ASDA Hovis Bread Mixes

Barneysmom

I don't understand why you phoned up and complained that it got cheaper? it spoils it for everone else, and you still get a bargain?

grannybiker

grannybiker wrote: »

However, it's still showing online and as Asda have "replacement product for the same price," policy it'd be worth adding to your online shop.

Just to let you know, that I got our daughter to try and order some for me as she uses Asda to shop online, (rather than face it with 2 children!)
Sent her the link and she duly ordered 6 bags at 29p as this is what the website still says...
They sent 6 bags of self-raising flour! How it that equilavent to bread mix?! Obviously her order was picked by someone who doesn't have a clue!
Ah well, gave us a laugh, but sadly no cheap bread mix!

alandbailey

:j Today I went to Asda at Frome and can confirm the price is now 77p. I then went to Tesco at Shepton Mallet and also Wells, both had the white Hovis mix at 29p and the Granary at 27p. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I cleared the shelves ( only about 12 in total) but I live alone and use my breadmaker 3 or 4 times a week. Tesco at Wells told me that the Hovis white bread mix is a stock item and more will be delivered tomorrow, but could not say if the price will be increased. The best before date is now April 2009, so I will buy about 6 months supply before they cotton on that Asda have upped the price - strewth! - that means about another 60-odd packets!:beer:

Ice_2

can I just say...OP please do this but after you have told us so we can get the same offer as you then we can all laugh at asda with you ...secondly I have just had to chuck all my bread mixes and flour out cos it was crawlling...all from asda all contaminated...could be the reason why it was on offer...

1carminestocky

The white bread mix is now 77p each or 2 for a £1 at my local Asda. I stocked up at 29p as we use our BM daily. Ice's post has got me worried now, though...

HomeSpun

Ice wrote: »

can I just say...OP please do this but after you have told us so we can get the same offer as you then we can all laugh at asda with you ...secondly I have just had to chuck all my bread mixes and flour out cos it was crawlling...all from asda all contaminated...could be the reason why it was on offer...

I had this problem earlier in the week with a bag of porridge oats which contaminated my entire bakery cupboard (which is by no means small!). Threw everything out as I couldn't bear the thought of re-infestation, with the exception of my hovis mixes which are stored in a huge underbed storage container!.

Apparently, a good solution, which I have since put into practice, is to put the flour/oats/dried goods in a freezer bag in the freezer for 24 hours after you bring it home as that will kill any eggs/weevils that are present. I also keep each individual bag in a tupperware box now so that if any survive the deep freeze, they won't contaminate another bag and all my sugar and other baking bits are decanted into cleaned and sterilised old Douwe Egberts jars which appear to have bred in the back of my cleaning cupboard - I had about 20!

This also wouldn't be the reason it was reduced - these blighters appear anywhere and everywhere in dried goods like flour and oats; the eggs are on them in the field and survive the milling process to later hatch out in the store or after purchase.

alandbailey

Does it really matter that a few flour weevils may be present? Surely they are protein and will be killed/sterilised during baking. Our sailors used to eat ships biscuits riddled with weevils. If the bag is a mass of weevils then I would dispose of it, but a few don't bother me. Have any doctors any comments?

HomeSpun

alandbailey wrote: »

Does it really matter that a few flour weevils may be present?

To me? Yes!

alandbailey wrote: »

Surely they are protein and will be killed/sterilised during baking.

That's as maybe, but finding the bodies in my cheese sarnie or victoria sponge or whatever else would put me right off and then my baking would be wasted as well as all the other ingredients. _pale_

alandbailey wrote: »

Our sailors used to eat ships biscuits riddled with weevils.

Good for them! If I was a sailor and it was the only food available then I'd probably eat them. As it is I'm not and it's not the only food available.:cool:

alandbailey wrote: »

If the bag is a mass of weevils then I would dispose of it, but a few don't bother me.

They multiply, a few becomes hundreds!:o

alandbailey wrote: »

Have any doctors any comments?

Anyone? Although I'm sure they're safe to eat - I just don't want to.

Some of this is tongue in cheek, but the smilies aren't working.:rotfl:

trepxe

we could always send trading standards to Asda. They constantly advertise things as on special offer & then when the offer has finished the so say normal price is cheaper than the offer was.

They can actually get done for this

Ice_2

thanks I'd forgotten what they were called...I knew it began with a W I was thinking widget but then I remembered thats a worm at the bottom of a bottle of something...Weevils actually I had been using the flour...then the next day it was crawling with them...and yes my sight is getting poor and yes I have had to start wearing glasses...but these were big enough to see...so I chucked the whole lot out and gave the cupboard a good scub out...I remember my late mum doing this in the 80's and matching into the supermarket and shouting at the manager about it and then the shop being shut for a week cos of it...but obviously shops don't do that anymore...I did tell th van driver the next week he called and told him to take back all the flour and bread mixes cos it was comtaminated with weevils but I am afraid he didn't really get it...to young I guess...so I rang customer services and told them but they didn't seem to be over bothered either...
so I guess I don't know what they did about it...I am going to Lidl for my flour now until the asda sort it out...or I could go to tesco for those things as they are about the same price...:o