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Was going to make an apple and blackberry loaf, trot off to Asda for the blackberries....£2.98 for a tiny plastic punnet containing 12 blackberries,:eek: recipe need 4oz..so that would be one mightily expensive loaf. How can they justify charging that amount. Have emailed and asked them, will not hold my breath.:mad:
Wow that seems expensive, especially when you can pick them free from the roadside :lol: I too have noticed how expensive fruit can be just recently :angry:
That's outrageous!
I have noticed the same with raspberries and blueberries which are my favourite berries. You almost need to take out a mortgage to buy them :o
That is extortionate! I love blackberries but would no way pay that
Potatoes are expensive too, I love Vivaldi potatoes and Sainsburys charge £1.79 for a small bag
How do you eat your 5 a day at those prices?
That's exactly how I feel. No way can I make the tiny punnet of berries stretch between 5 - I'd need about 3 punnets (bare minimum, and being stingey) at least to share out and that can be anything between £6-£9.
I just can't afford them at all.
And also, sometimes they are so utterly sour, you feel really naffed off that you've wasted so much cash.
No wonder everyone opts for choccie bars, or cheap ready made cakes/donuts, so much cheaper :frown: .
We saw the prices in the shops a few weeks ago , so i decided to start freezing self picked ones myself , we have cooking apples and blackberries in our freezer waiting to be cooked when needed , i think this is something we will stick to doing from now on , we have done apples for a few years now, but after seeing the price of the black berries i think i will carry on with those aswell !!!
I sometimes take a little bag or pot with me dog walking and pick blackberries :blush:
last year I went to the pound shop (yes everything is a pound!) and I bought a raspberry cane, this year it is now many canes and I had a boat load of fruit from it
friut is so terribly expensive, and at the wrong time of year its worse
Noise Stopper
15-10-07, 12:05 AM
I sometimes take a little bag or pot with me dog walking and pick blackberries :blush:
But after a little bag of pot all I want are Mars Bars! Oh I see what you mean.... (hat, Coat Door!)
Ian :nfh1:
:lol: :lol: I am sat here chuckling away to myself, thanks NS :D
Annabel
15-10-07, 01:14 PM
all those kinds of berries are really really really expensive in supermarkets.
i have stopped buying my fruit and veg in sainsbos, it is so expensive and not even that nice, i got sick to death of buying nectarines plums or peaches and having them turn to mush in the fruit bowl after a day. they buy in the fruit way too small and unripe then keep them too cold, so when you want to ripen them, they wont.
i also have a total bee in my bonnet about those ridiculous tiny melons they sell, melons should be big big big and not the size of tennis balls!
i get all my fruit and veg from the local market or a continental food store near where i work, and i buy in small quantities and go and buy more when we have eaten it. i buy whatever they have available, its not strawberry season now so why are the supermarkets still flogging them?
we all need to eat frut and veg in season that way the supermarkets will stop flying in fruit from across the world and we will be better supporting our local farmers.
Asda was selling sugarsnap peas on Saturday from PERU.:eek: dont we grow these things in the UK.
Annabel
16-10-07, 01:00 PM
yes we do but it isnt the season! hence they have brought them in from peru!!!
Why can they charge less for peas flown in from Peru than they can for UK grown blackberries, still awaiting a response from Asda about their extortionate price for blackberries and yes I would go and pick some from bushes growing nearby, but everyman and his wife has had the same idea and the bushes are bare.
Also the UK weather has been so shocking this year as we all know that prices have gone up, thats why pumpkins are so expensive at present, not because of haaloween but the damp rotted so many of them :( and a lot of them are not orange as they are small and un rip
Yup, the weather has played havoc with the Pea Harvest too - so expect them to go up in price as well.
As for the blackberries, I used to go blackberry picking every summer when I was little and come back with carrier bags crammed full. Now I don't even see any blackberry bushes at all!
And that punnet in Asda, I bet the berries aren't even that nice :rolleyes: .