Recipes with fish/shellfish

itsthelittlethings

I think oily fish are healthier than other fish.

Brie

JingsMyBucket said:

ouraggie said:

Aldi does “salmon pieces” (still large, tho) for £2.85. Usually you get 2 or 3 biggish pieces. Slightly odd shapes but i can live with that.

@ouraggie I recently noticed Lidl has those as well and have been meaning to try them. They're a good buy you think? 

I was going to mention Lidl's as that's where I normally shop.  BUT only buy them if they have a long best before date and ensure they are used sooner or frozen asap otherwise I think they go off a bit quicker than other shops.

And I used to love the fish counters at Sainsburys or Tesco - they'd have a side of salmon for £15/kg and I'd buy it but get them to cut it into portions and bag each one up (really getting my money's worth!!) so I could pop it in the freezer when I got it home and pull out one portion at a time as needed.  Neither shop has fish counters anymore and rarely has a side that cheap - though Tesco did at Christmas (I bought 2!).

Waitrose is generally quite expensive for fish in my opinion but if you go on Fridays they have (or used to) do 10% off anything from the fish counter.  They are also about the only place I'll buy fish on it's last sell by day.  I did in fact snatch an absolute bargain a year back when they had 3 trout left and wanted to get rid so I got all 3 for about 60p.

Brambling

I brought half price sides of salmon from Tesco and Sainsbury's at Christmas and Easter and portioned to freeze.  They tend to do it when they have their half price joints of meat.

i do use Waitrose fish counter and tend to go in the evening Thursday or Friday before the fish and meat counters close they will put the fish / meat they reduce bagged up and reduced on top of the counter I've picked up some great bargains eg monk fish and salmon and steak 3/4 off.  It's worth seeing what time they close their counters ours are usually about 7pm when they start cleaning them.  I portion up and freeze as soon as I get home.

Both Aldi and Lidl sell reasonably priced sea bass which I tend to eat same day or freeze.