So, food has gone up. Our annual "Christmas food shop" came in at £300 yesterday, and we've still about £50 more to get :-/
Admittedly we are entertaining Christmas and Boxing day, but we didn't go mad on luxuries, so wow... 😯
The answer is Tesco Clubcard vouchers. Save them up all year and BINGO! Free Christmas shopping!
THATS 3OO POUNDS THAT COULD'VE GONE TO STARVING FAMILIES YOU BEAST!
(i'm buying the christmas food tomorrow hopefully and am not looking forward to it!)
Reminds me, still not put our order in for dead cow and chickens
Yup, it's all so expensive these days, so we're imposing on the family (mine and hers) over the holiday period. Grandparents get time with grandchild in exchange for feeding us 😀
If you didn't run such fancy expensive cars OP you could afford a £500 shop! 😉
The answer is [s]Tesco Clubcard vouchers[/s] shoplifting.
FTFY 😉
PeterPoddy - Member
The answer is Tesco Clubcard vouchers. Save them up all year and BINGO! Free Christmas shopping!
I kind of neglected to state we used the Nectar points we've been collecting all year, so total cost = £1.08.
But my point is, the rising costs of food - although there's wine and spirits in that ^^, there's about half the amount of last year and no beer as yet.... PLUS the reciept showed our multibuy / offers savings to be in the region of £50.
Which is why we're going out again this year.
Nobby - Member
Which is why we're going out again this year.
Tesco's Cafe Christmas dinner special £5 for 2?
Nope, local pub restaurant. I am never cooking Xmas dinner for 14 people again.
Nobby - Member
I am never cooking Xmas dinner for 14 people again.
Whoah - I thought you had a wife for these things. FFS man get a grip! 😉
I'm using self service checkouts, scanned the Turkey in as a Freddo bar and got it for 39p, the Brandy was scanned as 17p diet lemonade. Saved me a fortune.
hora - Member 😉
If you didn't run such fancy expensive cars OP you could afford a £500 shop!
Hora, 30.1mpg average to the Sexy Swinly ride and back with a bike on the roof, passed the MOT yesterday with flying colours.
What can I say, it could have been yours and would be a brilliant Euro Tourer/Autobahn cruiser....... I'm still open to offers 😉
It'll cost more for us to got out then it would to sit in, would be easier mind but I don't mind cooking. Larger numbers makes little difference really.
going to the local country club for dinner .....
not fair to ask any of the family to cook for 30 odd folk - let alone not having a house big enough.
Meat order done from local butcher, cheer for the prompt.
Nope, local pub restaurant. I am never cooking Xmas dinner for 14 people again.
M and S Dine In for 2 = £10 ea. * 7= £70 including wine. Job Done.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Weekends-In-Offers-In-Store-MS-Foodhall-Food-Wine/b/198933031
I put £50/month in my 'Christmas pot' throughout the year, doesn't register as a financial blip anymore.
Although to be fair to the OP the rising cost of food has meant I've pretended that presents for me have been bought and will then pretend they didn't arrive so I can save the cash (who needs more stuff anyway I just want to see the family and play with the boy's Transformers - what a martyr).
The answer is [s]Tesco Clubcard vouchers[/s] [s]shoplifting[/s] Tescos scan 'every other item' & shop
FTPFY
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simple answer .become a witness.Watchtower anyone?
M and S Dine In for 2 = £10 ea. * 7= £70 including wine. Job Done.
Blimey, do they cook it for you too nowadays? 😉
Saving money by spending time at my mums for Christmas, however I probably should add the return flight between HK and blighty into the mix!
Not spending anything much on Christmas - we'll be down at my parents, they buy all the stuff and I cook it for 7 of us 🙂
but we didn't go mad on luxuries
Sounds like you did!
Good housekeeping or similar were on the radio yesterday, saying that their standard christmas menu for 8 (I think) was actually cheaper this year than any year since 2008 when they started doing it.
