Another trip to our fantastic local farm shop has given me some wonderful bulk-buy bargains. As well as the usual fruit and veg at fabulous prices, our local farm shop always has some very surprising bargains in other food as well.
Apologies for the cr*pulous photo but it was the best I could manage in the stygian gloom that passes for daylight on such a grey November day.
This week I came home with three humungous tubs (275g, 450g and 500g) of herbs and spices from Bart Spices. Bart Spices are based in Bedminster in Bristol and are well known for producing really high-quality herbs and spices so when I saw these catering-size tubs for the grand price of £2.50 each I knew they were a fabulous saving, especially as the ground ginger and rosemary are both organic. I wanted paprika anyway so I was more than happy to find they had smoked paprika available. Having checked out their website I reckon buying these size packs would have cost in the region of £14.00 - £18.00 per tub retail. An excellent bargain. All of the tubs have really good use-by dates, not that I really bother with those for herbs and spices and am happily still using things that had use-by dates five years ago.
Another great deal was this whole box of small organic peppermint packs - 33 in the box I estimate - for £1.00. These were by the tills and I had to double check that such a low price was correct - it was, and a boxful came home with me. I won't eat them all myself (though I probably could given enough time) but I'll divide them up and take some down for my Mum at Christmas.
Brilliant bargains!
Posted by: sharie | 11/20/2010 at 08:42 PM
Those are awesome bargains! I'm jealous.
Posted by: Grace | 11/20/2010 at 09:49 PM