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Lovely day with the S.W.H. (Super wonderful husband)

The kids are in Belper this weekend so Ant and I spent the day shopping! It wasn’t his first choice of things to do on a Saturday I know, but I had a really lovely day with him. We Spent a couple of hours in B&M choosing new bedding, curtains etc for a makeover challenge I’ve been set (blog post to come soon).

I got very excited when I saw the start of the Christmas section they’re adding at B&M.
We decided to pick up some Christmas gifts for the nieces and nephews while we there because I knew that if we didn’t get the stuff today, they would be sold out when we managed to get back!

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While we were shopping, Jervais, one of our many children, called and asked if we could take some eggs to his work because they’d run out.
He works at the Horse and Groom in Lincoln which was only a few minutes from where we were so we nipped over to Morrison’s, picked up the eggs then drove them to the pub.
We stopped in for lunch and it was delicious šŸ™‚ It made a really nice change to go out to lunch with my husband, just the two of us.

Crispy bacon, sliced chicken and melted cheese on doorstep toast
Gorgeous chicken, bacon and cheese on thick toast

After lunch, we did more shopping at B&Q, where we picked up a new white toilet in the clearance section for the bargain price of Ā£5.
Yep, I did say Ā£5 and no, I can’t quite believe it myself!

I thought we’d got an even bigger bargain when we saw a sink and pedestal, also in the clearance section, for Ā£18 but when we got it home and opened the box we were really disappointed to find the basin was smashed at the front. At first, we thought it was a small crack and we were prepared to buy a fixing kit, but when we removed more of the tape, the basin just crumbled so we’re returning it tomorrow.
I’m hoping they don’t give us any hassle because nowhere on the packaging did it say it was damaged. We assumed it was an end of line or ex-display item, as we did with the ultra cheap, but not in any way, damaged, toilet bowl!

Ant’s now trying to catch up on the work he was supposed to be doing today but put off so he could indulge me in my shopping needs and I want to say…..

Thank you, my darling ;o) I love you xx

ASDA Chosen by You – Not by me!

I’m usually a Tesco onlineĀ customer. I’ve been having my shopping delivered by Tesco sinceĀ I was pregnant with KayCee (now 6) and will continue to be a Tesco customer while I continue to get great service.
However, if we have to actually go out to the shops, we go to ASDA. It’s closer and out of town.
We went in the summer holidays to get the back-to-school stationery and some other stuff for Aiden and ended up spending far too much on impulse buys!
The next morning, I checked ASDA’s price guarantee and they gave us back over Ā£6 because we could have got our shopping cheaper elsewhere.
What’s all this got to do with ASDA’s Chosen by You range I hear you ask?
Well, because we got this money back, sent as online vouchers to my ASDA account, I decided to have an ASDA delivery this week and ordered much the same as I usually do from Tesco.

We love Tesco’s expensive sausages range but when we can’t afford those, we have frozen Irish sausages.
They taste lovely, although not as meaty as the expensive ones, obviously, and don’t shrink when they’ve been cooked.

In comparison, the frozen Irish sausages we got from ASDA were in a completely different league. I thought I’d bought value ones by mistake but I checked and they were the Chosen by You ones.
I can’t actually believe that anyone would choose to eat these sausages, let alone describe them as having met the high standard of ASDA customers….

Here’s ASDA’s blurb about their Chosen by you, frozen Irish sausages:

Lightly seasoned No artificial colours, flavours or hydrogenated fat Lightly seasoned pork sausages. CHOSEN BY YOU We believe customers are the best judges of the quality of our food. That’s why every ‘Chosen by you’ product has been tried and tested by you. It’s only when our products meet your high standards that we put them in our ‘Chosen by you’ range. Source: Cambridge Market Research 2010

Now don’t get me wrong, I know that Ā£1.50 forĀ 20 sausages is not going to get me gold standard ones butĀ the leastĀ I expect is for them to taste nice,Ā not to shrink to half their size and notĀ leave behind this amount of fat from 8 sausages…

I certainly won’t be buying them again and I won’t be taking any notice of the ‘Chosen by you’ strip on any of the products sold by ASDA, but to be fair, this is the first time I’ve felt soĀ let down by an ASDA product (if you don’t count shoes from George, a George manager who made me feel about 10cm tall and a mini battle of wills to get what was rightfully mine!) and I will continue to shop there.

After all, it’s one product out of thousands I’ve bought over the years and I do enjoy shopping at my local ASDA. The staff are all lovely (except those on the customer desk!) and there are sometimes great bargains to be had, especially when a season is coming to an end, like when the gardening stock went on sale. Compost was half price so we stocked up!

Anyway, that’s my little moan for the week.
Don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest of those sausages!

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