and what’s with all the missing stuff?
yep - can't recall the last time any supermarket managed to deliver what we've ordered - always loads of things missing....
Plus random substitutions, sorry no pork sausages, so here is a tub of shampoo.
More importantly, who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures. And its forecast to rain all day,. And it gets dark at 4.30pm.
Standing outside in tge dark when you can’t see if its raw or burnt . Cooking for for the other 5 who think this is better than the cinema, oh hang on for a minute….
errrr, I have lights outside, and a jacket hanging next to the door.
My "record" is -15 and 20+ cm of snow.
And some lovely steak.
There’s lady’s involved
nah, just mates and a bit of beer.
And if you want to see silly season, people in and around Oslo actually drive to Sweden (specifically a shopping centre called Torp, about an hour north of Göteborg) to do a quarterly shop. Some even rent larger cars and/or trailers.
The difference in prices means it's well worth it, despite a) taking all day and b) most of a tank of petrol...
More importantly, who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures. And its forecast to rain all day,. And it gets dark at 4.30pm.
Current weather in Manc...
Honestly. It is.
Nothing wrong with a chilly BBQ. One of our best was at Glen Coe ski centre after an amazing day. Beers beautifully chilled, steaks beautifully cooked. And the heater in the van going full pelt.
No-one else “skip-diving” in the managers specials spot where close to sell by date stuff is reduced?
We always take a look at the "grabble-tisch" as my German mum used to call it.
Anyone tried the TooGoodToGo App? I signed up and check the app from time to time but they are always collection at 9pm at which time I am ready for bed rather than doing a food run. I am pretty sure it will save money though if you are willing to pop out and get the bags.
Ooo Bon Mamam Rasberry jam Shirley is God’s spunk.
And that's jam off the eating list for a while.
More importantly, who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures.
Scotland in summertime?
only £1.25 and it’s good stuff too…
It's cheap, 'cos it's mostly sugar.
I've tried Aldi, and call me a snob (I am, but it's flippin grim), also why can't I buy 2 carrots, rather than a bag full in plastic, I want a courgette or 2, nope you can have 3 or 4 in plastic. I want X product from Y brand, nah, here's your 1 Aldi own brand only. Also you need £1 for the trolley, WHAT, who carries cash these days FFS.
Also, it's further away than the local tesco where I can can 2 carrots with no plastic.
More importantly, who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures
We do - i'll be doing the Christmas dinner on it this year after last years success.
the local tesco where I can can 2 carrots with no plastic
Has, anyone noticed how veggies from the supermarkets die in a couple of days after buying/opening. Like they've been cryogenically stored up to the moment of purchase. Even spuds...
I want X product from Y brand, nah, here’s your 1 Aldi own brand only.
That's kind of the point!
Small stores, limited range, low prices. Get the basics from Aldi and top-up on the posh stuff from other supermarkets.
Yes they are bloody grim - but the wife goes so I don't care! 🙂
I’ve tried Aldi,
Wife went there last week it seems... It also seems they have many things that look like the things you get in other supermarkets, they're packaged just like them, same colours... however, they taste like crap.
Belvita type things, fig rolls, dried mango, cranberries etc... Just bloody awful variations on nice items.
Sure, the list of things she bought was fairly small... but i've not found one i like.
but i’ve not found one i like
Strawberry jam...? So it was worth the aggro then?
Has, anyone noticed how veggies from the supermarkets die in a couple of days after buying/opening. Like they’ve been cryogenically stored up to the moment of purchase. Even spuds…
Stored in a Nitrogen rich atmosphere for months before hand...
Stored in a Nitrogen rich atmosphere for months before hand
Aye. My next fridge will be full of nitrogen... That'll help things...
Aldi near here (Buckingham) is fine. The staff are great and the demographic is respectable. The wrong 'uns go to Farm Foods, Heron Foods etc
Belvita type things, fig rolls, dried mango, cranberries etc… Just bloody awful variations on nice items.
You just have to get used to it - if you expect Aldi's version of anything to taste like the brand you will be disappointed. And if you really need to save money you will get used to it.
The chocolate is decent! 🙂
No-one else “skip-diving” in the managers specials spot where close to sell by date stuff is reduced? Bargains to be had in there and immediate savings plus the challenge of some mystery meals made up of odd ingredient combos.
I do that when I work late - get off the train and straight into the Co-op next to the station as my train coincides with when they start to discount stuff. Just last night I got a 'Luxury Range' Fish Pie, two sea bass fillets, and a punnet of vine-ripened tomatoes for £3. THe full price for the fish pie alone was £4.85. Bunged the fish pie and fish in the freezer, the tomatoes look like they have plenty of life left in them yet...
Oh, also
who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures. And its forecast to rain all day,. And it gets dark at 4.30pm
Me, I started with my new Go Anywhere on New years day, it's been in use all year and will still be in use till the end of the year when the new year comes and BBQ starts again 🙂
Peppers seared over fire, blackened skin removed then added to autumn/winter soups are the BEST!
That’s kind of the point!
It's not unlike me to completely miss/intentionally avoid the point 🙂
Where are all these free strawberries to make the jam with?
We get a *few* from our garden. One of the neighbours usually lugs round a couple of kg's, because as an elderly couple with *hundreds* of strawberries they struggle to eat them. Return payment is made in jars of jam. They neatly return the jars as well. 🤟
We also make jam from many wild / foraged fruit - blackberries, blackcurrant, elderberry etc.
We have apples, plums, redcurrants, blackcurrants and (new this year) blueberries in the garden.
I went shopping in waitrose for the first time the other day. Wow how the other half live. What a wonderful shop. Not like marks and spencers where you could abit sick of the richness of everything, just everything of the best quality. Some of the prices though. Wowzers.
