The £1 pineapple

[danphoto]

prejudices shining through again!

Indeed

Yes of course, Waitrose stocks produce from the premium end of the market as well but to characterise them as overpriced across their range is nothing but ignorance

Then pray enlighten my ignorance by telling me where I characterised Waitrose as overpriced ...

 

[Sambu]

meant to try it when at uni, think i might have a go sometime at the local tesco. Got an old crap stell framed roa bike that i might spray black and go in stealth.

 

[subaqua]

Anyone here ever tried "freeganism"? Getting stuff out of supermarket bins, that's perfectly good but reached sell by date?

must resist temptation to post "Scousers have"......





bugger I posted it

 

[Hover Fly]

My old lodger was a under-manager at Aldi and practically lived on what he intercepted on its way to the bin.

 

[Over The Hill]

Then you, sir, are their dream customer! Watch out for Cook targetting you too

Well actually although I live on their food it is Mrs OTH that buys it.

We run a very tight ship on food costs (lost job and only now getting back on feet) but my point was there is more to value than price. While the price may be say 20% less for cheapo, if you throw half of it away with it going off then it was no bargain.

We get decent quality stuff, free range and fair trade but make sure it is in the most economical quantity (big pack if it does not go off or size to use before it goes off if perishable). Big packs are often split with half going in the freezer.

If it is decent food and we do not throw any away then it is a good buy.

Two punnets of cheap strawberries may sound good for £1 but when you end up with a small pile of half strawberries then not so good.

 

[danphoto]

We run a very tight ship on food costs (lost job and only now getting back on feet)

Same here. Enforced early retirement due to illness, no pension, no income apart from the Lady Wife's £87 a week ESA until I get my state pension next year, after which point though we shall no doubt be able to keep ourselves in unbridled luxury.

but my point was there is more to value than price. While the price may be say 20% less for cheapo, if you throw half of it away with it going off then it was no bargain.

True in as far as it goes, though I admit to a problem with the concept of buying food then throwing some of it away, as I understand most people do nowadays. I guess you have to be what I would call "well off" to contemplate buying food which you might end up binning for whatever reason. As far as we can recall, the only food we've thrown away in the last few years has been some inedible supermarket oranges and bananas, and two imported sweet potatoes.

But whatever. My point, such as it is, is that we all have different perspectives when it comes to food and food shopping. Some of us eat organic eggs, some of us are happy to buy "free range" eggs, and others couldn't care less where their eggs come from as long as they're cheap.

Actually, what interests me most about food is for how much longer it can be so cheap in this country, and how people are going to react when the inevitable price rises happen ...

 

[PBancroft]

Anyone here ever tried "freeganism"? Getting stuff out of supermarket bins, that's perfectly good but reached sell by date?

I suspect that a lot of supermarkets damage/destroy the packaging and contents before disposing of it, so much of the contents would be unusable.