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Food Shopping!
on: January 11, 2008, 16:33:37 PM
Ive had my own place for a few months now.

I started off doing my shopping at Sainsburys but quickly changed to Tesco stripeys.

shopping includes items such as microwave meals, orange juice, yogurts, bread, milk, pizzas, shampoo etc.

Was wondering what (on average) you find is the cheapest place to shop?

What a bizarre question!

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Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 16:41:13 PM
Cheapest overall im pretty sure it ASDA - but I really dislike asda and im not sure why.

To get the best value I used to go to Lidl for everything I could, fruit and veg are WAY better and cheaper there. Then i used to use Tesco for everything else. Their basics are top value.
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Reply #2 on: January 11, 2008, 16:49:30 PM
cheapest with be Aldi/Lidl

Asdas the cheaper of the big food chains.

Think after that its Tesco < Sainsburys < Marks and Spencer < Waitrose
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Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 17:15:47 PM
Asda isnt really cheaper, they fool you into thinking they are by reducing the quantities/weights in packs. Take a look next time youre there.

In terms of value/cheapness I shop at Tesco, but Sainsburys generally does better produce, as Sam will testify I was converted by their fresh fruit and veg. They are also the only supermarket Ive found that does paella rice.

My general shopping is done at Tesco as I usually by petrol there cheap too, and occasionally they have the 5p off per litre offers on which is useful if you spend over £50.
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Reply #4 on: January 11, 2008, 18:06:23 PM
Tesco is marginally cheaper than Sainsburys but the food isnt as nice. Sainsburys used to be really expensive until a couple of years ago when they trimmed all their prices to match.

Plus Tescos fruit and veg is sh*te.

Asda annoyed me as it was a hole

But on the whole theyre all far superior to anything you get in the states where buying decent bread is a mission.
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Reply #5 on: January 11, 2008, 18:07:11 PM
Tesco for me, and sometimes Asda! To be honest the saving between the two wouldnt be that noticable IMO.
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Reply #6 on: January 11, 2008, 18:44:25 PM
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microwave meals


Cut them right out. Buy the ingredients and make a massive pot of whatever (spag bol etc), and portion it off and freeze. Itll end up cheaper in the long run, and be tastier.
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Reply #7 on: January 11, 2008, 18:50:45 PM
In General, Microwave Meals = Salt = Death. Eventually.
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Reply #8 on: January 11, 2008, 19:02:04 PM
id rather die young and flexible than old and infirm
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Reply #9 on: January 11, 2008, 19:10:28 PM
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id rather die young and flexible than old and infirm


Thought you had a bad back or some such sh*t anyway, so more likely young and infirm?
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Reply #10 on: January 11, 2008, 21:14:55 PM
Ive started to do my shopping online - because frankly I hate shopping - more correctly I hate standing in queues of filthy students in their dirty tennis shoes & jeans that are too long and ripped at the bottom, and those stupid hats with the bits hanging off them, and also women at the tills with f**king purses - hoking through them to get change out and then holding the line up as they put the change back in, button the purse up, put it in to their stupid handbag and then buckle that up, forget to put the hairbrush and tampax back into their bag and then repeat the process again, after dropping the bags once or twice (While the screaming kid in the trolley fires stuff on the floor)

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Reply #11 on: January 11, 2008, 22:04:18 PM
I do mine online.... Nearest Tesco store is at the end of my street :-D

I do shop in waitrose if im in that area, but the nearest is about 60miles away
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Reply #12 on: January 11, 2008, 22:18:47 PM
cant beleive no one has mentioned morrisons yet for value.

no wonder they are splashing out with Alan Hanson on their latest TV ad
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Reply #13 on: January 12, 2008, 00:38:04 AM
Morrisons meat is good, but other than that Im not fussed by them. The whole £1 for your trolley thing irks the crap out of me too thinking about it, I dont carry cash and wont start carrying £1 all the time because they are worried some lowlife will run off with a trolley.


Some good beer bargains in Tesco at the moment, Grolsch, Carlsberg and a few other brands all half price on 4/6 packs. Wolf Blass Yellow Label Cab Sauv reduced by £2 too, a fab bottle of red.
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Reply #14 on: January 12, 2008, 00:41:44 AM
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Morrisons meat is good, but other than that Im not fussed by them. The whole £1 for your trolley thing irks the crap out of me too thinking about it, I dont carry cash and wont start carrying £1 all the time because they are worried some lowlife will run off with a trolley.


Some good beer bargains in Tesco at the moment, Grolsch, Carlsberg and a few other brands all half price on 4/6 packs. Wolf Blass Yellow Label Cab Sauv reduced by £2 too, a fab bottle of red.


the £1 is a joke.
Trolley is worth more than £1 in scrap :-D

Suprised the poles havent cottoned on to it yet  :puke:
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