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This thread is a bit daft IMO, it reminds me of the stepford wives who live on my mother's street who have made their lives in a pointless display of oneupmanship. They revel in seeing what the other women purchase and cook and you risk social ostracision if you are seen buying Aunt Bessies yorkshire puds. Which incidenally, taste great and cook in a couple of minutes - so much easier than the faff of making batter, heating up tins and carefully backing only for the damned things not to rise.
Seriously what gives you the right to judge people buy what they buy in the supermarket. Its their cash and they can spend it as they please. I'm not ashamed to admit to buying the vast majority of the things held in contempt by the posters in this thread. I mainly buy them for convienence, no matter what you all say being OS takes time and in my life thats a very limited comodity.
I don't want to discredit any of you - I think your achivements are amazing. I look on this board almost every day for the ideas that you all give. However just because you can make a gallon of soup for 50p doesn't make you better than anyone. I admit my soup tends to cost a few quid but if I factor in the time it would take to go to the shops, chop all veg and cook and blend the soup then I could have earned an hours wages or more importantly spent that hour on a dancefloor somewhere!
Anyway rant over!
I take your point, but I am sure that nobody here is being really heavy and serious about this, and also most of us I am sure would be delighted to give a hand to other people to save money rather than sneer at them.
With regard to factoring time used to shop, chop etc. you have a really good point there too, as it is really useful to think of what the cost of a "luxury" item (for me ready chopped stuff is a bit luxury, but I still buy it in salad format occasionally!) would cost in terms of hourly rate.
For example, if you take a bag of chopped salad costing £1.00 and compare it with a whole iceberg lettuce costing you £0.50, at face value you pay £0.50 more, and that's it. If you factor time to prepare, assuming that it takes you 2 minutes to chop the whole lettuce, you are actually denying yourself of an equivalent £15 per hour (e.g 2 minutes times 0.50 saving times the hourly equivalent of 30x2 minutes, hope it makes sense).
If you accept that this is the cost, then, way to go! :cool:
Another factor here is that some of us REALLY like cooking - I would be pretty lost on a dance floor for example, but put me in an apron and give me a bag of flour and some yeast and a rolling pin and I am a Kitchen Dancing Queen!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Let's keep it light!
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CaterinaFinally I'm an OAP and can travel free (in London at least!).0 -
Perhaps it was in her fridge or freezer? Edit: sorry Rosieben I see you've said the same thing!Cornishpixie wrote: »I found myself in the supermarket yesterday. Anyhoo this woman was in front of me, as I checked out her basket, Bottle of wine (expensivish), pre packet salad leafs, cucumber and a baking potato. £15. odd . I found myself thinking where's the protein she's going to have with that
My trolley at Tesco just now contained no fruit (except lemons), no veg, no bread and no meat but plenty of wine, sugar and butter. I get my meat from a butcher, my fruit and veg from a farmshop and I make bread. Don't assume everyone buys all their food at a supermarket or that people buy all the food they need in one shop.0 -
mad_cash_cow wrote: »Moral question - better to get the cheaper bulky option, knowing that you will waste some of it eg big bag of spuds, or the more costly one that you will finish before it goes off eg prepared mash??
Get the cheaper bulky stuff and donate whatever you don't want to your local church/old people's home/community college, or if you can share with a neighbour even better (or donate to neighbours if they are needy or don't get offended!).
CaterinaFinally I'm an OAP and can travel free (in London at least!).0 -
Got to say, I spoke to my mum last night and it made me think. She is ill,various things wrong with her, she has little energy and is not long out of hospital. We were chatting about easy things for her to eat (if she makes something she can be too tired to eat it) and tbh I found myself advising on some ready made stuff (as well as simple stuff like egg on toast, beans etc). So therefore I take back a lot of my original post (not the edited bit). If we do not know anything about peoples lives we have no right to comment on them! I agree with Rosieben that tips and stuff is nice, but we must also respect an individuals choice of how they live. I, for one, will continue to be appreciative of my ability to be Old Style (and some days I have less energy than others for it!).
I buy blackberries in tubs as a treat for DS, there are no bushes near us (working on it though!) and it better than buying rubbish!Originally posted by GrillMonkey
I had this last month when I saw someone pick up a punnet of blackberries from morrisons, £1.50 I think for a small amount.
There were blackberries on the bushes at the same time so would have only cost a little bit of effort!
I also echo the thoughts that sometime my Tesco trolley does not contain a balanced diet- this is because there are shops OTHER THAN SUPERMARKETS (butchers, grocers, corner shops, farmers markets, local stores) that I get other stuff from. Anyone who thinks your Tesco trolley should contain everything you eat should also be questioning their shopping habits as much as someone's trolley who holds an unusual selection! Wow long sentence- sorry peeps!
