Foodie on a Budget

MrsStepford

A few years ago, an ASDA survey showed that it was the poorer ASDA shoppers, who were the most concerned about the quality of ingredients and animal welfare. There's a misconception, that it's impossible to find food without additives, in cheaper supermarkets.

I think it's time to show the scoffing lurkers, that it is possible to be a foodie on a budget !  

Husband came home on Thursday, with a couple of packs of 2 Gressingham duck legs which were on offer for 3.99 at Lidl. 

Specially Selected Pesto alla Genovese 190g from Aldi, is 1.75 and apart from pea fibre, the recipe is authentic ie Extra Virgin olive oil and pine nuts. The antioxidant mentioned is ascorbic acid, which is vitamin C. 

ASDA stocks organic avocados for £1 each and if you get Peruvian ones, you'll never think that avocados are bland, again. 

Iceland has Del Monte fresh pineapple chunks 200g three for £5, whole frozen legs of New Zealand lamb for £20 and half legs for £10.

So while I sniffle away with a cold (bleargh), please stick your foodie finds here 😀

Cloth_of_Gold

M&S cherry chocolate liqueurs are £3 for a 250g box. They are absolutely delicious and if you said they had come from a fancy chocolate shop and cost £25 you wouldn't question it. In fact, if you had a nice box or tin that you could re-use you could decant some into it and it would make a nice Christmas present.

pumpkin89

MrsStepford said:

A few years ago, an ASDA survey showed that it was the poorer ASDA shoppers, who were the most concerned about the quality of ingredients and animal welfare. There's a misconception, that it's impossible to find food without additives, in cheaper supermarkets.

Isn't that because poorer shoppers were "forced" to use ASDA because it was the cheapest, whether they liked it or not, whereas wealthier shoppers could choose other retailers with better quality and ethics if they were more concerned about those things?

Floss

MrsStepford said:

I think it's time to show the scoffing lurkers, that it is possible to be a foodie on a budget !  

Husband came home on Thursday, with a couple of packs of 2 Gressingham duck legs which were on offer for 3.99 at Lidl. 

Specially Selected Pesto alla Genovese 190g from Aldi, is 1.75 and apart from pea fibre, the recipe is authentic ie Extra Virgin olive oil and pine nuts. The antioxidant mentioned is ascorbic acid, which is vitamin C. 

ASDA stocks organic avocados for £1 each and if you get Peruvian ones, you'll never think that avocados are bland, again. 

Iceland has Del Monte fresh pineapple chunks 200g three for £5, whole frozen legs of New Zealand lamb for £20 and half legs for £10.

So while I sniffle away with a cold (bleargh), please stick your foodie finds here 😀

Lovely finds across 4 different stores, which where I live anyway are all in a separate quarter of town. And I work full-time and prefer not to spend a full day of my weekends trailing round each one.

bouicca21

Waitrose fresh fish counter often has really good YS type reductions on a Monday or Tuesday.  Snaffled myself a Dover sole on Monday for £3.

DiamondLil

bouicca21 said:

Waitrose fresh fish counter often has really good YS type reductions on a Monday or Tuesday.  Snaffled myself a Dover sole on Monday for £3.

Waitrose where I live have a "Fish Friday" when there are offers to be had.

Mnoee

Every supermarket sells vegetables, cooking them in fun and interesting ways makes them 'foodie' - potatoes can be hassle backed, carrots can be candied, onions cooked into onion jam - I think they're some of the cheapest veg going, and it doesn't take much to turn them into middle class dinner party food. 

Every supermarket has an extra specially selected taste the difference finest range of 'posh' foods, which go on offer. Sainsbury's does now sell value hummus, which does tickle me. Blended chickpeas are definitely not a fancy luxury, but they were certainly marketed like that for a while.

Basically, I don't really know what this thread is about. To me the 'foodie' stuff happens in preparation of the foods, not the foods themselves. Poverty foods of the past include lobster, oysters - even caviar was given away for free! The fact they're now marketed as desirable 'foodie' foods makes me wonder if in 100 years duck fat will be the dirt cheap cooking option and you'll pay through the nose for a basic vegetable oil, but that's about it.

zcrat41

To me being foodie is also making the most of seasonal local produce. I wouldn't buy NZ Lamb however cheap it is. I very very very rarely buy avocado's either. At this time of year a lovely winter casserole with some green veg is foodie to me.