To ask if any of you can beat my recent food shopping bills?

[ilove]

I discovered recently that the cost cutter over the road drops today's date stuff to 20p at about 5.30, and Morrisons down the road do their third price drop at about 6.30

Both shops close so can be done in one trip

In the last week I have had...

49p

The HUGE fresh cream cakes
Fruit pies
Whole cooked chickens
Layered cheese salads


19p each

Three whole salmon (which the fishmonger kindly filleted for me)
Whole mackerel (10 of them)
4 large pizzas
Ready meals (several curries)
Chicken portions
Sandwiches for DH for work that night
COD fillets
Various pies (meat and potato, chicken & mushroom)
Small cream cakes


5p each

Loaves of bread
Crusty rolls
Tomato and cheese flatbreads
Small pizza (spicy chicken)
Yoghurts/desserts
Bags of fresh bakery stuff
Packets of scones
24 pack of bread rolls

To mention just the recent things. Fortunately I have a huge freezer, and I don't buy a tenth of what's there, but I'm really pleased!

On a strict budget and the yellow stickers really helps!!

[ilove]

Oh, and the bread stuff at 5p are packs, not single rolls!

[FrozenPonds]

I'm jealous! None of the shops around here drop their prices by more than about 50p.

It's never worth buying the reduced stuff when the fresher equivalent costs little more.

They seem to want to throw the stuff away by the crate load.

[acasualobserver]

Impressive!

[ilove]

I just don't understand them throwing the stuff away - I'd buy full price if that's what our stores did, Frozen

Downside is the glare from the yellow stickers, which don't peel off easily lol!

[SeaCabbage]

Where do you live?!

[ilove]

In a Leeds suburb Sea

[multivac]

Asda does my favourite yellow stickers - 6pm on a Saturday and all the already reduced stuff goes down to 10p. Even a stupid boxed salad is worth buying for 10p; and I've had decent packs of meat, cheese etc, too.

[Gobbolino6]

I've never seen anything reduced very much, and I'm always looking.

[Blondie1984]

Waitrose at 3.30 on a Sunday is good - strawberries reduced from £3 to 39p

[ameliaesmith]

I love the Asda Whoopsie stickers!

[oldlaundbooth]

19p for three whole salmon?

[ilove]

The salmon were 19p each :)

[squoosh]

My supermarkets are rubbish for reductions althoughI rejoice the odd time I'm in Waitrose when they're reducing stuff. I follow them step by step like a creepy little stalker.

[MadHattersWineParty]

We do well out of Marks and Sparks and tesco- fillet steaks for 29p each last week and a rack of lamb for £1.19- but I honestly think the local Sainsburys would rather take the stuff going out of date that day out back and burn it than offer it to customers at a knock down price!!

[Imnotaslimjim]

My DH seems to be very good at this. We've had whole ducks for 50p, turkey crown for 75p and he's always getting packs of meat and ready meals for 10p each. It really helps when money is tight

[ilove]

I sometimes have to wander around for a while, lol

I had to wait about 25 mins for him to fillet the salmon as he was doing the following days reductions, which I was more than happy to do - meant I could stalk the bread and pizza reduction people!!!

[ilove]

No mini Asda, I'm not sure where the nearest Asda is actually

[RabbitSaysWoof]

Do they usually put stuff in a different fridge or something? or just start putting yellow stickers on stuff? I've never seen any stuff like that. I should shop later.

[notquitehuman]

Jealous! My local supermarket is utterly swamped at marking down time, and none of the discounts are very good anyway. I was on my way home late once and popped into Sainsbury's, and managed to get a nice marked down Chinese takeaway box. Some git stole it out of my trolley before I got to the till!

I need to go to a further away supermarket, or sharpen my elbows.

[MadHattersWineParty]

My DP and I are sad currently locked in a game of Find The Yellow Sticker (FTYS) and who can find the best bargain! I usually win as the only bonus of a stupid late finish at work is that I can swoop in on Marks at almost closing time.

[RabbitSaysWoof]

Some git stole it out of my trolley before I got to the till!

[squoosh]

notquitehuman that contravenes all the rules of shopping! I would have HUNTED them down.

Cheeky feckers.

[squoosh]

My best reduced item recently was a whole duck reduced from £16 to £4. I bloody love duck.

[ilove]

Ooh no it's all very polite here, I tried s Sunday and it was pointless but Tuesday, Friday and Saturday are good. Sometimes I go on my way to work then have to go home, throw the bags through the door and set off again if I get fridge stuff.