Tell me about your grocery / food budget - family of 4 edition

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Anonymous wrote:^^ my strawberries from LIDL from 8 days ago are still great (fridge-kept). My mangoes from aldi are now 17 days old and are delicious (frige-kept after ripened).

But you do you. 💰 🪽

I've lost plenty of money trying to buy produce from Aldis and Lidls and having to toss them out. Boxes of spinach going manky after a day or two. Berries going moldy. Apples that were mushy and tasteless. But you do you.

Then you don’t take advantage of their double money back guarantee.

Well, no, I didn't know they had it. Will remember. I still stop at Lidls every other week for a few items. Some of their offerings are excellent value. Just not their produce. I'm not impressed by strawberries that sit in your fridge for eight days because it means they can't be that great to start with.

You’re wrong…they are excellent but I made sure to check carefully for no wet ones .

Yes, I am very sure I am wrong and you are right. Despite a lifetime of shopping and eating and cooking extensively with a wide variety of produce. Even the freshest strawberries from local farms at peak season in June (coming up soon!) doesn't last eight days in the fridge without going moldy. Strawberries are intensively cultivated and most cheap berries are raised to have long shelf life by being effectively rubber, and if your strawberries are lasting that long after being sold to you, they were not ripe or high quality to start with.

Of the berries, blueberries have the best shelf life but even if you avoid mold, they tend to shrivel after five or days.