Shortage at my Sainsbury's!
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Isn’t all grass organic?
Not if it’s had fertiliser/weed killer or whatever sprayed on it.
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Wifes cousin farms sheep & cattle, she was telling us they spray the grass a couple of times a year with fertiliser, which came mainly from Ukraine, price has doubled so they are using more manure.
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Tell you what I did find today at JS....
Anchor butter at 2.50 and a 400ish gram squeezy of Heinz ketchup for more than 3 quid!
Kin ripoff!
Anchor butter at 2.50 and a 400ish gram squeezy of Heinz ketchup for more than 3 quid!
Kin ripoff!
Was that at a Sainsburys local? They’re always more expensive.
As far as I can see, only the spreadable is £2.50 - the block butter is £2.30, the same as it is everywhere else.
A 460 gram squeezy Heinz ketchup is £2.80 - The less sugar and salt one is £3. Always baffles me how stuff with 'less' in it costs more! Best value Heinz ketchup is the 910 gram squeezy for £3.50. Great if you’re a ketchup lover like our daughter in law. She has it on everything including the Sunday roast. Even been known to take her own bottle with her if there’s going to be a chance of no Heinz. I tried swapping the contents of a Heinz bottle with Sainsburys own once - she sussed me out straight away - "somethings wrong with this sauce"!
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Yes, it is a local, but even so!
We generally shop at Aldi and even the "good quality" stuff is cheaper than JS "big store" prices.
Last time I bought butter from Aldi, the normal stuff and the equivalent of JS TTD was the same price. So I thought sod it, I won't splash out and have the posh stuff!
It was 1.75. for a 250g block.
We also buy ketchup and mayo from them. The ketchup is perfectly decent and the mayo in several independent taste tests comes out closest in flavour profile to the big H brand. Like H's mayo, Aldi's stuff has egg in.
The Aldi own brand ketchup is 65p for 650g.
Their mayo is 69p for 500g.
That's one heck of a saving.
I saw BE 30 Cod fish fingers in JS for £7 a week ago.
Aldi fish fingers are 1.55 either for 10 cod or 15 pollock.
At the cod price, that's 4.65 for 30.
How about a fun challenge?
I know how you like to save money (don't we all, especially these days!), so why don't you do one shop at Aldi and compare the quality and prices of what you get?
I think you might be pleasantly surprised.
They do a good range of beers and wines too, some of which have been rated very highly.
We generally shop at Aldi and even the "good quality" stuff is cheaper than JS "big store" prices.
Last time I bought butter from Aldi, the normal stuff and the equivalent of JS TTD was the same price. So I thought sod it, I won't splash out and have the posh stuff!
It was 1.75. for a 250g block.
We also buy ketchup and mayo from them. The ketchup is perfectly decent and the mayo in several independent taste tests comes out closest in flavour profile to the big H brand. Like H's mayo, Aldi's stuff has egg in.
The Aldi own brand ketchup is 65p for 650g.
Their mayo is 69p for 500g.
That's one heck of a saving.
I saw BE 30 Cod fish fingers in JS for £7 a week ago.
Aldi fish fingers are 1.55 either for 10 cod or 15 pollock.
At the cod price, that's 4.65 for 30.
How about a fun challenge?
I know how you like to save money (don't we all, especially these days!), so why don't you do one shop at Aldi and compare the quality and prices of what you get?
I think you might be pleasantly surprised.
They do a good range of beers and wines too, some of which have been rated very highly.
have you heard of antibiotics?
When there was only an Aldi 7 miles away, we used to shop there. Now there is a Lidl, we go to Lidl - but I do a taste test after buying. Generally the items can often be as good, or better than the expensive brand offerings, but that is not always true for the entire range. An obvious difference is breakfast cereals - only the good brands work for me, but that applies to all of the own brand cereals from all of the supermarkets.
I think everyone has. What’s your point?
That’s what I pay for a JS own brand block. I’m not a butter connoisseur though and we only use it for coking but I doubt if I’d notice any difference between that and other brands.
I buy 'butter' tubs and keep it in stock frozen until needed. I usually buy from Lidl and always the 'spreadable' versions, of which there are two main offerings - Danpack in a look-alike silver Lurpack tub and another which is yellow 'Anchor' look-alike tub. The latter around 10p cheaper than the Danpack, but the latter is terrible, very thin, very watery, spreads far too easily from the fridge. The Danpack is much more like proper butter and I suspect has a much higher butter content.
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