Shopping too much?

MallyGirl

I am also trying to work through the freezer atm as it is completely full - and it is 1.8m high so it is a biggy I did reorganise a while back so that I could find things but there is a ridiculous amount of food in there - no more big shopping till it is more reasonable. I think I will be eating soup for lunch for a while as that seems to have built up to crazy proportions (all homemade).
I am planning to dive in each evening and get something out to defrost for the next day. That way we will eat it - when I leave it to meal time to find something it all goes wrong and we turn out to be missing some vital ingredient/accompaniment. Advance planning will be the way out of this.

Eenymeeny

I shop mainly in Lidl who don't stock dried milk or the full fat UHT that I use for yogurt making. If you don't mind the taste of them I find that stocking up on these on my rare visits to Morrisons or Tesco's mean that I never run out of milk. (You can freeze milk in plastic bottles but to me it takes up valuable freezer space.)
Incidentally, my sister tells me that her husband objects to UHT milk in his coffee yet drinks it quite happily when visiting us

Gigervamp

Eenymeeny wrote: »

I shop mainly in Lidl who don't stock dried milk or the full fat UHT that I use for yogurt making.

I've bought dried milk in Lidl. It comes in a blue tin.

pipkin71

MallyGirl wrote: »

I am also trying to work through the freezer atm as it is completely full - and it is 1.8m high so it is a biggy I did reorganise a while back so that I could find things but there is a ridiculous amount of food in there - no more big shopping till it is more reasonable. I think I will be eating soup for lunch for a while as that seems to have built up to crazy proportions (all homemade).
I am planning to dive in each evening and get something out to defrost for the next day. That way we will eat it - when I leave it to meal time to find something it all goes wrong and we turn out to be missing some vital ingredient/accompaniment. Advance planning will be the way out of this.

We seem to have so many bags of home made soups in the freezers as well

Mr_Singleton

cloey wrote: »

as in the past we've been skint before and not had anything so now do this out of habit to ensure we won't go hungry

flipping heck, I bought 2 Bresse chickens this afternoon.... there but for the grace of God go I.

Hope you find a job soon.

Eenymeeny

Gigervamp wrote: »

I've bought dried milk in Lidl. It comes in a blue tin.

Thanks I'll have another look. I did ask a while ago and was told that they didn't stock it. Can you remember where it was displayed please? (Sometimes they don't seem to follow logic, couldn't find pudding rice yesterday) Thanks.

Gigervamp

It was a while ago now, but I think it was near the tea and coffee.

Living_proof

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Thanks I'll have another look. I did ask a while ago and was told that they didn't stock it. Can you remember where it was displayed please? (Sometimes they don't seem to follow logic, couldn't find pudding rice yesterday) Thanks.

This is the sort of stock item which goes AWOL over the build up to Christmas. I have been to Sainsbury's two days running for their Basic dried milk and the first day the shelf was bare but the item was still listed. Yesterday it wasn't even listed and the only dried milk they had was Marvel at £3.70 for the big tin - three times as much as the basic package. I use it in my breadmaker so will have to find another source for the next couple of months. I will be glad when mid January comes and things go back to normality.

maman

Living_proof wrote: »

This is the sort of stock item which goes AWOL over the build up to Christmas. I have been to Sainsbury's two days running for their Basic dried milk and the first day the shelf was bare but the item was still listed. Yesterday it wasn't even listed and the only dried milk they had was Marvel at £3.70 for the big tin - three times as much as the basic package. I use it in my breadmaker so will have to find another source for the next couple of months. I will be glad when mid January comes and things go back to normality.

Did a bit of googling and it seems that Aldi does its own dried milk and Tesco has a very cheap basic one. Marvel is much cheaper (£2.50) in Iceland if anyone particularly likes it.

Living_proof

maman wrote: »

Did a bit of googling and it seems that Aldi does its own dried milk and Tesco has a very cheap basic one. Marvel is much cheaper (£2.50) in Iceland if anyone particularly likes it.

Thanks Maman! I had looked at mySupermarket and Tesco basic would do for my purposes but it will have to wait until I am going in for something else. I think somebody on here has already said that a lot of the basic/cheaper ranges have been dropped recently. and sometimes it is worth paying two or three times as much for taste and quality. But often not!