Our Aldi - the only supermarket I can usually afford - only sells fruit and veg in multipacks. No loose veg sadly, which would be much more convenient for me.
I know its a pain but what about planning your meals so that you can use multipacks? I'll go through 2 bags of onions a week because they're in almost every evening meal I cook.
My local farm shop sells a 3kg sack of onions for £3. It makes you wonder what the profit is on that though. The green grocer stall in town is much cheaper than Aldi too and sells everything loose. Having space to store stuff is the key. A big sack of potatoes is as cheap as a small bag from the supermarket and lasts ages but you need somewhere cool to store all this stuff.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I forgot about this thread...it's turned into something different, as is often the case! As someone who has a daughter who comes out in a rash if she has ordinary dairy, and suffers severe stomach cramps when she eats beef, that presents a problem in itself when you're aiming for a varied diet. She isn't sufficiently keen on veg to be totally vegetarian either, so I can see how easy it would be for folk to buy cheap, ready meals etc. We compromise, and although I retired recently, I'm not spending all my time cooking umpteen different meals. We make a simple pasta dish with tomatoes/passata etc which we all eat, and a big batch is quick to do and then freeze. Not everyone has room for a big freezer though, to do bulk cooking, either . Both my girls can cook, and I hope they'll continue to do that as they get older, but I can see how difficult it is for many people, and time poverty, as @Nollie mentions, is often a bigger problem than financial poverty. Cookery at school is a bit limited because of the time constraints too. @Cheyngel - the local supermarket here stopped selling lots of fruit and veg loose, so I now find it hard to buy things like mushrooms for example. There is no longer a greengrocer there, so I'd have to fanny around going to another shop to buy them, which I'm not prepared to do, so I can see how difficult it is if you're on your own and everything is in larger, family sized packs. Before I was married, I had the same problem, and it put you off buying fresh stuff, because you couldn't always use it quickly enough. One thing I have done recently though - is to buy more frozen veg, like mushrooms and peppers, which I can use for stir fries. I can add them at the end when the girls have taken their bit out.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I bought one of those stir fry packs which i realised that I wasn't going to get around to using. It made good soup added to other vegetable oddments. I think i might buy one again just to add to soup or stew.
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As someone who has a daughter who comes out in a rash if she has ordinary dairy, and suffers severe stomach cramps when she eats beef, that presents a problem in itself when you're aiming for a varied diet.
She isn't sufficiently keen on veg to be totally vegetarian either, so I can see how easy it would be for folk to buy cheap, ready meals etc. We compromise, and although I retired recently, I'm not spending all my time cooking umpteen different meals. We make a simple pasta dish with tomatoes/passata etc which we all eat, and a big batch is quick to do and then freeze. Not everyone has room for a big freezer though, to do bulk cooking, either .
Both my girls can cook, and I hope they'll continue to do that as they get older, but I can see how difficult it is for many people, and time poverty, as @Nollie mentions, is often a bigger problem than financial poverty. Cookery at school is a bit limited because of the time constraints too.
@Cheyngel - the local supermarket here stopped selling lots of fruit and veg loose, so I now find it hard to buy things like mushrooms for example. There is no longer a greengrocer there, so I'd have to fanny around going to another shop to buy them, which I'm not prepared to do, so I can see how difficult it is if you're on your own and everything is in larger, family sized packs. Before I was married, I had the same problem, and it put you off buying fresh stuff, because you couldn't always use it quickly enough.
One thing I have done recently though - is to buy more frozen veg, like mushrooms and peppers, which I can use for stir fries. I can add them at the end when the girls have taken their bit out.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...