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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on June 15, 2012, 09:58:23 pm
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I've been picking up a few bargains from a site called http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/ (http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/)
was sceptical at first but have been so impressed I've become a regular and after checking with Dan that it was OK to mention it here, I want to share :)
Basically they get all the food from supermarket giants that would end up in a skip as its nearing its sell by and they sell it on to the public.
For example, I bought 30 creme eggs for £3.00 and several tins of tomato puree for pennies. They also sell non-consumables such as 9 nouvelle loo rolls reduced from over £4 to £2. Its great for larger families or just those wanting to save some money each week on their shopping.
I did make one boo-boo though - a tin of thai green curry paste for 49p that I assumed would be diddy. It was nearly 2kg. Oops! LOL.
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I bought 30 creme eggs for £3.00
This website could seriously damage my health! ;D
marcus
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That sounds worth looking at. If only for the cream eggs :yum: ;D
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(http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af154/itsbaaathtime/cremeegg.jpg)
This is what my cat did to the one and only creme egg I snaffled for myself and hid behind my PC tower!! I should add I bought them for children - honest.
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That's the saddest thing I've seen all day :bouquet:
I couldn't cope without my daily chocolate fix :yum: :D
A good excuse to buy some more, or I'll send you one when I buy some :thumbsup:
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Oh mummyshaz, I am so glad that you can understand my suffering. She snaffled my chocolate!! and to add insult to injury, didn't even finish it. I couldnt' touch it - it has fish breath and black hairs stuck to it. I was tempted though...it is chocolate after all.
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What did they charge for delivery?
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Well I've put in my first order - incl 70 creme eggs. :) - I wanted to nudge the order to £30.
£5.25 delivery or free for first order if >£30 and <50kg (I managed this). 'course if your in the highlands & islands you may get a different rate.
Thanks plums
marcus
PS. I'f I'm found dead from a sugar overdose you'll know who to blame.
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Looks really handy if they deliver to my area ? The sight loads up weird on my old mobile , so will wait till my aunt can have a look for me , otherwise i may end up with 100 packs of tampons !
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I'm pretty sure they deliver UK wide, Russ. I wonder if there is a gardening use for tampons - just in case?
The fruit juices, crisps, tins of food, cereal bars etc have been really good value. Just got to work out what to do with that huge tin of curry paste now :innocent:
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Yeah - this is a great site. I'm going to keep it and - once we get back into the house and are actually back to cooking "proper" food and have somewhere to put the bulkier purchases I am going to stock up
Thanks :thumbsup: :trophy:
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Plums, I was just talking on another thread about how I need motivation to loose weight and get healthy and now you tell me where I can buy 30 cream eggs for £3.00. I love cream eggs. Life just isn't fair. :(
Sally
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Oops sorry Sally ;D They do sell tinned grapefruit too if that's any help :fc:
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Am I in the minority here? ??? I couldn't eat a creme egg if I were promised a bottle of gin afterwards :D
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Nope not alone Sylvia , they are vile , disgusting things . I would puke if i attempted to eat one , and i have a sweet tooth .
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Am I in the minority here? ??? I couldn't eat a creme egg if I were promised a bottle of gin afterwards :D
With you on this one Sylvia. Now if they sell caramel filled ones ( :fc: ) thats a different egg game altogether. ;D ;D
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Other uses for tampons, add longer string and use for gun pull throughs,
I've heared that elephants use sheep with a rope tied to one of their back legs. :innocent:
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Other uses for tampons, add longer string and use for gun pull throughs,
I've heared that elephants use sheep with a rope tied to one of their back legs. :innocent:
they are also good for bullet wounds! soak up the blood, obviously...
we've used approved foods - some stuff is out of date (which doesnt bother us) but you can filter for just in date stuff.
If anyone wants any Pectin, I have absolutely loads! We don't get that much fruit, but its dead expensive here...
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Ive just added the site to my "favourites" too. Ill hopefully do an order before my brother comes over for his visit later in the year. I wont be buying creme eggs either though. They are on a par with Mars bars....yuk! Now Cadbury's Crunchies are a different thing altogether!!
