Is this a good price?

madmum33

If potatoes were £6.70 for 2.5kg here I'd be living on rice and pasta!

We keep our potatoes in the sack, in the kitchen, and they last pretty well for two weeks (by which time we're down to the last few in the bottom anyway)

I like the convenience of having a man with a van deliver mine when needed, and if we don't need any he just takes them away and comes back the following week Even better, if I don't have any cash he just tells me to pay next time (of course I do, I'm ridiculously honest).

jcr16

wow thats expensive. i buy KE or roosters and they are 2kg bags for £1.49 / £1.59.

mu local veg shop has them for about £6 odd. but they are huge bags. but they will deliver any amount of fruit and veg for 50p so not too bad.

jennyjelly

Three_Dancing_Dragons wrote:

Lakeland makes a special cotton potato bag which keeps mine for ages in a kitchen cupboard even though I thought the kitchen would be too warm. Turn regularly to let them breathe also.

Are these bags any good? I have wondered about buying one but have never met anybody to ask!

mikeywills

I think all of the prices on here seem a little high to be honest, I buy a 25kg bag of desiree from a local producer and they only charge £3.99. Desiree make lovely mash at this time of year, and when new around June/July cracking potato salad. There are better roasters and chippers, but I'm a mash fan!!

thriftlady_2

That's outrageous for 2.5 kg :eek: that's about £1.20 a lb ! I pay about £5 for a 25 kg sack of locally grown spuds (Wilja or Marfona) that's about 9p a lb.

skysky69

Yup, bought 25kg of desiree for £5.00 yesterday from our local farmshop. That sounds an extortionate price to me!

Three_Dancing_Dragons

jennyjelly wrote:

Are these bags any good? I have wondered about buying one but have never met anybody to ask!

Well mine works fine. I keep putting sweet potatoes in, forgetting about them for a couple of months and finding them fine when I finally remember. The principle is airflow. It's just a cotton bag so they don't get sweaty (with sweet potatoes I've found that unless you take them out of plastic immediately they go bad in what seems like 48 hrs). At home we used to hang the massive 25kg hessian sack of normal potatoes under the house - they kept perfectly.

mikeywills

jennyjelly wrote:

Are these bags any good? I have wondered about buying one but have never met anybody to ask!

Could you not just use an old pillowcase doubled over, I am sure it would hold the same amount and as far as I can see the lakeland one is just a heavy cotton material.

Alternatively you could purchase some onion bags, the mesh ones and hang them up somewhere convenient.

AussieLass

I recently bought 5kg bag for 1.78 which I thought was reasonable.

I wouldn't buy any more at that price. Look around some more.