r/UKFrugal

I have an unopened 2 pint whole milk in plastic bottle, use by date 22 August.  I was thinking of freezing rather than pouring down the sink as I’ll be away for a few days. 

Has anyone done this? If you have, I have a few questions

1. I’m wondering if it is worth it or is it ‘odd’ when you defrost it
2. Once defrosted, can I use as I normally would for example, porridge, smoothies, tea or in cereal
3. Once defrosted how quickly do I have to use it up.

These 29x20x14cm opaque plastic containers are only £1. Couldn’t believe my eyes. They are on the flimsy side but perfect for my needs and made in GB. Cheapest I’ve ever seen and I’ve been looking for a long time. Can’t seem to upload pic, so there’s that.

Just got back into training after a 2-year hiatus and went online to purchase some whey — wtf has happened? Optimum Nutrition is nearly £100 a tub, I nearly fell off my chair. Where are people buying from? Do I need to re mortgage ?

Thanks

Hello,

I was looking for where to get some cheaper whey protein pls.
I've bought SportsFuel from amazon which was £30 for 5kg which was dirt cheap, but it was almost on the unflavoured category as the chocolate flavour was so faint.
Then i was looking at Serious Protein (also from amazon)) which was £45 for 4kg, but not so good reviews both on amazon and reddit.
I keep seeing that My Protein always go on sale but i never see it.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thank you

My kids love the suncream in a roll-on. Not sure why exactly but it is less messy... But per ml it is THREE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE than the same brand in a squeezy bottle...

But I recently discovered that almost all of the rollons can be refilled. You can either squeeze them real hard and the ball pops out, or grab them in a tea towel and they unscrew..

Thought I would share with you all....

(And *yes* I discovered this about 2days after the heatwave ended... 🙁😄)

My (keenly priced) fixed deal is coming to an end soon (£12/mth for 150GB download).

I no longer WFH, am not a gamer either and rarely stream or download TV.

Current thoughts are replacing the broadband with a 50+GB SIM using a second mobile as a hotspot (eg 63GB for £3.96/mth - MSE recommended).

Overall, this seems a good strategy. Or am I missing something?

For the past year I've been recording shelf prices at 13 UK supermarkets every night (Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Iceland, Co-op, Waitrose, Ocado, B&M and a few more) as a side project. Went digging through the price histories recently and some of what turned up felt worth sharing here.

In the last 90 days, 2,080 products had their base price go up and then went "on offer" against the new higher price within a few weeks, with the offer price no better than what the thing sold for before the rise. A few straight from the nightly logs:

• Pimm's 1L at Morrisons sat at £14.00 through most of June, jumped to £24.50 on 25 June, then went "Now £14, Was £24.50" four days later. So the big summer deal is last week's normal price wearing a 42.9% off sticker.

• Budweiser 15x440ml, same store. £13 up to £17, back "on offer" at £13 the very next day.

• Starbucks Iced Coffee 220ml went £1.25 to £2.20 on 6 July, then "Now £1.25" two days after that.

• Asda raised Terry's and Maltesers Easter eggs from £2.32 to £3.97 on 26 March, then ran "Was £3.97 Now £2.50" the week before Easter. £2.50 was above their early March price.

Now 2,080 sounds like a lot but it worked out at about 1.8% of everything that went on promo in that window, so most offers are genuine. It just happens often enough that I've stopped trusting a "Was £X" on a shelf edge by itself.

The B&M one surprised me more. About 10% of their range that I track (1,365 of 13,778 products) showed a was/now discount every single night for 90 straight days. WD-40 Smart Straw 300ml has read "£5.99 was, £4.99 now" on all 84 nights I've recorded it and the £5.99 has never once been the live price. Iceland does a softer version of the same thing, a quarter of their range is on promo at least 80% of the time.

Loyalty prices have their own version of this. Roughly 1 in 17 Tesco Clubcard prices (and 1 in 13 Nectar prices) is still dearer than another supermarket's ordinary shelf price for the same item. Cleanest example right now is Edinburgh Gin Elderflower Liqueur 50cl, "half price" at £10 with Clubcard while Asda has it at £5 every day, no card needed.

What it's changed for me personally is that I judge an offer against what I last paid, not against the shelf's "was", and I compare a Clubcard price like any other price instead of assuming it's a deal.

