Spices

northwest1965

bitemebankers wrote: »

£4.95 for next-day courier isn't expensive. According to their T&Cs, they'll optionally ship by normal post if your order is small and not urgent.

Must have been my mistake then, I put in an order for 3 bags of spices and it automatically came up with £4.95. That is 2nd class post

lin.c

Gigervamp wrote: »

Just out of interest, what one herb and one spice does everyone use the most?
I find that I get through a lot of cumin and thyme.

I tend to run out of cumin like others here, and cinnamon, which I use a lot in baking as well as other dishes. I've been buying bags of cinnamon for years, and started buying cumin as well

Queen_of_NO_MATTER_WHAT

Bongedone wrote: »

Asian supermarkets are also very cheap for them.

I get most of mine from asian supermarkets, much cheaper than the little tubs in supermarket

bitemebankers

northwest1965 wrote: »

Must have been my mistake then, I put in an order for 3 bags of spices and it automatically came up with £4.95. That is 2nd class post

That's odd - it says in the T&C they ship by next day courier, but if your order is under a certain weight, you can ask for post instead. If they're actually charging £4.95 for second class post, that is indeed taking the p-155.

I should add, I just found this company on a google seach a while back. I've not actually used them because, as I said, we've got a good asian supermarket in the area.

ladybabe

I suggest buying the growing herbs and plant them in window basket or similar and for dried herbs find a good ethnic shop that sells the big bags of dried herbs or you may have a good ethnic stall at your local market i know we have sells everything and real bargains next to the supermarket about 40p each for the really big bags of dried herbs. good luck

ladybabe

ladybabe wrote: »

I suggest buying the growing herbs and plant them in window basket or similar and for dried herbs find a good ethnic shop that sells the big bags of dried herbs or you may have a good ethnic stall at your local market i know we have sells everything and real bargains next to the supermarket about 40p each for the really big bags of dried herbs. good luck

forgot to say if you use approved foods then they sometimes have mega bargains on dried herbs :-))

yellowdots

I get my herbs and spices mostly from a local asian supermarkets but recently they didn't have some herbs which I needed so I went to the supermarket.

I was surprised when comparing price per gram that to buy the jar rather than the refill packet worked out cheaper!