Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

mhoc

kimmy40 wrote: »

Ciders on cos -£5 in morries. £3.50 cashback .
£1.50 for 6 cans of cider .

In account already .

No signs of freebie single can in my local tosco

orchard thief - so £5 in Morribobs minus £3.50 from COS = £1.50
Or slightly less if you have staff discount or discounted gift cards - I get 5% off - nice discount.
Might be bigger Morrisons though.

The single cans - my small Mr T does not even seem to have a cider section anymore, it was difficult to pick out until we spotted old mould. There was no Rosie cider that was free a few weeks back.
But our big Sainsbobs did have the single cans

mhoc

Snap-ant wrote: »

I wonder if he has been using the free charcoal toothpaste on his teeth?

shirley999

curl_girl wrote: »

Shreddies Max granola works out 40p a box T v A after Shopmium if anyone missed it.

Shreddies Max has finished now.

mhoc

Snap-ant wrote: »

So did Quidc0 last year for house & contents insurance for cashback.
Chose Hast1ngs - their renewal received this morning & it's gone up 30% :eek::eek::eek: :mad:
Rang them & they couldn't make it cheaper & did I want to cancel?



So back through Quidc0 & was offered £70 CB for SAGA & plus quote came in cheaper than last years :j
So bought & paid & £70 tracked already


and breathe (I do not like doing these & was dreading it )

and now the long wait until it goes into the paid column. I have the nerve wrecking wait for pet insurance - September

For the house insurance Policy Expert matched a lower quote and gave me free legal expenses so Ive stuck wirh them this year

mhoc

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Did we know about this?

Email from Zeek


Tesco
Cathedral City Cheddar Cheese at just £5 per Kilogram
Woah! It’s a bargain but is it possible? If you think you’ve got what it takes to claim victory over this huge 1kg block of deliciousness, head to your nearest Tesco store (it doesn’t seem to be available online). Usually £10, at half-price this is a veritable bargain that no cheese-lover should miss. Grab yourself a block and get some extra cheesy nachos going for the game!

We finally ran out of Tickler cheese this week - the one we got for COS and Q. for £1.50 a pack after cashback - oMG gorgeous cheese. This week i got a £3 block of cathedrel city from Mr T and I really hate it - OK for on top of pasta bake, pizza etc but otherwise tasteless

So now it seems I have a taste for expensive cheese as well as expensive Lindt, Green & Blacks chocolate, expensive apples, expensive New Zealand wine ...
Might try the extra mature in Aldi firstly

Enterprise_1701C

TrulyMadly wrote: »

By the way, I did a Lidl baked beans taste test.

They have less salt and sugar than Heinz which is not a bad thing. They are very tomatoey and at half the price I'm happy to swap

Just waiting for Greg Wallace to pop up in the kitchen:rotfl:

The thing is that there's no need to stash if you can buy them at this price anytime:) and I could do something more useful with the space my stash inhabits:D

I've still got quite a few 5 Beanz, but the kids always preferred the Lidl beans

shirley999

I tried the ALDI beans last week, not impressed. Branston are the best in my book.

I'm not impressed with the fake special K with red berries either, the fruit is too sparse or maybe all at the bottom of the pack.

What I do like are the big white buttons, only 59p for the same size bag as other brands sell for minimum £1, but that's a very bad thing and I will have to stop buying them!

mhoc

Do we know that mum roll on deodorant in pink is supposed to be 62p according to mysupermarket (not very reliable) in Waitrose this week - on GJ with 30p cashback.
It goes nicely with the COS free Onken creamy 450g and the fage split pots ...

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I think it's a decent price savvy....it's generally £7/£8 a kilo at the moment in most places

There are two prices - the expensive offer price and the even more expensive and ridiculous full price.

I know - I don't know how anyone could buy cheese at £7/£8 per kg.:eek:, even though that's supposed to be it's 'normal' price, when cheeses like this inevitably go onto £5 per Kg. price somewhere eventually and I see no excuse for not buying only at the times when they do, especially as cheese can be frozen. There is no need therefore ever to pay 'ridiculous' £7/£8 prices a Kg. - and we've had better than £5/Kg before (so even that is a way too high guide price that we ought to be aiming much lower than before we ever buy cheese ever again (:rotfl:) ).

Savvybuyer

Snap-ant wrote: »

Thursday ~

Russia 5 - 0 Saudi Arabia
Egypt 0 - 1 Uruguay


Friday ~
Morocco 0 - 1 Iran
Portugal 3 - 3 Spain

Spoiler!

I haven't seen any of the goals from any of the matches from Friday (just the other parts of the matches:rotfl:). That's actually not completely correct and a bit of a lie (so I am learning - except that I am not as I have revealed that it is a lie and was unable to refrain from making this revelation, so as to still tell the full truth overall, if you believe that:rotfl:) - but I did miss the Iran goal and two of the goals in the Portugal Spain match.
:eek:Someone might be watching these matches only later today. Has everyone seen all the world cup matches from Friday if they were doing so?

I missed all three of those goals, due to managing to time my visits to the kitchen at precisely those moments on every occasion. The third one I missed - I came back into my living room and looked round at the television, just in time to see the score ticking over to another goal - but by that time I had missed seeing the goal itself. You can now track my movement back into my living room to the nanosecond. I didn't hear any cheers or anything from the kitchen to tell me to come back (I would still have missed a goal by that stage anyway) but literally popped out for a few seconds to the kitchen, and came back quickly as I could, aware that I might miss another goal - and still managed, in those few seconds, to do so anyway.