Since someone will ask how this was gathered, prices are recorded nightly from the stores' own listings since mid 2025 (some stores were added later, so the windows differ per store), and something only counts as a promo if the store itself declared a was/now. I checked every example above against the raw history by hand and can pull the full sequence for anything specific.

Full disclosure, the data comes from a free price comparison side project I build. Not linking it here, this post is just the data. Happy to answer questions.

Possibly the best website to ever exist. It was a godsend during my uni days when I wanted to compare the price of certain products and just go to the cheapest supermarket. Shame they shut it down. Are there any decent alternatives or are we stuffed?

I wouldn’t mind buying 5 packets in bulk, but probably can’t store more than that in my small flat. Im not with an agency so dont have them supplied. Thank you!

Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster! I’ll start my acknowledging this isn’t ultra frugal in the sense you’re probably not buying fast food if you’re really squeezing the pennies, but it’s merely a way to maximise what you can get.

Thought some of you may be interested in this little technique I’ve learnt with KFC, if you’re looking for a cheap, bigger order on fast food that’s normally in the £40ish region.

Works better if you live close to a KFC or have access to a car.

Until the end of August, KFC has a In-App, collection only deal. It’s 10 mini fillets for £7.99. They do this deal throughout the year on and off and sometimes swap it out for a ‘20 hot wings for £8.99’ deal.

If you go on the app, and add this to your order, you can upgrade for £2 something. The upgrade gets you 2 of their sides, for this I’m choosing 2x fries (counted as one side) and 1x Large Gravy. Next the ‘Why Don’t You Add This?’ Screen comes up where it presents you with normally discounted things you can add to your order, you can add 8 wings for £4 there.

In total, you’re getting 18 pieces of chicken, 2 bags of fries and a large gravy for the cost of 1 Large Big Arch meal from McDonald’s. Obviously you can pay using a Cashback reward card and get an extra 14p off if you want to go the extra mile.

As someone who’s feeding a family, I thought there may be others out there who’d appreciate this as if you went for a standard ‘bucket’ deal you’re paying like £40ish pound for a very similar thing. They also hide this offer on their app, there’s no mention of it unless you’ve seen the limited advertising they do as it’s a loss leader for them.

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Hi all,

Bit of a long shot, but I'm hoping somebody here may have dealt with Littlewoods before and has a working email address for an actual person or senior member of staff who can help with a serious complaint.

I'm trying to sort out my mum's Littlewoods account on her behalf. She's been taken for an absolutely terrible ride by them and the whole situation has left her extremely overwhelmed and upset. She's also in poor health, which makes dealing with endless customer service channels and being passed around even harder for her.

I've tried contacting Littlewoods/Very Group through various email addresses, including some that are listed online, but several have simply bounced back as undeliverable. What I'm really hoping for is an email address for someone within Littlewoods/Very Group who people have actually contacted successfully — ideally someone in complaints, executive complaints, customer relations, or senior management.

We need a proper breakdown of her account, including payments made, balances against individual purchases and interest/charges that have been applied, as well as dealing with a formal complaint and Subject Access Request.

I'm not looking to post any of her personal/account information publicly. I just desperately want to get this in front of someone with enough authority to actually look at what's happened rather than sending her around in circles again.

If anyone has previously escalated a Littlewoods complaint and has an email address that definitely worked, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Thank you.

I normally have custard creams as my cheap junk food but I decided to treat myself today and pickup whatever was on offer in Sainsbury’s - picked up a bag of wine gums for a quid, felt the bag.. I swear it had like 13 wine gums in the whole bag???

What should I get so I won’t feel physically sick at the price? Preferably not biscuits I’m sick of them

Don’t send me links to food banks in my area I don’t need it thanks

I'm looking to buy 3-4 XL suitcases (ideally around 90-100L+ each) for a one-off journey. Cheapest I found so far is Primark for £39 per piece. I don't care about quality or durability, as it's a one-off relocation.

Does anyone know anything cheaper than that? Either in-store (around London) or online with UK delivery

Adidas e-gift card offer

Came across this offer today. It’s good through 17/8 so there’s a bit more time yet.

Disclaimer: I don’t benefit from this; I’m just an affiliate; just passing along something which may be of use!

I'm probably going to regret posting this due to sod's law, but I've never bought own brand tinned tuna chunks from Sainsbury's or Tesco, and not have it turn out to be tuna steak.