We've used approved food a few times and you do get some bargains, along with other things which aren't very reduced. We usually end up buying a few odd things, such as a big bag of earl grey tea, some bottles of american corn syrup (which was bizarrely tasteless stuff and didn't even taste sweet! We could never work out how that could happen). We check their website every now and again in case they have something amazing on offer!

I think it's similar to going to Costco. We joined there last year and we usually end up spending a fortune on bulk amounts of things, such as a 5kg bag of sugar, a box of cereal bars, a tray of tins of tomatoes, that sort of thing. We usually end up buying things we don't need so we probably aren't saving money though.