Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wish I understood what this means.....

I thought it meant they baked every day

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I generally only buy them when yellow stickered, but my usual would be the Sainsbury's basics (6 for 69p). What are the lidl ones like?

Just had a look and my 4 cheese and black peppers were 60p. An extravagance I know, but they are so nice (esp with the aforementioned marmite).

To be honest, the Lidl ones aren't great, but they are usually available. I can honestly say that, without fail, every time I have looked for muffins in my Mr S the shelves have always been completely empty of muffins and crumpets.

They seem to stock up once, at 7am - and once they're gone they're gone, which is by 11am. Bread shelves are very often empty in so many shops, it's annoying.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I thought it meant they baked every day

I wouldn't mind that so much. Instead parent eats cruddy sliced bread as a staple food.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I thought it meant they baked every day

Blimey - well that would imply not only baking every day, but EATING A WHOLE LOAF EVERY DAY!!

Or, breaking the rule of "no waste". What a waste.

I stopped buying bread some time back as it's impossible to get through a loaf and, as I don't buy milk, I can't then whip up a bread/butter pudding for the second half unless I go out of my way to buy milk and bake the pudding then eat it all.....

Lidl part-bake baguettes, ftw. Two good sized baguettes, 39p. Bake them, cut in half and two halves fit neatly into those plastic takeaway dishes (the deep ones). So I do that: bake 2, eat one half immediately, put the other three halves into plastic boxes to eat over the next few days. They're tasty - and I'd highly recommend them.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It is a juggling act.... I have to consider the date of everything that goes in the trolley and choose when I want two things. e.g. if I am in Lidl once a fortnight, I might be wanting crumpets AND muffins.... but if both are dated for the next 2 days, I can't have both. That runs across everything I buy - and the whole basket of goods has to be considered against what I've got at home, what day of the week it is, what's in the basket and how I plan to use it.

I have a successful zero waste food policy ..... but it does irk me constantly having to reject items that I want as I had to choose.

The pizza I brought earlier came from the freezer .... and I'd have liked to get 2 as I know a frozen pizza'd be OK for a couple of days in the fridge.... but I also knew I was also committed to eating muffins as I'd bought them in the previous shop. And, in that shop, I'd already had to put back some meatballs (BBE today) because I couldn't have eaten all the meatballs and all the muffins in the time available.

I don't juggle very well - when I bought the muffins (over a week ago) I also got some wraps (like tortilla wraps but square). There are still some of both in the fridge.
I just had a pizza - I went back to my parent's a couple of weeks ago and was given it from their freezer. It has been in my fridge since (oops). I definitely didn't intend on leaving it so long (there was no room in my bit of the freezer), but it looked passable (on the turn, but still this side of the corner!). Tasted fine, hopefully I'll still be feeling ok tomorrow!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Wastage. That one was an autocorrecti think. Hated 'membrillo' too.

Ah .... I did consider a typo, but didn't spot wastage as a likely candidate.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Blimey - well that would imply not only baking every day, but EATING A WHOLE LOAF EVERY DAY!!

Or, breaking the rule of "no waste". What a waste.

I stopped buying bread some time back as it's impossible to get through a loaf and, as I don't buy milk, I can't then whip up a bread/butter pudding for the second half unless I go out of my way to buy milk and bake the pudding then eat it all.....

Lidl part-bake baguettes, ftw. Two good sized baguettes, 39p. Bake them, cut in half and two halves fit neatly into those plastic takeaway dishes (the deep ones). So I do that: bake 2, eat one half immediately, put the other three halves into plastic boxes to eat over the next few days. They're tasty - and I'd highly recommend them.

Would have been a lot of wattage though!

The last milk I bought was yellow stickered too. Bit of a gamble! Bought it last Monday, finished it today :eek: Was still fine though (I find that if milk is starting to turn it curdles really badly in coffee, even before it smells 'off').

Sounds like I'm living very on the edge at the moment, doesn't it! If any of you ever come to visit, don't worry - I always serve in-date stuff to visitors... terrified of poisoning anyone (I also worry a lot about people finding hair in their food as I only have to walk into a room and there is a trail of hair behind me).

michaels

I am no longer a professional shopper - I was in tesco and spotted a reduced TV, got to the checkout and they charged the full price...and I queried the total with the checkout operator who corrected it.

The correct thing would have been to have paid the original total and rushed off to the CS desk for a double the difference refund - £98 loss

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never have visitors.... I've got nothing for them. Not even a chair to sit on. They could have cheap coffee in a mug - 3 mugs, none match. I have four plates and one laptray.

I'm not set up for receiving people, or entertaining, but then I've never had visitors in any house really.

They are posh plates though! Whittard's factory outlet, £2 each I think they were. My bit of luxury

Oh - I've also got two nice/posh side plates http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m51AVx97CxTTsMB62_0ZoDA.jpg

I only have 2 mugs here (one is chipped) One plate (reduced as the finish was damaged, and bought when I worked at Lakeland), one big pasta bowl-type thing (free from sainsbury's a few years ago), one cereal bowl (acquired from a house I moved into during undergrad years), two matching sideplates and shallow dishes (also from the Lakeland years), cutlery set that was free (returned and was going to go into the Lakeland bin).

I do have some very pretty individual casserole dishes though :rotfl:

michaels

I was going to mention that Voucher Boy that's been in the papers/on the Breakfast news this morning.... but it's a non story as they don't tell you how he managed to get his mum's £160 shopping for £1.06 (or so) ... and, if that were known, it'd be unrepeatable for me.

It seemed to be all on one receipt so he had already missed out on split baskets to maximize price match promise potential and glitches. Amateur!