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    Spices!

    Spicy spices!

    We do a fair bit of cooking in our household, and decided that spending 50p a time on ten grammes of spices was a little wasteful. So we hit a local halal meat center and came back with about 8 kilos of spices, which we transferred to jars



    Why do I bother you with this, you ask?

    Asda price (refills in plastic bags for fairness): £114.21. Price we paid for a whole bunch of better-tasting stuff in 1Kg bags: £19.29

    The moral? Buy cool stuff from halal meat centers, they rock!

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    we used to have one oth the proper racks with everythin on (cant remember who makes it- stuff in glass bottles and cream lids), but it is rather pricey, and we just tended to use it cos it was there rather than we needed to use it
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    lol good barigian, u a muslim btw?

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    no, i'm just cheap

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    like saturday mornin breakfast presenters.

    its still a good idea though matey, not knockin you (yet )
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    Went to Greece for my honeymoon a few years ago. Found this tiny little market village seeling all sorts of stuff... I was most interested in the 1/2 lb bags of saffron powder for about £2 and the same weight in saffron strands for about £4. Bought 5 bags of strands and two of powder... sold 'em around the hotels etc etc, bit by bit charging £20 for 1/16 ounce... damn near paid for my honeymoon!
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    "OH OOOOHH oOOHHHHHHHOOHHHHHHH FILL ME WITH YOUR.... eeww not the stuff from the lab"

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    nice one, deckard

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    Originally posted by directhex
    no, i'm just cheap
    nowt wrong with that mate

    top idea btw - i get my father-in-law (he runs a cafe) to get me stuff from the local cash & carry cos i am also a tightwad, makes much more sense tho
    if it ain't broke...fix it till it is


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    £20 foor 8 kilos!? jeeeeez maaan, thats good

    if war is the answer, then we are asking the wrong question
    2 things i hate the most - xenophobia and the french
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    hey, did u get cajun spice??

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