I'm the first getting
up today so I make the coffee. As I measure out the grounds, I ponder
how to continue drinking nice ground coffee as cheaply as we have for
the last 2 months. Our corner shop sells ground coffee in half-pound
packets with quite a hefty mark-up but in early February, I
discovered that he was selling the Tchibo Family Classic half price.
Asda retails the Tchibo for £7.40 a kilo. Corner shop man normally
wants £8 a kilo. But because they were just past the Best Before
date, he sold them for £4 a kilo, or £1 per 250g packet. I knew
that the Tchibo was a perfectly serviceable everyday percolator brand
so when I saw THIS, I bought all he had, 3 kilos in all. So since
February this year, we've been drinking lovely coffee slightly out of
date. Bargain!
He's now got the
half-pound Maxwell Ground Coffee on for half price, but at the
slightly higher price of £4.80 a kilo. Need to try the Maxwell to
see whether we could live on it. We once made a massive mistake with
the Sainsbury's Basics Ground Coffee – it was vile. No idea what
they've used for this, coffee sack lint mixed with dried dandelion
root probably.
By the way, have you
noticed the Great Coffee Packaging Swindle? Most supermarkets now
sell coffee in 227g and 454g bags. It's a way of disguising rising
prices. Nice try, boys and girls, but my basic numeracy is still good
enough to spot that one.
Off now to check out a
local flooring shop – we're still casting around for some nice
vinyl flooring for our renovated bathroom.
If someone ever asks me
that old job interview chestnut “Where do you see yourself in five
years' time?”, I would have to answer “Farming my own
smallholding somewhere near a popular Sustrans cycle path, making all
manner of things, some edible, some quaffable, some for use, some just
to look at, and some to read”. Given land prices in this country,
and the control-freaky nuttiness of European “food safety”
legislation, which, I suspect, is designed precisely to keep
small-scale independent producers from ever becoming competitive
against the food giants, it will probably remain just a vision.
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