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Nuts!

20:35 / 06.01.03

I am sitting here readin'n'typin'n'eating a 750g tub of mixed nuts and raisins. I didn't overindulge in food during the "Festering Season" but finally the hype got to me. Said nuts cost me just over £1.50 in my local branch of the nations 1st or 2nd favourite supermarket. Half the shop was filled with "seasonal items" drastically reduced in price.

But I noticed 2 freezers filled with "party food" eg. mini toad in the hole (a spoonful of batter pudding with a cocktail sausage on top), mini sausage rolls, mini quiches, cheese bites (a croquette by any other name). These were actually printed with "buy 2 save 99p", since before Xmas. Would it not be fairer now the party season is over and before the food goes out of date, to distribute it to cold weather shelters, lunch clubs for the elderly etc rather than try to sell it off in dribs and drabs? One consolation is that with sell-by dates they can't put it back on sale next year!

Has anyone else noticed that shops seem to have drastically overstocked this Xmas, or is it just me having been mucked about for 2 months by the DSS and only getting my payment on 20th December?!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:16 / 06.01.03

Yeah, it's fucking disgusting to see how much stuff gets thrown out. The store I work at isn't so bad because it's only a little cornershop and the can't afford the grotesque levels of overstocking you see at bigger outfits, but we still throw out quite a bit (usually ready-meals, pre-packaged sandwiches, fruit and vegetables).

Some supermarkets do liase with organizations that help them distribute the excess food to people that need it, such as rough sleepers. I guess a person could try and encourage this by shopping at stores that have a policy of donating food, and by writing to other stores to suggest they get their act together.

21:20 / 06.01.03

I'm kinda depressed about seeing all the trees thrown out. It's like, if you were gonna put the tree back outside, why the hell did you bring it inside in the first place?

21:29 / 06.01.03

I am very happy if supermarkets over stock with christmas puddings, because then I can buy them in january and eat them when winter is at its worst and I need a really solid pudding.

I heard on the news earlier that shopping this christmas period was down by a long way, so I would expect the supermarkets to have over stocked.

09:14 / 07.01.03

Well, our supermarket was already entirely out of Christmas puddings. You might be too late.

21:29 / 07.01.03

Cashews. Can't be beat. Pistachios might do it if it wasn't for the fankle of shelling the little buggers. I'm going to scour the local stores for cut price nuts tomorrow.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:17 / 08.01.03

Hah! We still have nuts aplenty.

Yeah, the whole "over-stocking" thing (other than being a fashion faux pas) is, in general, shit. I mean (popular London sandwich chain) Benjy's may have minging food, but they do (apparently) give what's left to a homeless shelter.

Although usually with Christmas food, it's a case of not having enough, rather than being a bastard with the excess. Retail was way down this last festive season just gone, hence the extras.

(Side note- I remember once, when I was signing on, a friend came round one Sunday morning to tell me he had AN ENTIRE FUCKING SKIPFUL of beer that he'd found outside Safeways, having been thrown out on its "drink by" date. Boy, was that a weekend and a half.)

07:31 / 09.01.03

Let's have some respect for Benjy's! Not only do they do a vegan sandwich, which is very fucking hard to come by in London, but they sell fruit salad which actually has the good bits rather than the melon rind you get in the Sainsbury's ones.

Benjy's is aok with me.

(... and they're cheap ...)

07:43 / 09.01.03

Hmmmm... yes, I have been craving nuts lately. A fine idea. I've also heard that they are helpful for functioning of the nervous system, and I could do with one of them, too.

wembley can change in 28 days

09:57 / 09.01.03

Pistachios might do it if it wasn't for the fankle of shelling the little buggers.

Aha, shells are my salvation. I find if I buy nuts in the shell, I will stop eating them when I've had my fill, because it takes so long to get at them. I also only eat them one at a time. If I buy nuts out of the shell, it's game over. I'll be rolling myself towards next year's christmas dinner table.

Goodness Gracious Meme

10:18 / 09.01.03

re overstocking... few years ago went skipping just after christmas - ridiculous the amount of really good quality food that gets chucked post festive season... think we lived on M&S 'party selection' packs for a good couple of weeks...