Best Price for Tea & Instant Coffee?

Joe_Horner

Not much help to the Op I'm afraid, but our local shop recently found some of this in the dark recesses of their stock room:



Obviously, they couldn't sell it but I blagged a packet as a curiosity.

Then, out in Ikea today, I spotted one of those one-cup metal tea brewing gismos for £1.30 and couldn't resist. Got home, and opened the "curiosity" packet, to find that it still looked and smelt like tea:



A quick kettle-boil later and it was, honestly, delicious - and free!!!



The only thing I can assume is that, seeing as they didn't put "best before" / "use by" dates on packets back then, the tea simply didn't know that it should be undrinkable by now

davethetaller

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Not much help to the Op I'm afraid, but our local shop recently found some of this in the dark recesses of their stock room:



Obviously, they couldn't sell it but I blagged a packet as a curiosity.

Then, out in Ikea today, I spotted one of those one-cup metal tea brewing gismos for £1.30 and couldn't resist. Got home, and opened the "curiosity" packet, to find that it still looked and smelt like tea:



A quick kettle-boil later and it was, honestly, delicious - and free!!!



The only thing I can assume is that, seeing as they didn't put "best before" / "use by" dates on packets back then, the tea simply didn't know that it should be undrinkable by now

And is that a 1960's cup you're using?

Mine are all chipped!

I did a post a few weeks ago, about polishing off a 15 year old Marks and Spencer christmas pudding. Lovely.

iris

Tesco have boxes of 240 Typhoo teabags for £2.50 at the moment. HTH

Joe_Horner

davethetaller wrote: »

And is that a 1960's cup you're using?

Mine are all chipped!

I did a post a few weeks ago, about polishing off a 15 year old Marks and Spencer christmas pudding. Lovely.

Sadly they're not, but they're a pretty good style-alike. Came from Ikea at 35p each, in a choice of 4 or 5 very 60s colours.

I'd imagine that christmas pud would have matured to perfection by now

pakokelso93

I like Sainsbos or Tesco value tea.

Coffee wise i've recently tried the Colombian £1.99 instant coffee you get out of Lidl/Aldi tastes really good.

davethetaller

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Sadly they're not, but they're a pretty good style-alike. Came from Ikea at 35p each, in a choice of 4 or 5 very 60s colours.

I'd imagine that christmas pud would have matured to perfection by now

On the basis that I ate the pudding a few weeks ago, I think that your word "matured", should have the letter "n" in there somewhere!

Made me smile!

PasturesNew

I get the 200g jars of Gran-A-Rom (well,something like that) instant coffee granules. Varying price, under £2. Not sure how much it is, but I walk to Lidl and driving to a supermarket for a specific "offer" would most likely cost me £2.40 in fuel, so I just chug along happily enough with the Lidl one.

robin58

andrewstaflin wrote: »

American Food Store Is one of the best importer & wholesaler where you can get best price for all types of tea.

Self promotion !

Americians do not understand the British fascination of tea.

You only do tea in an iced version. Yuck, muck.

dlusman

kerri_gt wrote: »

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?

and reduced to 84p for 160 next weekend (June 27/28 ) if you want to bulk buy and stock up.

jon81uk

IceColdRum wrote: »

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:

If for work can you order the 2kg tins of coffee or the 1000 bag packs of tea from your stationery or catering supplier?