Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

Back from Lidl, Home Bargains and Sainsbury's.. five hours shopping avec Maman eek :eek:

LIDL

Couldn't get the 350g organic Rachel's yogurt as they just had the Greek style with honey. However later found 450g rhubarb one in Sainsbury's for £1

:A Newsflash :A Lidl had organic eggs. 6 medium organic eggs for 1.99, so bought some to try.

Organic carrots were 79p for 750g, organic onions were 67p and organic Fairtrade bananas £1

Fox Farms frozen New Zealand lamb loin chops (grass pastured and NZ is a GM-free zone) 2.99 for five chops tasty but tough in places - OK for casseroles though.

Picked up Montedos Wholefoods pine nuts on offer 89p per bag.

HOME BARGAINS

Kettle Chips lightly salted additive free crisps 40g size 39p, DP soda crystals 65p, Fruit Factory additive free 12 lunchbox mini snacks 89p

SAINSBURY'S

Picked up the Heinz organic cream of tomato soup ie 4 for £3 saving 84p and the 2 x 500g Sainsbury's SO organic beef mince 500g for £6 saving 96p. Bought SO organic pears and Braeburn apples on any 2 for £4 saving £1 and got some YS organic white mushrooms were 1.28 reduced to 84p.

For those with kids (or big kid adults) Lidl and Home Bargains both have Miracle on 34th Street DVD for 2.99 and Sainsbury's has The Jungle Book DVD for £8.

I picked up John Newman's CD Tribute for 9.99 at Sainsbury's which was same price as Amazon 'Love Me Again' is on repeat in my brain I find myself humming it in supermarket checkout queues.

smallblueplanet

£10 of £70 spend at Planet Organic during November:

NOVEMBER70 at the checkout


http://www.planetorganic.com/

Edwardia

Lidl

16 Nouvelle recycled paper loo rolls 3.99

Edwardia

WILD

Sainsbury's Taste The Difference responsibly sourced wild Alaskan smoked salmon 120g (6 slices) £5.. dark, greasy, difficult to separate slices, tasted like plastic.

Morrisons Signature wild Alaskan smoked salmon 100g 4.99.. much prefer this one, altogether better.

Yet to try..
Waitrose oak smoked wild Alaskan smoked salmon 100g 5.49, Waitrose or Ocado
Tesco Finest wild Alaskan smoked salmon 100g £5 any 2 for £8 to 19/11
H. Forman & Son smoked wild salmon pate 225g (Kilner jar) 8.99 Tesco

CHEAPER OPTION

Waitrose wild Alaskan smoked salmon pate 115g 1.99.. OH likes this a lot.

ORGANIC

Tesco organic Irish smoked salmon 100g £4.. perfectly acceptable but not the best.

Yet to try..
Young's organic smoked salmon 100g £5, Sainsbury's
Waitrose organic smoked salmon 120g 5.99, Waitrose or Ocado
Kinvara organic smoked salmon 150g 6.79, Ocado
WildWaters organic smoked salmon side approx 460g 16.10, Ocado

Fortnum & Mason smoked organic Irish salmon 4 slices 9.50, 8 slices £17

Abel & Cole and Riverford

Last Christmas we had Inverawe organic smoked salmon from A&C ..fantastic..Riverford is elling it too this year so here are the sizes and choices from both..

Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon 100g 6.19, Abel & Cole
Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon 200g
11.49, Riverford from 09/12; 10.39, Abel & Cole
Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon 400g
19.49 from 09/12 Abel & Cole, 19.99 from 09/12 Riverford
Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon side 680g avg 28.99 from 09/12 Abel & Cole

CHEAPER OPTIONS

Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon trimmings 250g 4.79 Abel & Cole - great for sandwiches/cooking eg quiche when you want the taste and can hide the bits. OH has had this in sandwiches sometimes (yes, I spoil him)
Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon pate 150g 3.19 .we don't have this often because it's soo good we scoff it ! Fantastic.

Yet to try..
Inverawe organic Scottish smoked salmon timbale 2 x 80g 5.85 exclusively for Abel & Cole available from 09/12
Inverawe organic gravadlax 100g 6.49, Abel & Cole
Inverawe organic flaky roast smoked salmon 160g 5.99, Abel & Cole

Kirri

Just been reading a review in the latest Animal Aid magazine, for Joya organic soya yoghurts.

Entirely plant based co (unlike Alpro/Provamel)
Available in Sainsburys in natural, raspberry and strawberry.
£1.25/£1.49 - 500g and 89p for 2 x 12g pots.
No added sugar
Soya grown in Austria and GM free.

Will give these a try next time I am in Sainsbury's.

