Anchor

Can't remember where the thread was now, so here's a new one.

Anchor butter STILL on sale at the Co-Op, two for £2.50

Considering going on Ebay to buy a bigger fridge . . .

chris c wrote:Can't remember where the thread was now, so here's a new one.

Anchor butter STILL on sale at the Co-Op, two for £2.50

Considering going on Ebay to buy a bigger fridge . . .

Many thanks Chris ... that is a good price

All the best Jan

Not as cheap as the Co-Op but Anchor is on offer for £1.30 at Sainsbury's

Interesting, I wonder what went wrong, I think this is the first time this year, or a least for a long time, that butter has actually been discounted.

Keeping an eye out in case that instantly lethal coconut oil comes down in price since all the media paranoia. No luck so far.

graham64 wrote:Not as cheap as the Co-Op but Anchor is on offer for £1.30 at Sainsbury's

Managed to get some Anchor at this price yesterday ... so thanks for the tip off!
The use by dates were excellent too

All the best Jan

Jan1 wrote:

graham64 wrote:Not as cheap as the Co-Op but Anchor is on offer for £1.30 at Sainsbury's

Managed to get some Anchor at this price yesterday ... so thanks for the tip off!
The use by dates were excellent too

All the best Jan

Went to Waitrose to get my Livlife bread checked out the butter prices while I was there the only offer was on President two for £3 normal price £1.75 a pack

graham64 wrote:

Jan1 wrote:

graham64 wrote:Not as cheap as the Co-Op but Anchor is on offer for £1.30 at Sainsbury's

Managed to get some Anchor at this price yesterday ... so thanks for the tip off!
The use by dates were excellent too

All the best Jan

Went to Waitrose to get my Livlife bread checked out the butter prices while I was there the only offer was on President two for £3 normal price £1.75 a pack

Did you buy two President?
I know you (and Chris) seem to like this brand  ... we still haven't tried it yet !!!
We really should  

All the best Jan

graham64 wrote:

Went to Waitrose to get my Livlife bread checked out the butter prices while I was there the only offer was on President two for £3 normal price £1.75 a pack

Grrrrr . . .

Anchor now on offer for £1.25 at Asda   I was tempted but I much prefer the taste of President

graham64 wrote:Anchor now on offer for £1.25 at Asda   I was tempted but I much prefer the taste of President

£1-25 is a good price ... it seems the supermarkets are competing, or perhaps taking it in turns!

Must admit I still have a few packs of anchor in the fridge that I got (priced £1-30) from Sainsbury's recently.

All the best Jan

Hmmm, President butter . . . drive to nearby town with lousy parking . . . decisions decisions

Oh I could park the far end of town and walk to the Waitrose and back, kill two birds with one stone. They took it off the shelf in the Co-Op a long time back so they could fit in more margarine, I wonder if they'll reconsider.

That didn't last long, Anchor back up to £1.79 so I bought Kerrygold, only £1.69.

Kerrygold is my/our favourite ...
Thanks for the tip

All the best Jan

Anchor back on offer in the Co-Op but now £1.50

I noticed Anchor is on offer at Sainsburys too -  priced at £1-50
I did get a few packs, they had a good use by date

All the best Jan

Back to £1.79 here but Kerrygold still £1.69.

You know when you are past it, when the price of butter is of major interest.

Getting me coat

I'm butting in here or should it be buttering in here LOL!

Sainsbury's yesterday and the price of Anchor was £1-75.
I also noticed that President and Kerrygold were more than this!
Fortunately the fridge is still quite well stocked up from a previous good offer. It pays to keep your eyes on the housekeeping budget    

All the best Jan

"You know when you are past it, when the price of butter is of major interest. mrgreen "

It's a sign of the End Times

well the Death Of Margarine anyway

Jan1 wrote:I'm butting in here or should it be buttering in here LOL!