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ooh just did an order... ;D ;D
£7.50 delivery to scotland tho....free for first time so we'l see. im hungry now... :D :D :D
god, im bad for shopping on-line! iv just bought a load of food we never normally eat, what am i gona do wi all those poppadoms...lol..says a recovering ebay addict ::) ::) ::) im ashamed to admit how many creme eggs we bought....pmsl
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but the poppadoms are such good value ... I'm thinking of putting jam on, instead of biscuits!
And my o/h seems to have started putting ketchup on everything, a la Pop Larkin... :D
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We ended up with loads of peshwari naan and I bought 2 jars of curry paste (which were too spicy, oops). They have a FB page too so you can see the offers quickly and get an order in before they sell out on certain things :)
The best bit is when it all arrives, its like Xmas - loads of boxes that you can recycle if like me you send lots of parcels out (brand new with no marking on, fold into flatpack) they will text/email you to let you know when the parcel is due and the name of your driver
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Is this the antidote to the spurious "sell-by" date.
My kids have been brought up on the wretched things and look worried when I open the out of date yogurt and sniff it.
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Hopefully SF. I think its a good way to bridge the gap between consumerism and freeganism by allowing us to make use of what we know isn't going to harm us but the beaurocrats think we will sue their butts off if they don't implement!
My mum started to develop dementia when I was still a child - I soon learnt how to judge by sense of smell if things were likely to make us ill. It wasn't unusual to have green cheese in my sarnies at school, solid milk and various other gone off yuckiness. Makes you realise that the common sense approach makes is more logical than the sticker telling you when to bin something!
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Ordered just over £30 mainly sauces / packet stuff etc for a tester best bargain is the sharwood Thai red curry paste sachets 12 for 1pence MAD!
- Free postage first time would have been just over a fiver they reckon we saved £113 or so from buying it at shop price
Could have got 240 cream eggs for £24 and bathed in them lol!
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My mum started to develop dementia when I was still a child - I soon learnt how to judge by sense of smell if things were likely to make us ill. It wasn't unusual to have green cheese in my sarnies at school, solid milk and various other gone off yuckiness. Makes you realise that the common sense approach makes is more logical than the sticker telling you when to bin something!
growing up our family were terrible at having out of date food, personally, with 4 kids and 3 dogs - its never a problem! but if u stick to dried foods etc, they wont kill you. big savings on the health foods, as long as u can read german....lol
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Nouvelle at Semichem £ 2.49 - just thought I'd let you know ;)
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I really like to browse in international products....looks like an order's going out today :yum: ;D :&>
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well i managed 50 quid easily but i am assembling a couple of food parcels currently for deserving people so bought silly quantities of some stuff!!!
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Thanks for this, Plums. When I was a child there was no such thing as a sell by date. If it looked ok and smelled ok,you ate it.
As to all that thai chilli stuff, you could always cook a huge potful and invite us all round.
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As to all that thai chilli stuff, you could always cook a huge potful and invite us all round.
I love that idea! Anyone passing Worcestershire is always welcome ;D
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I was up that way a couple of weeks ago. It looks like I have missed my chance :(
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I'm not that far from you. I'll have to pay a visit.
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Fab :) we could have a midlands meet up! I'll crack open the plum wine and tell the goats to behave!
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I saw that website on HUKD yesterday and had a look. It looks similar to a shop that is in Morecambe which we call the cheap, cheap shop! lol. It's next door to B&M bargains, which we call the cheap shop lol.
I am going to have a good look at it to see if I can stock up on things. It's nice to know that someone has actually used them and have had good results.
Helen
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Wow thanks plums! I think Ive just bought about 2 years worth of toilet roll and chocolate buttons! And kdney beans, tinned toms.. Fab.
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oh, plums, I only just noticed the button on their latest email that you could have earned money off for every recommendation! :'( :bouquet: :&>
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oh, plums, I only just noticed the button on their latest email that you could have earned money off for every recommendation! :'( :bouquet: :&>
never mind! I just wanted to share it as its been such a good site for us as a family. I just hope everyone is as pleased with it as we are when their items all get delivered :)