Edwardia

Well done Kirri for starting a thread on low welfare standards of free range eggs. :T https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4822177

Organic sales up by £8m during Organic September.. but actually that's a miniscule amount !
http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/brits-spend-8m-more-on-organic-food-in-september/351501.article

Sainsbury's and Co-op drop non-GM promise on premium pork (so why pay extra? what's different?) http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/sainsburys-and-co-op-drop-gm-free-promise-on-premium-pork/348952.article

Aldi is trialling a Has No gluten free range.. anyone seen it ?
http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/supermarkets/aldi-trials-new-has-no-gluten-free-range/348278.article

Is it me or have Seeds of Change jars downsized ? I thought they were 500g and they're 350g now. Also, anyone had the Mediterranean vegetable sauce lately ? I got two pieces of courgette today and the sauce was watery. Not worth buying if that's the new norm !

smallblueplanet

Edwardia wrote: »

Is it me or have Seeds of Change jars downsized ? I thought they were 500g and they're 350g now. Also, anyone had the Mediterranean vegetable sauce lately ? I got two pieces of courgette today and the sauce was watery. Not worth buying if that's the new norm !

Think 350g is norm for non-tomato ones.


Never had the 'tomato-based' ones - seems too much like a tin of toms plus some bits! But do like the 'curry-based' ones as they seem good flavours when you can't be bothered from scratch. (Normally add an extra tin of toms or coconut milk and/or chili & garlic.)


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Kirri

Thank you E. Seeing the HEC adverts back on tv recently annoyed me..!

Whenever there is some food scandal I guess the org figures go up but too many don't think what is in food or how it's produced.

I've not bought the SoC sauces for years, I was never over keen on them - though I don't really like any jar sauces.

5 hrs shopping btw, sounds like my worst nightmare :eek: The soda crystals were cheap though, they seem to be £1 everywhere at the moment.

I've just added a Booja Booja vegan organic ice cream to my Ocado order, only the mini pot, as it's eye wateringly expensive - nearly £8 for a larger tub! Anyone tried this?

I also noticed Ocado stock vegan cupcakes now, the same ones I think Wholefoods stock (for 30p more). Non org however but good to see.

Was going to add the Sharpham Park organic pearled spelt to try but gets poor reviews.

Edwardia

Used to price veg sauce as cheaper than making own - not now because too few veg. Going back to making own. The chilli sauce in out of town Sainsbos yesterday 500g but noticed 350g in town centre one today.

More shopping today :eek: as OH wanted to mooch round town centre with me and reckon have walked about three miles

Went into town centre (smaller) Sainsbury's and spotted on one shelf new packaging Kallo organic stock cubes 88g 1.30 but on offer 2 for £2 and on shelf nearby old style packaging 66g for £1 so it seems new offering is 22g more for 30p more. However prices vary wildly as later in ASDA old style 66g were 50p each and Holland and Barrett online has veg ones 1.55 and chicken ones 1.39 - for 66g :eek:

In ASDA picked up 9 bars, normally 60p each 2 for £1 and yes when we got home the single bars are bigger than those sold in packs. :mad: Lesson learned = trip to ASDA once a month for organic salmon 2 for £4, ASDA organic Extra Virgin olive oil 500ml 2.50 and 9 bars.

Couldn't find Goodlife nut cutlets in Sainsbury's or ASDA.

Supposedly ASDA has frozen organic sweetcorn 600g 1.49 but not mine (sigh) but ASDA did have the Green Giant organic sweetcorn 80p (but not the 198g tin). Waitrose and Ocado seem to be the only stores which stock the 198g tin for 89p ie 48g more for 9p more.

Kirri can report DP soda crystals £1 in ASDA too so yup Home Bargains saves 35p

BTW inside cover of the ASDA November magazine, there's an ad for Happy Eggs showing cute brown hens pecking about in grass by a hen size field shelter.

Not had anything Booja Booja yet, must confess. OH liked the Alpro chocolate flavour soya dessert at first, but decided after awhile too sweet for him. Kirri do you mean Cat and the Cream cupcakes ? VeganX https://www.vegancross.com has them in store but doesn't ship. 2.50 cupcakes, 2.80 cakes. Tried the Sharpham Park spelt several years ago, don't think I was overly keen either.

Callie22

If you fancy making your own vegan cupcakes then I can highly recommend 'Vegan cupcakes take over the world' by Isa Chandra Moskowitz - in fact I'd recommend any of her books, but the baking ones (cupcakes, cookies, pies) are especially good. I was a baker and even I find it hard to veganize baking recipes, but these work really well.