The price/cost of lazyness.

Pollycat

Greenqueen wrote: »

Ready grated cheddar cheese is often cheaper per kg than buying a block.

I'm really quite surprised to read that.
Are you comparing like-for-like? i.e. the same type of cheese

[Deleted User]

Greenqueen wrote: »

Ready grated cheddar cheese is often cheaper per kg than buying a block.

The grated stuff probably comes from all the off-cuts.

firebubble

A bit of a judgy title... obvs, we all know that the cheapest way of obtaining food is to grow it yourself from (your own harvested and dried) seed, but there are myriad reasons people are prepared to pay extra for the convenience of having someone else grow, harvest, clean, chop and even cook it, unrelated to 'laziness'.

When I was working mad hours in a job and getting home very late, buying pre-chopped onions was the difference between a home cooked nutritious meal and ordering takeaway...well worth the extra pennies.

We only have so much energy to devote to our lives, and sometimes there is just none left to devote to an unchopped onion.

Callie22

Greenqueen wrote: »

It isn't always dearer to buy pre-prepared.
Ready grated cheddar cheese is often cheaper per kg than buying a block.

Ready grated cheese often has stuff added to make sure that it stays separate in the packets (for example potato starch) - hence why it sometimes does strange things when you cook with it. You're not buying 100% cheese as you are in a block so you can't really compare the prices.

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

I'm really quite surprised to read that.
Are you comparing like-for-like? i.e. the same type of cheese

Callie22 wrote: »

Ready grated cheese often has stuff added to make sure that it stays separate in the packets (for example potato starch) - hence why it sometimes does strange things when you cook with it. You're not buying 100% cheese as you are in a block so you can't really compare the prices.

So not like-for-like at all.

I have to admit that I've never bought ready grated cheese.