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Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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bagged salads
convenient, yes, but you can pretty much buy the veg fresh and you'll get a lot more for your money and it lasts longer.
also, when you open those bags, the salad smells like breath.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 11:45, 24 replies)
Yeah, but it goes off quick, dunnit?
If you only need a salad for today, they're quite useful.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 11:56, closed)
Aah, salad days.

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 12:07, closed)
slowly being eaten away,
just another play for today, oh, but I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 12:55, closed)
Strangest track off 'Test for Echo'.

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 13:56, closed)
i find fresh stuff lasts longer than the bags

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 14:27, closed)
Aldi and Lidl are the worst
That breath thing is usually when rocket has been mixed in, or a Frenchman blowing a kiss into the bag for you....
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 12:11, closed)
i bought
lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, peppers and onions on saturday and used them in a frittata earlier. still perfectly fresh and likely to be for the rest of the week
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 14:29, closed)
Yeah....
I agree with you.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 16:48, closed)
I normally put potatoes and eggs in a frittata.

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 9:04, closed)
I think you need to stop buying stuff that's on date

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 13:34, closed)
i don't buy stuff that's on date
bagged salad wilts quickly and gets very unappetising
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 14:27, closed)

gets always has been and always will be
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 14:33, closed)
So, you watched Channel 5, last night, then?
Surely the point of bagged salad is the variety of leaves, often far greater than that which is available fresh at the same retailer?
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:03, closed)
no, i watched evil dead 2 last night
i generally avoid channel 5
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:10, closed)
Groovy.
Turns out that gyms and dieting are bad for you, which validates my lifestyle.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:26, closed)
just as well
since i ate 2 brownies and i'm now sugar crashing. time for a kip in the garden.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:33, closed)
only thick yanks believe in a 'sugar crash'

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 16:36, closed)
actually
if you've had a gastric bypass it's called dumping and a bad one can leave you shaking and vomiting for 2 days
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 17:39, closed)
a) that's something completely different
b) only thick yanks get so fat that they need their stomachs chopped up
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 19:14, closed)
so you're saying you're actually american?

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 11:28, closed)
what?

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 12:11, closed)
I think it's so you don't waste half an hour and £5 worth of water washing all the pesticides off the component parts

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:24, closed)
Do you trust the bagging company to wash all the pesticides off bagged salad?
Besides, modern pesticides are systemic, so aren't sprayed on your lettuce anyway. they're added to the irrigation water, and sit within the cells of the plant.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 15:53, closed)
DON'T BREAK MY FRAGILE BUBBLE OF SELF DELUSION

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 16:22, closed)

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