Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

zippydooda

izzeyb wrote: »

Waitrose this morning. Most Christmas things now reduced to 25%.

Managed to easily use up my £8 off £40.

Quality Street tub 750g £1.25
McVitie's Victoria Biscuits (blue box) 600g £1.00
Fabulously Fox's Biscuits (red box) £1.00
McVitie's Family Circle 670g 75p
Cadbury's Chocolate Biscuits (tin) 340g £1.25
Lindt Lindor (large box, 600g) £2.50
Little boxes buttons/smarties tubes 25p
Toblerone Tinys 160g 77p

Waitrose own Chocolate Biscuit Selection £1.00
(look like Fox's from picture on the back of box)

Waitrose Luxury Shortbread and Chocolate Shortbread £1.50 each

Waitrose Chocs – Selection Box £1.25

Lots of empty spaces: Bertie Bassetts box 75p. Small bags of Lindor balls 50p.
Mhoc the expensive £12.60 cake they were giving samples of couple weeks ago, reduced to £3.12 but unfortunately empty space.
Also the kit to make your own Xmas cake, empty space but under £3.00.

Waities soaked brandy fruit 800g bag 93p, but all gone.

Some gifts were being reduced but no SELs up yet.


Link to online prices, which are up-to-date.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/search?&searchTerm=christmas

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A blast from the past. Check the click strips. Unmarked but still 50p

Sarahdol75

BishyBarneyBee wrote: »

Hello, could I join in too please? I just about manage 10k a day, but find it so boring without motivation, I would love to join your group to spur me on please.

Of course, more the merrier, spur us all in to doing more

Chrisv

Deleted_User wrote: »

Can you help fix my poorly brain... What's the 75p ones work out at? Was trying to do it in my head instore earlier it was like :question: for about an hour :rotfl:

39p

Chrisv

pepper77 wrote: »

1x Heinz Oxtail Soup (400g) £0.60 £0.60
1x Heinz Mulligatawny Soup (400g) £0.60 £0.60
1x Heinz Carrot & Coriander Soup (400g) £0.60 £0.60
1x Heinz Scotch Broth (400g) £0.60 £0.60
0.21x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.16 £0.15
1x Heinz Beanz in Tomato Sauce (415g) £0.75 £0.60
1x Heinz No Added Sugar Beanz in Tomato Sauce (415g) £0.75 £0.60
1x Heinz Tomato & Basil Soup (400g) £0.95 £0.60
1x Heinz Beef Broth (400g) £0.60 £0.60
7x Heinz Beanz with Pork Sausages in a Tomato Sauce (415g) £7.49 £4.20
Comparison total (compared products only) £13.10 £9.15
+£3.95 cheaper

Add a maximum of 4 soups to the beans mix, otherwise they pick up the Asda offer.

Soups should work 95p v 60p, 19p each.

Picasso7

izzeyb wrote: »

Redfox every time :T ... as long as that is okay with Redfox

I'm happy to go with whatever people think. But perhaps we should let Savvy and 3Dogs have their posts on page 1 too before we all weigh in? Much easier to find then?

pepper77_2

Chrisv wrote: »

Add a maximum of 4 soups to the beans mix, otherwise they pick up the Asda offer.

Soups should work 95p v 60p, 19p each.

Beat me toit

redfox

LEJC wrote: »

If redfox is around perhaps she would let us know if it is possible to change the thread more often,or is it something that will be discouraged because it is deemed that there is sufficient storage space on the server and we need to continue with the everlasting thread....

The latter.

Added to that it would bring a return of the "who starts the thread" and "what to call it" arguments as well as the necessity for the important information posts always to be kept in position and the difficulties that can entail. Trying to do that every month would be a logistical nightmare.

Having an everlasting thread was an improvement so I can't see there would be any appetite for returning to a thread changing at 10k posts or even worse, changing every month!

zippydooda

redfox wrote: »

The latter.

Added to that it would bring a return of the "who starts the thread" and "what to call it" arguments as well as the necessity for the important information posts always to be kept in position and the difficulties that can entail. Trying to do that every month would be a logistical nightmare.

Having an everlasting thread was an improvement so I can't see there would be any appetite for returning to a thread changing at 10k posts or even worse, changing every month!

You forgot about the hundreds of posts thankin the person for starting the thread. Where all they had to do was click the thanks button. Merry Christmas :rotfl:

LEJC

Thank you for your input Redfox....

The idea of going back to something that changed every now and again has simply come about because some of us on the thread feel that large chunks of conversation can't be recalled from the previous thread that was deleted when it became spammed.

We've lost Sal and a lot of the posts she made at that time....some may have like to revisit those now and sadly they now can't....

What is the problem of asking you to set a quarterly new thread for us ?

Locarr has suggested that the idea was dismissed previously by the BG's....and probably at the time the reasoning wasn't fully explored...there are clearly posters who would like it to happen.....

If you read my suggestion earlier it was to return to something that was archived quarterly and started by you to avoid conflict...hopefully a sort of compromise between what we previously had and now have.

not once have I suggested that you are put to the onerous task of compiling a new thread on a monthly basis!

Will you help us achieve it.....or is it a case of finding a board guide who may be more willing to accommodate the request going forward?

redfox

zippydooda wrote: »

You forgot about the hundreds of posts thankin the person for starting the thread. Where all they had to do was click the thanks button.

that as well :rotfl: