Great Cheaper Health Food Hunt

saffouri

For anyone who can get to the Elephant and Castle area of South London easily, and who may want to shop smaller than the minimum spends on Suma etc. at one go, I can recommend checking out Fareshares (https://www.fareshares.org.uk) - kind of like a food co-op. To quote from its website (sorry but it's time for bed in the time zone where I am now):

"Fareshares is a non-profit-making voluntary project that stocks simple unadulterated food (often called wholefoods) and related products. It was set up to relieve hardship among local people by providing good food at affordable prices and in the belief that decent food is a basic necessity for health, regardless of means."

I've been there a few times. You bring your own bags, weigh out your own bulk food, write down your own prices and total up your spend and a friendly volunteer is happy to receive your money. Most of the food is organic, all of it is vegan, sugar-free, etc. They have staples as well as fruit and veg, I think their staples come from Suma or Infinity and the like. If this isn't health food, I don't know what is!

PS was intrigued to see the conversation about kefir as I used to live in Russia where it's a very common drink.

Enjoy,

saf

saffouri

As you'll see from the website, it is open very limited hours and only on Thurs Fri and Sat.

saf

Gaia

chivas wrote: »

nir_mk, I didn't know you could freeze chickpeas!

So if I soaked and boiled a massive vat of them I could freeze some? I prefer them done the manual way, but never actually do it as it takes soooooo looooong...

I pre-soak, cook and freeze chickpeas and red kidney beans regularly. The quickest way to cook them is in a pressure cooker, they only take a third of the time (and use less power, very MSE, lol).

To pressure cook pulses add a few drops of cooking oil to the cooking water before sealing, then the froth won't froth up and block the steam vents. I do this regularly for red kidney beans and it works a treat, it's never failed.

cruisemad

Maccio wrote: »

Recently I've been ordering from www.nutmarket.co.uk they have a pretty good range of nuts, dried fruits and seeds etc. When you compare them to holland & barrett or Julian graves etc, they are really cheap.:j

Warning!!!! Tried this company and received nothing! After weeks of emailing and no reply I went to Paypal and they have found in my favour so I should get my £12.00 back shortly!!

cwp500

nir_mk wrote: »

1) walk past Julian Graves, every month or two they have "everything half-price" sale for a day or two: time to stock up on raw nuts and seeds (and maybe dried fruit?)
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it is a fantastic shop and well worth looking in your local area.

cant praise the quality of the goods or value in the sales too much. stock up on dried fruit, porage oats, bran etc when they have one of their sales.

echelon101

The cheapstuff on my list

- Tins of fish @ 35p (Sardines/Saver tuna), Sardines are better since they retain their fatty acids that make them oily during the tinning process.

- Frozen white fish fillets, cheap as chips and good fish (pollack usually). Very lean source of protein most of the time 90-95% protein

-Eggs, Premier does 30 for £2 some times although £1.50 for 15 is still good value.
The cholesterol in eggs is good for you NOT BAD!

-Oats, 59p/kg, complex carbohydrates excellent for early morning breakfast

-Olive/Nut Oil, high in poly-unsat fats, olive oil if I am feeling rich and nut if I am feeling poor

-Cinnamon, makes you feel fuller and mitigates insuline spikes due to eating high-GI foods (pasta,potatoes)

-Frozen veg, £1 = 10 portions nuff said

-Fish oils, H&B during their sale or online

-Protein shake, IS NOT EXPENSIVE for £20 you can get 2.27kg which of which 30g has 24g of protein (1 serving) thats about 70 servings for container. You wouldn't say no to 70 servings of chicken for £20 would you?

-Fruit, bananas and bramely apples (cheaper than normal)

-Class II veg (cheaper and the same)

I think that's it