cheapest place to buy formula? Aptamil in particular??

[notsolilKel]

Hiya

My local Tesco sells Aptamil (1st) for £6.96 per 900g powder, or £0.49 for a 200ml premade carton.

Hoping somehow to find somewhere, online or not, which sells it cheaper?

Especially keen to see if I can find the premade stuff cheaper as I'd prefer to use this rather than faff about endlessly with 70degree water & powder mixtures....

Any help much appreciated!

I may be wrong but I think formulas are sold at a set price and cannot be discounted/sold cheaper in order to encourage mums to breastfeed - follow-on formulas can be.

You certainly can't get Boots points/Tesco clubcard points etc on them - it is illegal for a shop to run promotions on them.

bummer!

Tesco, Boots,etc are about the cheapest places to buy aptamil. Dont buy it from Somerfield/Co-Op as it is nearly £8 there. There can be price variations between stores but they cannot have temporary promotions, they would have to be at a permanent lower price. I dont think you will find them much cheaper anywhere else to be honest.

p.s. as the issue seems to be with the storage of milk that has been made in advance, I am happy to feed my lo room temperature milk that has been made by adding powder to room temperature cool boiled water.

I think the price is fixed as ceebee says - Ocado and Boots online charge exactly the same as Tesco, which is unusual for any other product.

Its not fixed - it is much more expensive in Somerfield/Co-Op and my local chemists then it is in Boots/Tesco.

(or if room temp is no good for you, you could do do a bottle 1oz less than normal of cooled boiled water, then when you need it add powder and 1oz freshly-boiled water. No good for out and about though)

our GP practice/health centre sells it at cost price
worth asking next time you are in, ours doesnt advertise it, maybe yours is the same

I really don't think youo can get it cheaper.

It'll cost you a fortune if you use ready mades all the time.

Honestly, it's not too much of a faff

washing/rinsing 6 bottles - 5 mins
sterliser loading - couple of mins

whilst sterliser is running, boil kettle and set kitchen timer for 30/40 mins depending on the manufacturer's instructions.

When timer alarm sounds make bottles up (takes 10 mins max) and cool them (I leave mine on the kitchen worktop in bowls of cold water)

Put bottles in fridge (not in the door rack, ensure they are on a shelf in the fridge) and discard if not used within 24 hours.

I know that the current guidelines say that you should make each bottle up fresh each time it is needed but when I was first doing bottles the guidelines were that you could keep them in the fridge for 24 hours and I've carried on doing this for my current baby with no ill effect, as have many other parents of second/third/fourth babies.

Our health centre has stopped selling cheap baby milk and as far as I am aware, most of the others have stopped selling it too since those new vouchers came out.

If you want to buy the cartons of ready-made, you can buy them in bulk in trays of 15 (I think) in Asda and perhaps Tesco, and I think this works out slightly cheaper. But agree that using these exclusively would be v expensive way of doing it.

we used to get the bulk trays of aptamil in Tesco for £4.99 which made them significantly cheaper (aboyt 30p a carton instead of 50p I think) - this was in 05/06 but I think I have seen them in there recently.

We should lobby for them not to be able to make the cartons more expensive, asp since the guidelines are now advocating using the ready made cartons.

You can get baby products from Chemist Direct. they do bulk buy savings and savings on auto reorders.

www.chemistdirect.co.uk/healthcare/bulk-buy-healthcare/bulk-buy-mother-and-baby/cat-ae9

This is a very old post - which is also why the prices seem shockingly cheap!