Aldi v Lidl

delicagirl said:
Just before Christmas Morrisons had a "loss-leader" of 3 scrawny parsnips in a bag for 0.19p just inside the door. Further on into the store they had loose parsnip - possibly 3 times the weight of the scrawny joes - £1.29p !!!!! i had a rant at the till but nowt will change.

i found a tiny fridge freezer in a friends BnB last week.... £120 and its only table-top height. Prior to summer arriving i may get one, but i may continue to use the larder and put a blackout curtain over the window to keep the light out.

Having a tall, albeit small, f/f in the past i realise i was shopping to fill it... there's only me - so a lot got thrown away. Thats gonna stop now as well.
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under counter fridge freezers are sort of common really . i have one here i use in my trailer if traveling from home with others .
i find for one the freezer can be a bit too big , should it be horrible weather for weeks i cant eat all the food . but the fridge with a little freezer box is ideal just for one.
but really its hardly needed . buy something eat it today or possibly cook it today eat some and keep the rest for another day . cooked food can be kept better sometimes .
but yes at home with a tall fridge freezer it can take some filling .
i cheat if there is sliced bread going cheap in supermarkets buy 6-7 they keep well in a freezer. monday /tuesday very often bread running out of code , ideal fill up.
mind i buy joints of meat and slice them for steaks etc then freeze them . that can be very cheap way to get nice steaks .
spare rib of pork joints going cheap in supermarkets at moment about 2.73 quid a kg. marked as shoulder . but pick the best ones and slice them . lovely.
lidl had veg ,carrots ,parsnips etc going very cheap the other day . cut them up prepare them pack in small amounts and chuck in freezer . lot cheaper than normal. cant waste anything .
 
channa said:
Alan I disagree, no one stopped selling wonky veg it was never offered in the first place by supermarkets, The perfect "size10" cucumber or tomato etc has been pushed by the supermarkets as good price. consistent quality. It is only the relatively recent highlighting of food waste that has shamed supermarkets into offering the less than "perfect " produce . Perhaps the suits at Tesco et al saw the bottom line more than consumer demand, That is borne out by supermarkets general reluctance to inform consumers of sugars and additives in labelling not illegal but not assisting in a truthful choice either. " just doing enough" Equally recent legislation in France has seen supermarkets unable to dispose food waste. The cynic in me see the UK operators attempting to be seen to follow suit so that legislation here doesn't need to follow and the industry seen as adequately self regulating.

Channa
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you may disagree thats ok . but i know back in the late 70s early 80,s i was involved in the surveys and a decision was made to stop buying wonky veg . it didnt sell so tesco was throwing it away.
later they would buy or take everything a farmer grew and only take the best shaped for to sell and resell the wonky etc back in the veg market.
its done in spain for oranges the pickers put oranges through a selection of holes in a strip of wood to decide which box to pack them in . its good fun watching them . some dont fit the grade so they pile them up outside the fields for locals to have . free.
the cheap oranges m,homers buy in the wilding spots or aires are the oranges for free the local lads make a shilling .
we spend quite a bit of time usually in the growing areas , like going home these days , the locals pass us free oranges , peppers . tomatoes think we are classed as local after visiting for so long . some i have known since being a kid .
 
Minisorella said:
I don't wash strawberries :raofl:
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I understand shop strawberries have lots of different different pesticide used on them, one of the worst.

Mind you maybe preservatives help to keep you looking young ?

Have you noticed how tall the kids are getting ?

Is it all the growth hormone in the meat ?

:dog:
 
We very rarely waste food, if its veg or sometimes odd bits of meat that needs using up then we just make a load of soup and then freeze any we can't use within a couple of days. We've got a fridge/freezer now which is no where near as good as the separate fridge and freezer we used to have, they were old and tatty but good working order wish we had kept them. Collette I wish I had a larder, I think they are much better for most foodstuffs than any fridge. Too much emphasis is put on use by dates, which thankfully is now changing, I must admit to just having thrown some flour out -one bag was 3 years out of date and a 2nd bag 4 years. :eek: don't know how they got missed as I try to check the cupboard at least once a year, I still have other dry ingredients which are a good few years old which are still being used (black pepper was 10 years old before it got used up lol).
I heard something ages ago about any excess packaging on stuff you bought that you didn't want to take home could be left at the supermarket, obviously it wasn't too successful at the time.
 
yorkieowl said:
We very rarely waste food, if its veg or sometimes odd bits of meat that needs using up then we just make a load of soup and then freeze any we can't use within a couple of days. We've got a fridge/freezer now which is no where near as good as the separate fridge and freezer we used to have, they were old and tatty but good working order wish we had kept them. Collette I wish I had a larder, I think they are much better for most foodstuffs than any fridge. Too much emphasis is put on use by dates, which thankfully is now changing, I must admit to just having thrown some flour out -one bag was 3 years out of date and a 2nd bag 4 years. :eek: don't know how they got missed as I try to check the cupboard at least once a year, I still have other dry ingredients which are a good few years old which are still being used (black pepper was 10 years old before it got used up lol).
I heard something ages ago about any excess packaging on stuff you bought that you didn't want to take home could be left at the supermarket, obviously it wasn't too successful at the time.
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I doubt enough people did it at first but there's a lot of talk about a new drive now to encourage people to do just that. I haven't had the courage yet but the next time I'm faced with a Fort Knox blister pack or anything else that can't be recycled, I'm going to summon up the courage from somewhere :eek: It's one of the few things I can think of to put genuine pressure on stores with huge purchasing power to have a quiet word in the ears of their suppliers.

