10 things you should never buy again

MaggieBaking

JackieO wrote: »

5. Bagged salad - Buying salad leaves certainly adds interest to your five a day. However, you’ll pay a significant premium for that pleasure. Plus the bags are pumped full of a chemical to keep them fresh. As soon as you open the bag, the chemical is released and the leaves wilt fast. Salad leaves are notoriously easy to grow, so save your cash and spice up your salads by growing your own.

I buy an Iceberg lettuce around every two weeks and it lasts me for that I have a lettuce keeper that I bought from bettawars around 5 years ago and its paid for itself over and over again

SharkyGeorge wrote: »

This sounds really useful and I've never even heard of it! Is it like this one:

http://www.usphome.com/catalog/item.aspx?sku=81486

Ditto - I'd also love to know what it is!! Could you please enlighten us JackieO?

debtdesperado

Hello all...

Ah, bagged salad! I use bagged salad all the time - I keep trying to grow my own but I'm a bit squeamish about eating bugs...which is something they NEVER mention in these articles.

I was put off when I grew broccoli from seed..it grew beautifully, so I gave it the same quick swish under the tap that I would have done if I'd got it from the supermarket, and started to cut it up.

Spotted a caterpillar, which I put back out in the garden. Kept cutting. Spotted another. And also a tiny greenfly. Decided to submerge the whole thing in water to drown any other insects, so put in bowl of water with a plate on it to weight it down. Looked at it 15 minutes later...EURGGGGHHH! The whole underside of the plate was covered in bugs of various sizes. I would have eaten them as I hadn't spotted them!!

Did the same with spinach, herbs and salad leaves that I've grown with the same result. Have given up growing stuff outside. Am now trying to grow salad leaves indoors, but even that has acquired tiny greenfly....yuck.

I give up - much better to eat bagged salad, grown in nice hygienic bug free polytunnels!

Willow92

I'm trying to sell a George Foreman grill on ebay, was given to me as a gift and I used it once...

Winged_one

I am a big fan of making from scratch and having a well stocked cupboard of basic ingredients. But there are also times when life gets in the way - and because that's often due to work, I will use the proceeds of that work to spend on some convenience products to get over those humps.

Like, I will use a decent jar of tomato sauce with a pasta dish and that makes me have an extra few minutes that I can chop some fresh veggies and add those instead of devoting those minutes to making a basic sauce.

Or buying the pre-formed burgers (usually on either a meats deal or whoopsied) and freezing them, meaning I can have a BBQ at the drop of a hat when the weather is fine rather than trekking round the supermarket and the sun is gone when I get home.

Or when it snows and you've used up all the fresh potatoes, a packet of "smash" type ones can be used to make some crab cakes (with a tin of crab and a tin of sweetcorn, a couple of eggs, flour, and some frozen breadcrumbs) to cheer everyone up. Or you get in from a long week on Friday, shattered, and throw a pre-prepared joint and gratin into the oven or get a takeaway? The prepared is a bit better for you and cheaper.

The fancy veg with flavoured butters is a bit OTT for me personally, but a bag or 2 of regular frozen veg are great on their own, or to throw a fistful of peas into a stirfry of mixed veg say, or to make a reheated mash potato dish in the oven come alive with some sliced onion and herbs.

Having a couple of bottles of water are essentials for emergencies - between water off from the big freezes, and my gran had 3 days with no water last week due to a burst on her street, it's always worth ahving some in the house.

Yes, you don't want to depend on those convenience items for everyday life, but they are a convenience at specific times that are worth having.

Willow92

Oh and the B00ts meal deals...Now they work out even more expensive as they've put the price up to £3.69!

vgstar44

Mr @sda's smart price malt loaf......bland and disgusting!!!

Id rather make my own but if i didnt have time or couldnt be bothered id now rather go without lol

betony

I know EXACTLY what I wouldn't buy - that Andrex loo roll they're advertising at the moment, the one with decorations on, stars or gold patterning - I mean, come ON, really, you're only going to er, um, you know, with it!

calleyw

betony wrote: »

Andrex loo roll they're advertising at the moment, the one with decorations on, stars or gold patterning -

Got to have that, so my backside knows it worth it :rotfl:

Yours

Calley

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

betony wrote: »

I know EXACTLY what I wouldn't buy - that Andrex loo roll they're advertising at the moment, the one with decorations on, stars or gold patterning - I mean, come ON, really, you're only going to er, um, you know, with it!

Had the exact same conversation at work today!

JIL

Vampiric_Addiction wrote: »

To be honest if you're really not a fan of the taste of potato skin, you might not like skin-on mash... But give it a shot once maybe?

We leave the skins on now - less hastle, less waste and we like the taste better too!

mands did a lovely crushed new potato dish that cost a fortune, it is basically,nearly mashed new potatoes with the skin on and mixed with sea salt, black pepper a little parsley and olive oil and very easy to make.