Heron Foods/Farmfoods Freezer Shops -spot any good buys?

A question about : Heron Foods/Farmfoods Freezer Shops -spot any good buys?

I am lucky enough to have a branch of Heron Foods in my town. It's a discount freezer chain, similar to Farmfoods (but a bit better in my opinion). It stocks heavily discounted brand names and unbranded foods at rock bottom prices.

In the spirit of the 'Good/Bad Buys at Aldi/Lidl' thread, I thought I'd start a thread focusing on these stores, so that we can share news of good buys.

Hopefully keeping it positive, with not too many posts saying you wouldn't be seen dead shopping there...

In Heron in particular, the special offers on brand names come and go in a twinkling, but there are some constants.

I really like their frozen lambs' liver at 450g for Ј1. It's too small to fry in pieces but is brilliant for faggots, liver pate and for casseroles.

The cooking bacon is often very salty but also often has huge chunks of gammon in - brilliant for pies, quiches, casseroles, faggots (again!) and pizzas.
Oxo cubes are the cheapest I have seen anywhere at Ј1 for 18, and they often have Vimto cordial - both regular and sugar-free - at Ј1.

I could go on and on but does anyone else have some good buys to share from these stores? (Or advice on what to avoid? Hopefully there won't be too many of those items. )

Best answers:

• Echo the bacon pieces, lots of good sized slices. and bread buns sometimes half price. They also take coupons , in my case some time ago for margarine and Kingsmill bread.
• Heron Offers
  https://www.heronfoods.com/Offers.aspx
  Farmfoods Special Offers
  https://www.farmfoods.co.uk/index.php?p=specialOffers
• Heron Mc...also the fish freezer good prices.....curiously the frozen veg are odd weights and no UNIT prices shown... time consuming working out the value, so in my case don't bother. BUT good range of frozen stuff like Yorkshire puddings and ready meals.
  No Farmfoods local and when I did buy some ready meals years ago could taste the salt.
• I shop at Farmfoods regularly for stocking up on basics, Today I picked up 7.5k potatoes (Estima variety) Ј2 - seem to be this variety mostly. PG tips are on Bogof Ј3.95 ish 2 x 4pints milk Ј1.60. Jelly pots 4 for a pound. Nicki toilet rollЈ3.95 for 18 i think. frozen veg is good at 3 for Ј2. although the sizing of the bags on some of them have got smaller
  I started to have fliers through the door advertising Farmfoods 3 months ago and they always have money off vouchers attached Ј2.50 off Ј25 spend.
  The chicago town 2 mini pizzas are a pound also.
  BB
• Thanks Bargain Bunny and Ken. One thing I wouldn't buy again from Heron is the doner kebab 'meat'.
  Admittedly I bought this some time ago, but it was absolutely horrible, re-formed grey 'stuff' with the texture of rubber.
  I'd bought it to put on HM pizzas and in pittas, where it went was in the bin. One of the few disappointing products, most Heron items are good value.
• our heron does a great line in cheap yogurts...large onken pots sometimes 50p or 3 for a quid...will have a look next time im in and post on here
• Farmfoods has some 100ml colgate twin packs for 89p today.most of the writing was in chinese or alike but surely teeth are teeth wherever you live.
  RRP was Ј2.99
  Bought ten double packs so should be okay for a while.
• Black pudding from herons is good says my other half
  I get farmfood emails to see what's on offer this is the only shop I can NOT get to under my own steam alas.
• I shop in heron daily, as its all but next door to my work place. They had the multi packs of muller corner yoghurts for under a pound today. If you buy cakes they do mr kipling cakes for 69p and most are well over Ј1 in the leading supermarkets.
  Multipacks of crisps are Ј1 too.
• I always pop into farmfoods if passing for eggs @ Ј1 for a case of 15, also 3 x 1kg bags of sugar for Ј2.
  HTH
  Chris.
• Hula hoops packs of seven 60p or two packs for a Ј1
• Mc vittes Jaffa cakes 24 in a box Ј1 BOGOF farmfoods this morning
• Crawfords savoury biscuits Ј1 for 350g More-ish. Also noticed someone with Nicky toilet rolls. Would these be the same as in Farmfoods .
• I have a Herons near by and they have loads of bargains. Only problem there is no where to park car near by so limited to how much I can carry.
  Also they only employ wimen. Sexist employer.
• F/foods had mcvittes 24 pack jaffa cakes Ј1 bogof