Cheap lunchbox fillers help

[goodmum123]

Where can I but cheap but plentiful raisins, dried fruit, nuts and seeds for healthy lunch boxes? I do not want to pay 3 pounds for a small bag of nuts. Thank you

[goodmum123]

*buy

[SoupDragon]

Somewhere like Holland & Barrett?

[Flossbert]

We've got a scoopaway shop near where I live. I buy in bulk and then put a handful in a pot for lunch.

Also, poundland/ poundworld sells 12 of those little boxes for ........... £1!

[scrappydappydoo]

Sometimes approved food has nuts and raisins and healthy snacks.

[Fluffycloudland77]

The baking and world food aisles in larger tesco/Asdas pretty good. Aldi do dry fruit plus nuts.

Does your school allow nuts though?

Smart price fruit and nuts should not be overlooked either or plain tortilla chips etc. One dry raisens much like another.

[confusedofengland]

Definitely buy larger bags of value raisins/sultanas & decant into little plastic pots. so much cheaper than buying fun-sized boxes.

[goodmum123]

Thank you for all your help.
It isn't for school lunch boxes so no worries there.
I'm going to research prices now

[BikeRunSki]

Does Julian Graves still exist? They did bulk sales of dried fruit, but the 2 near me have closed.

[Fluffycloudland77]

I think Julian graves shut down, I think it may have been owned by holland and Barrett.

[Mumzy]

Net to has cheap dried fruit and nuts.

[sparkle12mar08]

I find Sainsburys 500g/84p packs of sultanas the best value for dried fruit. Decant into small pots. Nuts are always much more expensive - you'll be paying around £1 per 100g almost everywhere.

[Tommy]

Costco if you have one near you - have huge bags of dried fruit (I buy fopr baking)

[meatloaf]

Ethnic grocers. I got a big bag of almonds for £2 yesterday. Big bags of dried fruit and nuts. Pitta breads were 3 packs for 90p!

[Selks]

Lidl do fantastic bags of Californian walnuts, best walnuts I've tasted, and inexpensive.

[Selks]

YY to ethnic grocers

[goodmum123]

Wow! More research and shopping. I'm just so fed up of wasting money on things like this. I've just found little pots from when dd was being weaned to fill. Thanks again x

[everydayaschoolday]

Honestly, pound land had boxes of lunchbox size raisins (6pk) etc. can't remember brand name but were half the price of same brand in tesco. I bought loads!

[confusedofengland]

Sainsburys at the moment are doing 3 for 2 on snack foods (at least they were on Monday). I got smoothie pouches for DS1's lunchbox & there were also dried fruits, fruit flakes etc

[racingheart]

Big local Tesco had huge bags of nuts and fruit incredibly cheaply during Ramadan in the Asian food aisles. Don't know if they normally do but they were half the price of the small bags in the baking aisles.

[notmydog]

Morrisons sells two snack packs of nuts for £1, if you buy only one it is 70p. I buy these for DH's lunchbox.