Anyone having trouble buying ingredients?

mouseymousey99

Any ethnic shops near you livinginhope or market stalls?
Watched one of those afternoon cookery progs the other day & Ant WT was making scrambled egg - Darling said who would want to know how to cook that?? Then it dawned on us, with no teaching in schools & shops full of pre-cooked muck you could easily have no idea.....hey ho....must be getting old.....

craig777

livinginhope wrote:

I carried on shopping, couldn't get popping corn, only ready done

Any half decent health food shop will stock popping corn. Julian Graves and Holland & Barrett both sell it... you can find these stores in most shopping centres/malls.

morganb

We've had right trouble getting dessicated coconut, managed to buy some in Somerfield in the end.

moogiegirl

livinginhope wrote:

Thanks lil me,we do have a 'weigh n pay' shop over in Lowestoft,I think! I always forget about those shops.Black Saturn may come along and tell me if it's still there would be a good excuse for a day out shopping in Lowestoft if it's there

Weigh and Save shop is still in Lowestoft, well it was last Thursday:D

livinginhope

mouseymousey99 wrote:

Any ethnic shops near you livinginhope or market stalls?

Plenty of market stalls,but definately not one ethnic shop,no call for them,we have very few people from ethnic minorities

furndire

I have been enjoying looking around the local Indian/Pakistani shops today, and also a new Polish one. Its worth having a look in these types of shops. I wasn't sure what Chick Pea flour was until I asked at one of the Indian shops, and they told me it was Gram flour. Usually stuff is so much cheaper in them as well. They have unusual veg and fruit which isn't exorbitantly priced.

LearningToSave.

last time i bought dessicated coconut(few months ago) it was in the co-op.

livinginhope

LearningToSave. wrote:

last time i bought dessicated coconut(few months ago) it was in the co-op.

Our Co-op only sell the very small packets,but then it's only really a corner shop,it's quite expensive,but handy if you really can't get it anywhere cheaper.

KatrinaC_2

Asda has always been a bit rubbish for ingredients. Any shop which devotes that much shelf space to crisps and biscuits is going to be pushed for space for foodstuffs which require cooking.

At the moment I'm finding the small Lidl near me to be better for unusual veg and deli items than the enormous Asda over the road from it. I'm lucky though as within 3 miles of here we have Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Somerfield and several very good independant butchers, green-grocers and fishmongers. With the exception of Waitrose, all of the big supermarkets are devoting more space to pre-packed and ready meals though.

Kat

Kat

wackyjacobeany

hi, I have been finding it hard to get cooking chocolate for traybakes. Yes i can get smaller more expanisive chocolate but what i want is the big bars like we used to get like the scotbloc ones. Cant get them anywhere. Asda does the plain one but not the milk one.