Do I really spend to much on food?

rubytuesday

Emm-in-a-pickle wrote: »

My dilemma is trying to please all, without doing separate meals. The menfolk are - one, a meat-junkie who doesn`t eat puddings, and doesn`t enjoy pasta or pastry, not keen on much spud or rice content, but Dear Heart, he WILL try anything once, and likes most veg and salad stuff. The other, my DS, not keen on meat, veg has to be `smuggled`into meals, but loves pasta/rice and potato content of any meal! DGD is vegetarian and reluctant with veg! (Yes, I despair!) but loves fruit, she`s with us with us 3 nights a week for teatimes. I find I`m juggling, plate-spinning a lot! I do a lot of one-pot veggie meals pasta bakes and veggie stews, and use a fair bit of lentil and oatmeal in some of them, just have to be careful dishing up so the veg goes on one plate and spuds or pasta goes on the other... and one has a chop or some meat from the roast, and the veg gets blitzed till it`s just a sauce with no bits to pick out. The lentil or oatmeal to thicken stuff seems a better option than cornflour, etc., I feel I`m feeding them as best I can!

That sounds like a right palavar, you're doing well to juggle it all!

Penelope_Penguin

crux wrote: »

What really bugged me today at Tesco's was that not all the meat was in £/kg, half of it was £/100gm....

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Do you know this makes me SO cross!

Sorry - I really don;t get the problem here (and I'm no apologist for the supermarkets ). If the vast majority of us can;t compare price/100g and price/kg in our heads, then basic maths needs sorting, not supermarket pricing

I'd far rather a campaign were done to reduce packaging (and therefore) the price of food

greenbee

crux wrote: »

I do a half decent job of the knives, I have a sharpening wheel thing that I got for xmas one year, has two stone wheels inside a plastic housing, you use the course stone first, then the fine stone, and then I use a sharpening steel just to hone the edge. Works ok, but it's not like Chef or butcher quality.

I suspect my sharpening stones are not as effective as a real sharpening block and my edging steel skills are probably not as good as a pro's either :rotfl:

I have to say I have always doubted the value of buying the most expensive mega sharp knives, like those Japanese ones that often get touted as being the best. Unless you can actually keep the edge sharp then it's does not matter what quality the steel is.

Unfortunately, once you really blunt a knife it needs to be re-ground to ever hold a properly sharp edge again.

I use a steel before/after use and an electric sharpener when they need a little more help, but do take my somewhat eclectic selection of knives (I used to be a chef) to the butcher periodically to get them reground. If you use your local butcher you'll find they're happy to do this for you. Mine also minces specific cuts of meat for me, provides advice on how to cook different cuts, and offers very good value for money compared to supermarkets. You can also get hold of some of the cheaper cuts which may not be availalbe in supermarkets, and buy bones for stock...

MrsE_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Sorry - I really don;t get the problem here (and I'm no apologist for the supermarkets ). If the vast majority of us can;t compare price/100g and price/kg in our heads, then basic maths needs sorting, not supermarket pricing

I'd far rather a campaign were done to reduce packaging (and therefore) the price of food

I think its a little more complicated than that.

For instance apples, there could be 6 in a bag, but not indication of how much per kilo. So you have to weigh them manually then work out how much they are per kilo, to then compare them to loose.

To a lot of people thats scary maths.

Penelope_Penguin

MrsE wrote: »

I think its a little more complicated than that.

For instance apples, there could be 6 in a bag, but not indication of how much per kilo. So you have to weigh them manually then work out how much they are per kilo, to then compare them to loose.

To a lot of people thats scary maths.

Granted, but in my Tesco (and all other supermarkets that I've visited) the shelf edge label gives price/100g or price/kg.

I was only responding to the suggestion that comparing price/100g and price/kg is complicated - the National Curriculum expects 11 yos to be able to so that in their head

Is this not a legal requirement?

MrsE_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Granted, but in my Tesco (and all other supermarkets that I've visited) the shelf edge label gives price/100g or price/kg.

I was only responding to the suggestion that comparing price/100g and price/kg is complicated - the National Curriculum expects 11 yos to be able to so that in their head

Is this not a legal requirement?

They do sell bagged fruit & veg without the weight on & without the weight on the shelf lable.

Penelope_Penguin

MrsE wrote: »

They do sell bagged fruit & veg without the weight on & without the weight on the shelf lable.

I'll take your word for it then and check next time I go shopping

MrsE_2

Golden Delicious Apples Loose Class 1


£1.65/kg(£0.26/each)
guide only

Weight (guide)(kg)
How many



Golden Delicious Apples Pack Class 1



£1.70(£1.70/each)

How many

MrsE_2

£1.65 a kilo for loose or £1.70 for a big of six.

To work out which is cheaper, you need to know how much six weigh.

jackieglasgow

Aaargh! (runs screaming from the house, tearing at hair!)