Sounds like Good Housekeeping are talking utter cobblers to me then
Good Housekeeping, sponsored by Iceland.
year than any year since 2008
Why didn't they say for the last 4 years?
saying since .... is just a ploy to make it sound like they have extensive data
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The answer is Tesco Clubcard vouchers. Save them up all year and BINGO! Free Christmas shopping!
Make your own christmas pud and cake, buy fruit and veg from the greengrocer, and wine from Aldi. Works out much cheaper than buying it all from a major supermarket, leaving you enough to buy a really good turkey from the butcher.
Have married into a family with a disproportionate amount of ladies all willing to help out with Xmas thus leaving yours truly with more time to go mountain biking and browse Chain Reaction
One only has to mention that 'the tree's not straight' or 'have you made enough mince pies' or 'is this the last bottle of wine' to get an instantaneous and favourable reaction.
I fricken love Christmas.
THATS 3OO POUNDS THAT COULD'VE GONE TO STARVING FAMILIES YOU BEAST!
If he's been beasting them it's no wonder they're starving. Give 'em a tenner and be done with it...
Make your own christmas pud and cake,
My missus makes them at Easter and hangs them in the pantry, every now and then until Christmas, she drizzles them with Brandy or Rum etc.
I've no idea what drives the urge and the frequency to go to the pantry with a bottle of spirit, it's a mystery 😕
OP aren't you some kind of business hotshot, surely £300 is a days expenses claim for you. 🙂
leaving you enough to buy a really good turkey from the butcher.
It went so well until you mentioned Turkey.
MIL has made the cake, our pud is coming from http://www.theproofofthepudding.co.uk/acatalog/Heckley_High_House_Farm.html as it's just over there ---->
saying since .... is just a ploy to make it sound like they have extensive data
Those were my words, and they did not try to hide the fact that they've only been doing it for 4 years.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/money/christmas-dinner-budget-basket
It was in fact the bargain bin Christmas dinner.
It went so well until you mentioned Turkey.
I prefer goose, but I've been outvoted.
I do my own smoked salmon too. Quite easy, and you can make loads in one go. It keeps well in the freezer.
It was in fact the bargain bin Christmas dinner.
It'd cost me more in fuel just to visit each of those supermarkets. =8¬o
The answer is Tesco Clubcard vouchers
NO!!! Don't use vouchers as cash, you're wasting loads!
Use the vouchers on the voucher scheme to buy things like RAC cover etc. The money you save on that will pay for the christmas shopping. and you get RAC cover.
Use the vouchers on the voucher scheme to buy things like RAC cover etc. The money you save on that will pay for the christmas shopping. and you get RAC cover
You have car insurance without breakdown cover?
I do.
Saved on car insurance by not including the breakdown cover as I got the breakdown cover free with Tesco vouchers.
Tesco vouchers also paid for Eurotunnel crossings, and a shed.
Make your own christmas pud and cake,
Done. The Mrs has made Caribbean black cake (bottle of rum, some raisins and marzipan all mixed up & cooked) and SweetBread as per usual.
Serve with a Mount Gay XO appertif and huzzah!
grum - Member
OP aren't you some kind [s]of business hotshot[/s] idiot, surely £300 is a [s]days expenses claim[/s] weeks wages for you
FTFY, its amazing how misleading internet forums can be. 😉
But yes, I've had to work 3 extra hours this week to cover that shopping bill, damn.
Saved on car insurance by not including the breakdown cover as I got the breakdown cover free with Tesco vouchers.
It's been a few years since I paid for my insurance separate but shopping around I found plenty offering cheap insurance with cover included.
Really spending the vouchers on what you want makes little difference.
I'm just saying, vouchers are worth 3 times as much as cash, if used on things on the voucher scheme. Which if its stuff you're going to buy anyway (breakdown cover, eurotunnel etc - and others) you'll save more money.
Simple, innit.
Ah got you now. Sorry I'm on nights my brain is still asleep.
