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  • Rosa_Damascena
    Rosa_Damascena Posts: 6,948 Forumite
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    maman said:
    If you saw the TV programme the other night about what we're feeding children, there was a good rule of thumb. Processed food generally has ingredients you wouldn't normally have in your kitchen. So I wouldn't worry about marinades or seasonings.

    P.S. From a mse point of view, unless you're very disciplined, I wouldn't shop daily. 
    Shopping daily may lead to less food wastage as you can buy for just that day (or the next if shopping in the evening).  Also buying one day's food is lighter to carry and may not require taking the car to transport "a big shop" and thus save petrol/electricity costs.
    Not necessarily. As I work at a supermarket and see and serve the same customers 2-3  times a week. They buy two carrots each time . Those carrots cost 15-18p. Buying a kilo bag costs 40p containing 8-12 carrots. That’s one example. As if buy loose carrots like this over a year compared to buying a bag of carrots per week - wasting £35-40. Can see people wasting £400 a year with other items. Another example is baked beans. The smaller tins are only 5p-10p less than a can double the size. Buy a full can and put half in a food storage pot in the fridge and use 3-4 days later. Can be frozen. Then defrost naturally overnight.

    My store stopped selling the small tins of spaghetti hoops. When a customer complained about this, I suggested the above to him and the way he looked at me was like if I was talking in a different language.

    I live alone and always buy the big tins, large packs of chicken breasts, mince etc (unless the smaller packs have reduced stickers). Then split the packs of meat  up on getting home, wrapping in foil then with a food bag with what’s inside. Plus I can slip a chicken breast into a small gap into the freezer.

    Last year, I found in the reduced in Lidl, a pack of 16 chicken breasts for £2. Gave 8-10 of them to my parents.
    I wasn't suggesting buying small sizes - I've never bought a small tin of baked beans in my life and sometimes buying 4 tins packed together is better.  If that's too heavy to carry, that's when you use your car for the bigger shop (perhaps when you are buying 18 or 24 toilet rolls etc).
    I live on my own and shop frequently (use the time for gentle exercise and escape from the computer) and do buy packs where I need to split and freeze - including loaves and cheese.  It is just that the purchases are spread through the week or month.
    From an infection control perspective its best to skip the shops.
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  • briskbeats
    briskbeats Posts: 434 Forumite
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    maman said:
    If you saw the TV programme the other night about what we're feeding children, there was a good rule of thumb. Processed food generally has ingredients you wouldn't normally have in your kitchen. So I wouldn't worry about marinades or seasonings.

    P.S. From a mse point of view, unless you're very disciplined, I wouldn't shop daily. 
    Shopping daily may lead to less food wastage as you can buy for just that day (or the next if shopping in the evening).  Also buying one day's food is lighter to carry and may not require taking the car to transport "a big shop" and thus save petrol/electricity costs.
    Not necessarily. As I work at a supermarket and see and serve the same customers 2-3  times a week. They buy two carrots each time . Those carrots cost 15-18p. Buying a kilo bag costs 40p containing 8-12 carrots. That’s one example. As if buy loose carrots like this over a year compared to buying a bag of carrots per week - wasting £35-40. Can see people wasting £400 a year with other items. Another example is baked beans. The smaller tins are only 5p-10p less than a can double the size. Buy a full can and put half in a food storage pot in the fridge and use 3-4 days later. Can be frozen. Then defrost naturally overnight.

    My store stopped selling the small tins of spaghetti hoops. When a customer complained about this, I suggested the above to him and the way he looked at me was like if I was talking in a different language.

    I live alone and always buy the big tins, large packs of chicken breasts, mince etc (unless the smaller packs have reduced stickers). Then split the packs of meat  up on getting home, wrapping in foil then with a food bag with what’s inside. Plus I can slip a chicken breast into a small gap into the freezer.

    Last year, I found in the reduced in Lidl, a pack of 16 chicken breasts for £2. Gave 8-10 of them to my parents.
    I wasn't suggesting buying small sizes - I've never bought a small tin of baked beans in my life and sometimes buying 4 tins packed together is better.  If that's too heavy to carry, that's when you use your car for the bigger shop (perhaps when you are buying 18 or 24 toilet rolls etc).
    I live on my own and shop frequently (use the time for gentle exercise and escape from the computer) and do buy packs where I need to split and freeze - including loaves and cheese.  It is just that the purchases are spread through the week or month.
    From an infection control perspective its best to skip the shops.
    Can't say that to someone who works at one. Though I think I had covid back just before the first lockdown. Didn't get tested as nearest test centre was 48 miles away. No way I was going to drive that far when feeling like death. Struggled to hold a pen some days so no way I could drive. Think I got it from a man coughing all over me during the selfish shelf stripping  period did we have any mustard and yet had the cheek to say he should be self isolating. I was so tempted to say stuff your mustard and go home.

    As I did lose my taste for a day after the first dose, people have said I must have had covid. As I had the other symptoms - not the lost of taste but asthma has got worse since.

    Think about 6 of us had covid altogether - 2 of them husband and wife which is well below average as with a population of 70m and 4.5m cases - so 1 in 15 has been tested positive. My work has about 110 colleagues.

    I shop after work for a few items and then go once a week to Lidl. Probably once every 8 weeks, I go somewhere else to shop for items that my work or Lidl don't sell.
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