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davholla
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Is it cheaper to buy chips or make them from potatoes? I saw in tescos chips a lot cheaper per kg than potatoes but I wonder if they have got added water.
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I have never properly sat and worked it out. For us it's cheaper to make them, as we have a 25kg sack of potatoes for £5.00 and this lasts us 3months, and a bag of chips at Ald* is £1.00 which usually last's us for 2 - 3 x meals. I do always have a bag in frozen just incase.Christmas is the most magical time of the year :santa2:
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For us, we rarely have potatoes in any shape or form so it's easier and cheaper to just have some frozen ones in. It's all relative to your use.
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I'm pretty sure that an oven uses a lot more fuel than a hotplate so that has to be taken into account as well if you're buying the 'oven chip' variety of frozen chips.
I find home made in a chip pan loads cheaper than even value brand frozen if you buy a big bag of pots and they taste so much nicer.
I also keep a bag of frozen for emergencies/when I'm short of time and for when I'm doing the meat/fish part of the meal in the oven anyway...Don’t try to keep up with the Jones’s. They are broke!0 -
I have never properly sat and worked it out. For us it's cheaper to make them, as we have a 25kg sack of potatoes for £5.00 and this lasts us 3months, and a bag of chips at Ald* is £1.00 which usually last's us for 2 - 3 x meals. I do always have a bag in frozen just incase.0
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AnnieO1234 wrote: »For us, we rarely have potatoes in any shape or form so it's easier and cheaper to just have some frozen ones in. It's all relative to your use.
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davholla - I think Annie01234 meant that, because they hardly ever eat potatoes at all, fresh ones would go off before they could eat them all - in which case the slightly more expensive frozen chips make more financial sense in her situation because there's no wastage.Don’t try to keep up with the Jones’s. They are broke!0
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Evil_Olive wrote: »davholla - I think Annie01234 meant that, because they hardly ever eat potatoes at all, fresh ones would go off before they could eat them all - in which case the slightly more expensive frozen chips make more financial sense in her situation because there's no wastage.0
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Supermarket value spuds are about 50p per kilo, cheapest oven chips I've seen are about 65p per kilo. I use both!0
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Just to tag onto this -what do you lovely old stylers do with the cuttings from potatoes that have been used for chips?Back on the trains again!0
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