Smart Savings, Even Across the Pond

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I get a lot of e-mails in my inbox for sales and savings. I’m not a deal blogger so I don’t share all of them with you, but every so often one catches my eye and before I delete it, I take a look to see what kind of coupon code or offer is being promoted.

Lately, a lot of them have been for London and the United Kingdom, with the Olympics I guess that kind of makes sense, but obviously those are deals that I really couldn’t take advantage of being way over here on the other side of the ocean and all.

I had some time the other day though, I was all caught up on posts and housework, I probably should have been doing some homeschool lesson planning, but I got caught up in looking at one of the UK sites, ASDA.com.

Even though I grew up in Canada, which still retains a lot of the British heritage when it comes to language, I found it funny that I was being offered ASDA voucher codes. I know it’s the same thing as a coupon code or promo code, but it sounded so odd when I read it, because I always interpret the word ‘voucher’ as to mean in exchange for, so it would be like getting the item, free. I’d be all over that offer!

I had the most fun looking through the grocery section. Among other things they are selling the cutest Heroes Olympic London Bus Tin – which is a double decker bus with a Union Jack on top, filled with Cadbury chocolates. What a great souvenir of the 2012 Olympic games.

They also have a breakfast meal in a tin called “The Full Monty”. Imagine that! It’s baked beans in tomato sauce with large sausages, potato chunks, mushrooms, mini bacon steaks and a mini chopped and shaped beef and cereal cutlet. If any Brits are reading this, please explain to us all what a beef and cereal cutlet is…please.

And for all you sci-fi nerds out there (like our family!) – you can get Doctor Who Whole Wheat Pasta Shapes in Tomato Sauce. I’m totally ditching the Chef Boyardee for this!

I think I’m going to not be so hasty in deleting e-mails like that any more, because it was certainly fun to take a peek at what ‘the locals’ elsewhere get to save money on in their neck of the woods!