please help to break my pepper habit!

Hellyboo

Another vote for frozen if it's for bulking out cooking. Mr T's have gone up from about 85p to £1 recently, but they're still much cheaper and more convenient than fresh. For sandwiches, a cucumber goes a long way if it's crunch you're after, you can slice them quite thinly. I also use the slicer side on my box grater to thinly slice carrots for salad ect so maybe you could try that?

LolaLemon

i know your pain! i love peppers, would eat them like others eat an apple, but its just too expensive to do that!

I cant get frozen leek! been looking for what seems like forever! i cant use fresh leek as i seem to have an intolorance to them, but frozen are fine, if i can find them .

mlz1413

Trying growing them, probably need to be indoors to get any decent crop though.

Grated carrot bulks any minced meat dish.
Beans and lentils can bulk casseroles.
also try more mushrooms and tomatoes.

rachbc

My daugher eats them like apples - I get value ones or go to the market and get a bag full for a quid - won't catch me buy the individual or packs of 3 ones as they are outrageously priced.

I once had a sumer job packing the 3 colour peppers which also puts me off!

overlykeensaver

wow thank you for your suggestions - I will have a look at the frozen peppers. I usually get the bags from the market butit has been so cold recently I have wimped out of my weekly market visit .

My OH doesn't like mushrooms but I do bulk out my mince/sauces with carrots, lentils, celery, courgettes (in season).

Adelight - what a great idea to use crunchy cabbage - it sounds delicious so I will definitely give that a try.

Farway

Diflower wrote: »

Just buy fresh when they're on offer, they were 3 for 64p in L!dl at the weekend, a huge treat:)

Back on offer again now, 64p for a three "traffic light" pack, got a pack this morning

maman

LolaLemon wrote: »

I cant get frozen leek! been looking for what seems like forever! i cant use fresh leek as i seem to have an intolorance to them, but frozen are fine, if i can find them .

I buy them in Farmfoods but they may not be up your way. Fresh leeks are on offer a lot at the moment but when they get expensive I always use frozen.

We grew our own courgettes in the summer and I have bags of slices in the freezer.

katkins78

I always buy the big bags of smartprice/basic peppers which invariably have more green peppers than any other colour and leave them in a bowl on the window sill to ripen further. Perhaps that would work for eating raw and buying frozen for cooking would be a good compromise?

I do agree though, peppers are frighteningly expensive today. They are easy to grow (even in containers), yet I always end up ripening on the kitchen windowsill.