Why buy?

puss14

Yes as

Ebany wrote: »

I sometimes look at my supermarket shop and think it looks terrible, cause its generally mostly crisps, chocolate bars and jaffa cakes, and tins of baked beans - HOWEVER this is because I buy veg from the market and meat from the butcher, and my hubby needs the high energy snacks as he is doing vast amounts of rowing training (planning to try out for the GB squad at some point).

So please rememebr that just casue someone has no veg in their trolley doesn't mean they don't get any at all!

Yes as I grow most of my own veg, I think that I must look like a right carnivore when I shop:D

rosieben

I occasionally buy ready made custard, small pots of jelly/trifle etc for an elderly (83yo) rellie who cant manage to make these things herself any more; we cook for her every day and try to keep her supplied with home made treats but she likes to keep a few spares in the fridge. We save all the small jelly and yoghurt pots and re-use them when we make her up a fruit jelly or mousse or other dessert, just the right size portion for her

and I'm another who buys veg and fruit from a greengrocer and meat from a butcher so my trolley must look a bit unbalanced too, never thought about it before - now I shall be embarassed and may have to consider hanging a sign that says 'I do eat real food but I don't buy it here ...' in case I bump into any Os'ers!!!:rotfl:

Dee140157

My one sin regarding ready made food is the microwavable frozen bags of individual rice. I am perfectly capable of boiling up rice, but there are occasions when I want rice just for me as everyone else is having pasta (I can't eat pasta) and it is so much easier to throw one bag in the microwave for 4 mins than to cook one portion for 20 mins on the hob.

cat4772

Each year, from the last week of June to the first week of August I'm so busy at work that it has to be pre-prepared convenience food otherwise we wouldn't actually eat cos I'm out working between 10 and 15 hours each day (I'm lucky if I have a whole day off at the weekend) and will spend spare time washing clothes and trying to keep on top of housework. Strictly speaking the first couple of weeks we will use up home made meals from the freezer but then it's onto convenience foods simply because of the time pressures.

The remainder of the time I quite like making meals from scratch; we have a couple of nights a week where we eat food that is more convenience but it's food we enjoy eating.

Cat.x

Cornishpixie_2

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
Packet mash, pre packed fruit salad, tinned veg (except tomato's), pasta sauce and cookin' sauces:eek: :rotfl:

Jasper27_2

I admit I look in trolleys, I find it entertaining! Mind you I shop in a lot of different places to take advantage of offers so often only have what that particular supermarket has going cheap. When Tesco had Ben & Jerrys ice cream for £1.99 a while back we got 6 tubs which musn't have looked good! Once my doctor was in front of me at the till in Tesco and all he was buying was booze, pot noodle and crisps!

I do understand why people buy some preapred items but the yorkshire pud/pastry/pancake mixes must just be flour in a bag. I hate ready prepared veg, it always seems to look dry. I'd never buy the ready chopped stir fry meat, it always looks like the trimmings from other stuff.

avinabacca

calleyw wrote: »

I can't make mash with out lumps and lumps make me want to heave.

Get yerself a potato ricer, chick! Super-simple to use, and guaranteed to produce gorgeously fluffy mash every single time

I think Argos do one fairly cheap, Ikea too - in any case, you'd make back the cost in no time, using whole spuds for mash instead of frozen......

Smashing

Barneysmom wrote: »

Crisps. What are they for?

Eating, usually.

I don't like the assumption that everyone is lazy. There are plenty of things I don't see the point of buying, so I don't. What other people choose to spend THEIR money on is their own business and I don't see the need to feel superior.

People here are justifying themselves for buying ready made yorkshires? Why? Making them is a faff, they rarely rise properly and the oven is already full when doing a roast. Frozen ones I can just bung in to cook on the residual heat when the oven is off and the meat is out resting.

Addiscomber

trixietoes wrote: »

I get told off by my OH for staring at peoples trollies at the check out, I'm all open mouthed and google eyed when I see them stuffed full of chocolate, pop, crisps, pizza etc. and no 'stuff that actually grows'

I very rarely have 'stuff that actually grows' in my supermarket trolley for the simple reason that I prefer to support my local greengrocer who offers me better value by far, as his produce keeps better and is cheaper in the first place. I can also buy potatoes by the sack from him and he delivers them free of charge. (Please don't bother to tell me that farm shops are even cheaper. I know that, but this is London and farms and farm shops are so thin on the ground here as to be entirely absent.) Likewise I buy all our meat from the butcher, where I get teasing and banter included in the price.

In fact you would probably all find my trolley very strange as we do a supermarket shop for staples about once every 6 weeks and consequently our trolley contains very little fresh stuff at all, but I have never been anything but Old Style. Now that Sainsburys deliver free of charge at certain times you aren't even going to get the chance to have a peek :rotfl:

queenpig

I have taken notice but dont make a habbit of it.
I've been with hubby when a family have been looking at tins, tommy sauce ect, he has got the person looking at (we'll say for example) a bottle of sauce, he says try the smart price one, its just as good and if you dont like it dont buy it again...hummmm. LOL

I do have to say one time though when i went shopping a family had a trollet full of ready meals the ones you put in the mic, fizzy pop, sweeties and potatoes?

I'll be hasten to add I am not a one to judge what people buy. and although I wou;dn't buy ready chopped carrots, frozen mash my self, i wouldn't judge people buying these, my mother (as she has arthiritis (sp) and dad has had a stroke) buys these quite often when she wants to make a roast only thing that makes me angry about that is, (and going slighty off topic) is that I have 2 grown up brothers that still live at home and wont pull there finger out to help her.