Oh and I found spices in a box at the back of the cupboard once that were so old, they didn't even have use by dates on them! I threw them out and prayed my rubbish bin didn't get dropped that week :eek:
 
Minisorella said:
I haven't had the courage yet but the next time I'm faced with a Fort Knox blister pack or anything else that can't be recycled, I'm going to summon up the courage from somewhere

Oh and I found spices in a box at the back of the cupboard once that were so old, they didn't even have use by dates on them! I threw them out and prayed my rubbish bin didn't get dropped that week :eek:
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You go girl, you tell 'em what for. :goodluck: You should have used the spices, not thrown them, there was a thing on TV and it said that spices never go off they just lose a bit of their potency/flavour so you have to use a bit more than normal. Mind I don't believe everything I hear on TV lol.
 
A few days before Xmas we went in to Tescos and a lot of veg was reduced to 4p/5p, we bought lots of carrots, leeks, cabbage, sprouts, potatoes, broccoli, pencil beans etc, everything in plastic packs was put in cloth bags except potatoes which were put in paper sacks that Maggy uses for the potatoes she grows, these were hung on hooks in one of the sheds and we still have a lot left and nothing has been wasted except some corn on the cobs which started to go off at the beginning of this week, even they were not completely wasted though because the birds loved them.
A long time ago we were at the Stratford Motorhome Show and one of the stands was Milton, they gave us a leaflet explaining the uses of Milton, one of them was a weak solution to wash vegetables to get rid of bacteria before storing them to make them last longer, we do it if we need to store for a long time and it works they do last and you don't taste it.

We prefer the summer growing our own though
 
jagmanx said:
Hope it keeps cool in the summer.
Now you need to rename your lounge as the Parlour.
Have a Dining Room
Use a hot water bottle !
Go back to an Eiderdown rather than a quilt.
Have Ice on your windows !
Program your TV so it goes on the blink every so often.
Drink tap water rather than bought/bottled.
Get milk delivered every day (Free)..
Get a newspaper delivered (Free)
Walk to the pub.....Stagger back
Drink beer (or Cider) not wine.
Find your Diesel/Petrol coupons
Only use white sugar (not Brown)
Throw your microwave away
Only eat chicken on special occassions
Use tea-leaves not teabags
Make Real porridge

Good on you

Aah Those were the days !
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All normal here.:lol-053:
 
harrow said:
I understand shop strawberries have lots of different different pesticide used on them, one of the worst.

Mind you maybe preservatives help to keep you looking young ?

Have you noticed how tall the kids are getting ?

Is it all the growth hormone in the meat ?

:dog:
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Kids may be getting taller but any i have talked to are brain dead compared to my youth,if they cant find a apt for things then there lost.:scared:
 
jagmanx said:
Hope it keeps cool in the summer.
Now you need to rename your lounge as the Parlour.
Have a Dining Room
Use a hot water bottle !
Go back to an Eiderdown rather than a quilt.
Have Ice on your windows !
Program your TV so it goes on the blink every so often.
Drink tap water rather than bought/bottled.
Get milk delivered every day (Free)..
Get a newspaper delivered (Free)
Walk to the pub.....Stagger back
Drink beer (or Cider) not wine.
Find your Diesel/Petrol coupons
Only use white sugar (not Brown)
Throw your microwave away
Only eat chicken on special occassions
Use tea-leaves not teabags
Make Real porridge

Good on you

Aah Those were the days !
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What you didn't state is get the milk delivered and take it in before the birds pop holes in the lids and pinch the cream off the top.... lol
 
yorkshireCPLE said:
What you didn't state is get the milk delivered and take it in before the birds pop holes in the lids and pinch the cream off the top.... lol
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Just seen something in one of the papers about a milkman restoring his milk float because so many people are wanting their milk in glass bottles again.
 
yorkslass said:
Just seen something in one of the papers about a milkman restoring his milk float because so many people are wanting their milk in glass bottles again.
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I was awake at the crack of stupid o'clock the other day and remembered I hadn't put the rubbish bin out the night before. Went outside and a milk float drove by... I had no idea there were any left round here! Mind you, I'm never usually up and about that early :rolleyes:
 
fridge

i think i may have read something along the lines of some fruits/veg producing a natural antifreeze when theres a cold snap or unseasonal frost,fridges trick them so they get soggy.vnoticable with bananas/mrooms.
on another note,on xmas eve afternoon Helston lidl didnt just lower their prices,they gave all their veg away.
 
Aldi Lidl

Almost an anagram !
I suggest they Merge to Laldi or Addle

I quite like Lidl (eg cold meat and Tools on offer)
Aldi put me off because of their parking "Fines" (As have Sainsbury)
Not much to choose between Tesco and Morrisons but they latter just have the edge on display and "snack attacks"
 
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Here they are both too ethnic,

worried about getting stabbed.

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The supermarket marketing folk are a devious lot.

When my eldest was still at school, he took a part time holiday job at a local potatoe farm which supplied Tesco. His job was to wash the heavy clay soil from the potatoes, and then rub them with peat so they looked like they had been grown in it. Tesco would not accept them otherwise.

Incidentally, our local Lidl and Aldi stores are practically next door to each other along with a B&M.
 
If possible, buy dirty spuds, carrots and parsnips from local market or farm. Not only are they very much cheaper but also last for ages. We bought 25 kilo's of spuds for £5 December 22nd and keep them in the brown sack in the garage. Still got a few kilo's left and they are as fresh today as when we bought them, no sprouting eyes and very firm.
 
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