£115 to spend at morrisons

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I have received a £115 gift card to spend at morrisons from housing association to help with cost of living. It's something I had to apply for and prove that I needed.

I'm wondering how best to spend it. Doesn't need to be used in one go.

Would you stock up on toiletries, cleaning products, laundry stuff, tinned goods etc or just buy as you would each week?

I live alone, no pets or kids.

I'm actually going to use £15 on things to put in food bank.

And i think it is lovely you want to donate to the food bank. Morrisons do some ready made grab bags for good banks at various price points. I would be looking at £5 in your situation rather than £15.

Personally I would try to tune it with the yellow sticker shelf being good, eg 3pm in a Sunday and hope to stick my freezer with meat and cheese.

Yellow sticker items, in my local Morrisons at least, are pretty disappointing. The days of 9p quiches or loaves of bread seem to be long gone. Now it's more like 49p off a ready meal that still makes it cost nearly £3, and you have to eat it today. Er, no. Not tempted.
If you don't have any particular requirements for the moment, I'd either keep hold of it until it's needed, subject to any date restrictions, or have a look in store to see what's on offer. It can be an expensive place to shop these days, but there are still good buys to be had.

Don’t donate to the food bank if you need it - PM me your location and I’ll donate £15 for you to the local food bank.

Yellow stickers are best late in the day but it's luck of the draw. I've had some really good bargains - especially stuff you can freeze.

The reason yellow tickets are getting worse, in my area at least is that Morrisons only yellow stickers the 'Use By Date' food and not 'Best Before' items. The BB items are donated straight to the community food shop down the road where local people (you have to show proof of address when you sign up) can purchase these items at a very discounted price so stuff like a giant bottle of Bold is £4 instead of £12.

I would buy items that are good value (ie that you cannot get cheaper elsewhere) so pasta, cheese, tins etc. But if you can get washpiwder cheaper at Wilko or aldi for example I’d get that from the cheaper shop.

Birthday presents? It's a cost of living subsidy

I thought this, use it for a monthly shop. Our monthly shop is around £100 for one adult one child, and we buy lots of grains and tinned beans and very cheap spaghetti hoops, cheap bread for the freezer, coconut milks and rice so we can cook things that taste nice but are cheap.

Strange question. Buy what you need.

It's lovely you want to give to food bank but you were given the voucher due to your needs

If you really want to help , buy some tinned veg pasta and sauce and donate it but I wouidnt spent £15 as you at struggling

You say you live alone and no kids - don't know your age if old or young , so can try and work extra hours if struggling if you are young

What to spend - if you have storage then but larger in bulk as cheaper

Or use over a few weeks for usual shop and if see any bargains and room to freeze do get them

I don't understand the question. This fund has been allocated to you because you are deemed to need it. How can anyone HERE tell you what you need or how to spend it? Surely you're the only person who knows how best to spend it?

As for giving it to the food bank or swapping it for vouchers to spend on birthday presents (other poster's suggestion, I know) - the mind boggles. Why not just start a thread telling everyone you're going to spunk it on fags and booze?

Buy things that are on offer. I find Morrisons quite dear.

Bill buy the things going up most in inflation.

If you have a chest freezer freeze butter, milk, cheese, etc

Things that last a while- honey, flour, tomato purée, tinned tomatoes.

Non food but not toys.

If you might need them in the next year, underwear, basic clothes.

Toiletries and Xmas presents/ birthday presents for the upcoming year mean you are less likely to get into debt.

Buy what you need

I would spend it all on gluten free porridge oats

It is the only supermarket where you can buy a big bag of proper oats, rather than the teeny little bags of oat dust that Sainsburys etc sell. I have to make a special trip to stock up.

There's some great advice here on what to spend it on OP.

You've been given this voucher for good reason. I do admire you thinking of donating to the food bank but look after yourself at the moment. Donate when things are a bit easier for you.

Hey OP, if you're going to buy anything with an age restriction make sure you take your ID as I just got refused Imodium. I'm 27 and had my 3 year old with me so not sure how I could have possibly been under 16

I was given £12 off a Morrison's shop offer this week and noted their prices are expensive (usually shop Aldi/Asda) but some good offers. Can you compare prices online with Asda say before you go to get the most benefit.

My thoughts too.
If you needed it so much that you applied for it surely there are items you're "desperate" for.

This is a strange one. Surely you know what you need??

They don't know that the child is yours, not that it matters. My DSis got refused an age restricted product when she had her 19YO with her. She was a teenager when he was born but still.

DSis sent DN with the item and his ID to another till and he paid for it, while she waited outside and told everyone she knew that she'd just been refused service due to failing challenge 25, despite being nearly 40.

It's just daft isn't is @BarbaraofSeville. I understand the challenge 25 policy and don't mind being ID'd for alcohol or if I was buying cigarettes - and I'd go prepared in those instances - but I was already in the shop when DP called to ask for them and clearly I'm not under 16. Itd be nice for them to use a little common sense sometimes!

Buy the essentials you need over the next few weeks. Forget the food bank. Sounds like you're not in any position to give to that.

laundry powder Ariel/ persil for large 100/110 boxes. That’s more like 150 washes if your not piling it in. About £15

Buy things that usually add to shop costs but make basics taste much better. Honey to add to porridge, marmite, Worcestershire sauce, large pot smoke paprika, herbs, mustard, pepper and salt. Whatever condiments or spices like this you usually use.

many things are cheaper in bulk, so per kg rice at 2kg bag will be cheaper than 500g.