Food and living alone

rainbowfairydust

gnvqsos wrote: »

fionajbanana wrote: »

I love Brains Faggots. Though, supermarkets always do promotions on the 6 pack. For example at the moment, Iceland have them at 87p and the packs of 2 - £1.

It is very difficult to divide the pack into 2 or 3 as the faggots are not evenly distributed in the foil tray and sometimes cannot see them at all. Once I ate all 6 and was feeling very full afterwards

None of the local butchers sells faggots.

I like cabbage, but if I buy one, I eat it for 5 days and I get bored of it.

You need a flatmate who shares your love of faggots.Did you realise that faggots now contain palm oil and recovered meat products making them one of the most fattening foods on the market?The Chinese import 35pc of UK faggot production using them as dim sum

are you on a crusade about palm oil? :rotfl:

rainbowfairydust

fionajbanana wrote: »

Many of these offers you have quoted, you don't have to buy 2 pineapples as there are other things on the same offer! Many customers are duped into you HAVE to buy everything the same! I know in Sainsburys the 2 for £3 applies to anything in the produce department. So you can get a bag of apples and a punnet of TTD tomatoes for £3.

Thanks for letting me know about this..i have always avoided the BOGOF offers on fresh fruit & veg because i thought it had to be the same type of fruit or vegetables. Supermarkets really need to be more clear when it comes to their offers.

I am also in the same boat as you as i am on my own , and find food shopping a pain in the backside.

PLRFD

In a good fillet the fat or marbling running through it is flavor,it melts as its cooking,dont forget to rest it and enjoy.

fionajbanana

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

Thanks for letting me know about this..i have always avoided the BOGOF offers on fresh fruit & veg because i thought it had to be the same type of fruit or vegetables. Supermarkets really need to be more clear when it comes to their offers.

I am also in the same boat as you as i am on my own , and find food shopping a pain in the backside.

Most supermarkets use the term Mix and Match for their multibuy offers. Mix the products to a deal that matches.

You can do this with the meat 3 for £10. Get chicken breasts, pork steaks and salmon fillets, as an example. When you get home, open the packs and wrap each bit of meat individually (or two if they are small). Label them and stick them in the freezer. Also of you individually wrap things like this, you can get more stuff in your freezer.

I will challenge anyone to see if they can get more stuff in my freezer;)

LE3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Finding me 'solutions' isn't the issue here.... the issue is that it's difficult shopping for one.
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"Me" isn't the issue/problem here. There's no problem. This is a discussion about how annoying it is to have to shop/cook for single people.

Somebody turned it into solving a problem ..... and those of us that are single are quite capable of solving the problem ourselves if we had: more room, more money, a freezer and hadn't lost the will to bother

I think you've hot it on the head with your last statement there - YOU have lost the will to bother

I live on my own, have done for a long time.
I don't struggle with food buying, but then I don't struggle with eating a whole quiche in one go if I make one or thinking that one pitta bread is enough sustenance for an adult for a whole day!

Yes, it is annoying that some foods only come in certain sized containers, when BOGOF gives you more than you can use sensibly or when you don't have a freezer, but you just need to think it through!

Yesterday I had toasted bagel for breakfast (ALDI, come in packs of 4 but divided into 2x2 so they don't go stale so quickly - I keep it in the fridge & toast it), a cheese & pickle sandwich for lunch and grilled pork chop with potato & carrots for dinner.
Today I had porridge for breakfast, have a piece of quiche & some salad for lunch (ham & cheese) and plan to have ham, egg & "chips" (hm wedges) for dinner
The other pork chop from my pack of 2 I will probably have tomorrow cooked with some apple juice or apple slices in a foil parcel in the oven maybe with a jacket potato & some more of the carrots, I still have some ham for a sandwich later in the week & more cheese - I will probably bring some raw carrots to work tomorrow for lunch with a sandwich ...

Even though I am eating pork chops twice this week, ham several times in different meals, some eggs & cheese and of course potato (I'm like you, I love potatoes) I don't feel that I am eating the same thing every day at all

LE3

fionajbanana wrote: »

Label them and stick them in the freezer.

but PasturesNew doesn't have a freezer ...

It's so sad that people on this thread think their life would be so magically transformed if they had a freezer/ a partner/ more money/ ...
Are you all really so unhappy with your lives? If so, what are you doing to change things? Change must come from within - external factors will not make you happy!

Kirri

PasturesNew wrote: »

No - the post was started as a discussion, slight gripe. Then people waded in to "solve problems" (which involved having a freezer) - and everybody's just piling in with their "nugget" without understanding the issues in the OP.

Nobody's unhappy, we're just openly saying how annoying it is that you can't buy single portions/quantities at the same cheap rate of bigger packs.... so you either go without or buy the bigger pack and have to eat the same meals 3-4x in a row for the rest of your life.

To be fair, people in similar situations are just pointing out that they manage fairly ok with the odd slight gripe and have found ways around it - but your situations do seem quite extreme, hence why people have responded to that.

I'm with you on the raw meat non handling though - I used to use tongs!! Though for me it made more sense to just stop eating it.

hollylangman37

I'm currently living where I have a 2 plate hob to cook on and a slow cooker, no freezer. You just have to adapt to what you've got, one night I may do pasta/bolognese, mashed potato and mince, stew, soup, veggie curry, pork chops and mashed potato, fajitas etc.

There's still plenty that you can cook. I tend to buy meat from the butchers or i do buy small packs from the supermarket. Vegetables, again I get loose in the supermarket or at a market.

HappyMJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

And, to bring it back to the original post: a pack og 6 fillet steaks are probably £30 whereas one costs £10. You get the benefit of volume buying, which is what the OP was saying in part.

Go to the butcher counter at the supermarket and ask for one. Meat is priced per kg so it doesn't matter if you want 1 or 20 each costs the same. I don't know of any fillet steak weighing 85 grams costing £5 each. That would be £58/kg. Fillet Steak costs about £20/kg and you can buy a small steak at 85 grams (3 ounces) from the counter for about £1.70.

My OH thinks asking for 1 sausage is weird but I really don't mind doing it and the butcher is not bothered giving me one. They are much better than the cheap pre packed ones which you might see at 8 for £1. The butcher counter ones tend to have 90% pork and cost 50p each....and you have just the one if you want.

Same goes with slices of ham and meat. Every time I go up to the deli counter and ask for 1 slice of meat she'll run off in the other direction. The staff really don't care giving me the one slice if that's what I want that's what they give me. The offcuts/scraps at Morrisons are quite good 50 grams for 30p.

paulineb_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

You see - this is what the thread was originally about, in part. A single person wouldn't be wanting to buy all that meat to make savings + they are more likely to not have a freezer. Thus limiting them to buying overpriced smaller portions. People not shopping for one could scoff that lot in a week without having the same meal twice.

We can all be clever, smart and on the ball with a freezer

I agree, but eating the same meal twice really doesnt bother me

You can always find savings, Im not into BOGOF or 3 for 2 offers anyway but I reckon I can still eat as cheaply as someone cooking for a large family.

Supermarkets and other shops try and get people to buy 3 of something they probably wouldnt even buy 2 of unless it was a 3 for 2 promotion.