The Rising Cost of Food

bonnie_bumpkins

ceridwen wrote: »

A supreme example of "added value". I walk round supermarkets repeating the phrase "added value" to myself at intervals and reminding myself that any product that has involved work by someone else means they take a cut of the price for it - so the fewer "cuts" to others the better.

Fabulous advice!! This is a really good way of looking at things. I will write ADDED VALUE in big letters on the top of all my shopping lists and put a post it on my PC for when I do an online shop.

ceridwen wrote: »

The only "added value" product that I've noticed that isnt dearer is ready-grated cheese and we know why thats cheaper (as, I gather, its various odds and ends we wouldnt use ourselves....?)

:eek: Please tell me you mean odds and ends of cheese and not anything else _pale_ I can't imagine any bits of cheese I wouldn't use, unless it had mould on it - I put the 'crust' of stilton into soup and when whizzed up with the veg it tasted lovely [/QUOTE]

Butterfly_Brain

ceridwen wrote: »

Future manure for food there??:rotfl:

Soz...excuse t'sense of humour there.

Well - that didnt make much sense did it? The living come before the dead (bodies of that is....) and there is t'other method after all (ie crematoriums).

I know and they have the cheek to charge £2,000 to be buried there :eek:

frosty

nannyboo1 wrote: »

I always laugh when I see people paying for frozen ice cubes

I sometimes buy frozen ice cubes.......only when we are having a party,we have a drinks table where you fill the base with ice and then put cans of lager,wine ect to keep cool.My freezer is always full so I dont have room to make and store ice cubes.

bonnie_bumpkins

wilding_arms wrote: »

If there's a Mr M by you check the prices in the deli counter. I have been buying their Canadian mature cheddar for a few months now. At £4.99 per kilo it's less expensive even than their Value cheddar and tastes a lot better. Often less expensive than things that are on special too, they're having Seriously Strong on half price now and the Canadian is still cheaper.

Thank you, I will do this! I have always assumed - wrongly, it seems - that deli items will be more expensive. I should check the price per kilo for pre-packaged and deli produce and then make a decision. Note to self: don't make assumptions, always check for yourself

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NoGoodNamesLeft wrote: »

muffins.

. <<The supermarkets don't want to sell it cheap as it would cut into their profits. >>

This is what I can't understand why dump perfectly good food rather than sell it off cheaply I know I suppose they think that a lot of folk would wait until it was reduced before shopping but even so its got to be better than just junking food into a landfil.I don't suppose the wrappings are removed either
I was brought up with extreme frugality by my late mum because of wartime and rationing until I was 12 so I know that in our house absolutely nothing was wasted.We didn't have fridges or freezers either to help out.if the jam got a bit 'hairy' it was scraped off(it didn't happen often in our house .Cheese that was 'growing' a bit, the bit got cut off.We survived and flourished even though we had no 'sell by' dates to let mum know She would be rolling about in laughter if she was alive today to think some faceless minion was telling her if she could eat food that she had bought .She would have had a very short answer to that i can tell you.Even the few scraps that were discarded went to the chickens usually .She always said if it didn't go in the kids or the dog the cluckers could have it:rotfl:When you see how the folk in the third worl survive on a handful of grain a day its obscene to be filling our green and pleasant land with discarded food .:mad::mad::mad:
Right having had my rant I shall dismount from my high horse and go and see if I can find some butter that won't cost me part of my right arm to buy

catznine

lollyfin wrote: »

and the amount of waste in the kitchens is unbelievable. I did ask her if the staff got to take food home or was it given to homeless charities or something but she said no it is just put in the bin. I think that is a disgrace but i think the same anout supermarkets throwing stuff in the bin as well

I was treated to a toby carvery roast dinner last week and saw the chef/carver get a new freshly cooked turkey from the kitchen and just chuck the older one into the bin! :eek: It still had loads of meat on it and could have fed us for a week at least!!!! They must be throwing away so much meat over the course of a day, it didn't even get to the kitchens for stock for the gravies! I had to bite my tongue I was so shocked! My dh just laughed as he is often amazed at my os ways but it was the way I was brought up. When are they going to wake up to the fact that this kind of waste is senseless?

Rage_in_Eden

I'm constantly amazed at (a) the prices being charged and (b) the waste that goes on. I was speaking to a lady who does a cake stall and she told me that it's getting to the stage where it's cheaper for her to buy her sugar from Waitrose if she so wished than from the wholesalers! She also said she worked at a major retailer who got some chicken breasts delivered once and they were a "rival" store's chicken - was the same with a different label on. Think they were "nectar" whereas they should have been "not just" chicken and rather than send them back as it was deemed too expensive to get a lorry (or even put them in the cold store and send back with the lorry the next day) they were sold off cheap to the staff as they were going to bin them.....madness.....

parsonswife8

catznine wrote: »

I was treated to a toby carvery roast dinner last week and saw the chef/carver get a new freshly cooked turkey from the kitchen and just chuck the older one into the bin! :eek: It still had loads of meat on it and could have fed us for a week at least!!!! They must be throwing away so much meat over the course of a day, it didn't even get to the kitchens for stock for the gravies! I had to bite my tongue I was so shocked! My dh just laughed as he is often amazed at my os ways but it was the way I was brought up. When are they going to wake up to the fact that this kind of waste is senseless?

That's a disgrace. I wish that there could be a scheme whereby some towns could have a big drop in centre, with some cooks and chefs who could make meals from food left over in places like the Toby and supermarkets.

Cooked meals like soups and stews and bread and bread rolls, to be served at the drop in centre, especially in the winter.

Even if only a few supermarkets and restaurants got involved, it could make such a difference to the wastage of food and people going hungry.

Could be run by local councils.

lyn735

I used to buy pre packed bananas at £1 a bag at Mr M's but one day decided to weigh a bunch of bananas same number of bananas as in the pre packed bag but 70p istead of a £1.

Confuzzled

Cheapskate wrote: »

My sister lives in the States & even she's gone back to coupon clipping for groceries & is using her tumble drier less often - that's unheard of out there, where almost everyone uses one; you're considered a hippy or dirt poor if you peg out!

A x

i can confirm this, hanging your laundry out on the line is definitely met with condescension and sometimes derision in many places in the states... personally i never knew the JOY of hanging out laundry (so peaceful) and the wonderful smell and feel of line dried clothing til i moved to the uk many moons ago....

i think a lot of us, regardless of what side of the pond we're on will be forced to revert to 'old fashioned' ways of doing things as the world economies continue to plummet. the really difficult thing is, what if you're already doing most of those things... then where do you? :eek::(