Saving money on food

squeaky

You mean the stamps you save for the set of things on a special offer? They still do those. The last one was for pyrex dishes.

mah_jong

squeaky wrote:

You mean the stamps you save for the set of things on a special offer? They still do those. The last one was for pyrex dishes.

No...the stamps you got when you paid for stuff and you stuck them in a book,then when you filled your book up you got cash/ money off your groceries. Like the old green shield stamps (never did those though). We are talking years and YEARS ago ! Maybe 20 odd???

scuzz

Another thought on saving, only buy chicken breast with the skin on - it's cheaper! And you can just take the skin off yourself

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squeaky

mah_jong wrote:

No...the stamps you got when you paid for stuff and you stuck them in a book,then when you filled your book up you got cash/ money off your groceries. Like the old green shield stamps (never did those though). We are talking years and YEARS ago ! Maybe 20 odd???

Vaguely. Gosh. That certainly was a long time ago.

Curry_Queen

scuzz wrote:

Another thought on saving, only buy chicken breast with the skin on - it's cheaper! And you can just take the skin off yourself

That's because you're paying for the weight of the skin too

Next time you buy breasts with the skin on, weigh them after you've finished skinning/trimming and then compare the real cost of the breasts to the ready skinned ones! The same goes when buying chicken thighs/drumsticks/legs as you have to factor in the extra weight of the skin and bones, which is why they always appear cheaper.

Of course, the most economical way of buying chicken is to get a whole one and joint it yourself, not forgetting you can use up all the waste to make a lovely stock or soup too

Rave

Curry_Queen wrote:

Of course, the most economical way of buying chicken is to get a whole one and joint it yourself, not forgetting you can use up all the waste to make a lovely stock or soup too

Is it really? I genuinely wonder, when chicken legs seem to cost about £1.50 a kilo. It doesn't help that I seem to have had a long run of success at grabbing packs of breasts from the reduced section at 1/4 - 1/3 of the usual price:D.

Anyway, while the usual suspects have jumped in with their usual brilliant advice ag359, my small contribution is to say that I think you're missing a trick with your practice of 'topping up' value pizzas. Making bases yourself is easy (value flour, water, 8p pack of yeast, half an hour to prove), and they are way better than any stodgy supermarket base will ever be. I use tomato puree from a tube and Lidl Mozzarella (49p for 125g) and whatever toppings I fancy. As far as I'm concerned you'd have to go to Italy to get anything better:).

Curry_Queen

I agree with Rave over making your own pizzas, and there have been numerous discussions about it in other threads too.

We made pizza for dinner the other night and I actually priced up the ingredients for once, just to compare the cost of shop bought pizzas

The sauce, meats and cheeses are Tesco's prices but I think you can get them even cheaper in somewhere like Lidl's or Aldi's, and I usually make my own tomato based sauce but I had a jar lurking in the back of the cupboard from ages ago to use up (Tesco spicy pasta sauce 58p a jar!)


Pizza dough 20p
1/3 jar spicy pasta sauce 20p
125g mozzarella cheese 78p (Tesco H/L)
1/3 pack chorizo 30p
1/4 pack Black Forest ham 50p
small red onion 10p
1/4 red pepper 25p
50g mature cheddar 25p

Total cost = £2.58


This made a huge deep pan pizza, 16" x 12" shared between three of us, and we still had leftovers! ... so would easily feed four people, or even 6-8 if you added something like chips and peas/beans to make a proper meal of it! We just pigged out on pizza though