Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

That is why you (and I) are not the sort of customer supermarkets are interested in

Because we aren't sheep and can do maths?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Or any one who cooks?

I draw my line at making my own cheese and will buy packets of chips. However, I have been known to give hungry small people cheesy hm wedges as a treat rather than buy chips.

Lidl chips at 67p for 1Kg compares well, price-wise to buying spuds. For somebody with a freezer they're ready to go and no peeling/waste either. Often with cheap potatoes you have to lob 2-3 from a bag as there's a big black hole almost all the way through.

There are many rubbish/cheap frozen chips; Lidl's 67p ones are nice and big/flat, which I like.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lidl chips at 67p for 1Kg compares well, price-wise to buying spuds. For somebody with a freezer they're ready to go and no peeling/waste either. Often with cheap potatoes you have to lob 2-3 from a bag as there's a big black hole almost all the way through.

There are many rubbish/cheap frozen chips; Lidl's 67p ones are nice and big/flat, which I like.

But not to buying them buy the famers' sack for people feeding more than one type of potato offering over a period of weeks.

We never buy potatoes in bulk any more because DH and I don't eat them often but if we did, if we had a family to feed more cheaply then I probably would revert to sacks in winter.

silvercar

michaels wrote:

Surely the whole point of gmail (or any other webmail service) is to cut out having to use outlook or any other PC based product so it matters not one iota who your ISP is or indeed where in the world you have logged on.

I like outlook.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

But not to buying them buy the famers' sack for people feeding more than one type of potato offering over a period of weeks.

We never buy potatoes in bulk any more because DH and I don't eat them often but if we did, if we had a family to feed more cheaply then I probably would revert to sacks in winter.

Prefer buying potatoes (reduced, of course) as they are more versatile. Always good to have a bag of oven chips in the freezer though.

I guess the cheesy chips meal is good if you don't want/ don't have space for a whole bag of oven chips. Likewise if you don't want a whole block of cheese. Or if you're too lazy to grate your own cheese.

Or if you don't have a freezer as you can just buy the meal and cook it that day...

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

That is why you (and I) are not the sort of customer supermarkets are interested in

When Tesco was recruiting shoppers and paying them, they turned me down by more or less saying that. However, nobody plays them as well as the guy I saw today while leaving the store.

Blackberries in store: £2.00 per punnet. However the freegan I saw in the bushes around the perimeter was picking them for free. They'd even brought their own punnet. Had managed to get quite a big crop too. Made my day.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I guess the cheesy chips meal is good if you don't want/ don't have space for a whole bag of oven chips. Likewise if you don't want a whole block of cheese. Or if you're too lazy to grate your own cheese.

You know those bags of grated cheese that they sell in supermarkets... they use potato starch to separate the grated bits and stop clumping.

They are out to get me I tell you.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

You know those bags of grated cheese that they sell in supermarkets... they use potato starch to separate the grated bits and stop clumping.

They are out to get me I tell you.

When I had to avoid mushrooms, it was amazing how many things have mushroom - or mushroom stock - in them.

Potato starch must be in all sorts of things

I definitely appreciate being able to buy what I like and not having to pay any attention to the ingredients (unless I want to).

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

When Tesco was recruiting shoppers and paying them, they turned me down by more or less saying that. However, nobody plays them as well as the guy I saw today while leaving the store.

Blackberries in store: £2.00 per punnet. However the freegan I saw in the bushes around the perimeter was picking them for free. They'd even brought their own punnet. Had managed to get quite a big crop too. Made my day.

I took my parents for their first look round the house I am currently trying to buy on Friday. It got the parental seal of approval, which somewhat surprised me (I've mentioned on here previously that during my brother's house hunt I was told that we (as a family) didn't do renovating houses).
We noticed a couple of blackberry bushes and possibly a plum tree in the garden as well as a large Buddleja which was covered in peacock butterflies.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

But not to buying them buy the famers' sack for people feeding more than one type of potato offering over a period of weeks.

We never buy potatoes in bulk any more because DH and I don't eat them often but if we did, if we had a family to feed more cheaply then I probably would revert to sacks in winter.

I eat quite a lot of spuds, but still struggle to get through a 2.5Kg bag (cheapest bulk I buy) before they sprout and go soft.