Sainsbury's yesterday and the price of Anchor was £1-75.
I also noticed that President and Kerrygold were more than this!
Fortunately the fridge is still quite well stocked up from a previous good offer. It pays to keep your eyes on the housekeeping budget    

All the best Jan

At Asda today Kerrygold and Anchor both priced at £1-75 but President is still £1-70 and on offer at two for £3-00 

One of my memories as a kid was eating real beef dripping sandwiches. Another thing I remember was using the small end of a teaspoon extracting the marrow out of the big cow backbones my Mother had stewed up. That was before the mad cow disease meant cow back bone material had to be scrapped.

Haha yes after my mother died I found the marrow spoons. Like a teaspoon with a tiny head and a loooong handle. We used them to dig out the marrow from leg of lamb.

I don't think we had dripping sandwiches but she kept the dripping and also bacon fat in little bowls in the fridge (can't remember where she kept them before we had a fridge though, probably in the meat safe which was in the coal cellar). You had to be quick with the door or bluebottles might get in.

Eddie wrote:One of my memories as a kid was eating real beef dripping sandwiches. Another thing I remember was using the small end of a teaspoon extracting the marrow out of the big cow backbones my Mother had stewed up. That was before the mad cow disease meant cow back bone material had to be scrapped.

I remember the beef dripping butties to, in those days vegetable oils were unheard of dripping and lard were the only cooking fats used. The chippie which was our Friday treat always used beef dripping very tasty the fish and chips were too  

graham64 wrote:

Eddie wrote:One of my memories as a kid was eating real beef dripping sandwiches. Another thing I remember was using the small end of a teaspoon extracting the marrow out of the big cow backbones my Mother had stewed up. That was before the mad cow disease meant cow back bone material had to be scrapped.

I remember the beef dripping butties to, in those days vegetable oils were unheard of dripping and lard were the only cooking fats used. The chippie which was our Friday treat always used beef dripping very tasty the fish and chips were too  

I have read, this young current generation, will be the first who will not outlive our generation. This is a very sad state of affairs. Call me an old fool, and you may well be right, but I believe this could be down to the fact, we were brought up as kids on real grub. Junk food was not around in our times. Mums cooked real home food. Also, we spent our time riding miles on bikes and did not spend our days sitting in front of a TV or games console. As a kid and a teenager I was almost skeletal thin, working on paper rounds and caddying until I left School. Then, straight into a factory working a long hard week, on my feet the whole time. Little did I think then, this lifestyle would benefit me many years later.

Kids live in a cotton-wool life these days. They are not free, parents have become paranoid of letting their kids wonder free. The sad fact is, most serious harm done to kids, is done by family or people they know. Also, so much bullshit and pressure out there encourages kids to grow up too fast.

Eddie wrote:

graham64 wrote:

Eddie wrote:One of my memories as a kid was eating real beef dripping sandwiches. Another thing I remember was using the small end of a teaspoon extracting the marrow out of the big cow backbones my Mother had stewed up. That was before the mad cow disease meant cow back bone material had to be scrapped.

I remember the beef dripping butties to, in those days vegetable oils were unheard of dripping and lard were the only cooking fats used. The chippie which was our Friday treat always used beef dripping very tasty the fish and chips were too  

I have read, this young current generation, will be the first who will not outlive our generation. This is a very sad state of affairs. Call me an old fool, and you may well be right, but I believe this could be down to the fact, we were brought up as kids on real grub. Junk food was not around in our times. Mums cooked real home food. Also, we spent our time riding miles on bikes and did not spend our days sitting in front of a TV or games console. As a kid and a teenager I was almost skeletal thin, working on paper rounds and caddying until I left School. Then, straight into a factory working a long hard week, on my feet the whole time. Little did I think then, this lifestyle would benefit me many years later.

Kids live in a cotton-wool life these days. They are not free, parents have become paranoid of letting their kids wonder free. The sad fact is, most serious harm done to kids, is done by family or people they know. Also, so much bullshit and pressure out there encourages kids to grow up too fast.  

Yes it's all fast food and the latest technology for today's kids going out to play is a dwindling pastime, I do agree parents are very protective of their children these days but it is over the top in most cases