Value Range foods compared

[Frnc]

Aldi Essentials Cheese and Tomato Pizza. 69p. Very nice. I add a bit of sliced mushrooms, which I have to go to Sansbury's for, but it's on the way back anyway. I buy a few loose ones in paper bag. I went back to using the oven for pizzas, the air fryer doesn't do them as well.

Aldi Highland Earl Whisky £15.49. Perfectly acceptable. Whyte and Makay is only £16 at Sainsburys though.

Aldi Everyday Wholewheat bread 39p. Perfectly acceptable.

[jennyjj01]

Aldi Essentials Cheese and Tomato Pizza. 69p. Very nice. I add a bit of sliced mushrooms, which I have to go to Sansbury's for, but it's on the way back anyway. I buy a few loose ones in paper bag. I went back to using the oven for pizzas, the air fryer doesn't do them as well.

Aldi Highland Earl Whisky £15.49. Perfectly acceptable. Whyte and Makay is only £16 at Sainsburys though.

Aldi Everyday Wholewheat bread 39p. Perfectly acceptable.

Pizza is one where prices are all over the place. Exactly the same pizza from the fresh counter can be twice the price of one from the freezer.
We used to buy from Morrisons and have a meat feast or similar, but what we usually do now is buy a veggie one and slap some salami, chorizo, one sliced tomato and a bit more grated cheddar. It can soon look fully loaded quite cheaply.
Moving forward, we may just just start to make our own. It's really easy. We just have to be able to use a part of an onion, part of a bell pepper, a smattering of mushrooms and sweetcorn, etc and somehow keep the rest usable. Probably the best option would be to make three or four similar pizzas as a batch and freeze all bar one, uncooked.
I might do this exercise as one of my ration list recipes.

Oven for Pizzas is extravagant, but you only need 15 mins or so.

[steptoe]

Your American canning lady may have been using a pressure canner. They are common in America alongside the water bath canners we are more used to.
Pressure canners are giant pressure cookers and process the food at a high enough temperature to kill botulism which is a danger for poorly canned meat and vegetables.
Water bath canners are just a container ful of boiling water. A stock pot or tea urn could be used to improvise. Tthese are only safe for acidic foods like bottled fruit. Jams & pickles an be done in them too to reduce the risk of them moulding.
The Blue Ball book of canning has all the information on both types along with tested recipes if you want to play but please do some research before trying to can/bottle meat or veg.

Hi Gilly yes i would read up more i have never liked the idea of just waterbath for meats , i have for many years done jams and pickles and all the usual stuff just as i say i am a man with man size measurement lol the wife keeps saying you have done it again , years ago i would always slip the dog some of the stew he loved a roast dinner to don't ask spoiled german shepard is the answer had his own plate the works then again he was badly treated until we got him lol .

I never waste to much really as we would have stew 2 days on the trot but the rest then goes toMr fox or the stray cats they like my stew to lol , i just wonder how i can stretch stuff out more .

Hey jen i have never done it with raw bones just the cooked roast carcass it was always done in our house as a kid so i guess i just carry it on .

Well todays dish is madam said she wants a chicken in sweet and sout sauce with extra pineapple and extra swet pepper and rice and noodles lol , hey if she likes it i am a happy hubby

[Frnc]

10% increase on the price of Aldi Everyday Essentials frozen pizza this week. Still nice, still cheap, but 10% price rise since last week.

[Frnc]

I normally buy 6 medium eggs. I was complaining because Aldi's had gone up 50%. Sainsburys went up a bit as well, they are the same, £1.30 for 6 Med Free Range.
I had a look in Sainsburys as I was there, and they only had XL, or packs of 15. The price for 15 medium FR was £2.60, 17p per egg. Aldi and Sains are both 22p when you buy 6.
Basically you get 3 eggs for 'free'.

[jennyjj01]

I never waste to much really...
Hey jen i have never done it with raw bones just the cooked roast carcass it was always done in our house as a kid so i guess i just carry it on .

