Where Do You Get Your Coriander From?

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all of our piggies love this and I like it because they can have it every day.

So far I've bought it from ASDA, Sainsburys, Tesco and Ocado.

ASDA seems to be the best - they sell two sizes of bags and the bigger bag is still less than £1. But it's not always there and often the use by date is only a day or two away.

Tesco is rubbish - the bags they are currently selling on 3 for 2 don't have very much in at all.

Ocado is fine but not the cheapest. I can get a bag which I think is bigger than the ASDA smaller size but not as big as their large size one.

Sainsburys is fine but only seems to sell the small size bag.

Morrisons I spectacularly failed at as I accidentally picked up flat leaf parsley and didn't realise until I got home. :mal: I blame the way they laid it all out together out of bags!

I need lots as we have 8 piggies. I've wondered about buying the living stuff the supermarkets sell. Does anyone do that? Or does anyone grow it themselves from seed?
 
I buy a pot and grow it through summer then when summer ends I replant the seed pods in the same pot and it resprouts again! Really useful I need to improve my gardening skills though as I do kill plants a lot lol
 
I buy bunches, not bags, from Tesco. I feed a sprig per piggy twice a day and find it a good quality. How strange your Tesco only has bags.
 
Asda is the piggies favourite followed by Lidl. Ours are big fans of Coriander, love watching it disappear into the mouths...
 
I get mine from our local Indian supermarket, 3 huge bunches for a pound. Sometimes I get it from Sainsburys or Tesco though if the quality isn't great.
 
I get mine from asda but every time I do its moldy and smells awful and its all wet and urgh.

Occasionally the bag is nice, I always examine them but even when they look okay, when I open it, the outside coriander is fine but the rest is rotten.

My mum finally asked why the other day and we found out they've been tossing it in the fridge (or freezer, forget which) so its been making it moldy. It'll hopefully stop now we've complained because I've bought about 100 bags and 20 have been usable.
 
I'm stuck with sainsbury's and tescos due to where I live, I will be planting my own bed of piggy safe veg next year. I posted a thread last week about the horrid corrander I was faced with most of the time from my local supermarket it's very wet, slimy and the leaves latly have red dots on them.
Is flat leaf parsley ok? I can not always get hold of the curly type.
 
My3cuteBoys said:
I'm stuck with sainsbury's and tescos due to where I live, I will be planting my own bed of piggy safe veg next year. I posted a thread last week about the horrid corrander I was faced with most of the time from my local supermarket it's very wet, slimy and the leaves latly have red dots on them.
Is flat leaf parsley ok? I can not always get hold of the curly type.
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Yeah flat leaf parsley is ok but it's a feed infrequently one.

Seems like I need to find an Indian supermsket!
 
I buy mine in Lidl either in the 2 for £1 bags or the plant. I also grow my own outside in the spring and summer :)
 
We buy our bags of it from tesco, as we only have our two girls. But the pots of the coriander are always on the shelf above the bags.
 
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I'm finding that the pots of coriander from supermarkets don't grow very well or last very long in winter
 
I get mine from fruit and veg stalls. Works out so much cheaper for everything and the coriander comes in massive bunches for 75p. My boys are a bit bored of it now so it gets left so we've swapped it for extra green peppers for now.
 
Mine comes from local veg stalls when available, I get two HUGE bunches for £1. Failing that it comes from ASDA markdowns, like most of my veg, as long as it is healthy looking. I don't find that use by dates work for veggies at all. It is either off or it isn't.
 
When I tried my herd with it, I bought it in pots from the local Co-op. They didn't like it. I don't buy it very often. They prefer parsley, which I also buy in pots if I can find a good thick plant. Or I will buy bunches from the local green-grocer if they are clean and good quality.
 
Tesco do large and small coriander. The small is what I would use to garnish not good but the large is more than ample.
However, @£1.25 a bag its pricey when I can get twice the amount at the market for £1
 
Tesco do large and small coriander. The small is what I would use to garnish not good but the large is more than ample.
However, @£1.25 a bag its pricey when I can get twice the amount at the market for £1
 
@7squeakers I've tried 3 coops near us and none stock coriander strangely.
@TamTam i went to a different Tesco yesterday and they had the bigger bags but the one I normally go to definitely doesn't stock the big bags.

I hadn't realised how much the chain supermarkets vary from store to store in what they stock on things like this until this thread.

I do hope I can find a decent market. @Davey-cavy have you been to Leeds market that's open every day? If so have you ever noticed if they have it? I could go there on a lunch break sometimes.
 
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