On Dec 26, 10:46*am, "'Mike'" wrote:
"Alan" wrote in message

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In message , Baz
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Unfortunatly it's not that simple, at least not this year as milk(even
uht),

I purchased a "box"[1] of UHT fully skimmed milk cartons in mid November
knowing that once the media report only 3 more shopping weeks to Christmas
much the general population go potty and buy 3 or 4 times more than they
need or can use.

A box at a time is my usual purchase of UHT milk throughout the rest of
the year.
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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

Something else I cannot get my head round is a statement on the lines of
'Nearly 45% (or some such huge figure) of all the food we buy is thrown away
as waste'!!!
Not in this house! We cook what we know we are going to eat. Peelings etc go
in the compost heap. 'Left overs' ...... a rarity in this house, is put into
Bubble and Squeak, the soup pot, the hot pot etc., *or such as an Apple
Crumble, eaten the next day warmed up in the Micro Wave etc etc etc.

I was brought up during the war and then my parents bought an hotel, so I
was brought up to be 'frugal' if that is the right word ;-) My daughter and
son in law have just sold their very big hotel. They didn't make their money
by wasting food.

Pru Leath used to 'help out and advise' when a restaurant was in difficulty.
The first place in the establishment she visited was the dustbins. To see
how much was being thrown away.

How much food do you throw away?

Mike

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Hah. We throw away virtually nothing. My wife has a shopping list.
You see people going round the stores just chucking things in the
basket at random. Clueless!
If we get low on an item at home she has a list on the wall. The only
extras we might buy are non-perishable BOGOFs &c.
Peelings go on compost, birds get scraps, still got veg out of the
garden too.

harry wrote in
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Hah. We throw away virtually nothing. My wife has a shopping list.
You see people going round the stores just chucking things in the
basket at random. Clueless!
If we get low on an item at home she has a list on the wall. The only
extras we might buy are non-perishable BOGOFs &c.
Peelings go on compost, birds get scraps, still got veg out of the
garden too.


harry,
What are BOGOFs &c ?

You are lucky to still get veg out of your garden.

ALL my hardy(winter) veg are rotting or rotten, even parsnip.

Yes chucking things in the basket at random...done that.
But I was a very young uninformed father then and it took my mother in the
supermarket to educate me about the ins and outs of it all.

20 years on and I am still one of the worst, but my OH knows a bit more
now.

Baz

In message , Baz
wrote

What are BOGOFs &c ?

It's where are supermarket inflate the price of an item by 100% and then
offer Buy One and Get One Free. Most BOGOF items can be purchased for
half the price elsewhere (but not usually in the MAJOR competing
supermarkets at the same time) . The biggest rip-off at the major
supermarkets is BOGOFs on fruit and vegetables where the price is raised
by x3 or x4 before the "free" offer.
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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Baz
wrote

What are BOGOFs &c ?

It's where are supermarket inflate the price of an item by 100% and then
offer Buy One and Get One Free. Most BOGOF items can be purchased for half
the price elsewhere (but not usually in the MAJOR competing supermarkets
at the same time) . The biggest rip-off at the major supermarkets is
BOGOFs on fruit and vegetables where the price is raised by x3 or x4
before the "free" offer.
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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

Special Offer a pack of two 400grm packs of McVitie's Chocolate Digestive
Biscuits £2.65

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the Shelf below?

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400grm packs of McVitie's Chocolate Digestive Biscuits ....... £1.00 each

2 x 70 cl of named Whisky cheaper per Litre than a Litre bottle ;-((

Mike

Who reads the small print ;-)




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On Dec 26, 2:42*pm, Baz wrote:
harry wrote :



Hah. We throw away virtually nothing. * My wife has a shopping list.
You see people going round the stores just chucking things in the
basket at random. Clueless!
If we get low on an item at home she has a list on the wall. *The only
extras we might buy are non-perishable BOGOFs &c.
Peelings go on compost, birds get scraps, still got veg out of the
garden too.

harry,
What are BOGOFs &c ?

You are lucky to still get veg out of your garden.

ALL my hardy(winter) veg are rotting or rotten, even parsnip.

Yes chucking things in the basket at random...done that.
But I was a very young uninformed father then and it took my mother in the
supermarket to educate me about the ins and outs of it all.

20 years on and I am still one of the worst, but my OH knows a bit more
now.

Baz

Buy One Get One Free. BOGOF.
You need to dig up your root crops & wash & dry & and store them in
sand/peat in the garage or somewhere frost free. This keeps them from
wizening up. Look out for free plastic stacking crates for this
purpose.
Or you can leave them in the ground & cover with straw/leaves/compost
etc.


Other stuff can be cooked or blanched & frozen. Fruit, beans, rhubarb
etc.
My wife turns stuff into soups, divides into portions, freezes & puts
in plastic bags which live in the freezer. (Tomatoes Celery etc.)
You have to be selective what you grow if you have only limited space/
time. Grow the expensive stuff. Potatos &c may be satisfying but they
are cheap to buy.

Buy One Get One Free. BOGOF.
You need to dig up your root crops & wash & dry & and store them in
sand/peat in the garage or somewhere frost free. *This keeps them from
wizening up. Look out for free plastic stacking crates for this
purpose.
Or you can leave them in the ground & cover with straw/leaves/compost
etc.

Other stuff can be cooked or blanched & frozen. Fruit, beans, rhubarb
etc.
My wife turns stuff into soups, divides into portions, freezes & puts
in plastic bags which live in the freezer. (Tomatoes Celery etc.)
*You have to be selective what you grow if you have only limited space/
time. Grow the expensive stuff. *Potatos &c may be satisfying but they
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Or you can store the traditional way. You can build small ones of
these too:-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_clamp

In message , Baz
writes
harry wrote in
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Hah. We throw away virtually nothing. My wife has a shopping list.
You see people going round the stores just chucking things in the
basket at random. Clueless!
If we get low on an item at home she has a list on the wall. The only
extras we might buy are non-perishable BOGOFs &c.
Peelings go on compost, birds get scraps, still got veg out of the
garden too.


harry,
What are BOGOFs &c ?

You are lucky to still get veg out of your garden.

ALL my hardy(winter) veg are rotting or rotten, even parsnip.

Yes chucking things in the basket at random...done that.
But I was a very young uninformed father then and it took my mother in the
supermarket to educate me about the ins and outs of it all.

How can you tell if someone is chucking stuff in at random, are you mind
readers.

I don't normally carry a list around with me (though sometimes have one
in the pocket to check if I'm getting lots of stuff), but I'm still
there looking for specific items.

Though mostly I shop online for groceries nowadays, so supermarket
visits are generally to to top up with stuff.
--
Chris French

Not necessarily! I do that. But it's not really random. I use the supermarket to jog my memory of what we need, and we waste very little. The last time I had to throw away something that was edible when I bought it was when I had flu, and meals went a bit awry for a week.