Sainbury’s 12 piece dinner sets at £10 – when to buy for this saving

While I have a beautiful Denby set gifted at my wedding many moons ago, I am rather like most of my friends, too scared to use it every day. It’s too heavy for the kids and the replacement cost makes my eyes water.

I ended up with some nice Whittards plates, then got married and got some other random plates, but never more than four of each plate, bowl or cup.

As a grown up, I decided that I needed to bite the bullet and buy a matching set. I looked at Corelle, thinking unbreakable and long lasting, but I would need to import and even the cheapest sets were around £50 for 16 pieces, so with spares, I was looking at over £100.

M&S and John Lewis, while selling gorgeous dinner sets were still …