What reduced bargains/ yellow sticker items have you bought this week?

mandy47

Monday I picked up 1.7kg of vine tomatoes for 17p. Roasted and froze them ready for soup. Only one was unusable. Hubby picked up a large cheesecake late last night for 10p. Froze that as well.

Liverfool

4 cans of Magners pear cider sellotaped together in the local Tesco the other day - 60p. Perfectly in date, no dings just no plastic contraption holding them together.

I resisted the urge to guzzle them on the nearest park bench though But a cold - cheap - glass of cider is just the perfect start to the weekend, sat exhausted in the garden after persuading little person that it is in fact bedtime!

mum2one

Is there usually a best time to go for the reduced items? X

wilsonjack10

A whole minion birthday cake for £2 lol (it's not even anyone's birthday) and a whole cooked chicken for 90p

calicocat

Went to Mr.A's last night.

Not much to be had , and nothing that I fancied to be honest, so only came away with a fig loaf. Down to 10p from 1.30 I think. Nice toasted, and I find it does fine for a couple of days toasted. It will do me lunch for the next 2 days with a bit of cheese.

HOWMUCH

wilsonjack10 wrote: »

A whole minion birthday cake for £2 lol (it's not even anyone's birthday) and a whole cooked chicken for 90p

I've bought YS birthday cake before at very cheap prices, I just see it as cake but other peeps don't look outside the box.

coolcait

You're a woman after my own heart, OP! First port of call in all the supermarkets is 'the reduced bit'.

This week, I've bought three Warburtons loaves reduced to 15p (there was a whole tray of them, so I felt OK about taking three).

I split each loaf in two, keeping half in the original packaging and putting the other half in a freezer bag, then froze all six 'mini' loaves.

I do it this way because my family can sometimes get through an entire loaf in one day, sometimes they won't finish a loaf in a whole week. I just defrost each half loaf as I need it.

I also got 2 packs of chicken wings, each reduced from £1.80 to 90p. They'll be marinaded - haven't decided which marinade - and then cooked slowly in the oven. And three packets of square slice/lorne sausage reduced from £1.38 to 75p each.

Plus a couple of packs of ready-prepared cauli, broccoli and carrots for 20p each (I think they were originally about a £1 each, but I'm not sure). They became the basis for a huge pot of minestrone.

But it will be a long time before I forget 4 January this year, or find a better bunch of bargains! It was a bank holiday here, and I think Tesco had over-ordered.

I got £19 worth of potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, ready-prepared fruit, and other assorted veggies and fruits for 19p! And two packets of diced chicken breasts reduced to 35p each. There's a part of me which wants to frame that receipt :-)

PenguinOfDeath

Today got two packs of fishcakes for 64p each and a wedge of Parmesan for 99p, it lasts forever!

My list favourite recent purchase was a whole pineapple for 10p, that got chopped up and in the freezer for sweet and sour sauce

Ilona

The title says 'yellow sticker items you have bought this week.' I find I don't have to go shopping every week, I am usually lucky and fill my trolley with veg, salads, dairy, and bread. As a singleton it's enough to last two, nearly three weeks. Cuts down the trips to the supermarket. If ever I am going out somewhere, I try and time it so I am passing Tesco on the way back in at around 7pm.
Ilona

GooeyBlob

Ilona wrote: »

If ever I am going out somewhere, I try and time it so I am passing Tesco on the way back in at around 7pm.
Ilona

That's exactly what I do; I've made a point of getting to know what times the local supermarkets do their reductions for each day of the week and make sure I time trips to stock up on whatever I need.

Today's purchases from Mr A and Mr T:
pack of sandwiches 10p
loaf of bread 10p
large Brie triangle 49p (ouch!)
80g pineapple lolly 5p
small prawn/pasta salad 10p
pack of 2 hard boiled eggs 10p

So that's pasta salad for supper with a 20p bottle of homebrew wine, then the rest for breakfast and packed lunch. Planning a trip past Mr M tomorrow, Monday is usually a good day at my local store.