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Food Shopping & Groceries Sticky
🛒 Useful Forum threads from this board: * Driving to different supermarkets to save? * The Great ‘shrinking food and other items’ Hunt * Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping * Comparing the rising cost of milk Spotted any other interesting food shopping/groceries threads? Let me know! 🍽 Official…
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Tea connoisseurs - Can you recommend a great brew?
Wife doesn't drink alcohol but loves good tea. I'd love to hear your great loose tea blend recommendations. We have previously enjoyed Fortnums blends etc. She also loves a good herbal tea such as Birchall peppermint/lemongrass+ginger. Could people please recommend excellent tea I could get her as a gift? I'm also in the…
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Good and Bad Buys at Lidl and Aldi stores (***Please don't expire***)
This is the new Lidl and Aldi buying thread. Please report any good/bad deals, good/bad offers and good/bad products. The old thread can be found here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5960153/good-and-bad-buying-at-lidl-and-aldi-please-dont-expire#latest
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Leaking Milk Cartons
Is anyone else having trouble with leaking milk cartons? Mostly from Sainsburys, but we also buy some from Booths (North West supermarket) and we've had problems with both. Basically, they leak. Just had to clear up quite a mess from the fridge from the latest one. I think the cartons are thinner, to save on plastic?…
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Farmfoods.....at long last, offers to report.
Bargains have been thin on the ground for a long time but looks like they are fighting back. In store today. 300g Nescafe Original or Decaf for £4.50, 2L milk £1.00 ( full fat or semi-skimmed ), sugar 1kg for £1.00.
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Sainsbury's (edit: and now Lidl) vacuum packed beef mince ... What do people think ?
It has been on the shelves for a couple of weeks now and I must say it doesn't look appealing, but is it any good? Sainsbury's say that there's no difference in the quality, but customer feedback begs to differ ... Sainsbury's defends vac-pack mince after complaints - BBC News edit: Lidl from next year ... Lidl next to vac…
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Apple Grocery v Alexa List
Anybody here using Apple Grocery List, what do you think of it ? I’ve it been working with the Alexa app for some time now. If I’m about the house and see something I need to stock upon I simply say ‘Alexa add whatever to shopping list,’ and it’s done, I can do the same when I’m out and about. I generally type it in. Hack:…
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Good Value Toilet Roll
I’ve been buying the Lidl quilted loo roll but it’s rubbish now that it’s been switched from 4-ply to 3-ply. Can anyone recommend a decent toilet roll that’s not ridiculously priced nor fragranced?
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Ocado - Slot Prices
I understand that as you get nearer to a date, and the slots fill up the price goes up - but once you get to a few hours before the cutoff - do prices go down? I was looking at a slot tomorrow but it's £7 - not worth it - but if I waited until say 4pm this afternoon is there any likelihood it may go down - in my areas all…
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Anyone else tried snip savings?
Hi, has anyone else tried Snip? I have recently joined, as it was advertised on Pick My Postcode. So far I have saved £9.51 and have spent £3 on the monthly subscription so some modest savings. Wondering if it's worth swapping to the yearly subscription as it works out as £6 less a year. Only thing I wish they offered…
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What's the strangest / quirkiest vending machine you've seen?
I was at a suburban railway station yesterday that had a vending machine selling frozen ready meals: These days I know it's fairly common in rural areas for farms to have vending machines for dairy products and fresh fruit/veg. I've even seen a vending machine for farm-fresh milk in quite an urban shopping centre. 20 years…
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The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt
The Great 'shrinking food' Hunt Revisited We featured this hunt back in 2010 (see original thread), but it seems manufacturers are up to their old tricks again by dropping products’ sizes while keeping prices the same (one forumite's spotted loaves of bread dropping from 800g to 750g). We want to know which foods you've…
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Olive Oil Offers
It seems like I only have to blink and the price of Olive Oil has gone up again. So I thought I'd list all the Olive Oil Offers that I could find. Carapelli Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml was £9 now 8.50 to 15/04/24 Sainsbury's Filippo Berio Il Rustico Unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1L was 13.80 now 11.99 to…
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Easter markdowns and yellow stickers 2024
Just been for a lunchtime walk round the supermarkets near MSE Towers. M&S - all Easter items half price - eg simnel cake reduced from £14 to £7. Sainsbury's - Creme Eggs reduced Tesco - Easter stock on a trolley near the checkouts but no reductions displayed. What bargains have you spotted in your local stores?
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coffee morning and afternoon?
I enjoy coffee, usually from costa or nero, and just wondered what other people drink? Do you have more than one a day? Are you like me and only have coffee when out and just tea at home? I see it as a daily treat and dont mind paying, although I use a lot of vouchers rewards, merkat etc to save money. Do you have caffeine…
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Broken Biscuits
For those who like a good cheap carbfest with their cuppa.. or to use biscuits as a cheesecake base.. From 08/04/24 Milk & More will be selling broken biscuits. The 1kg box of broken luxury chocolate biscuits will be 4.49 and the 1.3kg broken biscuit assortment will be 4.29 They can be ordered in advance, there's no…
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Cheep Easter Veg
Lidl advertising potatoes / carrots / shallots / swede / green beans & spring onions at 19p from 26 March. No doubt all will be doing similar.
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Iceland bonus card Xmas offer: top up £100 get £120 to spend
The Iceland Bonus Card Christmas bonus is back. Top up an iceland bonus card with a total of £100 by 3rd November. An extra £15 bonus will be added by 24th November The usual £5 bonus will be added (£1 for every £20 saved) too - always about 3 to 4 minutes after toppping up in my experience, but they say allow 24 hours.…
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Asda Pounds Double Up
Double up your Asda Rewards when you convert your cash pot into a Boost Voucher for adult clothing or home / outdoor / toys // entertainment (2 separate promotions). Convert from 22 Mar until 7 April, spend by 28 Apr. Minimal exclusions apply
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The 'strange Easter flavours' thread 2023
It's that time again: what bizarre Easter flavours are you seeing in the shops? 🥚🍫🧁🥚🍫🧁 Last year's examples included Co-op's 'masala & chilli hot cross buns', Aldi's 'hot cross bun pudding' and Costa's 'hot cross bun latte'. See more of them in 2022's Strange hot cross bun & Easter egg flavours thread.
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Is anyone else sick of rotflation?
Supermarkets in the UK have taken the best before/use by/display until dates off a lot of fruit and vegetables. They claim it's to reduce waste. If they really cared about waste they could bring back the deep discounting where they sold things at 90% off when it was about to expire. Now I'm finding I'm getting and eating…