The Great 'Clever ordering techniques... eg, "double cheeseburger with Big Mac ' Hunt

jacobtheamish

If you sit outside Tesco or maybe better still Waitrose, with a cap on the floor and sing your heart out (you don't have to be able to sing well, trust me), passers-by will through free money at you

fionajbanana

Fish n Chips, get a tin of supermarket's value line mushy peas, put in a pyrex dish and microwave for 2 mins. Cost 15-20p. Bought in a chippy - 70p-£1.10.

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fionajbanana wrote: »

Fish n Chips, get a tin of supermarket's value line mushy peas, put in a pyrex dish and microwave for 2 mins. Cost 15-20p. Bought in a chippy - 70p-£1.10.

Don't like mush peas

fionajbanana

The rice tip is good as sometimes the rice portion at the Indian or Chinese is HUGE for 2 people!

thelawnet

When we buy ice cream cones, it's often something like:

1 scoop £2
2 scoops £2.50
3 scoops £3

So we get a 2-scoop and share it, rather than 2 * 1-scoop.

Mikef

We have a self serve costa coffee machine in all the canteens at work, the medium coffee fits in the small coffee cup, shhhhh

MrsE_2

Smurfette80 wrote: »

I always order a 'short' filter coffee in Starbucks and get a free refill it costs about 1.30 and you get 2 coffees in piece and quiet and can spend the money saved on a naughty nibble!

I didnt know you got free refils in starbucks.

kerri_gt

fionajbanana wrote: »

Supermarkets that do the hand held self scans. They have scales in the fruit and veg section to weigh and print stickers for you to scan the barcode. You can use these scales if you are going through a manned checkout.

Get some loose produce, weigh it. Then just add one more apple or carrot or if its like a butternut squash, swap it for one that is slightly heavier. Most checkout staff will scan the barcode without checking the weight.

Its like the old pick n mix trick when the scales that print off barcode stickers was next to the sweets. Now shops have replaced them with tubs charged at flat rates or scales at the checkout.

Never done this, but know people that do this. Normally because I buy most of my f&v at Aldi.

Errr, isn't that technically theft?

emay

jjpeter wrote: »

I always order 2 day photo prints instead of the 1 hour service (which costs about 25% more) at ASDA and I finish my shopping and come back and collect it in an hour or so.

I've never had any problems so far. It also helps if the person at the photo counter has changed in the meantime.

Sometimes its cheaper to order more too.
eg 100-199 prints are 10p each, but 200 or more are 5p each
so 100 prints will cost you £10, but so will 200!!!

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Bought some Go Cat (yummy!) from Asda today. 4kg packet = £8. A 2kg packet is £3.50 So my cats have two different flavours instead of all one.
(Tesco £4.49 for 2kg).