Cheese!!!!!!!

[doris9034]

The price of it?!?!! £5 for a large block - and we use that in less than a week with sandwiches, sauces, general meals etc. And while I'm here other sandwich fillings like ham - about £4 for 5 decent slices (won't go near the water thin since I found out how it's made! not envy), and tuna £4 for 3 tins....... I'm not tight but as a lot of people we do have to work on a budget and 5 lots of sandwiches a week plus all the other food my greedy lot scoff is getting expensive!! Anyone else think the same?

What's wrong with wafer thin ham?

Slow cook meat and slice it. Much cheaper and nicer. Cheese... I have no ideas there

shiny are you sure you want to know? My OH once had an engineering contract in a factory where it is made .... It's really not good

Salad sarnies are nice

I’d buy a joint of gammon and slice it for sandwiches. Much cheaper.

rolypoly i have actually cooked my own ham joint today thinking that might be better as long as I don't eat it all first

Can you make some other alternatives such as pasta salads? You can get loads of pasta for practically nothing.

There are other things to make sandwiches from. Egg mayo, Spam (!), Corned beef. Maybe not, they're probably no cheaper. Grate the cheese? Shop at Lidl or Aldi?

fucks not if you're 7!

My son's diet mainly consists of cheese and he's enormous (tall rather than fat). Even at Aldi prices the cheese spend is getting out of hand. YANBU.

Yes. Buy ham to cook. Can use for sandwiches/ a meal and can make soup with stock. If you chill it you can get thin slices.

Much better value, and tastes better too.

Most 7 year olds I know eat salad

Im currently on holiday in The Frenc Alps and am SICK of cheese served with everything. Nothing on the menu without cheese. I am happy never to taste cheese ever again. Sorry wont help you but maybe come to the Frenh Alps and you will feel the same?

If you slice cheese using a peeler instead of a knife you get water thin cheese slices. Makes a block of cheese go further!

What cheese are you buying, where do you shop and what do you call a large block?

Largeish blocks are £2 from Aldi or Lidl and Cathedral City is always on offer for £2/3 somewhere and it doesn't go off, so if you can, the answer to save when buying cheese is to go to Aldi/Lidl or stock up when you see it on offer.

You can get tuna cheaper than that too. YAB a little U to complain that decent quality ham is expensive, but I'm sure the decent stuff is made in a similar way to the rubbishy stuff to be honest, a lot of it is the squashed together and injected with curing fluids types.

Varying fillings is a good way to save - egg or something like carrot and hummus one day, and ham, cheese and tuna no more than once a week each. Or make things like pasta salad with bits of ham, cheese, chicken, tuna in along with peppers, spring onions etc, as you may get away with using less.