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!!

I love grabbing an Itsu on my way home from work....half price in Canary Wharf! (not sure about other London branches)

we found 9p stickers at Morrisons about 20 mins before closing on a Sunday, and had a very random selection of samosas, bhaji's, pizza, pepperoni slices, wraps and a doughnut. We are thinking of making a habit of it..

What's an itsu?

Most of my supermarkets are 24 hrs is that why I've never seen one?

I'm having serious supermarket envy over here. The only one I can get to (disabled and don't drive) is Morrisons, and their reductions are pointless - e.g. 50p off stuff that costs about £2.50, 10p off bread, maybe a whole £1 off the expensive stuff if we're lucky. The shop can be about to close and the 'reduced' section is still full because it's just not worth buying.

I just think, if you're not going to reduce it properly, don't bother!

If I had found the culprit, I think I would have been well within my rights to murder them. I was looking forward to my spring rolls.

This is a very naice area too, so I'm shocked at their bad etiquette.

Itsu is 'fast food' sushi

Our reduced shelf in Morrison's is really crap. A suspiciously grey chicken with £1 knocked off. No thanks!

Ah, 19p each ilove

Not a bargain, then

Lol old not a bargain at all!!!

My flipping chest freezer is full and I keep buying stuff!!!

Oooh, well done! I'm proper jealous. My local Tesco only seems to knock about 10% off even when stuff is actually starting to look manky

Waitrose is better but I've not quite got the hang of when they do the good mark downs.

We usually do quite well out of our local Morrisons with the 9p bakery goods ( handy if you have 3 teenage locusts with a terminal evening snack habit) and other reduced goodies . But DS 1 who works for waitrose is the reduced king . He once brought home 5 whole ducks , each reduced from about £15 , to about £4.50 , which once the store had closed , staff were allowed to buy at half price , so they were £2.25 each . But his best coup was the all singing all dancing organic hand fed by unicorns finest bronzed Turkey , reduced from £85 , to £16 on Xmas eve , which went unsold by closing time . He got it for a fiver else it would have had to have been chucked .

We gave it a good send off !

Not fair Plomino! That's basically insider trading.

Doesn't it only work if you can eat the food pretty much immediately?

I am having bargain-envy. I live in Herts, I don't think I have ever seen anything for sale below 50p. I only have Sainsburys close by though - and they are crap for knockdown prices.

Mind you once, I went to waitrose on a Monday evening and apparently that is the time for knockdown stuff - but it was more like £1 off a £4 cut of meat.

That's what freezers are for merrymouse!

That's really good,I've never seen those stickered items. But my fresh weekly shop always costs under £15 so I'm happy

Not bad round here, can usually pick up some reasonable, though not dirt cheap, stuff from Sainsbury's on our usual Sunday shop.

Have a small co-op and Tesco in walking distance and they sometimes have some great bargains later in the day i.e a large Quorn Cottage Pie for 15p, chicken kievs for 30p.

Our freezer is too small though!!

I love a bargain but hardly find any

BTW op, you are looking fab!

Well done! My dp still talks of the enormous, organic chicken reduced from £15 to 9p he got once. He went straight home and rang his dad to tell him about it.

ssd where are you??

Sounds like my DP and his bargain gigantic turkey crown, Nicky!

I don't know what he paid for it but I don't think it was over he pound mark.

He cradled it like a baby on the tube home and has been known to peer into the freezer to gaze upon it lovingly

I was given two nets of five red onions free in our local co-op recently!
It helped that my friend was doing the reducing!

I clicked on your profile

Does anyone know when m+s mark down?