unless I was completely desperate.

I've also moved on from yellow stickers and now just buy Morrisons Flash Sales which almost everything is reduced by 40% then once all the Flash Sales are added you then go back remove what you do not want then add what you do need.

Last nights shop was £136 reduced to £85 picked and delivered. The receipt was 2 and half A4 pages. A 37.5% discount which I'm quite happy with. That's a shop that will last us (two adults and 3 guinea pigs) 3 weeks with one further top up shop consisting of fresh bread (can't stand old or previously frozen bread) and fresh fruit and vegetables (again I really can't be dealing with one day to go fruit and vegetables at 10PM at night preparing and freezing).

Reduced meat was my favourite as all that required was just put it in the freezer. It was too much of a lottery whether anything was cheap enough and with no transport all I could buy was what I could carry. I still had to buy food so ended up spending about the same anyway.

warehouse

camNolliesMUMMY wrote: »

So for the first time Monday night I went to asda and waited patiently for the reduced sticker lady (who was rude).

What was that all about then?

camNolliesMUMMY

She huffed and puffed and looked like she didn't want to be there. She chucked the food down once she had labelled them.
My friend who politely said thank you and have a good evening to her upon getting the bargains, just gave her a dirty look, didn't say a thing and strutted off.
It wasn't like she was surrounded by an intimidating crowd but I'd of thought she could of at least said not a problem and thank you to my friend.

However last night the lady reducing was really nice and had a chat whilst marking the prices down. She was a bit of a giggle tbh.

I am pleased with my bargains but il always remain polite and go every couple of days to keep us going.
I shopped at Aldi £45 a week for us all but I need to do everything I can as money is super tight till the money comes in.

Stressful times ATM x