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Cheese Warning
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Remember that cheese freezes.Can I help?0
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Am checking out the pound shops and B&M nowadays.
Tesco and Sainsbury on the back burner.Cheese is often halfprice in Lidl. (e.g. £2.35/£2.50kg)
Slightly OT I know but I've started doing this with all our toiletries. Where I work now I am surrounded by discount shops. There is a Wilkinsons, B&M, Pound Empire, Pound Stretcher, Bodycare and Quality Save. There's no way I'm paying Sainsbury's prices for any of these goods any more.Back for the No Buying Toiletries challenge. I pledge to only buy when I run out of a product that is not already in my stash no matter what wonderful emails land in in my Inbox or threads I read on MSE re: glitches!
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Even the most mild Cheddar will improve in taste if you leave it to mature. And if you'e impatient, for a "quick fix" if you're making cheese sauce grate some Parmesan in for extra taste. Mature means just that=older.Me and the old dear normally buy a few kilos for about £20-£30 from the wholesalers. Chop the block down the middle and have half each. Cut off as much as you'll use in a week, then wrap the rest well and it keeps.
The last bit tends to be a bit mature when you get to it though!
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Don't know if it's just me, but, the other thing I've noticed with the little retail peices is, the smaller the block, the more you end up wasting.Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
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I am ok for cheese atm after the tesco glitch and a batch from lidl but I am not keen on this weight reduction. Will keep an eye open. ty OP.3 kids(DS1 6 Nov, DS2 8 Feb, DS3 24 Dec) a hubby and two cats - I love to save every penny I can!
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art_for_arts_sake wrote: »Surely the smaller the piece of cheese, the less chance of it hanging around going mouldy?
Yeah, but the more little bits you and up wasting as crumbs as you're trying to cut a useful bit. That and I find I end up cutting less accuratly on a small peice.Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
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I have been buying asda own brand cheese (mature and extra mature), still 400g, and often on 2/£4, therefore £5 per kilo. The offers on all the brands are never as good any more as suggested because the weight is dropping and the price isn't. Not sure why cadbury were singled out for all the flak last week!
(oh, we find the cheese doesn't brown very well on the pasta bake, but we can live with that!)0
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