No-one else “skip-diving” in the managers specials spot where close to sell by date stuff is reduced?
I popped into a local Lidl a couple of weeks ago, to get bread. (Their bread is far better than any of the other supermarkets.) I picked up a box of end-of-life vegetables for £1.50. When I examined it at home I found 7 packs of asparagus, 7 avocados, many, many lemons, a bunch of bananas, enough plums and pears for a crumble that evening, several packs of apples, and I think there was other stuff that I've forgotten about.
There was some wastage - nobody can eat 7 avocados in a day - but most of it got used.
I’ve tried Aldi, and call me a snob (I am, but it’s flippin grim),......
Also, it’s further away than the local tesco where I can can 2 carrots with no plastic.
The quality of food in Aldi is vastly better than the crap that Tesco punt out. The fact it's cheaper is even better. We don't tend to buy fruit or veg in Aldi though because it tends to have short dates on.
"Ooo Bon Mamam Rasberry jam Shirley is God’s spunk. If anyone can make it like that, I’ll buy it even if I have to hold my nose and go to Aldi."
I was about to post that I prefer Aldi's offering to Bon Maman, Aldi's being a bit less sweet and more fruit heavy.
No idea why anyone shops in Tescos. Must be the UK's worst supermarket. Like the meat in Morrisons butchers, love Aldi/Lidl for certain things, Asda has very cheap bunches of fresh herbs and is generally well priced for stuff outside of Lidl/Aldi, Sainsburys generally has alot of stuff that i want that others don't and I enjoy shopping there.... Tescos....YUK!
Aldi croissants are amazing, miles better than Tesco, Sainsbury's and Marks's. Half the price too. Lidl's are great too, just not quite as good as Aldi's.
Jam is one of those products that seems to have become gentrified. I was raised on 'jam butties'. Thin aneamic white bread, plastered with Stork marg out of a huge plastic tub with a dollop of 35p jam if we were lucky. If all out of jam it was straight to bed with a good hiding and no tea etc etc ad nauseum...
Yeah. Tesco habitual shopper here. If only because they're everywhere and generally have parking. They are starting to feel like the last days of the soviet union though. Slowly switching to Waitrose.
Jam is one of those products that seems to have become gentrified.
I think manufacturers have realised that folks will pay money for jam that looks like it may have been made with actual fruit, as opposed to some slimey sugared jelly that's been "flavoured"
The problem I have with Aldi is that mostly what I want from a supermarket is vegetables, and they tend to sell those in huge bags - as opposed t many of the other supermarkets who'll allow me to choose how many I want to buy at a time.
Our greengrocer is cheaper than the supermarkets.
Forget jam - has anyone seen the price of Nutella recently 😮
I was about to post that I prefer Aldi’s offering to Bon Maman, Aldi’s being a bit less sweet and more fruit heavy.
Jam is one of those products that seems to have become gentrified.
mrs_oab inherited a thrift from parents, ergo jam making isn't gentrified, it is scrimping. And homemade jam has more fruit in, plus that wonderful 'never quite know what the flavour is like' frisson of excitement....
mrs_oab inherited a thrift from parents, ergo jam making isn’t gentrified, it is scrimping.
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Get out of town. Only if you own your own orchard! Otherwise by the time you've bought a huge pot, loads of bags of sugar and fruit and the outrageous cost of energy to simmer it all for god-knows how long...
[s]Only if you own your own orchard![/s]
Only if you barter with neighbours and forage. I would say over the years 80% of our years supply of jam is free soft fruit.
They make excellent presents as well, further saving.
Only now as we have a garden and know how much jam we make have we planted trees and bushes to supply our habit.
They make excellent presents as well, further saving.
...you sure about that!? 🙂
…you sure about that!? 🙂
Absolutely. I have a family member who does that. It goes straight in the bin. What on earth is a 'goose berry' anyhow?
…you sure about that!?
🙉
🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely. I have a family member who does that. It goes straight in the bin. What on earth is a ‘goose berry’ anyhow?
Why do you think geese waddle? They've had their berries harvested.
mmmmm, blackcurrant and elderberry jam, mmmm.
(Small batch artisanal, natch)
mmmmm, blackcurrant and elderberry jam, mmmm.
(Small batch artisanal, natch)
Yeah, we can all buy Lidl jam and rip the labels off. 😀
They make excellent presents as well
Nothing quite like home made jam says "Here, I don't think much of you at all"
Here is something I cooked up on the stove using all the same ingredients put in exactly the same jar...As you would've got if I'd have spent all of £1.50 down the supermarket to buy you...a jar of jam 🤣
I can't talk though, I make batches of Xmas Pud for the same reason!
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won't eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I'm a weird bugger - but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn't picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn't been cleaned properly in years.
There's a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won’t eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I’m a weird bugger – but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn’t picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn’t been cleaned properly in years.
There’s a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
+100
I used to visit my old nan and she used to offer me homemade stuff and I'd sneak out to the shop for something in a packet. How do I know the thing she was offering me wasn't already full of mould and cat-hair when she put it in her freezer in the 50's? Gives me the dry-heaves.
But then I'll happily eat restaurant food and I've worked and seen what goes on in even the most upmarket of establishments... weird.
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won’t eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I’m a weird bugger – but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn’t picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn’t been cleaned properly in years.
There’s a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
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Whatever you do, never visit a food factory. You'll starve to death after the visit.
Whatever you do, never visit a food factory. You’ll starve to death after the visit.
As a student some friends worked in a food processing place (South Milford nr Leeds IIRC) on the night shifts - they used to dare each other to put the most revolting things they could think of into the big vats of animal bits that were being processed to make pork pie fillings etc. How on earth I will still eat that sort of stuff I will never really know.
