Spuds

kookai9

tesco r doin what they call jacket potato for £1.89 bogof at the mo,theyre Estima brand though so so poor brand the take a lot longr to cook; hang on as Lidl will do Kind edward 2.5 kg for a quid at the weekend

discountmummy

Is it me or can you not buy any decent sized loose jacket potatoes anymore? They all seem to be really small and if you buy a bag of them your lucky if you get one nice sized one! :mad:

ivfmummy

I can't find any decent sized potatoes either. Where have they gone??

Clowance

discountmummy wrote: »

Is it me or can you not buy any decent sized loose jacket potatoes anymore? They all seem to be really small and if you buy a bag of them your lucky if you get one nice sized one! :mad:

You can get them, last year I bought a huge sack from makro (may have been 25kg?) but although they were HUGE the biggest of them were disease ridden - looked fine on the outside but were hollow and brownish at the core. Maybe the weather last year affected the crop. Plus the supermarkets money grabbing, I expect to see any day now that the old fashioned jackets are rebranded as supersize and sold at an even HIGHER premium than at present for jacket pots.
Remember when the sizes were not sorted so you got a mix? That was before they realised they could make us pay more for bigger easier to peel ones.
If anyone remembers spud-u-like - they used to advertise a 12oz jacket. Miss them, as a student my treat was jacket potato and cheese from them.

floart

i buy a 25kg sack at my local farm shop for a fiver, always a whole bunch of huge spuds for jackets on the top... never again will i buy them at the supermarket...

kookai9

Sorry its actually starts today on the leaflet from my local Lidl

elektra

discountmummy wrote: »

Is it me or can you not buy any decent sized loose jacket potatoes anymore? They all seem to be really small and if you buy a bag of them your lucky if you get one nice sized one! :mad:

M+S do loose (non baggged) Maris Piper - last few I got were a good size for jacket potatoes.

Clowance

floart wrote: »

i buy a 25kg sack at my local farm shop for a fiver, ...

grrrr I am so jealous, there are two farm shops not far away but they see themselves as tourist destinations and charge 10 times as much as the supermarkets for stuff they haven't even produced. Wish I had a proper farm shop near me (East Dorset)