How can the smallest things get you down

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CLAPTON wrote:

went to tesco today....saw some cherries (just love cherries) but minimum purchase was half kilo...only wanted a hand full to eat on walk home so didn't buy.
but passed a local greengrocer...couldn't believe it...cherries ...select your own at half tesoc's price.
check out veg at greengrocers ..dont assume asda are cheapest.

very good advice here, on saturdays (when i can do it) i will go to a market and i can buy there 30 apples 4 cauliflowers 5 punnets of strawberries 25 oranges all for just £6 now that would cost me about £15 in asda (this is a general idea, the stock and prices will differ) weeks when i am able to do this i love eating lol :rotfl:

dj0586

thansk for the advice guys, feeling much better today, went to market today got my veg for about £2 cheaper and so much fresher. Got a curry in the slow cooker now and it smells gorgeous, life is wonderful again.

LookingAhead

dj0586 wrote:

thansk for the advice guys, feeling much better today, went to market today got my veg for about £2 cheaper and so much fresher. Got a curry in the slow cooker now and it smells gorgeous, life is wonderful again.

Hooray! :T Glad you are feeling better and it's good you can support your local market.

Snich

I use my local market and I love it. Fruit and veg are so much cheaper and we get to have "treats" because they are so much cheaper there. Today's treat was a punnet of peaches 8 for a pound. mmmm.
The other great thing about our market is the bread man - who today gave me
6xteacakes
3xhuge torpedo rolls
6xseeded batch rolls for a pound - will keep us in lunches for the week too!

Hurrah for the market!

beanielou

One of the benefits of living in a town-having a market.
We dont even have a greengrocers!!

kuohu

I know what you mean, sometimes it feels like just one thing after another. And then there's the unexpected things that you have to spend money on, sometimes not major things but they are still annoying when you can't get out of paying them.

dippy-dora_2

poppycracker wrote:

Ow ow ow. Hope you made HIM clean the pan afterwards!

That's just the thing, the pan was in the sink steeping, and the gas was on the lowest so wasnt making any noise, how none of us noticed I've no idea but the flame could have gone out and gassed us or something could have fallen on it and started a fire!
he said he'll pay a tenner towards the bill but i've said to just make it a fiver, and his punishment? Eating my stew

So paranoid about it now though, keep double checking it's off all the time.

dippy-dora_2

has anyone else had cucumber from Tesco that's gone off straight away?
I am giving up buying it from there, that's 3 halfs that have been thrown straight in the bin.

They say supermarket fruit and veg lasts longer, and market veg is tastier and doesn't last as long, but I think Tescos is going down the pan, so may too start buying elsewhere.