Saturday 18 June 2022

£1.50 Lidl box

 

I popped down to the plot first thing this morning to water my tomatoes and peppers in the polytunnel.  All is looking good with flowers starting to appear on my tomatoes 🍅  On the way home I went to the 'big Lidl' and scored a £1.50 fruit and veg box.


I got a ton of carrots, 2 leeks (not much greenery on them but heyho), 2 cantaloupe melons, a huge pear, a bag of easy peelers, 3 large unwaxed lemons, 4 Scarlet tomatoes, a red pepper and a turnip (swede or rutabaga depending on what part of the world you hail from!) In Scotland it's a turnip or neep!! 

I'll be making soup with most of the veggies, that's lunches for next week sorted.  The lemons I'll slice and freeze for making elderflower cordial.  I hope the melons are still edible as they look a wee bit over ripe.  But anything past human consumption will go to Tuppence 🐔 or the compost bin.

A good £1.50 worth of food and all good for my digestive system (unlike the Too Good to Go bags!)

12 comments:

  1. When a swede is a turnip.....what is a turnip?!
    Nice box of goodies - especially the melons - haven't had a melon for ages - must see how much they are next time I shop

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    1. Swedes and turnips are both just turnips!! Big turnips and wee turnips I guess. LOL!
      One of the melons was almost too ripe but I chopped them up and froze some

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  2. Well done, I love these boxes.

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    1. It's all about timing!! I think they get put out at 10am just now

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  3. You scored a good box there. Those frozen melon chunks would make nice ice cubes for a gin and tonic.

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  4. Golly, the easy peelers would cost more than the whole box here!

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    1. It was a good bargain esp as 1 melon would cost at least £1.50!!

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  5. Turnips in Canada are bitter, rutabagas I love and are a little bit sweeter. What a great deal on all those veggies and fruits.

    God bless.

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    1. You get a lot in these boxes but you get what you get so have to be creative to using it up

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  6. Brilliant!!! I love getting these boxes!

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