Looking for bulk/wholesale mashed potato

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I buy 58kg of frozen mashed potato each month.

The best I can find is mash at Farmfoods for £0.84 / kg -- However it has vegetable oil in it which I'm not comfortable eating.

Currently buying frozen mash at Tesco for £2 / kg

Does anyone know a cheaper place to buy frozen mash, perhaps at a wholesaler or something?

Steve059

58kg a month?

What about making your own as and when required?

MysteryMe

You like mash, that's for sure!

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Yeah 58kg... pretty strange, yes. :P

I considered making it myself (costs about 80p/Kg), but as a lazy person I love the convenience of frozen mash and willing to pay for it.

MysteryMe

I like mash too ha ha!


Found Iceland £1.10 per kg



http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-mashed-potato-908g/p/41585

random1980s

58kg a month? so you eat a lightweight washing machines worth of mashed potato every month?

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MysteryMe wrote: »

I like mash too ha ha!
Found Iceland £1.10 per kg

Nice, thanks

58kg a month? so you eat a lightweight washing machines worth of mashed potato every month?

Yes, if you were wondering... I eat three meals each day consisting of 650g mash + portion of mixed vegetables + portion of meat. With milk and fruit between meals. I've been eating like this the past 6 months and have never been better health-wise. It took a few years to find a diet that worked for me.

Edit: Found canned pre-peeled potatoes at asda @ 14p per can (350-400g per can). For 58kg it comes to £25.20 per month!

Managed to get my monthly food bill to £132.30 down from £378.25 just by changing brands & types.

happy35

if you buy that quantity and you have a big freezer you may get a good deal from a catering wholesaler

Steve059

The mashed potato diet. There is a God.

Callie22

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Edit: Found canned pre-peeled potatoes at asda @ 14p per can (350-400g per can). For 58kg it comes to £25.20 per month!

I don't think that these would mash very well - tinned spuds tend to have a really odd taste and texture. They also tend to be very heavily salted so you'd need to watch that, if you ate 3 650g portions a day.

maman

Callie22 wrote: »

I don't think that these would mash very well - tinned spuds tend to have a really odd taste and texture. They also tend to be very heavily salted so you'd need to watch that, if you ate 3 650g portions a day.

I recently discovered canned potatoes. I think, a bit like canned carrots and peas, they taste OK but not like fresh product. So basically (a bit like coffee) it's best not to compare but think of as a different food altogether.

I found the best way to eat them is to slice them up and have saut!ed or put into a frittata.

At less than 39p a kg they're a good, cheap stand by.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/exclusive-to-aldi/price-cuts/price-cuts-product-detail-page/ps/p/canned-new-potatoes/


Sorry OP, not much use for the mashed potato diet. BTW I still find your food budget high per month for one person. I suppose having meat, veg and mash for breakfast must push the costs up.:rotfl: