Alfa One Rice Bran Oil 4L $9.84 @ Woolworths + Other 1/2 Price Specials

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  LDS on 16/10/2012 - 10:48

  thanks good post

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  voteoften on 16/10/2012 - 10:53

  Thanks. olive oil is very overrated.

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    jv on 16/10/2012 - 11:50

    +3

    sounds like you've not tried real olive oil…

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      atua on 16/10/2012 - 12:41

      +3

      Olive oil is great for salads but its low smokepoint makes it distinctly inferior to rice bran oil for frying/deep frying. I also find olive oil overpowering in emulsions; I prefer grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, for example.

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        jv on 16/10/2012 - 15:30

        +2

        i only ever use it for salads and for cooking, only light frying… never deep frying and never for asian foods as the flavour is too strong. but 90% of our oil use is cold pressed extra virgin olive oil (usually from Crete), the other 10% would be canola oil.

        if you want a good olive oil, find a good Greek deli, never from a supermarket…

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  furyou on 16/10/2012 - 10:58

  rice bran vs refined olive oil for stir fry?
  seems both have benefits and I can't judge what is better for me?

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    foobar on 16/10/2012 - 11:00

    There's plenty of info out there to help you decide, I did a lot of reading before switching and haven't been disappointed.

    One definite benefit, when it's on special, it's a while lot cheaper that's for sure.

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    alizzan on 16/10/2012 - 11:08

    +1

    Not sure about olive oil, but generally modified/refined oils tend to become unstable when heated and produce free radicals. Rice bran oil is better at remaining stable when heated. It's one of the reasons why you shouldn't really fry with olive oil. +1 on the deal for me, this is cheap.

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      foobar on 16/10/2012 - 11:17

      I'm sure there's negative reviews out there about rice bran oil and a million reasons not to use it but from all the reading I did it certainly seemed to come up trumps over the alternatives.

      At the time I was looking into it, I wasn't aware of the price difference either, I mistakenly assumed that because it seemed better, it would be more expensive. It's nice to be wrong sometimes :)

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      jv on 16/10/2012 - 11:51

      +1

      olive oil is for salads and light cooking, definitely not for deep frying…

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      paddy567 on 16/10/2012 - 12:38

      -2

      "but generally modified/refined oils tend to become unstable when heated and produce free radicals."

      GMO becomes unstable when heated? I'd like to see some evidence of that, because on the surface it sounds pretty whacky…

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        odysseus on 16/10/2012 - 13:18

        +6

        He wrote "generally" not "genetically"…

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  dy4me on 16/10/2012 - 11:08

  +1

  really, 25c per mL? r u serious? that $250 per liter. bloody expensive i say.

  might want to check that maths.

  More like $2.5 per L

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    foobar on 16/10/2012 - 11:12

    Missed the 100 when flicking between tabs and transcribing the info, fixed.

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  foobar on 16/10/2012 - 11:37

  +3

  Here are all the 1/2 price offers from Coles for the same period

  Product	Cost
  Cottee's Cordial 1L	$2.24
  Lindt Excellence Chocolate 100g	$1.88
  Allen's "Jelly" Bags 170-200g	$1.39
  Mars Celebrations Tub 750g	$15.00
  Real Foods Corn Thins 125-150g	$0.98
  V Energy Drink 4x250mL	$4.57
  Mighty Soft Raisin Toast 600g	$2.19
  Wella Pro Series Shamp or Cond 750mL	$5.49
  Energizer Max AA 4pack Batteries	$3.72
  Fluffy Ultra Fabric Conditioner 1L	$3.49

  Don't know if there's anything there that warrants a separate post, run with it if you think there is.

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  ltwo on 16/10/2012 - 16:23

  Not sure if this is nationwide but at the moment, Coles Garden City WA is selling a brand of 5L extra virgin olive oil for $20 (half price from $40). Tasted pretty good when I used it as a bread dip last night.

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    spy on 17/10/2012 - 23:34

    my store has it for $18.

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      StewBalls on 18/10/2012 - 10:57

      I saw it in one store the other day for $12.99…Sole Mio brand IIRC…I wasn't quite brave enough to try it! ;)

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  Click_It on 16/10/2012 - 17:10

  Thanks for the heads up foobar, we bought some of these many months back when they had a deal running on the 500ml bottles. They didn't last long, we all liked it here. Glad to see it's back and in volume this time, will pick some up soon!

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  Geewhizz on 16/10/2012 - 17:59

  Awesome find have been waiting for this to come up on special again for ages - ended up biting the bullet last week and bought one full price. Time to stock up. :)

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    foobar on 16/10/2012 - 18:16

    Got the receipt from last week? Buy an extra one, take a full unopened one back with the receipt where you paid full price and get your money back, tell them you bought it by mistake, thought it was olive oil ;)

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      Geewhizz on 17/10/2012 - 06:51

      lol yeah, no, got it then because we desperately needed it.

