ANOTHER major supermarket is set to slash the price of its Easter Sunday essentials including carrots and broccoli.
Budget supermarkets often cut the price of vegetables around Christmas or Easter to draw in customers.
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This year is no different, with Lidl set to cut prices on a host of veggies to 15p from April 15.
Now Aldi has joined the price war, offering its “Super Six” veggies with up to 89% off.
From April 15 to 19, or April 20 across Scottish branches, customers can get their hands on two kilos of potatoes for 15p.
One kilo bags of carrots, broccoli, 100g spring onions and loose garlic will also be 15p over the four-day window.
Shoppers can also pick up cucumbers for 59p each.
It’s worth keeping an eye out ahead of Easter to see if any other retailers announce price cuts to their veggies.
Meanwhile, some retailers may cut the price of other Easter Sunday essentials like lamb.
This year’s Easter deals come as grocery price inflation edges up.
Supermarket prices are now 3.5% higher than a year ago, up from 3.3% in February, according to analysts Kantar.
Meanwhile, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) is predicting food prices will rise by 4.2% in the second half of the year.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive officer, said there was “little hope of prices going anywhere but up” due to rising employer National Insurance contributions and the national minimum wage.
She added: “Modelling by the BRC and retail chief financial officers suggest food prices will rise by an average of 4.2% in the latter half of the year, while non-food will return firmly to inflation.”
How to save money at Aldi
Which? crowned Aldi the cheapest supermarket for a basket of 79 essential goods in March, but there are ways to save even more.
Like other supermarkets, the discounter adds coloured stickers to products that are damaged or misshapen, or coming to the end of their best before date.
But, unlike other supermarkets, it uses red stickers instead of the typical yellow.
When reductions are made on products varies from branch to branch, but typically red stickers appear on items at the end of the day.
Aldi discounts perishable items including bread, meat, fruit and vegetables by up to 75% on their last day of shelf life just before the store closes.
It also offers 30% off on food that can be stored at room temperature like cereal, tinned foods and pasta, if packaging is damaged.
Aldi shoppers can pick up Too Good to Go bags of fresh food worth £10 for £3.30 too.
You can pick them up in stores but there are only a limited amount each day.
Aldi offers cheap fruit and veg as part of its Everyday Essentials range too, including discounted wonky bundles.
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don’t have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
You can grab a wonky 1.5kg bag of carrots for 60p and a pack of wonky grapes for £1.49 in branches.
Keep an eye on the middle aisle shelves of your local Aldi branch as well – the discounter is often flogging quirky and discounted stuff there.
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