Bulk Buying Pulses etc

Rummer

Hello

We are on a very tight budget and I have been buying more things in bulk like giant nets of onions for £1.49 instead of the same price for 4 onions :eek:.

This got me thinking that bulk buying other things might be better for us.So far we have only bulk bought rice and onions however I was wondering where is the best place to buy other things in bulk for example lentils, chickpeas, bread flour etc

cutestkids

If you have an asian supermarket near you then they will have all of these things at very cheap prices.

Tesco do some things in their world food aisle which are in much larger bags and much cheaper than buying the small bags.

Potatoes also store really well if you have somewhere that is cold and dark eg a shed or garage.

We have a small independent wholefoods health shop where we live and they sell large sacks of flour, rice, etc which work out much cheaper.

Lilyplonk

If you go to the trouble of buying a sack of potatoes - PLEASE do yourself a big favour and check them before storing in the sack in a cool dark place.

IF there are any in there that are looking a bit 'manky' they'll get much worse and possibly contaminate any other potatoes that are touching them - then half the sack will be useless :doh:.

It's happened to me and I was most p*$$ed off as I got about half-way down the sack to find that lots of them had become really gross, stank and had to be binned :mad:.

madnotstupid

If you buy haricot beans in bulk, be aware that they can get really tough after being stored for a few months, even if you cook them for ages they don't get tender.

tori.k

Lilyplonk wrote: »

If you go to the trouble of buying a sack of potatoes - PLEASE do yourself a big favour and check them before storing in the sack in a cool dark place.

IF there are any in there that are looking a bit 'manky' they'll get much worse and possibly contaminate any other potatoes that are touching them - then half the sack will be useless :doh:.

It's happened to me and I was most p*$$ed off as I got about half-way down the sack to find that lots of them had become really gross, stank and had to be binned :mad:.

Lilyplonk next time take the bad ones back to your supplier, after i moaned one year about the spuds getting worse, mine told me to bring the bad ones back and he weigh and takes the cost off my next veg bill, oddly i seem to get better bags of spuds once i spoke up

Lilyplonk

Thanks for that hint, tori.k. Wish I'd thought about that at the time .......... oh well, you live and learn :doh:. In those days, I was providing meals for a Pensioners' Lunch Club, so thought a sack of pots would have been the most economical way to buy them .

There's only OH and myself now and I've retired, so I don't buy a sack any longer. I go into the supermarket and check the 'whoopsied veg' a couple of times a week and usually managed to get enough decent pots - along with other veg - at a reduced price to get us through. If I get more than enough to get through the week, I prep/freeze any extra, so I always have enough veggies on stand-by as well .

marmiterulesok

Rummer wrote: »

Hello

We are on a very tight budget and I have been buying more things in bulk like giant nets of onions for £1.49 instead of the same price for 4 onions :eek:.

This got me thinking that bulk buying other things might be better for us.So far we have only bulk bought rice and onions however I was wondering where is the best place to buy other things in bulk for example lentils, chickpeas, bread flour etc

Your local Indian corner shop or supermarket will sell pulses,some flours,rice,spices etc at very competitive prices.You'll be amazed!

Rummer

Thank you all for the suggestions so far

What things are sensible to buy in bulk, with regards to keeping well? I know it obviously depends on what we use I was thinking:

Onions
Flour
Chickpeas
Pasta
Rice

What I was planning on doing was finding out the cheapest costs of these in my local supermarkets then check the prices in Lidl and then go to some pf the places you have recommended to check out if there is a saving.

Does anyone bulk order items like these online and have them delivered?