jansman wrote:
Mind you,all our peelings get boiled ,mashed and fed to the fowls and rabbits. Bangs weight on the bunnies in double quick time!
I'm learning so much from this site...thank you!
so far all I've been doing with my spud peelings is put them in the compost. I'll cook them in future for the chickens and rabbits...any idea if guinea pigs can eat them too?
Always thought it was a waste that I could feed them veg peelings etc but could do nothing with my potato ones.
diamond lil wrote:I get most of my meat in Costco, along with teabags, stock cubes, laundry stuff, and olive oil. Agree Jansman, we never throw food out in this house. Never any leftovers either.
Here's another one.Spuds are cheap - most years.Around here we can get a 25 kg sack from Greg the Farmer up the road for six quid.A few years ago though,after a bad harvest they were eleven Pounds! So instead of peeling em with a knife, use one of those veg peeler thingies that take off a thin layer at a time.Mind you,all our peelings get boiled ,mashed and fed to the fowls and rabbits. Bangs weight on the bunnies in double quick time!
We use a local farm shop too (as well as Aldi that is), Costco for the detergents, bog roll and a few other bits and bobs but I tend to buy whole chickens and 'butcher' myself, that saves a fortune, I can't believe the difference in price between a chicken and chicken 'bits'.
Prices in N Ireland are hiking up too. I carried out audits in various stores as part of my job. Another thing to watch out for is same price but reduced contents. Some coffees went that route early last year.
I tend to eke out my resources by buying when things are on offer or in the reduced section . Meats go straight into the freezer or are cooked first. Im lucky , with a large veg and fruit garden. I would willingly let people use it simply to keep weeds down and because I cant manage it all. I checked out a Harvestright home freeze drier, the only one I could find but the taxes and shipping put the price way up. They make one for Europe, compatible with our voltage too, but when it leaves US it is no longer covered by warranty.
Catswhiskers wrote:Prices in N Ireland are hiking up too. I carried out audits in various stores as part of my job. Another thing to watch out for is same price but reduced contents. Some coffees went that route early last year.
I tend to eke out my resources by buying when things are on offer or in the reduced section . Meats go straight into the freezer or are cooked first. Im lucky , with a large veg and fruit garden. I would willingly let people use it simply to keep weeds down and because I cant manage it all. I checked out a Harvestright home freeze drier, the only one I could find but the taxes and shipping put the price way up. They make one for Europe, compatible with our voltage too, but when it leaves US it is no longer covered by warranty.
Not the same as freeze drying but some of us are big on dehydrators on here, check out the thread(s). You can get them very reasonably on ebay/Amazon too.
jansman wrote:
Mind you,all our peelings get boiled ,mashed and fed to the fowls and rabbits. Bangs weight on the bunnies in double quick time!
I'm learning so much from this site...thank you!
so far all I've been doing with my spud peelings is put them in the compost. I'll cook them in future for the chickens and rabbits...any idea if guinea pigs can eat them too?
Always thought it was a waste that I could feed them veg peelings etc but could do nothing with my potato ones.
Don't feed too much.Twice a week ,first thing in the morning but feed it warm.They don't like it cold.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Had calls to complete today in some discounter £ type stores. Spotted some instant soups, best known brand which goes in a cup?? 59p. About half the recommended price, also canned tomatoes at 29p. Dropped in to see my brother and was given a bowl of mixed lentils cooked with onions, tomatoes , kidney beans and garlic . Delicious and could maybe be simmered overnight on top of the log burner.
My chickens will now be enjoying cooked veg peelings, thank you !!
Has anyone else noticed the stealth price increases in the supermarkets that are perpetrated by lowering the content amounts slightly and keeping the price the same ? Like margerine in 500ml tubs with only 400ml of content ? The BBC did a TV segment recently I believe (dont have a TV) and I know radio 4 "you and yours" featured it some time ago.
Supermarkets, cant live with 'em, cant burn 'em down, p!ss on the ashes and not go to jail
There have been many many examples of this over the year. The biggest culprit of this is the chocolate industry... such as this
But its not just things getting smaller. They swap ingredients for less dense but heavier cheaper ones (topics now contain 60% less nut than the 1980s, cadburys cream eggs are no longer cadburys chocolate and they are half as thick (its all filling)).
the biggest change was to tobolorone - see below. The old one is at the back, the new one to the front.
You live in a time of decay, when the worth of a man is how much he can pay (Flamboyant, Pet Shop Boys, 2006)
