Best time to hit the 'Reduced To Clear' section?
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
It's only on very briefly, like 15 minutes before it's all gone. There's a very small queue of people outside in advance.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
No worries, I hope there was no-one else behind you in the queue!
I think these things are great for people who are struggling to afford to buy food.
They aren't there for people who can buy stuff from the supermarket. I have never used one.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
It's advertised as more a reducing food waste thing.
It used to be on 3 nights in the village, but was reduced to 2 nights due to lack of demand. So by going along as a regular and paying you're helping it stay open. There was 6 of us in the queue last night and absolutely loads, not just food but flowers too.
The people who organise and collect stuff take a big cut of the produce...
There's usually certain items like bread and bagged salad left at the end.
I manage to use most of what I take, but if I have excess bread, it will go out to the birds; if veggies are going off, I'll stick them in my compost bin. Better than stuff in cellophane being thrown in landfill.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Ah no worries, I think round here there'd be 40 people queueing up for a bag of sorry looking salad leaves
It's difficult sometimes to not get a little tetchy about access to food, if that makes any sense?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Yup, I get it. More should be done to make sure everyone has access to food, and also that food doesn't go to waste. I guess it's harder to manage food on its use by date than food in tins. (The one in the village is at ~9:30pm 2 nights a week, which isn't going to suit everyone.) When I do a supermarket shop, I usually pick up something for the food bank collection.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
A mate of mine works at a food bank and often tries to get me to go round and pick up a few items they have trouble shifting.
I feel much like Epona in that I think that should be going to people who have trouble affording food, but I see the waste avoidance angle too.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I tried Olio for a while, to try to help with keeping our household food bill down (as well as helping with waste) but I found the issue with it was that it's generally stuff being picked up by very kind people who volunteer their time to go round and pick stuff up at the back of a supermarket after it's closed - but that means there's generally a short pick up window quite late at night for others. As in a post at 22:30 along the lines of "I've got 20 loaves of bread and some bags of bread rolls, pick up before 23:00" and I don't live in the worst area but it's not the best either, and I'm not going out on a probably 1hr round trip to the back streets of a part of the borough I don't know late at night, in the hope of saving a quid on some soon to be stale bread. If that makes any sense
I think a communal pantry somewhere central is probably more useful.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Regulars drive to the food larder in the village, from other villages or the outskirts of the nearest town. For me, it's a minutes walk... If you read my posts elsewhere, I'm struggling with things at the moment, so the larder is really handy for reasons other than the cost.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Yeah our community fridge is at least partly run as a waste reduction thing too. I wouldn't show up when they only have a tiny bit of stuff that other people might need more, but they've been getting boxes and boxes of fresh fruit and veg this week and I'll definitely be along if it happens again when I'm not doing something miles away all evening. They have some cleaning product (and toiletries maybe) refills that you can pay for but I think the food is free to take. They'll accept homegrown produce too, although not eggs unless you're registered, which can be handy for gluts.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oooh the yellow sticker bakery trolley is like finding buried treasure, surprised not to see myself in that video!
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Went to Lidl on Monday and got some orange-stickered fish:
Pack of Gravadlax for about £2.30 and a pack of 2 smoked haddock fillets for about £2.
I don't actually do Gravadlax due to a particularly awful hangover after an office Xmas party at a Swedish smorgasbord restaurant (which has put me off all manner of cured and pickled served-cold fish), but N scoffed it, he loves smoked salmon.
The smoked haddock is in the freezer ready for the next time I do a fish pie or kedgeree.
Pack of Gravadlax for about £2.30 and a pack of 2 smoked haddock fillets for about £2.
I don't actually do Gravadlax due to a particularly awful hangover after an office Xmas party at a Swedish smorgasbord restaurant (which has put me off all manner of cured and pickled served-cold fish), but N scoffed it, he loves smoked salmon.
The smoked haddock is in the freezer ready for the next time I do a fish pie or kedgeree.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I was doing a bit of shopping with the Lady Friend, and - as is my wont - calculating the reduction in percentage terms. It's pretty surprising that so much late-dated stuff attracts such a miserly reduction, typically 10%. Presumably, it still sells, or they'd make the cuts deeper. Or, maybe they don't give a shit.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Yeah Iceland are one of the most miserly bastards when it comes to reductions which is a pisser as they are our nearest chain supermarket.
Morrisons is alright but you really have to hit the supermarket at the right time to get the best deals - around 7pm after the "shop on the way home from work" busy period has finished is IME when they do the final price reduction and marking down any veg that hasn't sold, so you can get really great bargains but you do have to time it right and possibly join a bit of a scrum because if I know that, then so do a lot of other people so there's often a bit of a crowd forming
