Share your Christmas yellow sticker bargains

MSE_James

I do enjoy touring the supermarkets at this time of year to pick up 🎄 food and drink reduced to silly prices.

Here are a few of my successes from past Christmases - including brandy cream for 1p and mince pies for 4p - can anyone find deals to match or better these in 2021?

briskbeats

One thing which will interest you. Sainsburys put 3rd Jan on their Christmas cheeses. This for clearance guidance. As they will be fine after 3rd Jan. I got some cheese truckles from Lidl (which were on BOGOF on the Lidl plus app) and both are dated mid Feb - a couple of days between them. Plus the cheese sets which cheddar - normal cheddar has dates of Feb/March when purchased early Dec.

In the past, I have bought mincemeat for 5p, jars of Christmas chutney for 5p (dated 20 months later so fine to use the following Xmas), a gammon joint with clementines and spices for £1 (was £12), special sausagemeat for 7p. Also non food Christmas things - luxury crackers - 50p for 6 (were £9), wrapping paper 10p, multipacks of gift bags of different sizes - 10p. The gift bags were mainly gold, silver or got stars - so could been used for birthdays, anniversaries etc.

My best post Christmas bargain had to be a venison joint was £33, paid £2.50

MSE_James

Been for a browse round some of my local supermarkets this morning. Mince pies reduced by 76% at M&S:

briskbeats

I went into Sainsburys this evening, after work, to pick up an Argos click n collect order. As the store had hardly any customers, they manager asked me would I like a free turkey as they had several left and all dated today. Most were MASSIVE! 8.5kg (18lb)  which my parents definitely have no space for in their freezers. Managed to select a 1.7kg TTD Bronze crown had a price of £24.59! 

VintageHistorian

Went in to Waitrose and Tesco today (needed a proper food shop) and there was very little reduced available. Tesco barely had any reduced Christmas chocolate (I've managed to get a stock to last me most of January in the past), and Waitrose had a small shelf of Christmas "gifts", but that was about it.

I got a yellowsticker pork joint and a packet of stewing steak, but I've definitely had better results in previous years. I'm not sure if loads of stuff has gone to Olio collectors instead (I haven't paid too close attention to it), or if it's been offered to staff as a perk/thank you, or maybe it's just an anomoly in my area.

Rosa_Damascena

Can anyone report on the Christmas Cake / panettone situation at Aldi?

Browntoa

Xmas Eve I got a massive fresh turkey from Aldi reduced from £30 to £6 . Butchered yesterday by me and now in the freezer

wild666

I got 4 chicken breasts and 1.5 Kg of mince for less than £4, I was really hoping Lidl would have their 2.1 Kg of chicken breasts reduced but they were all 2/1/22. All the breasts were cut in half and frozen whilst the Mince was put into 250g portions and frozen. The original price of the lot would have being over £12 

coffeehound

Not actually YS but Tesco finest pigs-in-blankets crinkle crisps originally £1.80 reduced to 40p.  BBE March

briskbeats

Sainsburys again
TTD Pigs in Blankets (originally £2.50 - reduced to HP yesterday and HP again today) down to 20p as today’ s date. Same for TTD pork sausage meat.

I’m looking for a cheap decent Christmas pudding. Sainsburys have only reduced theirs by a third. Does anyone know where to find cheaper ones? Not talking about those that look like gravy salts.

greyteam1959

Rosa_Damascena said:

Can anyone report on the Christmas Cake / panettone situation at Aldi?

Iced top Christmas cakes down to £1.99 in my local Aldi.
Stocked up for the year now.
😁😁