Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

M has been changing its frozen ready meals (as you've now gathered).

I think all versions of M frozen ready meals that have a "new" version will have an old one somewhere at RTC prices (generally around 74p-77p). I do know that, unfortunately, most Ms for me now have stocks of only new product and the freezer sections now do look very expensive in those stores (the majority of stores) to me:rotfl:. There is still stock of old product in some stores (you'll just be lucky as to what you have, if you have anything at all) but it is diminished in some and has gone from most that I've seen. That said, I had quite some stock of old-style Beef Slices in Gravy still left in one store:rotfl:. Some of these items, freezer items, may stick around for several months if they are not bought (even if they are gone from most stores). I still had the old product of that, together with new-style stock of the Curry products with 77p "RTC" SELs:rotfl:.

I've just checked msm - no Curry & Rice 400g on there at all in M:rotfl:. There is the fresh M Savers:rotfl: product that comes up if you put the store's name in the search box but none of the relevant products at all. So, I can't tell from that method if there are other old versions at suspected 77p. (I was looking to see if the new products at £1.45 - whatever price they are - were on there, in order then to imply the existence of an old one at RTC prices.) The old ones will not be on there since they have gone onto clearance and then gone offline (probably cleared out of Leamington entirely, so drop offline at that point) and the new ones are too new to have been put onto m.com yet.

There are some branded products that have been (are?) on known or suspected RTC as well. They include a small number of the Bisto meals, but they have cleared completely for me - I've had 13 stores no trace since I saw those and only ever caught a brief sight of an indication of them (SELs still up but all product gone). I am starting to think they won't be anywhere now (which is probably a fantastically good sign:rotfl:... I always find something immediately after I think M won't have it anywhere at all!!) - but that 77p on the few Bistos (I only know for sure that two of them were/are, but I suspect five in total as the three others have vanished without trace from every store I've been to) did seem to have been very popular as soon as it was put up on the shelves and seems to have cleared them out. The Low Low meals - I probably do not have all of them on my list! - I also now suspect to be RTC as they were also 77p (although no indication of any RTC) in one of my stores although I've now lost them completely from everywhere:rotfl:. (So, I was going to say "I... suspect to have been RTC..." - as they've gone for me, for now - but I am "sure" that they will be in a small number of Ms still - even if in none of the stores I've visited - and therefore still are RTC.)

Good evening Elite folk

I have been MIA for a while.

DS1 has gone back to the far east today to live, so rather piddled off... why can't kids just keep living at home (it has been lovely having him home for 3 months!)

I will have to try to catch up x

Savvybuyer wrote: »

M has been changing its frozen ready meals (as you've now gathered).

I think all versions of M frozen ready meals that have a "new" version will have an old one somewhere at RTC prices (generally around 74p-77p). [...]

[...] that 77p on the few Bistos (I only know for sure that two of them were/are, but I suspect five in total as the three others have vanished without trace from every store I've been to) did seem to have been very popular as soon as it was put up on the shelves and seems to have cleared them out.

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You have to play Savvy's "implication game" you see. Go to M, see a new frozen ready meal and imply the existence of an old one.

And... it's also not just what is present. It's about what is absent that is significant as that tells you more!:D (...I've discovered that about life as well - what is not said often tells you more...:doh: Other people know what it says. I still don't know what it tells me though:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.)

(At least, that is, absent from stores I've visited and, hopefully, present somewhere else:rotfl:.)

I'm being cautious again in that last post. The Bistos have completely gone for me (they were never in stock in the first place in the place when I caught the two 77p SELs, and I noticed them nowhere else thereafter) and I've not seen anything anywhere ever since. So, I could say they have gone (:eek: but I know how wrong that will turn out to be). But, really, if they have gone, I should be saying the 77p was very popular and they have cleared out. In effect, certainly on my stores so far, I saying precisely that. However...

It may seem unlikely - particularly as I am, at least so far, not finding them anywhere (yet it was twice as many stores to find the Princes Red Salmon that was clearly available as people here were saying so). I may think that the 77p RTC price is likely to have cleared them from everywhere - however, certainly based on past experience now, I would never think that anything ever was truly cleared entirely from every store across Great Britain. There may be a small number - could even be a handful? - of stores that, even with 77p, have not entirely cleared out of all stock or else an odd pack lies hidden behind other stock of different products or has got mixed up or put somewhere else in the freezer and has not been bought. I think it is unlikely. Which means it is almost a definite certainty - since 1 out of 500 is unlikely and that will be a store in the country!

Who's got the store that never put the RTC SELs up then?:rotfl::rotfl:

I know that it has been (and probably, somewhere, is) 375g meals: Bisto Beef Lasagne and Spaghetti Bolognese. I suspect it has been (and is) Cottage Pie and Chicken and Minced Beef Hotpots too.

That's if you think 77p for those meals is worth buying:rotfl:. If you can find them at all. It's clearly a "have a look if you are there" situation again, and you probably won't have luck but you might.

Of course, it doesn't "seem to have cleared them out" at all if you are in store and happen to find them:rotfl::rotfl:. So my OP is wrong. But I mean "seems to have cleared them out from the stores I have been in".

Is everyone down the pub or am I missing a huge glitch?

lol

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

I really could do with having a really frugal month.... I also need to find my mojo again!

:D:D

WHat would a frugal month entail? I have been massively overspending lately.

After bills I would have almost £1000 left to spend but I'm scrabbling around at the end of the month and could only track about £750 last month. Need to pull my socks up and sort myself out