Buying reduced items/discount items in 2018

Cat501

Hello

It's a few years since I've been on here and a few years since I've done a YS trip but times are really tough! Trying to reduce my food shop to £40 or less for February, and picked up a few bargains in Mr T on Thursday night.

2 trays of sweet potato chips (usually £2.50 each)
1 tray parmentier potatoes
1 bag sprouts
I cauliflower
I bag grated carrot
1 pot of fajita mix (peppers/red onions)
2 pots of sliced red onion
1 pot of sliced mixed peppers
3 packs of celery hearts

All the above were 1p each Have used up a lot of the veg batch cooking lentil cottage pie, veg chilli, veg curry and pasta sauce over the weekend so if I can keep going in the same vein AND resist buying wine I might hit my target

Ilona

GooeyBlob wrote: »

One thing I like to do is pick up a couple of bags of prepared vegetables at the end of the day as there are often a few left. On Friday I bought a bag of chunky Mediterranean vegetables for 10p and a bag of butternut squash for 5p. They went in a big saucepan topped up with water and a stock cube, brought to the boil and simmered for 90 minutes. That did me 2 meals this weekend with a third portion in the freezer for later this week.

Chuffin heck, 90 chuffin minutes. :eek: Mine are done in 20 minutes max.

Ilona

Katiehound

GooeyBlob wrote: »

They went in a big saucepan topped up with water and a stock cube, brought to the boil and simmered for 90 minutes. .

Clearly al denture not al dente!!

But clearly a bargain- shame I couldn't eat the cheap plants I bought! Not sure how succulent Christmas cacti would have been!!

t14cy_t

did a reduced section spree yesterday afternoon in morrisons and Tesco, purely to snaffle bargains and top the freezer back up. yikes!! Tesco has changed there reducing timings! still managed to get a few bits though! between the 2 supermarkets I spent £11, and therefore saved £38! happy with my stash. xx

VfM4meplse

I finally have something to contribute to this thread - if only by means of article: Police called to supermarket brawl after fight breaks out over reduced food.

Irenadler

Oh dear...

I have to say, that when I have managed to get anywhere near reduction time, I have only seen reasonable behaviour.... Kind of puts me off going to the later night ones!

I have an etiquette for it, which probably only exists in my head and no-one else's!
Only buy what I like/need/will definitely use. And try to buy freezable stuff.
Don't buy every single number of items if there's loads of one item. E.g. all the bread.
Avoid too many ready meals/processed stuff.
No elbows!
I don't park my trolley right in front so everyone else is blocked out, either, park it to the side and have a delve. I have seen that happen.....

Hmmm, maybe that's why I don't get much!:D

Katiehound

Irenadler wrote: »

I have an etiquette for it, which probably only exists in my head and no-one else's!
Only buy what I like/need/will definitely use. And try to buy freezable stuff.
Don't buy every single number of items if there's loads of one item. E.g. all the bread.
Avoid too many ready meals/processed stuff.
No elbows!
I don't park my trolley right in front so everyone else is blocked out, either, park it to the side and have a delve. I have seen that happen.....

What, no sharpened elbows?? I think that is where you are missing out.
I seem to remember some years ago there used to be fisticuffs in our local? Somerfield? Folk knew the time that reductions were made and they would loiter- with intent -when the poor trigger gun chap came to put the final stickers on.

t14cy_t

wowsers!! there is an unspoken rule to be polite in the reduced aisles over here! its nice to get a bargain but also nice to share!x

Ilona

I took the scenic route to the vet yesterday, it takes me through a village. Couldn't resist popping into the small Tesco and the Co op to see if there were any useful reductions. Nothing in Tesco, too early and not reduced enough for my liking. At the Co op, (orange stickers) I snaffled a pot of Greek style yogurt, was £1.35, down to 34p, and a pack or blueberries, was £2, for 99p.

I resisted buying anything else. Every little helps.

ilona

Katiehound

Yesterday, a horrid drizzly day got a bargain in the market. Had just bought the dogs cheap apples (their supplies to take to kennels!)when I asked if there were any 50 pence bags. Just one left. It seemed very heavy as I struggled up the hill..
Out of curiosity when I got home I weighed the contents- 7lbs!!(3kg) of blemished apples. Some were enormous- weighing 12oz each- I've never seen them that size before.
Needless to say dogs are not getting these