Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

zippydooda

Sad_Dad wrote: »

Evening All,

I spent my last APGs yesterday on my normal shopping. Thinking it would probably be my last visit there for a long time, I wandered around thinking about all the glitches from the past.
I even went down the gluten free aisle to see if they still sold UDIs. Anyway I've just checked my receipt for old times sake not expecting anything but it has generated a £6 APG so looks like I will be going back after all.

You probably already know this but the interesting one for me was the 2 large packs of M&Ms (Sweet Sundays packet), it works out at £1.80 for a free cinema ticket.

2x Branston Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (4x410g) £4.00 £3.50
2x KTC Red Kidney Beans in Water (400g) £0.90 N/A
4x Pot Noodle Chicken & Mushroom (90g) £2.00 £2.00
1x Muller Light Fat Free Greek Style Strawberry Yogurts (4x120g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Chopped Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g) £0.35 £0.35
1x Activia Intensely Creamy Greek Style Raspberry Yogurts (4x110g) £1.00 £1.80
1x Beck's Lager (20x275) £10.00 N/A
2x M&M's Chocolate Large Bag (238g) £3.00 £2.00
1x Muller Light Fat Free Greek Style Raspberry Yogurts (4x120g) £1.00 £1.00
1x KTC Chopped Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g) £0.39 £0.38
1x Butcher's Selection Reduced Fat Beef Mince (Typically Less Than 12% Fat) (750g) £3.34 N/A
3x M&M's Peanut Chocolate Bag (140g) £3.00 £3.00
2x Galaxy Minstrels Bag (118g) £2.00 £2.00
4x Schwartz Sausage Casserole Recipe Mix (35g) £2.00 N/A
1x Cathedral City Mature Cheddar Cheese Twin Pack (2x350g) £4.50 £4.00
2x Sweet Popcorn (165g) £3.00 N/A
1x Grower's Selection Carrots (500g) £0.35 £0.36
1x Sweet BBQ Rack of Pork Ribs (600g) £3.34 N/A
1x Frozen for Freshness British Garden Peas (1.8kg) £1.89 N/A
1x Extra Special Chorizo Casero (225g) £1.85 N/A
1x Extra Special British Jazzy Potatoes (1kg) £1.00 N/A
1x Smart Price Batter Mix (128g) £0.25 N/A
1x Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup (4x400g) £2.00 N/A
1x Activia Intensely Creamy Greek Style Cherry Yogurts (4x110g) £1.00 £1.80
1x Glen Moray Single Malt Scotch Whisky (70cl) £20.00 £18.00
1x Albert Bartlett Rooster Potatoes (2kg) £2.00 £2.50
2x Homepride Pasta Bake Creamy Tuna (485g) £2.00 £2.00
1x Farm Stores Brown Onions (1kg) £0.65 £0.68
1x Extra Special 10 Pork Sausages (750g) £3.32 N/A
1x Cadbury Heroes Chocolate Tub (660g) £4.00 £5.00
1x Grower's Selection Broccoli (360g) £0.58 £0.60
2x Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes (750g) £4.00 N/A

This AvM by the way.

Cheers,
Sad_Dad

good un
says on m web page that that offer is on until the 10/10

Savvybuyer

LIttleOwl wrote: »

Savvybuyer - here are details of the lightbulbs we purchased from Mr M:

Twin pack led candles 5w standard screw type - 50p.

Twin pack led mini globes 5w small screw type - 50p.

Were £7 apparently! x

That'll be your store not changing its SELs to show the 50p RTC prices. Unless you are referring to there being a £7 crossed-through price.

I will check later whether I have these specific packs on the list, whilst anyone else is free to check that already. I don't know whether they are already on there, although they sound familiar and it seems to me they therefore probably are. I have spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks checking the exact descriptions online and on the list with what I have got from instore, particularly when prices have gone down further on ones I may have already had on the list. I can't say that I have looked at all the bulbs in every one of the stores I have visited, because on this I do not have enough time and therefore I have not done so. The way I have approached it was to get all the 20p and all the 50p ones that my start store had on Monday. That was the most I could do - and then I may have added a couple from my second store (which was my final one) on that day, in advance of the full visits on Wednesday. I then got the £1 ones from my first store on Wednesday and that was the most part - I think I added three or four 20p/50p ones that I didn't remember seeing before from a couple of further stores.

There could be some I have missed therefore, although it seems to me my first store has probably got a wide selection and was early in the week, when they appeared to first go to 50p, before any weekend shoppers just now may have cleared some out.

I have noted a couple of questions on my list, regarding the number of Lumens of a couple of packs on there, which is online (on msm) but not stated on the SELs in M. They seemed to be the same packs but I needed to check whether they were not in fact two different ones of possibly each. I think the answers to both of those questions was "Yes" - in other words they do turn out to be the Lumens I thought they might be and are the ones that are (or were early last week) online, although the answers are noted somewhere in my pages of information and will be updated whenever I reach them.