Steptoe, you'd have been proud of me last week. Yellow sticker cooked chicken reduced £6.50 to £3.44. One breast made lunch sandwiches for three of us. The other breast and legs went with chips for tea. Then into the stockpot with the rest, which made a jar of broth. I salvaged quite a lot of meat with that and it made two good birds nest soups with a sprinkle of sweetcorn and two noodle nests at 20p each.
So. 5 lunches and 3 dinners for four quid.
Mind you.., I'm losing weight, so might have to pig out soon on something... A too good to go bag, maybe.

Damn that Aldi pizza increase. The EV pizzas are a bit pants any way. Asda often have pizzas yellow. Sticker, but still poor value even with yellow stickers.

[steptoe]

I never waste to much really...
Hey jen i have never done it with raw bones just the cooked roast carcass it was always done in our house as a kid so i guess i just carry it on .

Steptoe, you'd have been proud of me last week. Yellow sticker cooked chicken reduced £6.50 to £3.44. One breast made lunch sandwiches for three of us. The other breast and legs went with chips for tea. Then into the stockpot with the rest, which made a jar of broth. I salvaged quite a lot of meat with that and it made two good birds nest soups with a sprinkle of sweetcorn and two noodle nests at 20p each.
So. 5 lunches and 3 dinners for four quid.
Mind you.., I'm losing weight, so might have to pig out soon on something... A too good to go bag, maybe.

Damn that Aldi pizza increase. The EV pizzas are a bit pants any way. Asda often have pizzas yellow. Sticker, but still poor value even with yellow stickers.

Hi jen we brought in some so called ready made pizza gluten free but omg i knew their toppings were not much but this was terrible , but by the time i finished madam was over the moon and that is the mission on my spacestation keep the boss happy lol .

I have not had a chance to go shopping as we try to isolate still and well i would go late evening but health has been a struggle so resting most of the time right now , we do have a few hospital trips and doctors in the next month i might try and do a yellow sticker run lol , we did get 6 half crispy ducks with pancakes the other month for less than a £10 woo hoo lol we try and save stuff likethat for when i can get food in lol i was like you making lots of stews and soups madam has hers chunky i can blend mine lol , like hte doctor said they do some lovely baby foods theese days lol , i have never been able to track down the one my sister use to get for my nephew in the 80's the pear and rice i think it would have been cow and gate but not sure now but lets say when i was feeding him it was 2 for me 1 for you lol omg some of the foods where rank but some omg to good for a baby lol .

I love making the chicken stock broth whatever people want to call it i just call to chicken bone stew , i am going to try and find out about canning it or jarring in sterile jars and then in a canning machine i would how i can keep it longer , you know like the little gel things thye sell in shops i was also going to stri and stri in a jig as i pour it in to icecubes to make sure thye all get the same mix , that might be an idea to try and then throw in say 6 in a stew lol as the base omg you got me thinkintg of food but today isa no food for me day i look like someone inflated me lol and the pain is so bad but wait until them pain meds kick in hehehe , i will be cooking madams dinner .

Stay safe you mad bad lot and keep on cooking i say

[Frnc]

Damn that Aldi pizza increase. The EV pizzas are a bit pants any way.

I love their Everyday frozen ones, the plain cheese and tomato. I think they are as good as more expensive ones. I add mushrooms.

[GillyBee]

We DIY our pizzas becuase of the food intolerances. I am still trying to get a really good gluten free base but am slowly getting close.
One thing that really improves the sauce is some basil. I chopp the stuff I grow in summer and freeze in icecube trays with olive oil. One or two are added to the tomato sauce before it goes onto the base.

[jennyjj01]

One thing that really improves the sauce is some basil. I chopp the stuff I grow in summer and freeze in icecube trays with olive oil.

I agree that Basil really enhances tomato based sauces.
GB, How does it work freezing them with olive oil? Do you need to make a suspension in water, or does the oil stiffen up... Or does it all stay runny within the ice tray?