Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

Smoosh

Different stores will do their final reduction at different times and to different amouns (e.g. my local T only does everything to 85% whereas my local A sometimes does everything to 5p regardless of its original price). The vegetables, fresh stuff and bread usually get done at different times as well. So it definitely helps to take some time and get to know the shop and what time things will be happening.

Pollycat

Well done on discovering the YS bargains.

A bit of advice I'd give is to not buy cr*p food just because it's reduced.
I wouldn't buy Tesco savers beefburgers even if they were 5p for 4.

I think my local Tesco must have changed either the time they put out reductions or changed their policy and donate it to a charity as I don't seem to get many now.
But when I did get bargains, I always considered if I'd buy it if it wasn't reduced.
For example, no point in me buying croissants or danish pastries as I don't like them.
Some people just scoop up whatever's on the shelf without a 2nd thought.

jim-jim

CALLING HAPPY MJ :j

Sorry to ask but what is a morrisons flash sale? Is it just for online shopping? If it is, how do you know when they are?

Many thanks x

camNolliesMUMMY

I won't be taking anything unless we will eat it.
Crossants I only buy nearer Xmas for our breakfast buffet I buy in for family visiting us- which I do buy reduced when I've seen them and freeze.

Bread I get through loads. So at 3p a loaf they've gone in the freezer. The burgers will be used for our BBQ at the weekend if it's nice along with the sausages.

Beef roasting joint for Sunday dinner with a bag of the prepared veg.

My friend who I have shown is off to asda tonight to check it all out.

Yes trial and error il check it out again Friday and Sunday I think x

HOWMUCH

I do YS shopping, I've just changed to upright freezers from a huge chest freezer. I organise my drawers with like for like, all beef together, chicken together, bacon and sausages together. Breadcakes, sliced bread, uncut bread have seperate drawers. Veg do then I have my HM ready meals. I use by date order.
If you think out side the box too pitta bread I would not use but it's like naan so this what I now use it for. I normally get 6 for 2p so this does us 3 times.
I think there's been a lot of bargains at the moment because the weather has been not predictable, the football and holiday time. Shop preorder in advance and at the moment people through the door is unpredictable so they got surplus food.

Pollycat

HOWMUCH wrote: »

If you think out side the box too pitta bread I would not use but it's like naan so this what I now use it for. I normally get 6 for 2p so this does us 3 times.

I use pitta bread for lunch.

Toast it so you can split it, then stuff it with layers of shredded lettuce (raw red cabbage is great if you have some), sliced cucumber & tomatoes, wafer thin ham, onions etc and if you like it spicy add a few drop of hot pepper sauce as you fill it up.

PasturesNew

The shops I go into don't have YS stuff, the closest is that they'll have an overpriced something or other that I'd never buy, at a huge price, with just 30p off.

cheel

Sadly the Asda here only reduce things a little. i never see anything kik a beef joint fir 25p. That would be amazing! I wonder why some do it and some don't?

I'm self employed too. Good luck with it all.

camNolliesMUMMY

Thanks all for your replies.

I've not gone tonight as I thought my freezer is chocca.
Made myself useful and painted the skirting boards on my day off and then picked up a free cross trainer which I worked up a sweat on catching up with eastenders haha.

We ate the sweet chilli chicken 10p and stir fry veg 10p along with some rice. A sugar donut 6p each for pud.

I'm wondering if we could almost happily live like this every week? I'm going to give it a go. But we've also got debt and we would like to try our best to get rid of it. I've cut down and gone through all of our bills and sorted what I could.

I'm not ashamed of my new found ys excitement and I hope you all get some bargains.

My 25p beef roast is my best so far x

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Well as the footie was on tonight I thought I would have a mosey down to my local Asda managed to get a bag of new potatoes for 10p and a kg bag of carrots for 11p which I thought pretty reasonable.They also had 500gms of Wyke Farm cheese for £2.00 which was long-dated until August so it will be divided up into three portions and frozen.As it was more or less on my way home I nipped into MrTs basically very little reduced in price at all and as its so long since I had been in a big tescos I was actually surprised at how expensive everything seemed ,even the odd bits that were reduced wern't reduced by much.There was a Ginsters Pasty supposedly reduced to 82p from £1.50 and at the end of its date today, yet the in-date ones are on special offer at only a pound !! Shan't bother with our local Tescos anymore In fact the best bargains I have seen or had (apart from Aldi's and Lidls of course) are from Morrisons They really do reduce stuff pretty well. Even Lidls do reduced stuff in the meat range and usually knock 30% off.I think it depends on the amount of competition they have Because our big supermarkets aren't on top of each other you seem to get few reductions at all from Tesco's Sainsburys or Asda's in the Medway area