Cheap spuds at Morrisons

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My local Morrisons are selling 12.5g bags of Maris Piper spuds for Ј2, they were Ј6.99.

Not sure if it is a national offer, or just my local selling off ones that are near there best before date.

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• OMG the carbs.....! But a bargain indeed if you have a family to feed.
• got mine yesterday.......literally everyone in the store had a bag,lol!!
• No idea how supermarkets store their conventional potatoes or if these are ones grown recently abroad, but from a home grown perspective (and some of the organic companies are the same), as it's coming up to potato planting season and the end of stored potatoes from last season, potatoes may now start sprouting so may only be good if anyone uses that many very quickly.
• ^^^^ I meant to ask you how your allotment did last year, are you still living off its produce? The previous year you seemed to have gluts of everything!
• Hi. i was lucky enough to buy these potatoes for Ј2.00 in our local morrisons. A member of staff, when asked why they were selling them so cheap, was because the bags were damp and would not store well at morrisons. Although there are only currently 2 of us living at home, I buy their normal large bags and the potatoes last us ages. I have put the newly purchased potatoes in a paper sack and dried them off. Even if potatoes start "sprouting", they are fine to eat. Potatoes are extremely versatile. HTH
• I cook potatoes that are sprouting,I cut the sprouting bits off and use them as normal. Why would you not ? If they're soft or black I throw them.
• 12.5g bags of Maris Piper spuds for Ј2
  am I the only one who thinks that 12.5grammes for Ј2 is expensive !!
• My local morry hasn't had sacks of spuds for about 4 weeks so I would happily grab one for less than a 3.5kg bag!
  I've been getting the basic bags and they sprout - so I just peel them a little more than I would normally.
  Thanks OP.
  xx
• went into to Morrisons today to stock up on their tins of car food 6 for Ј2.. and I picked up a sack of spuds for Ј2.. there were loads there, and I think practically every shopper that came in grabbed a bag lol...
  I bought a 25kg bag of spuds last time from a farm shop, and they didn't last as long as they normally do, before sprouting etc... and I think they were roughly about Ј9 per sack....
  so with these being 12.5kgs we will def use them up before they go on the turn lol...
• As we all seem to have lots of spuds.
  that may or may not last.... I thought I would post this link
  https://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/recipes
  some great ideas there..
• I bought one of these bags of spuds yesterday. I'd cooked up some whoopsied mince in the slow cooker and now I have six plastic tubs of cottage pie stashed away in the freezer! Good, tasty, home made food at a bargainlicious price! And loads of spuds left over so on Sunday I'm going to cook some in their jackets for when the family come over to go with a buffet I'm doing. I love a bargain I do!
• Yay we got a sack today - haven't opened it yet but it's got to be better than the sacks from a few months ago that were awfull.
  Having said that, they didn't have any for at least the last 3 weeks here.
  xx