I bought my Christmas food essentials in Sainsburys to feed a family of 5 but only spent 15 - h

Publish date: 2024-05-29

IT can be expensive getting enough food for Christmas - especially when boxes of the viral chocolates cost £5 a pop.

But one woman has shown how she got a huge feast of festive food and snacks for just £15 from Sainsbury's.

Lisa took to TikTok to share a video explaining how she'd managed to save herself loads on her Christmas haul.

"This just shows that shopping at Sainsbury's all year is a benefit," she said.

"I got all of this shopping today for £15.

"There was also a £6 Barbie book with this and a box of wine gums that my mum took out of the bag."

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Lisa said that she'd collected £50 in Nectar points.

And thanks to the current scheme in Sainsbury's, she was able to double that to have £100 in points.

"And obviously Sainsbury's price matching Aldi a lot of the minute, so it's not that expensive anymore," Lisa added.

The total of her shopping was £115 - meaning she only had to shell out £15 on top of the points.

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    In the caption of the video, Lisa added: "Shopping at Sainsbury’s weekly doesn't cost me more than using other supermarkets as they are price matching Aldi on so much and we buy a lot of Sainsburys own brand.

    "And it gives me Nectar points, which just allowed me to get all this free."

    Given that Lisa has a daughter with her other half, it's safe to estimate that their Christmas haul would be for around a family of five size.

    And other people in the comments section revealed that they'd enjoyed similar savings thanks to the new Nectar double up scheme.

    "I got £73 worth of shopping and only paid £13 thanks to this today!" one wrote.

    "Ahh that's amazing," Lisa replied.

    "Wait a damn min… i have about £50 on mine too," another said.

    "Ohhhh look on the Nectar app see if it offers the double up," Lisa said.

    But a third questioned: "Why this not showing for us all?

    "I think it’s really unfair that some get others don’t @Sainsbury’s!"

    "The double up is not on all nectar accounts," someone else wrote.

    To double up, you need to have a minimum of 2,000 points, Lisa said.

    You can then go to the app and see if you are able to convert the points to vouchers between 15 and 24th November.

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    The vouchers can then be used up until 15th December.

    There's also another scheme running - as someone else commented: "I got the countdown to Christmas, for every 300 points I earn, they boost it by 1000."

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