Ideas to get my shopping budget down even more?

lainz

I'm sure someone posted the other day one of the panansonics was on amazon for about £60 - worth having a quick look? also if you belong to a cashback site, pigsback or have a nectar card you can get points/ cash back!:D

Aldi with their super 6 are good value for f&v - lidls are good too, try them out and see how you get on

Pitlanepiglet

Try wrapping green bananas in a tea towel and keeping them in the fridge. The tea towel insulates them from the cold so they don't go black but they don't get ripe either. Then take them out when you want them to ripen.

I've been experimenting with this for a few weeks and they stay nice and green.

angchris

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

Try wrapping green bananas in a tea towel and keeping them in the fridge. The tea towel insulates them from the cold so they don't go black but they don't get ripe either. Then take them out when you want them to ripen.

I've been experimenting with this for a few weeks and they stay nice and green.

ooo now thats worth knowing!! i do my shopping online monthly which means bananas generally only get eaten in the first week in this house as they go off otherwise. dya reckon i could stretch them to 2 weeks? im gonna give this a go, trouble is after a monthly shop my fridge is heaving with food in the first week and id struggle to find room...gawd nothings ever simple is it!:rolleyes: i could however relegate oh`s beer from the fridge to be chilled in the garden pond instead leaving me plenty of room for the bananas ... hmmm tie a piece of string to the cans and attach the other end to the fence panel and drop in the pond with the frogs :rotfl: dya think he`d go for it?? :think: its all in the name of moneysaving hehe:money:

tam21

lainz wrote: »

I'm sure someone posted the other day one of the panansonics was on amazon for about £60 - worth having a quick look? also if you belong to a cashback site, pigsback or have a nectar card you can get points/ cash back!:D

Aldi with their super 6 are good value for f&v - lidls are good too, try them out and see how you get on

Actually managed to get a panasonic one on ebay for 50 quid inc p+p yesterday so can now cross the bread off the shopping list too

tam21

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

Try wrapping green bananas in a tea towel and keeping them in the fridge. The tea towel insulates them from the cold so they don't go black but they don't get ripe either. Then take them out when you want them to ripen.

I've been experimenting with this for a few weeks and they stay nice and green.

Fantastic, will try that this month

OrkneyStar

ravylesley wrote: »

I dont want to be controversial here but if your finding times hard then you surely must have to sacrifice your ethical stances just a bit if eggs can be had from Asda for £1.50 for 15 then surely it makes economic sense to purchase those rather than the more expensive free range ones.As for the nappies I've potty trained all five of my children and I know from bitter experience that using these pull up nappies was a waste of money.I'm sorry to say this but the best way of potty training is to clear your diary for a week and let the child run round bare bottomed until it gets the hang of the potty and then go into underwear.Its not a pleasant job but it has to be done and it costs a lot less than the pull ups and works better too.The loose bananas you could substitute with a big value pack of bananas which are just as good and cost a lot less

Lesleyxx

I can see your point on the egg debate, however even though we don't have much money to spend on groceries I do try to buy non-battery eggs- largely because they taste nicer but also for chicken welfare! I do think it is hard to be MS and also ethical with every purchase though , and I bet there are ethical/welfare considerations for so many things we buy (eg cakes may well be made with battery eggs, egg mayo etc). I do GC so that I can cut back on some things while being able to buy also some ethical/fair trade/freedom food stuff also. Thankfully where we are there are often local eggs- from free range hens, taste much nicer and often cheaper. I think each and every one of us will make different and difficult decisions when we do our food shop, and maybe all choose to make different sacrifices too ? hth

lesley1960

i am going to get shot down in flames here but it doesnt seem the healthiest of diets?

Fruit or veg would be a better option then the fruit juice , because you would get more benefit from the whole product

tam21

Just wanted to say thanks to you all, we did our monthly shop today, and taking into account the milk and fruit we will buy weekly for the next 4 weeks, the whole month comes to £200 on the nose, including our food, toiletries, cleaning, nappies/wipes and formula milk, so :j :j :j and THANK YOU!

pavlovs_dog

lakeland do a banana bag which will store bananas in the fridge for up to 2 weeks without blackening the skin or letting them over ripen

Lizzieanne

:hello:

I know a few people have mentioned growing your own herbs - I do this, and not only do I freeze some for when I want 'fresh' herbs, I also dry them myself. You can do it either in the microwave or in the oven - just spread out on a plate/baking tray until they are dried and 'crispy'
Then you can crumble them up with your fingers or whizz them in the food processor, dependng on how fine you want them to be.

If you don't want to grow every single herb from scratch, you can sometimes pick up packs of fresh herbs in the whoopsied section - my local Asda reduces the packs to 10p each, usually one or two days before the best before date. These are ideal for drying yourself.