Blogmas Day Twenty Two - Cheap Veg and Other Shopping

 

The supermarkets loss-leader vegetables are a brilliant way to make the Christmas dinner a very budget conscious affair.  Each of these vegetables, 2kg potatoes, 1kg carrots, and a red and a green cabbage were just 5p each.  

The 'supermarket wars' as they are known at Christmas time, have been going on here in England for quite a few years now, their main aim is for the supermarkets to get you into THEIR doors and not their rivals, and hopefully once there you will be spending lots of money on the other foods that they have actually increased in price in the run up to Christmas Day.  I guess it works sometimes, although some canny people do visit multiple supermarkets to pick up the various other vegetables on offer, before settling back in their favourite one to do all the shopping. 

It's being stressed loud and clear this year that it really is the supermarkets absorbing the price cuts and not the farmers ... I do hope that this truly is the case.

Anyway as soon as I got home with my shopping and my 20p worth of vegetables I set to, to make sure that they would last as long as possible.  First they were all left to 'breathe' for a while out of their plastic bags.  Then the carrots were checked over and laid on a  double layer of kitchen roll before being popped into a Stayfresh bag ready for the fridge.

The potatoes had a similar treatment.  I was not impressed with the quality of the potatoes at all to be honest, but hey for that price does it really matter!!

They are now all safely stashed in the fridge.  Just because these were cheap to buy it does not mean that anything will be wasted in my home.

I didn't pick up the other items on offer as I don't really like parsnips ... or those little green round bullets that are the food of the devil.

The rest of my shopping looked like this, including a few things that I really needed and a few treats for myself.  The Iceberg lettuce is an absolute beauty it weighs so much, I have never had a lettuce that heavy in my life ... another vegetable bargain.

My receipt for posterity.

Now apart from nipping out for some fresh bread on Christmas Eve that is my shopping completed.  Alan has an order from Booths to pick up that morning which includes a couple of little desserts that he has treated us both too, and then he also is all done and dusted.

Sue xx