Edizione 789 Di Mondelli Prosecco is £5 in store (find your nearest) and online at Sainsbury's.
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If you go online to Sainsbury's or visit a store that stocks the Tu clothing range (find your nearest), you can get school uniform items (ages 2-16) from £3. Delivery's £3.95 and click and collect is free on orders over £15.
What can you get?
2x polo shirts - £3-£6
Skirt - £5-£7
2x trousers - £7-£11
2x sweatshirts - £7-£11
Prices change depending on size. Some sizes are currently out of stock online, so it's worth looking in store if you can't find the size you want online.
If you head into selected Sainsbury's stores (find your nearest), you can pick up a 'Taste Me, Don’t Waste Me’ box of surplus fruit and veg for £2, while stock lasts. The boxes contain fresh fruit and vegetables that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Sainsbury's says the boxes are a permanent feature, though they will be subject to availability. Look out for them in larger stores, rather than Locals (you can't get them online).
If boxes are available, they'll be in the fresh produce aisle. What you'll actually get is completely random, though Sainsbury's did say typical contents could include: apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, courgettes, oranges, peppers, plums, red cabbage, and swede.
To give you a rough idea of how much of a saving you could make, we've made some calculations based on the products mentioned above:
One pack Imperfectly Tasty Gala apples (six in pack) – normally 90p (15p each)
One pack Fairtrade bananas (five in a pack) – normally 71p (14p each)
One loose broccoli – normally £1.92
One loose cauliflower – normally 95p
One pack courgettes (500g) – normally £1.29
Loose orange – normally 30p
Loose red pepper – normally 50p
One punnet of plums (400g) – normally 95p
Loose red cabbage – normally 65p
Loose swede – normally 65p
Based on the price of each individual item in the box, we've calculated that it would cost about £9 to buy it all separately – so we reckon buying a box for £2 is a good deal.
Don't live near a Sainsbury's? Try Lidl's similar fruit and veg box.
There are always ways to save money at Sainsbury's* so even if there isn't a cracking deal out there that works for you, don't assume you can't cut your costs further.
Ways to save include:
Supermarket coupons. Make sure you check out our supermarket coupons page to save on your shopping.
Take the Downshift Challenge. The phrasing and language used hypnotises us into thinking the most costly is best. While the packaging looks more opulent, look beneath it and sometimes you won't be able to tell the difference (often it's even made in the same factory). Take our Downshift Challenge.
Track if it's really a bargain. Most of us know just because a supermarket lists an item as "on offer", that doesn't mean it's cheap. The trouble has been sorting awesome offers from poor promos.
Time trips right to bag huge yellow sticker discounts. If you spot a yellow sticker discount - fantastic. Grab it and use it quickly as it's a saving on perfectly good nosh. See when Sainsbury's normally reduces its produce in our Cheap Supermarket Shopping guide.
Check out similar retailers, eg, Asda, Tesco and the other major supermarkets. If you're not committed to buying from Sainsbury's, check out our deals from Asda, Aldi, Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl and Waitrose, where they may have a better offer.
Try haggling. We polled 1,400 MoneySavers to find out in which shops hagglers have most success. Supermarkets did feature, so it's worth a go. Find out more in our Haggle on the High Street guide.
Had a problem with Sainsbury's? There’s a free online tool you can use to complain – it helps draft, manage and if necessary escalate your complaint. It’s offered by a firm called Resolver, which we like so much we work with it to help people get complaints justice – you can use it to complain to Sainsbury's*.
If you spot any hot deals out there we have missed (we are human after all!), please let us know in the MSE forum, email us at msedeals@moneysavingexpert.com or via Twitter @MSE_Deals.
Over-commercialised spending is one of our bugbears – you should never feel the pressure to buy stuff just because the calendar tells you it's Valentine's Day. If you are planning to mark it with red roses though, make sure you're not paying over the odds. Bunches of 12 start from £3.99 at supermarkets, but in the past, stores have engaged in the 'war of the roses' and cut prices even further on the day itself.
SUPERMARKET | PRICE FOR 12 RED ROSES 🌹 |
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Aldi | £3.99 |
Morrisons | £4 if you've a free More Card*, £5 without |
Asda | £4.27 |
Lidl | £4.49 |
Tesco | £5 |
Sainsbury's | £6 |
Co-op | £8 |
M&S | £15 |
Waitrose | £15 |
Expect short-stemmed standard roses – we've not included any premium ranges. The cost of roses can shoot up if they are long-stemmed, or ethically/locally sourced. If you want more bang for your buck, consider alternatives such as tulips.
How to jazz up a £4/£5 bunch
With a bit of creative flair, you can make a £4/£5 bunch of supermarket roses look a lot more expensive for next to nothing. Wrap them in some attractive paper (no need to spend more than £1), attach a self-penned poem (get some inspiration from Google or ChatGPT) and you're sure to be in your loved one's good books.
From Tuesday 11 February, if you go online to Sainsbury's or into a store (find your nearest), you can pick up its £18 Valentine's dine-in for two meal deal until 11.59pm or store closing time on Sunday 16 February. The deal includes a starter, a main, a side, a dessert and a drink – though last year this was priced at £15 for the same quantity of items, so this is slightly worse value.
A few highlights we spotted on the menu include:
Twin pack luxury prawn cocktails
Olive & antipasti platter
Two cheddar & leek tarts
Beef sirloin steaks with peppercorn butter
Scottish salmon, spinach & cheddar en croute
Mushroom Wellington
Dauphinoise potatoes
Chunky triple cooked chips
Creamed spinach with a hint of garlic & nutmeg
Sticky toffee pudding
Lemon tarts
Chocolate melt in the middle pudding
Malbec red wine
Nozeco
Seville orange gin & tonic
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