How to get some of the grocery items cheap

b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 11:41

Hi OzBs,

Following items are almost never on sale or prices doesn't drop at supermarkets stores, was wondering is there any place in Melbourne (Nothern Suburbs to be specific) that someone is aware of where they are cheap?

  1. Honey(normally $1.20 per 100g)
  2. Ginger (normally $27 per kg)
  3. Bunch of Asparagus ( $2.50 per bunch)
  4. Bunch of Broccolini ($3 per bunch)

TIA

regards,
B_sean

Food & Grocery

Comments

  • Heizenberg on 02/05/2015 - 11:47

    it might be different in melbourne but asparagus and brocolini are on special pretty regularly here in adelaide.

  • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 11:50

    Thanks Heizenberg,

    I hardly see them on special. The most I see is 2 for $5 or something like that.

    • 1271190 on 02/05/2015 - 17:34

      I have got asparagus quite often for $1 a bunch at local fruit and veg shops. Would be worth a check.

      • 1271190 on 02/05/2015 - 17:35

        Same with broccolini. :)

        • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 21:27

          They are almost same prices in fruit and veg shop as they are in supermarkets.

  • dylanando on 02/05/2015 - 11:56

    Dont think youll find honey very cheap, Due to there not being much!

    • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 11:59

      Yes, haven't seen honey on special in either Coles or WW for a long time.

      • Puska on 02/05/2015 - 12:26

        Buy in bulk from a bee keeper.
        My grandfather is one, so he thinks he gives me a couple of kilos of honey at time for free.. (stash cash in the back pocket haha)

    • Charity on 03/05/2015 - 15:46
      +1

      you can scavenge it in the wild.

      btw, was watching Landline a few weeks ago, it was saying the honey industry in Aus is almost a monopoly. (capalano's owns like 80%+ of the market)

  • xoom on 02/05/2015 - 13:01

    Ginger has always been expensive. You be better off if you can to plant these in the ground. Only dig up a bit of it and leave it in the ground to keep growing. Thats what my folks do.

    • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 16:27

      Thanks tried that didn't work, will try again.

      • Bazeegar on 03/05/2015 - 18:36

        Buy organic for planting. Plant around September and will be ready to harvest March onwards. You can keep in open for about 4 to 6 months.

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 02/05/2015 - 13:23

    Re ginger, there is a fruit-n-veggie shop (which actually sells a lot of other stuff too) in Doncaster Shopping Centre where ginger is frequently $7 per kilo; but it's little bits (like a single round ball or at most two). They seem to be able to get these 'off-cuts' (scrappy wee bits) cheap from somewhere. Unfortunately I don't know the actual name of the place, but it's the one on the ground floor near the Coles, with a Deli up the back. Someone else on here might know the name?

  • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 16:28

    Thanks

  • Hotpotcorn on 02/05/2015 - 20:40
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    • b_sean on 02/05/2015 - 21:27

      Thanks will check at NQR tomorrow

  • conder4935 on 03/05/2015 - 15:02
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    WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR HIGHLY INFLATED PRICES FROM eg: GINGER AT $27 PER KILO HAVE NOT SEEN IT HIGHER THAN $16.90 TO $19.90

    • soyea on 03/05/2015 - 16:22

      Aged ginger is around 25+ mark, fresh picked ginger is around 10-18 mark

      • GnarlyKnuckles on 03/05/2015 - 22:43

        Is that right soyea? I'm enlightened! I assume that's because the freshly picked stuff has a lot more water still in it, i.e. the 'aged' stuff has lost a lot of the weight but none of the flavour? If that is the case, I'm guessing the stuff I referred to earlier in this thread would be 'fresh'. Humorously, I wondered why it was so cheap (even though it was little bits/knobs), because it still looked really 'fresh'!… lol… Now I know.

  • infinite on 04/05/2015 - 15:16
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    Wouldn't you just punch them all through the self-checkout machines at Coles/Woolies as potatoes?

    • gooddealmate on 05/05/2015 - 22:37
      +1

      No because that would be theft… Stealing is not a bargain.

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