Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

I seem to be doing very well though. I opened up a pack of frozen food earlier, that I am going to have to replace, and then realised that it actually provided twice as many meals as the ones I was cooking tonight. I therefore still have some meals left out of it as it's pack with more portions, when so many packs of food in general, particularly branded ones, offer such poor price per unit.

I also found that I had another pack of 13 Chicken Dippers in one of my 12 pack earlier:):T. I then opened the other one and found it had 12:(. No great use again unfortunately as meal for two people but just half a dipper extra for each and not able to be added much to any extra ones elsewhere. Unfortunately it doesn't do any extra meals or therefore save money in that sense - instead we are just consuming more but, still, it's nice to manage to have 13 on two occasions:T. Pity the two poor folks who opened their packs and found they had only 11.

Must stop mentioning this and must not draw attention to it:o - they'll be wanting to examine the packs in future and make sure they have only 12.

No I did not buy them on hopeless 95p still-not-10%-cheaper-than-Tesco whether offered anymore or not rollback price. I would not be wasting any of the vouchers I have like this. I bought them at full price £1.50 each, when the APG was still on, when the SEL still said 2 for £2 and £2 GC.

zippydooda

michaels wrote: »

I often use 2 in 1 day and multi mags and coffees per month but only 1 coffee and 1 set of mags and 1 newspaper per day. (Although I haven't actually tried to do multiple of these per day)

as your light is still on. coffee and paper once per day. i agree with my mate locarr that mags are once PER TRANSACTION. unless corrected its been like this for years. i do admit ive not used mags more than once per day.but i know some that have. underline mags are AT LEAST DAILY i believe them to be per transaction.

Savvybuyer

I stopped briefly at Aldi today and they got me buying something when I did not intend to do so. They had some 5L Cherry Screenwash at 39p. Bet all you savvy lot - you're far better than me - will tell me I've overpaid:(. I did stop at M though (no paper or pen in hand:o - embarrassing that I have paper and a pen in hand that is) and saw some other 5L Screenwash (therefore exactly the same thing to me regardless of the flavour or lack of) at £4. Bet someone will tell me, from seeing another M, that my price label was inaccurate and behind it it's cheapet than Aldi.

I don't know what the thing is with flavours of Screenwash. It's not as if you taste them or anything. And it's hardly as if you go round sniffing your windscreen either:eek:. I noticed later it is labelled "Summer Screenwash" so that will be why. Obviously they can't sell summer screenwash in winter because people won't buy it even though it's probably exactly the same product inside as any "winter" screenwash. If I do have to (or I am supposed to) use it only in summer or there is some reason why it is any different, then I am clueless about that.

I found my M had the Scallops Half Shell telling me they are 50p. Assuming that's correct, they would always have been a buy away from A item anyway as there is no equivalent online at A which could be formerly compared. As far as I can tell from the SEL in my M, the Savers Jaffa Cakes there are still 30p. Aldi's version is showing me 31p in Aldi (I can't find that in M:rotfl:). It seems that A hasn't put its SP Jaffa Cakes on rollback in order to price match a competitor. I just wanted to satisfy myself that it wasn't a case of no benefit to buying in A; however the muggles in my A have now cottoned onto its version and have taken all the stock off the shelf by the time I visited today:(. They will have to be given a couple of weeks (I can give no longer I am afraid!) to eat themself silly and buy far more than necessary of the product before they stop buying the thing and allow me to take another pack. Unfortinately I have someone here that gets through loads of them:(:rotfl:. I think the more you buy, them the more they consume so maybe I should starve them off them or buy only one pack and no more:money:. The trouble is it's not really saving money to buy just one pack as that 27p has to go somewhere else and there's virtually nothing 10% cheaper else on which it could go:(. Actually it could go on whoopsies couldn't it?

With SP Jaffa Cakes at 27p, M will have to bring its price down. Besides nowhere near those old 24 pack McVitie's that once or twice during a particular period got a price of 1p.

zippydooda

TrulyMadly wrote: »

For zippy:D

Sure you will pass as a student:D

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flicking hell, ive been trying to get them for weeks. my wethers ran out quickly. they gave them to anybody not just students.
all that said. i was in there tonight and i got 2 of my js for £3.60 my nearest pub would have charged me £4 for 1 then about £5 for 1 after 11. its cheaper for me to get taxi to wethers and taxi back than get the nearer beer prices. but being zippy i walk the 1.6 miles each way so no taxi either. that said i did end up in nationwide hq tonight as i got the wrong bus. security questioned me and i said im a share holder and they work for me they said you probably need that gate then mate :rotfl: which backs on to my house :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: good night team elite

Savvybuyer

So, as other people post:

Cherry Screenwash 5L - 39p Aldi.
Scallops Half Shell - 50p Morrisons.

Unfortunately I write a lot of prose and you lose the information. Glad to ensure you've found it now:cool:.

:eek:I am sounding like an advert rather than a considered and detailed explanation. Don't let them tempt you if you don't need them!:money:

michaels

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Well that's blown Froctober out of the window. 2 cases of fizz ordered:)

To make up for it I've been making croutons out of a 13p whoopsied loaf of bread and freezing them for winter soups:o:)

So all is not lost:T:T:T:o

I can not cook croutons without thinking of this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2DJXLN7GPU

zippydooda

TrulyMadly wrote: »

There's been loads of Hellmans dressings, mayo and salad creams RTC in my local T. Think the lowest price was 34p

so this deal is 3 1/2 times better

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

so this deal is 3 1/2 times better

Just typical we buy something only to find the price we bought at is beaten:(.

mhoc

Suggestions please as to other uses for sour cream?

OH came home on Thursday with the makings for fjahitas but with no sour cream. But on investigating the fridge I still have a bit left at the end of the last pot, few days out if date but it smelt and tasted fine and I survived the night.

So tonight we had fjahitas again - as the makings do 2 meals - bag of beansrouts, stir fry, 8 wraps - but I had a new tub of sour cream which Ive got 2/3 left now ...

In the interests of economy today OH did breakfast sausage butties using 2 Linda Mc sausages and 2 saved lincolnshire sausages from the freezer plus a pack of part bakes baguettes from Aldi so about £1.60 in real money.
Also made cheese scones this afternoon
Fjahitas for dinner with Marks chicken from the freezer.
This evenings TV snack was home made chips baked in the oven sprayed with the fry light - so about 15p for a baked potato.

I am not doing Frocktober as such but its very inspirational, all the cooking and cordon bleu meals being concocted.
Its def more satisfying being in the kitchen rather than in supermarkets spending money

Savvybuyer

I think we should make an exception - unless the item is being sold as a loss leader by another supermarket and Asda has matched that price and is selling it as a loss leader themselves. Then we should buy it in Asda, as long as we ensure that it does not lead to the purchase of anything else by us there, except for other loss leaders.

That way we take money out of the store, that wouldn't be taken if we didn't buy it. And the item is presumably one we need and is good value and, as it's same price elsewhere, there's no benefit to buying elsewhere especially as we don't want to de-enrich a competitor that hasn't taken a potental 10% off off us and made it only available to us at the same price as elsewhere (unless we have a staff card which few of us have). And, hopefully, by taking money out of the store, that will help push up prices for other shoppers who want energy focused on lowering prices that continue to shop there and pay more on some of the items they buy than a cheaper competitor at which we now shop for those items.

So it would be a misunderstanding of me to say boycott Asda. Instead I am talking about continuing to shop in a strategic way that helps ensure the best prices that we can get for us. Even though our shopping cost is to be, I think, inexonerably more, thanks to the withdrawal of the APG.