Keeping potatoes ( off topic maybe)

costs three times as much

requires more trips to the supermarket

tim

Seems spuds are bit dodgey, glad I don't like them very much. B-)

Not nearly that much, no more than 15% more for loose versus bagged in my local supermarket. And if a proportion of the bulk buy rots or otherwise becomes inedible, that reduces the price differential.

But if you do a weekly supermarket shop, as I assume most people do, it's no inconvenience to just buy a week's worth of spuds and/or carrots.

I'm thinking in terms of price for 2.5kg

verse price for 25

tim

Comparison directly by weight is the proper way to do it. Can't do that for spuds, as the only ones available loose are baking potatoes, which aren't available in a weight-specified bag (which raises a question as to how you made your guesstimate). But carrots in my local Tesco are available bagged at £0.59/kg, vs £0.65/kg for loose, which is 10% more expensive and close to what I said. I still say your guesstimate of three times the price for loose spuds compared with bagged is absurd.

He is comparing the price for bulk buying three months supply versus shopping weekly. The baggedness is immaterial.

because that's the price differential I have seen whenever I have seen 25 kg bags of spuds available for sale

it isn't a comparison of loose verses bagged

it's a comparison of small bag verses humongous bag

tim

OK, I understand where you're coming from now. But perhaps if you buy them in that quantity it's not surprising that some of them start sprouting or go rotten before you've eaten them all. You need to store them in a clamp.