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cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 4:50:39
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jw8725
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Well I'm back home now having lived a year away under a coconut palm. I thought I'd take £20 with me and buy some seeds, nuts and some tuna.
I got to the till and to my shock horror "That will be £25.85 please?". I'm like "er I only bought £20, guess the food prices must have soared up!".
So with my tail between my legs, I bought 70% of what I set out to buy. I'd like to know where do you guys and gals go for:
Salmon
Tuna
Linseeds
Veg
Nuts
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 5:25:56
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Well I'm back home now having lived a year away under a coconut palm. I thought I'd take £20 with me and buy some seeds, nuts and some tuna.
I got to the till and to my shock horror "That will be £25.85 please?". I'm like "er I only bought £20, guess the food prices must have soared up!".
So with my tail between my legs, I bought 70% of what I set out to buy. I'd like to know where do you guys and gals go for:
Salmon
Tuna - dont linke tuna i get chicken from iceland
Linseeds - health shop ( Expensive but i shop in asda and iceland and they dont sell them )
Veg - Asda
Nuts- asda
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 9:16:58
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Tony Barnes
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Salmon - if I get it, ASDA
Tuna - Costco
Linseeds - ethnic shops - Nige swears by pet stores as the cheapest though, I keep forgetting to try!
Veg - ASDA
Nuts - ethnic shops or ASDA
Tesco isn't as pricey as Sainburys to be fair. We sometimes just shop in Sainsburys so that there's less pushing through chavs and rude immigrants, occasionally worth the extra spend...
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 9:21:13
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I find Sainsburys pretty good for chicken and their own brand tuna is cheap as chips in the four packs 
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 9:28:20
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Linseeds - ethnic shops - Nige swears by pet stores as the cheapest though, I keep forgetting
I'm in Moortown mate, which ethnic shops do you pick up from?
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 10:40:30
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All of the indian shops down harehills way have got them. Also great for spices, etc 
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 10:48:44
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All of the indian shops down harehills way have got them. Also great for spices, etc
Cheers mate. There's that big CC Continental now where the pub used to be opposite Empire on Roundhay Rd, will send my mother in, she knows her stuff.
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 11:10:30
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This is quite a useful site:
http://www.comparesupermarketprices.co.uk/
You can see who has BOGOFS and special offers, also compare prices.
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 11:17:16
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Tony Barnes
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All of the indian shops down harehills way have got them. Also great for spices, etc
Cheers mate. There's that big CC Continental now where the pub used to be opposite Empire on Roundhay Rd, will send my mother in, she knows her stuff.
lol - actually, they may not have them!! I've only been in a couple of times (for noodles...) - so didn't rake through the shelves. Any of the Indian ones in that vacinity will defintely have them.
Yeah, what what that place called - Ford Green or something? Since it got shut down, loads of scrutters come up to The Roundhay and cause havoc. Last time we were there it was evacuated so that the police could grab a load of them... yey!
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 12:28:54
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ORIGINAL: jw8725
Well I'm back home now having lived a year away under a coconut palm. I thought I'd take £20 with me and buy some seeds, nuts and some tuna.
I got to the till and to my shock horror "That will be £25.85 please?". I'm like "er I only bought £20, guess the food prices must have soared up!".
So with my tail between my legs, I bought 70% of what I set out to buy. I'd like to know where do you guys and gals go for:
Salmon - Costco, I cut up in to small fillets & freeze / tinned salmon is cheaper. Tesco do a large bag of salmon
Tuna - Costco, john West & cheap as chips!
Linseeds - Petshop - See Nige
Veg - Expensive everywhere now, frozen if on a budget - tesco
Nuts - Tesco do a big 1kg bag of almonds in the Indian world foods section & cheap, brazils - petshop, walnuts - tesco
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 13:51:57
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I went to get some Linseeds fro ma pet shop and was told not to eat/drink them as there not cleaned for human compumption. Dont know if nige can comment on that?
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 14:00:30
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I've been buying & eating them from a petshop for yrs, depends whether you worry about that sort of stuff. If it's good enough for a parrot without dropping off its perch, then they're good enough for me.
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RE: cheapest for healthy food? Shock at Tescos! - Apr. 30 2008 15:40:27
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What KK said. Petfood has to be safe for consumption so there's never going to be anything poisonous in it. A few random bits of flax plant won't hurt ya. If you get any bugs & grubs, that's extra protein! 
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