(Of course for some people it is hard to get to lots of shops and I understand people do like the convenience of one store shopping!).
One more lol, I sometimes pop to the local Coop for a treat fix, of course one day I had just been to the dentist a few hours before, dentist in queue beside me buying nice healthy fish and something else healthy. Me buying ?- chocolate lol did not look good! Bad timing there lol as I am normally NOT an unhealthy eater!
Ok, nuff said,
xErmutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
Encouragement always works better than judgement.0 -
I had this last month when I saw someone pick up a punnet of blackberries from morrisons, £1.50 I think for a small amount.
There were blackberries on the bushes at the same time so would have only cost a little bit of effort!0 -
Yes, but if are unable to walk to make the effort to pick blackberries?.........0
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My trolley must look terrible to some, no meat and only occasional veg from tesco because I use a butchers for meat and most veg from the local shop. Just shows, never pressume anything, I go there to stock up on the other stuff.
I often buy for other people so just go off their list
One way with mash I now have found is making my own ready made, I always make extra with a roast and just pop it in a freezer tub.
Yorkshires, yes, Brian Turners recipe doesn't use scales, pot of flour, eggs and milk (you can easily use half milk and water without noticing much of a difference at all) little salt, he says a dash of vinegar but I often forget, mix together and slap in a red hot tin. The first time I did this recipe I am so used to flatty puddings I burnt the tops on the oven as they got so high. Oh and I like big yorkies so I use a muffin tin with the deeper holes.One day I might be more organised...........
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OrkneyStar wrote: »I buy blackberries in tubs as a treat for DS, there are no bushes near us (working on it though!) and it better than buying rubbish!
Obviously every location is different but around here there were blackberry bushes just round the corner from the shop. I do believe that some people have a snobbery toward foraging for blackberries etc. I was out in the summer picking elderberries and I got lots of weird looks but I guess if everyone was doing it I wouldn't have had enough for the 5 gallons of blackberry and elderberry wine currently aging in my loft
I agree and if it had been a disabled person or someone with wallking issues I wouldn't have noticed or commented here.Yes, but if are unable to walk to make the effort to pick blackberries?.........0 -
Nobody can persuade me to give up my ready made ice habit, it is the most convenient thing in the world. A huge bag costs 99p and lasts us a few weeks. Those piddley ice trays drive me mad, they inevitably drip on the floor on the way to the freezer and then I always tread in the wet on the way back. We throw the ice in drinks every day, husband drinks these awful protein shakes and fills his glass up with ice with those, I throw handfuls in, in smoothies and they are great for setting jelly if you are in a rush. I get quite frustrated if the supermarket runs out.
I am also guilty of buying ready prepared mash (always keep about 4 in the freezer) they are great for pulling out if I or the kids are feeling under the weather, yorkies, ditto. I always buy salad in bags as I just think iceberg is flavourless and love some of the salad cominations they do. There is something really indulgent about preprepared fresh fruit in little boxes and it is always ripened nicely and it is DD's ultimate treat to have her own little box of fruit. I buy pappy white bread as I just cannot make it myself and it makes the best toast (IMO). I also buy quiches occasionally but that is something I think I should attempt at making myself.
However, I bake all my own cakes, I cook and slice all my own ham as I think packeted ham is such a false economy, if you have space to store it. I don't buy ready meals, I cook soups and stock from scratch. We make our own pizza's, I could go on. Having been chief shopper for 10 years, my trolley rarely changes but I am certainly not ashamed about what it contains and am satisfied we eat a balanced and nutritious diet, it never really occured to me to look in other people's trolleys.0 -
I love the Brian Turner yorkshire pud recipe- it is very reliable!
When my Nana broke her shoulder a couple of years ago frozen mash and tinned potatoes were a godsend. It's easy enough to grill a piece of fish or some sausages and stick some frozen peas or beans in the microwave, but actually peeling, chopping then draining potatoes is a big effort. I now tend to make a big batch of mash and then freeze a couple of portions. It's so handy to have in the freezer if I'm working late and it means that I don't have half a bag of poatatoes going green in my cupboard.
I do also sometimes buy fresh soup. I love making soup, and try to make a batch at the start of the week but sometimes I just don't have time. I also like soup if I'm feeling below par, and just cannot face making it.
I bought a bag of frozen peppers the other week. They were cheaper than fresh equivalent, and are really useful to have in the freezer so I can just throw a handful into chilli, bolognese etc that I'm cooking. I also have frozen peas, sweetcorn, soya beans in the freezer as it means I always have enough veg to go with a meal, even if I've not had time to do a big shop recently.:DYummy mummy, runner, baker and procrastinator
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