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mhoc

I am trying to figure out how much 4 meal deals would be after the wine discount and the mash discount.

Mind you this would only work if you could find 4 of the wine, when I've got this before there is either no wine or just an odd bottle - I just check the wine section as I've never seen them in the finest meal deal sections.

Sad_Dad wrote: »

Good morning all,

Here's my TvA shop from last night. I had quite a few coupons and vouchers to use including £4 off £40 spend. I took advantage of the 20% off 4 finest wines by getting 4 finest meal deals with 4 Garnacha and 3 mash. Sub-total £82.81, total to pay £42.90 after savings and £31.81 after coupons. 167 points earned and a PP for £10. I used a double points voucher but I'm not sure if that has worked, the coupon scanned and is on the receipt but my points were not doubled.

Your detailed results

Qty Item Description Tesco Asda Sainsbury's Morrisons*
1x
NESTLE SMARTIES BIGGEST EVER TUBE (free with Tesco coupon)
£0.60 £0.45 £0.40 £0.54

1x
DIET COKE 2 LITRE BOTTLE (mistake by me - had 25 extra points for £1 spend on fizzy drinks, I was thinking coke was £1 a bottle and forgetting it's 3 for £3 )
£1.98 £1.98 £1.98 £1.98

2x
MCVITIE'S DOUBLE CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVES 300G (hopefully get £1 back from MSL app but who knows, I have claimed this before on another shop and not received anything yet, can you claim more than once?)
£2.00 £2.00 £2.70 £3.00

3x
TESCO FINEST CREAMY MASH 500G (3fo2 - £2.60 off, been told not to get any more as our freezer has quite a lot in already )
£5.20 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
CONTINENTAL SELN CHORIZO 100G (50 points for £2 spend on continental prepacked meat)
£1.15 n/a n/a n/a

1x
CONTINENTAL SELN PEPPERONI 150G (see above)
£1.15 n/a n/a n/a

1x
HARIBO KIDS MIX UP/ STARMIX P/M
£0.10 £0.10 £0.10 £0.10

1x
HARIBO TANGFASTICS P/M 10P
£0.10 £0.10 £0.10 £0.10

4x
TESCO FINEST GARNACHA 75CL :beer:
£27.96 † £20.00 n/a n/a

2x
TESCO FINEST LASAGNE 800G
£10.00 † £8.00 n/a n/a

1x
TESCO VALUE MIDGET GEMS 175G (25 points for £1 spend on sweets - smarties and haribos to get me over a £1)
£0.27 n/a n/a n/a

1x
T. FIN* FRSH CRM P/ROLES WITH SWISS CHOC 8PK
£2.75 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
T. FIN* SEA SALT & BLACK PEPPER WEDGES 400G X
£2.60 † n/a n/a £2.50

2x
T FIN 2 HOT CHOC MELTING MIDDLE DESSERT 200G
£6.00 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
T.FIN SWISS DARK & WHITE CHOC C/CAKE 2 X 100G
£2.60 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
TESCO FINEST CHICKEN PAELLA 700G (quite nice but wife complains I smell after eating)
£6.00 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
TESCO FINEST BEEF GOULASH 400G (not tried this yet)
£6.00 † n/a n/a n/a

1x
CUSHELLE WHITE T/TISSUE 4 ROLL 720 SHEET (£1 MOC from T mag - had none of the Nouvelle on the shelf)
£1.75 £1.80 £2.10 £2.18

1x
HEINZ CHOPPED TOMATOES 4 X 400G (reasonable price but still got quite a few free pariole tins left)
£2.00 n/a n/a n/a

Tesco comparable total £44.49 £6.53 £9.13
Competitor shop total £34.43 £7.38 £10.40
The difference £10.06 -£0.85 -£1.27
cost less cost more cost more

A really nice SA happily scanned my coupons and realised I'd got both the finest wine discount and meal deal discount and reckoned that I was clever and must get the Martin Lewis emails. I replied "wait until you see this" just as the £10 PP popped out, her reply was "I don't believe it".

Dizzy_Ditzy

Thrifty_Sister wrote: »

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You're doing a car boot :eek: or just visiting one? :rotfl:

Doin one. I have one or two bs gift sets to get rid of :cool:

tbw

marrbett wrote: »

Tbh, they aren't worth a special journey imho, they are more doughy than croissants should be. They are ok, nice from the oven , but I'm not sure I'd get more. has anyone tried the pain au chocs? Are they ok?

I cooked a pack of these this morning for DH (who is totally hooked on pain au chocolat). Very easy to do and surprisingly good - he stuffed down 2 of them staight out of the oven and pronounced them excellent. I don't usually like them at all but I did try one and have to say the pastry was lovely. The chocolate filling is quite strongly flavoured. I glazed them with milk and they came out nicely golden - needed 2/3 minutes longer than the pack said though.

I've been told to get some more !

mhoc

This is the problem with getting up at 7 on a Saturday, both the Tesco and Sada lists done by 10, bacon sandwiches completed and eaten as well.

I can't think of a good enough excuse to go back into town and anyway OH does not seem to have enough patience to do more Christmas shopping.

So that means I have no excuse but to do more cleaning and clearing before Christmas which seems to be what I've been doing for most of this week and its so tedious. Visitors will only be here for a week over Christmas and neither of them will even notice...

Better get on with it ...

Sad_Dad

zappo wrote: »

So OK - hands up - who was it??

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-banned-from-every-supermarket-in-britain-for-masturbating-in-sainsburys-meat-aisle-9003511.html

He was caught beating his meat :eek:

marrbett

tbw wrote: »

I cooked a pack of these this morning for DH (who is totally hooked on pain au chocolat). Very easy to do and surprisingly good - he stuffed down 2 of them staight out of the oven and pronounced them excellent. I don't usually like them at all but I did try one and have to say the pastry was lovely. The chocolate filling is quite strongly flavoured. I glazed them with milk and they came out nicely golden - needed 2/3 minutes longer than the pack said though.

I've been told to get some more !

Thanks for that, will try them next time.xx:)

sarahskint

I got 3 of the meal deals in a shop today but just added a mini bottle for 2.19 and got the discount of 4.25 ish, forgot that discount would come off so my spend was just under the 50 for a cs coupon, so I ran back to the loo roll isle

Big Thanks to Durham :T for my CS coupons they came yesterday so perfectly planned shops done today :beer:

zagubov

Time to walk the dog.;)
This isn't the usual time for the jukebox but here's a choon with a remarkable video
kind of makes up for last night's lack of a vid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-B5YejBIM&feature=youtu.be
:j

Sad_Dad

mhoc wrote: »

I am trying to figure out how much 4 meal deals would be after the wine discount and the mash discount.

Mind you this would only work if you could find 4 of the wine, when I've got this before there is either no wine or just an odd bottle - I just check the wine section as I've never seen them in the finest meal deal sections.

I make it £31.80.

£2.60 mash discount, £5.60 wine discount and then £8 PP if 4 garnacha bought or £10 if you also get the lasagne so potentially £21.80 for 4 meal deals taking into account the PP.

Mildred1970

zippydooda wrote: »

please tell ds that they are toys, the real ones are to be used strictly by women only.

He loves them so much he takes them up to bed with him :rotfl:



I'm going to T's later, it takes me ages to get him away from the vacuum cleaner aisle
And I can't go anywhere near a Currys, last time he had a meltdown when we left :eek: