Best Price for Tea & Instant Coffee?

IceColdRum

I'm looking to change the way we buy Tea & Coffee at work currently we get it locally from a Sainsbury's Local or Co-op but as you can imagine this is rather expensive and won't work with the amount of tea and coffee I need to consume to survive :rotfl:

So currently the best prices I can find are for 240 bag boxes of PG Tips and Tetley which are around the £4 mark (PG Tips = £3.99 @ Poundstretcher & Tetley = £3.95 @ Iceland) which works out at around 1.5p a Tea Bag

Is there anywhere cheaper?

as for Coffee I can get 200g of Lyons or 200g of Nescafe International for £1.99 and £2.49 respectively

neither of those are my favorite instant coffee though... can I get anything nicer around the same price point?

Many thanks:beer:

Miami

Sainsbury's Basics teabags are 20p for 40. Works out at 0.5p per teabag.

However, if you want a branded product, a look on mySupermarket says that Typhoo is £5 for 480 from Asda, works out at just over 1p. I believe it may be an offer though as Morrisons have the same box for £6.99. It's only on sale at those two stores though, so depends on whether you have an Asda near you.

Can't help with the coffee, sorry. Unless you tell me the name of your brand and I can have a look for you to find the cheapest, or you can try looking on mySupermarket.

IceColdRum

Miami wrote: »

Sainsbury's Basics teabags are 20p for 40. Works out at 0.5p per teabag.

However, if you want a branded product, a look on mySupermarket says that Typhoo is £5 for 480 from Asda, works out at just over 1p. I believe it may be an offer though as Morrisons have the same box for £6.99. It's only on sale at those two stores though, so depends on whether you have an Asda near you.

Can't help with the coffee, sorry. Unless you tell me the name of your brand and I can have a look for you to find the cheapest, or you can try looking on mySupermarket.

Yeah sorry I should of mentioned that I was after only branded products and while I'm at it exclude "One Cup" products which from cursory use are just awful dust like things

No Asda nearby I'm afraid... although I do see that Typhoo is £2.95 in Iceland so that's a better buy at around 1.2p a teabag, cheers

***Edit***
Just found that Iceland also sell 440 bag 1kg packs of Typhoo for £4! even better

kerri_gt

Personally I can't stand Typhoo. I guess it's not branded, but Lidl Knightsbridge tea bags make a good cuppa IMO £1.69 for 160 I think.

may I ask why they have to be branded? Can they just be put in a cannister?

SailorSam

I think i pay £1.49 for Mellow Birds coffee in B&M

missbiggles1

I know this is MSE, but does it really matter whether people are paying 0.5p or 1.5p for a cup of tea? I know that's 3 times as much, but at 2 cups a day that's only a difference of 10p a week.

Sometimes it's better just not to sweat the small stuff.

geordie_joe

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I know this is MSE, but does it really matter whether people are paying 0.5p or 1.5p for a cup of tea?

It does to them, that's why they asked.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I know that's 3 times as much, but at 2 cups a day that's only a difference of 10p a week.

At work! We don't know how many people are "at work". Suppose it's 10..... That's £1 per week, £4 per month, £48 per year.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Sometimes it's better just not to sweat the small stuff.

And sometimes saving a penny per tea bag can save you £48.

Also, there are other people in here and they may find they can get tea bags cheaper and save them selves some money. In my case if I could save a penny per tea bag it would probably be 10p per day.

Can you finish the well known saying

Look after the pennies and .........

missbiggles1

geordie_joe wrote: »

It does to them, that's why they asked.



At work! We don't know how many people are "at work". Suppose it's 10..... That's £1 per week, £4 per month, £48 per year.



And sometimes saving a penny per tea bag can save you £48.

Also, there are other people in here and they may find they can get tea bags cheaper and save them selves some money. In my case if I could save a penny per tea bag it would probably be 10p per day.

Can you finish the well known saying

Look after the pennies and .........

I assumed the employees were paying it themselves rather than having it bought for them, obviously if the OP's supplying it for lots of people it might matter. For 10, not so much.

You also need to cost in your time for shopping around and posting on here, which is likely to be worth rather more than £48 a year.

Still, each to their own. (Mine's a cup of Tesco Finest Assam, if you're buying.):)

maman

I don't think it can be a totally mse question if OP says it has to be a branded variety.


I'm a big fan of Sainsbury's Red Label at just under 1.3p a bag.

robin58

Miami wrote: »

Sainsbury's Basics teabags are 20p for 40. Works out at 0.5p per teabag.

However, if you want a branded product, a look on mySupermarket says that Typhoo is £5 for 480 from Asda, works out at just over 1p. I believe it may be an offer though as Morrisons have the same box for £6.99. It's only on sale at those two stores though, so depends on whether you have an Asda near you.

Can't help with the coffee, sorry. Unless you tell me the name of your brand and I can have a look for you to find the cheapest, or you can try looking on mySupermarket.

Actually the Typhoo product is also available in FarmFoods for £4.95.

And i think recently it was £4.50 in BM or Home Bargains, can't remember which.

robin58

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I know this is MSE, but does it really matter whether people are paying 0.5p or 1.5p for a cup of tea? I know that's 3 times as much, but at 2 cups a day that's only a difference of 10p a week.

Sometimes it's better just not to sweat the small stuff.

It does when the COOP charge £6 for 240 Typhoo tea bags and you can get the same product in Iceland for £2.95.