help me cut on food

lao_cat

I am really quite confused by your post, tbh from how you describe it I find it hard to believe you are actually eating enough

You would get better value on your foods if bought and did some batch cooking things like meatloaf, chilli and then freeze in single portions. I am not sure whether you are trying to save out or necessity or choice but really of you are on this diet for medical reason I would prioritse good quality wholesome food.

Re tomatoes for lunch, personally I bring a knife an slice right before I add to my salad

Gigervamp

If you buy a whole chicken, the bones don't need to be wasted, they can be boiled up to make stock.

Also, if you buy good quality free range chicken, it shouldn't shrink. Cheap chicken is injected with a liquid to make it appear bigger, that's why when you cook it, a lot of water comes out and it shrinks.

As for tomatoes, I'd do as another poster suggested and take a knife to cut it when you need it.

AnnieO1234

Get yourself to aldi because even piccolo tomatoes are cheap there. Cooked chickens for £3.99 or try your local butcher, most will sell decent chicken breasts for £4/5 a kilo with no water added. At mine, one breast will easily feed two adults.

I buy 5kg of chicken breasts for £20, if it's a time issue, do the same and cook all in one go and freeze if that's an option. Or look into dehydrators and making your own jerky.

Xxx

spezial

I just got back from Aldi.
I got tiny tomatoes for £1.97/kg. Brilliant price. The tomatoes however miserable. Not that good taste and horrible texture, they have very thin walls.

I also got a roasted chicken for £3.99. Good price. Chicken horrible. Tasteless and the most important very stinky. Heavy chicken odour.

I also checked their raw meat prices. Nowhere near cheap. I found pork belly slices (the cheapest meat you can find in UK) for a whopping £5/kg!!! Tesco has them for £3.75/kg.

Plus, because I work, I can only go to aldi after 6pm, and many of the stuff have already finished or I end up choosing between leftovers.

I don't know how much I can save by shopping exclusively at Aldi in contrast with Tesco/Asda. Has anyone calculated? Will I save £5 per 10 items? or £0.5 for 10 items? Does it worth? And they have some stuff strategically more expensive, and you end up buying them because the cheap ones are gone. Not sure if Aldi is worthy.

Also Lidl are better imo. Same problems with low stocks late, but better quality.

We need a smart supermarket. For example, I don't need the supermarket to waste money to keep heated a roasted chicken, because at the moment I get it home, I will need to reheat it. So it could sell it roasted but in the fridge for alot cheaper.

honeythewitch

spezial wrote: »

I just got back from Aldi.
I got tiny tomatoes for £1.97/kg. Brilliant price. The tomatoes however miserable. Not that good taste and horrible texture, they have very thin walls.

I also got a roasted chicken for £3.99. Good price. Chicken horrible. Tasteless and the most important very stinky. Heavy chicken odour.

I also checked their raw meat prices. Nowhere near cheap. I found pork belly slices (the cheapest meat you can find in UK) for a whopping £5/kg!!! Tesco has them for £3.75/kg.

Plus, because I work, I can only go to aldi after 6pm, and many of the stuff have already finished or I end up choosing between leftovers.

I don't know how much I can save by shopping exclusively at Aldi in contrast with Tesco/Asda. Has anyone calculated? Will I save £5 per 10 items? or £0.5 for 10 items? Does it worth? And they have some stuff strategically more expensive, and you end up buying them because the cheap ones are gone. Not sure if Aldi is worthy.

Also Lidl are better imo. Same problems with low stocks late, but better quality.

We need a smart supermarket. For example, I don't need the supermarket to waste money to keep heated a roasted chicken, because at the moment I get it home, I will need to reheat it. So it could sell it roasted but in the fridge for alot cheaper.

Ox liver is the cheapest meat.

spezial

honeythewitch wrote: »

Ox liver is the cheapest meat.

well, that's not muscle meat, it's offal and I don't like the taste of liver, I would eat something very fatty though

honeythewitch

spezial wrote: »

well, that's not muscle meat, it's offal and I don't like the taste of liver, I would eat something very fatty though

There is nothing magical about "muscle meat" and it is not superior to organ meat. Read this... http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/04/why-everyone-should-be-eating-organ.html




The reason the chicken smelled of chicken is because it is chicken, and also because often the cooked chickens have flavourings added.
I advise you to buy three large chickens for ten pounds from farmfoods, cook them at home, and make them as chickeny or unchickeny as you like.
If you want something cheap and fatty get a packet of biscuits!

Brambleberry

No one but you can work out how much you would save, because only you know if you will buy and enjoy particular items from each shop - the tomatoes are a good example of this.

There is no single supermarket that will be the cheapest for everything so you either shop between several of them over different trips or you have to make a compromise.

Make yourself a little price book (or use mysupermarket app) to help you get to know how the prices for your shopping list items vary between retailers and seasons, the more seasonally you shop, the cheaper it could be.

Pork belly is apparently quite trendy, so of course it will be more expensive, supermarkets are businesses and want to make money. You can buy chilled roasted chickens in most supermarkets, either whole or portioned, but they are rarely the cheapest option, unless yellow-stickered.

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I slow cook a chicken and it is delicious and just falls off the bones.Once stripped of all usuable meat the carcuss and stock is left in low for another hour then I drain everything out of it and the remaining stock goes into a large jug to cool down.Once cooled I use theis with any odd chicken scraps I can find to make a good hearty chicken soup,full of goodness with a few veg bits thrown in for extra flavour.

A stick of two of chopped up celery a few carrots and a diced onion. Even a handful of pearl barley.A decent dollop of lazy garlic and you have a good vat of healthy chicken soup.Potted up in containers this well fill most tummies for lunches for a week if working.

What you don't use you freeze or keep covered in the fridge.

The meat from the chicken that you have stripped can be used for curries,sliced in sandwiches or in wraps for lunches or with potato's or salad as a main meal, or even with a few scrappy bits used in a pasta dish with a bit of sauce.

A whole chicken for around a fiver can be streeetched to make several dinners plus lots of snacky,lunch type things plus of course delicious soup.

When I was a little girl back in the mists of time (1940s) chicken was only eaten at Christmas (usually reared by my parents ) so every bit of the bird was utilised to its full potential.

There is virtually no waste on a chicken You can even if you have the odds and ends inside the clucker make pate from the liver etc with a few diced up spring onions.Great on toast.

I buy a free range chicken for around a fiver or so and it can supply me with almost a weeks meals for myself.

spezial

honeythewitch wrote: »

There is nothing magical about "muscle meat" and it is not superior to organ meat. Read this... http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/04/why-everyone-should-be-eating-organ.html

The reason the chicken smelled of chicken is because it is chicken, and also because often the cooked chickens have flavourings added.
I advise you to buy three large chickens for ten pounds from farmfoods, cook them at home, and make them as chickeny or unchickeny as you like.
If you want something cheap and fatty get a packet of biscuits!

no it wasn't a nice flavour, it was bad!

as for biscuits, I can't each carbs

offal stuff would be good, but I dont like the taste of liver!