Money Moral Dilemma: Is it OK to snap off the broccoli stalk before weighing it?

m5rcc

flyingflea wrote: »

you're effectively depriving the store of income they would have otherwise had

My heart bleeds for Tesco....:T

momist

flyingflea wrote: »

It's not really OK as you're effectively depriving the store of income they would have otherwise had. If everyone did that they'd have to increase the price of broccoli.

NO! If everyone did that, they would get the message that that is not the part of the broccoli we wish to buy, and stop cutting it in such a way as to inflate the profit to them at our expense.
In our house we eat most of the stem anyway, by trimming the cut end and slicing away the tough skin, then cutting the core of the stem into 3mm slices. This cooks together with the flowers. But really, we only do that because we are forced into buying stem we didn't want.

lstar337

The stalks make good Stilton and broccoli soup, so I have no problem paying for them.

f00dman

you would be better off snapping the asparagus spears, a lot easier done :j

Simonne15

I knew someone (a man) who snapped off all the mushroom stalks too before he weighed them!!
Clearly if we all did it the supermarkets would soon catch on and react but that would probably come down on the producers. A recent cookery programme - it may have been Mary Berry???? pointed out that when preparing salads, the inner white part of the broccoli stalk is delicious in slivers within the salad leaves etc. She's right. I personally use the stalk in broccoli and blue cheese soup, yummmmy; it provides healthy fibre and disappears into the texture when blended after cooking so helps thicken the soup without needing flour and fat etc. These seem to me to be much better ways of dealing with what you initially think of as compost waste. :T:T:T

pandora205

I've just done a Jason Vale juice detox and broccoli stalks are important ingredients of some of the juices as apparently that's where most of the nutrients are. They are also good slice thinly in salads and stir fries, as well as in soups.

GemEden

Why not eat the stalk too, we do! Great for chopping up and adding to casseroles and stews. You're missing out on a lot of good nutrients there!

I think it is wrong and you would into trouble if spotted!

Topothy

You can cut the stalk up and stir fry the pieces - lovely also good in soups, stews etc, so the stalk is edible and therefore it's not ok to snap it off in the store - it would be like peeling a potato because you don't eat the peel!

sensiblesue

No it's not ok. I worked in a supermarket and a customer used to take the stalks and all the seeds out of peppers and put the remains in a bag to be weighed! I was disgusted and as another lady has said, it only saves a very SMALL amount! If anyone tried to do that in a fruit and veg shop, the owner would throw them out and rightly so!

torus

stevenhp1987 wrote: »

I see it as no different to picking individual bananas.

Not sure, how smaller shops then sell the aforementioned stalk is beyond me, but larger shops can easily take the hit.

Although at the end of the day, you've saved ~ 20p. That stalk could have made some lovely veg stock (for soup).

So it's okay to steal from large shop as 'they can take the hit' but not from small ones? Stealing is stealing - a criminal offence.