Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

Sainsbury's had 750g bag organic carrots for £1 recently.. each bag contained only five carrots :rotfl: I call that precision weighing !

Newsflash

General Mills is starting to put GM free Cheerios in US stores -remember Yanks getting all uppity on Facebook cos we Europeans get GM free and they didn't .. well it worked !

http://business.time.com/2014/01/03/general-mills-to-sell-gmo-free-cheerios/

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/news/companies/cheerios-gmo/

Kirri

Ocado have the Goodlife nut cutlets on offer and also the Kallo choc rice cakes

Edwardia

Darn it, wish I'd seen that, I would have added nut cutlets to my Ocado order !

TanH_2

Yorkieorchid posted on the grabbit board about a sale on Organic Surge products. Don't know if this is of interest to anyone? Can't work out how to post a link on my tablet, sorry

Edwardia

Thanks TanH :T

Here's the link
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4859752

Spice it Up sea salt grinder £1 Poundland
http://www.poundland.co.uk/food-and-drink/grocery/essential-shopping/sea-salt-grinder-110g

Kallo organic unsalted rice cakes 130g £1
http://www.poundland.co.uk/food-and-drink/sweets-and-snacks/crisps-and-snacks/kallo-organic-unsalted-rice-cake-130g

Kirri

Had Riverford delivery today, all very nice and fresh. Wish deliveries were always on a weekend, would be a lot easier.


Nice looking (GF I think) 'chocolate beetroot slump cake' featured in the January Waitrose Kitchen mag.

From this new book which is wheat/dairy/sugar free:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extra-Virgin-Kitchen-Susan-White/dp/0717159337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388941675&sr=8-1&keywords=extra+virgin+kitchen

*must stop looking at cookery books*

The Waitrose Kitchen mag is now free via an app if you have a MyWaitrose card. I prefer the paper copy as I keep a lot of the recipes though.

Kirri

clearing out mags today...

Noticed ad for this organic homewares co in The Simple Things mag:

http://www.ochreandocre.com/

alfsmum

Just wondering if anyone has tried the organic boxes from Ocado as I'd be interested in firsthand experience of quality, quantity, substitutions etc as well as the comments already available on the Ocado website.

One problem I've had with Riverford is unexpected substitutions and although we will eat or at least try most fruit and veg, I seem to have been unfortunate in the past in being substituted with items we really don't like. Not good if I am paying for them! At least with A&C you can list your dislikes.

Edwardia

Happy New Year to all !

Kirri I got my Riverford order yesterday too. My normal day is Friday and I think that means I get tail end of veg often

Like this one for bathroom blinds the problem would be finding someone to make them ! http://www.ochreandocre.com/detail.php?ProdID=348

alfsmum I have had the Ocado small organic veg boxes several times as I get 10% off with Smart Pass. Compared to Abel & Cole, I'm impressed - box always crammed to the gills with fresh veg of high quality. Whenever I get a box, it's the Ocado one.

Kirri

alfsmum wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone has tried the organic boxes from Ocado as I'd be interested in firsthand experience of quality, quantity, substitutions etc as well as the comments already available on the Ocado website.

One problem I've had with Riverford is unexpected substitutions and although we will eat or at least try most fruit and veg, I seem to have been unfortunate in the past in being substituted with items we really don't like. Not good if I am paying for them! At least with A&C you can list your dislikes.

I have had one of the Ocado veg/salad boxes, the £17 ish one (but look at the chart on MySupermarket and you'll see it gets reduced roughly every 2 months iirc so might be worth waiting to try it the first time) - I did a review on here (and poss a photo?) but god knows where it is, I'll have a look on Excel, see what month I ordered it in, guess 9 months ish ago. I thought it was really good but at the time of ordering the reviews were mostly bad on Ocado.

They also have the Wholegood branded boxes now, anyone tried them?

I've not had boxes recently, with my food restrictions and the pets requirements being fairly specific I've had to order just specific items but on A&C that is getting a bit unaffordable (whereas their boxes still seem good value) - have you seen the price of their broccoli, it's gone up again! Think it's now £2.90 for 1 head!

Also has the Riverford small fruit bag disappeared from yours Edwardia? I've never thought about the Friday deliveries, I wonder how often they pick/get deliveries though saying that? Really pleased with everything I had this week though and I had lettuce which is hard to keep fresh.