Freewheeling

bubbs wrote: »

TM, you mentioning Philly reminded me at Slimming on thursday, she was saying SW have got a case going with philly as original and light are EXACTLY the same ingredients:eek::eek::eek:

Well, sort of, in that they're made of milk. But not really the same ingredients. Original uses full fat cheese, and light uses medium fat cheese. Original has 225 calories per 100g, and light has 150 calories. So they're definitely different!

bubbs

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I think they taste different bubbs

I only have ever bought the light but wont know as they are dearer:rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

For you savvy

1x ASDA Carrot Batons (300g) £0.70 £0.59
1x ASDA Smart Price Chicken Curry & Rice (400g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Smart Price Cottage Pie (400g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Cadbury Oreo Bites Chocolate Bag (110g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Warburtons Toastie White Bread (800g) £1.05 £1.05
2x ASDA Butcher's Selection Beef Mince (Typically Less Than 20% Fat) (500g) £3.90 £3.00
1x ASDA Reduced Salt Meat Gravy Granules (170g) £0.60 N/A
1x ASDA Pomegranate & Raspberry Leaf Washing Up Liquid (500ml) £0.50 N/A
2x Batchelors Bigga Marrowfat Peas (300g) £1.10 £0.70
1x Cadbury Double Decker Chocolate Bar 4 Pack (4x47g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Thick Dry Cured Ham Slices (300g) £3.00 N/A
1x Walkers Meaty Variety Crisps 12 Pack (12x25g) £2.00 £2.00
1x Cadbury Caramel Chocolate Bar 4 Pack (4x37g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Tropical Crush Zero Cans (6x330) £1.50 N/A
1x ASDA Skimmed Milk (4pt) £1.09 £1.10
0.69x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.52 £0.52
2x ASDA Farm Stores White Potatoes (2.5kg) £2.60 £2.00
1x Ski Cherry & Blackcurrant Yogurts (4x120g) £1.00 N/A
1x Fairy Clean & Fresh Washing Up Liquid Apple Orchard (520ml) £1.00 £1.27
1x ASDA Smart Price Sausage, Mash & Gravy (400g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Broccoli (360g) £0.58 £0.60
0.43x ASDA Farm Stores Beef Frying Steak (Typically 500g) (per kg) £3.06 N/A
1x ASDA Baker's Selection Tiger Chest Bread (800g) £1.00 £0.90
5x ASDA Apple Slices & Grapes (80g) £1.50 £1.50
Comparison total (compared products only) £23.04 £21.23

That looks very much like some of mine. I have noted the Carrot Batons and did well on one of my receipts, with them buying two packs, although I've felt those prices for 300g aren't products we'd be buying. We are doing well on popular items such as the White Potatoes being put up to £1.30 in A, especially when people buy two bags. Although even one at £1.30 against £1.18 is a help.

diluvsdiscounts

Freewheeling wrote: »

Well, sort of, in that they're made of milk. But not really the same ingredients. Original uses full fat cheese, and light uses medium fat cheese. Original has 225 calories per 100g, and light has 150 calories. So they're definitely different!

Unless sw have done their tests and they are the same ingredients :eek:

bubbs

Freewheeling wrote: »

Well, sort of, in that they're made of milk. But not really the same ingredients. Original uses full fat cheese, and light uses medium fat cheese. Original has 225 calories per 100g, and light has 150 calories. So they're definitely different!

I dunno just what consultant said:o

zippydooda

Anon wrote: »

Thank you! That is a cracking price on the M&Ms 238g pack - it looks like they have put the price of the smaller pack in error . Glitch!

Elite at the ready for tomorrow :cool:.

Anon

oh yes, thought it was too good. hopefully still last for a few weeks for us

Savvybuyer

It turned out that I have been left a total of £47.23 from receipts today. That amount - that was just lying around! Which is now included within a total of £122.63 on receipts I still have yet to use, including APGs back on my own shops. This is twice the amount I wanted, which was a realistic spend for me of around £60 for a month's worth of shopping during October. This was based on how much I had spent during a recent month until my wombles started to run out. So, it looks like they will last the month for me and I can stock up for Christmas, including frozen food and non-perishables, maybe a few higher value household items, clothes or other such things to spend twice as much. And there is still one more weekend left to add some more pounds to that total.

There was one person who was inconsistent. They had used an APG of £3.87. Off a £78 shop rather than a £3.87 one:rotfl:. However, even though they had obviously kept their previous receipt and checked the APG, they failed to keep the current one and left it for me to check. Didn't return anything though. They probably knew that already.

simone10

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Simone .....are you registered with Victoria. There's a batch of new coupons just come out. From memory its Bold and Ariel pods, unstoppables andother stuff. Might be worth having in your wallet:)

Thanks TM. As it happens I am registered with Victoria, but all the emails go straight to my trash folder. I've just checked it and moved 'Victoria' back to my inbox where I was able to log in.
Just printed 3 coupons of those on offer. They are BIG on a page, but they have an expiry of 30 June 2019 so will no doubt use them when stashes have run down