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  PotPlant on 16/10/2012 - 18:30

  +8

  Does anyone else get frustrated by the lack of "half price deals" that are presented by the large chains for healthy foods?

  I mean, have a quick look at the promos- generally speaking, its chocolate, coke, chips, cordial, cabanossi, raisin toast, tim tams, arnotts snack biscuits (like shapes, etc) Allens lollies, and you can go on and on. Eating healthy costs an absolute bomb.
  I find it really frustrating that when you walk the isles of the supermarkets all the cheap trolley fillers are just utter crap that is killing us and making us fat.

  Where are the half price deals on rye bread, organic dried fruit & nuts, healthy flours, and other unprocessed foods?
  Hardly ever to be seen. I often look at the front page of the coles/woolies catalogues, where their 'best' specials are pictured. I generally find that if I bought all those products, and ate them regularly, I'd be sick as a dog all the time with no immune system and about the size of a house.
  Am I alone in these thoughts?

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    foobar on 16/10/2012 - 18:44

    No not alone, noticed nearly all of it was junk food while typing it up. My main interest was the oil, the rest was just informational for anyone who happened to be interested.

    Out of all of it, the only thing I'll be getting is the oil (as much as I would love some of the other).

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    johnno07 on 16/10/2012 - 21:39

    +1

    Maybe the margins are thinner on those items (which I assume are more costly to produce)? And/or maybe they realise that people are willing to pay more for these organic/healthy alternatives and it wouldn't make a lot of sense, business-wise, to discount them?

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      PotPlant on 17/10/2012 - 15:52

      I get what you are saying, and you would be right. Its just sad, thats all. Why are the healthy options considered 'alternatives' as you said? Why isn't all the other JUNK (thats ALWAYS on sale) what we treat ourselves with OCCASIONALLY, with the bulk of our diet made up of food that is healthy, less processed, contains less additives and less preserving agents?

      That would have to bring the cost of healthy foods down!

      For eg: Coles loaf of processed, sugary white bread: 0.99c (fills you for two seconds then is converted straight to sugar by the body)
      Loaf of rye bread, containing little or no wheat and other crap: $6.50

      Im not trying to change the world, just venting frustration.

      Thanks to the OP for the rice bran oil deal. Its great! Just wish there was more deals like it.

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    Skinnerr on 17/10/2012 - 04:40

    Before you typed this you could have looked at all of coles EDIBLE half price specials bar the corn thins, all junk. Might have answered your question. And they say we have an obesity problem here…

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    retiredfeline on 17/10/2012 - 07:21

    Where are the half price deals on rye bread, organic dried fruit & nuts, healthy flours, and other unprocessed foods?

    You seem to have mistaken Coolies for sellers of healthy food. Try your fruito, produce markets, bakery, etc. :)

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      PotPlant on 17/10/2012 - 15:56

      Thats just my point:
      'Try your fruito, produce markets, bakery, etc' DONT ever have half price sales. You simply don't see unprocessed food very often at all for 59% off, etc, like you do with oreo's and smiths chips.

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        retiredfeline on 17/10/2012 - 23:35

        That probably tells you something about the quality of the ingredients in processed food. They are cheap because they are formulated to not go bad quickly, taste and nutrition can all go to hell, it's all about making the cheapest stuff that will sell. People eat this junk and don't feel like they've really had food so they eat some more. Result: health problems.

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  supersabroso on 16/10/2012 - 19:42

  -3

  Rice bran oil has the highest saturated fat content out of any other oil. It has approximately 3x the amount of saturated fat in Canola oil. So I wouldn't be too fast to buy it if you like to eat chips/chocolate and what not.

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    atua on 17/10/2012 - 05:53

    That's incorrect. Palm oil has the highest saturated fat content for a vegetable oil. Also animal fats like lard have even higher saturated fat content.

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      supersabroso on 18/10/2012 - 14:40

      OK, I was wrong, out of about 15 different types of oil. Rice bran is the worst. However palm oil is worse.

      Let's be realistic here. Who uses palm oil, let alone animal fats in their daily cooking? This isn't the 1960's. But anyway….just want to let others know about the high saturated fat content.

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  wongster on 16/10/2012 - 22:15

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  Thank you foobar, Rice Bran Oil is good for me. Indecent, Saturated fat is not bad for you it is balance that matters. Lack of saturated fats leads to all kinds of things like diabetes etc. So you will need to buy a lump of lard (say clarified butter or Jerky) to even things out. Wow that burns! wow that burns! Blazinn Saddle! wow that burns!

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    StewBalls on 16/10/2012 - 23:46

    +1

    So you will need to buy a lump of lard (say clarified butter or Jerky) to even things out.

    Dafuq??? I dunno where you're getting your jerky wongster; but last time I checked, the lean beef used for jerky has bugger-all fat in it…certainly nothing like ghee!

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  silviali on 17/10/2012 - 05:58

  awesome! been using it for years, always stock it up when they are on sale :p

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  Geewhizz on 17/10/2012 - 07:00

  I think I'll leave it 'til Monday to help spend my $100 for the week.