[lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-02 Thread Jean Nathan
Liz, I have been reporting those supermarkets to Trading Standards and Public Health on the first instance of them putting cooked and raw meat in the same bag, in fact raw meat with anything else. I also have written to the chief executive of the company concerned about the standard of their st

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2012-02-02 Thread The Lace Bee
My day job involves food.  I have to be current on my food hygiene certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect for someone running a restaurant.   The last time I phoned up Ocado and told them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food hygi

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2012-02-02 Thread Joy Beeson
The packers at our supermarkets have been told that meat goes into a separate bag, but they haven't been told why, it's a rule to be blindly followed, like walking into the teeth of the traffic even when you have no chance at all of getting out of the way when you see a car coming -- so the lu

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2012-02-02 Thread Sue Babbs
Cautionary (true!) tale! We store our collection of brown paper carrier bags and a few cloth bags in the garage ready to go the shops. In April last year, I put the collection into the car, went to the supermarket and returned with the shopping. After I had unpacked the shopping in the house

[lace-chat] Bank checks & plastic bags

2012-02-02 Thread Laura Bullinger
Banks want people to use cards since it cost them nothing after the first issue and computers do the work of entering and subtracting amounts between your account and the grocers. Less labor costs. But mostly it is because they can charge late fees and overdraft fees. Here in the USA, the Bank of A

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-02 Thread Lora
Joy Beeson wrote: > I'm not at all sure how that happened, since I store my bags in the trunk. DH was with me, which may have had something to do with it. This happens to us all the time.the problem is forgetting to put the bags back in the car after you bring your shopping in to empty them Man

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2012-02-02 Thread Margery Allcock
The bags I use for supermarket shopping are the "Bags-for-Life" which the supermarkets themselves sell. These are substantial good-sized plastic bags with strong handles; they cost 10 or 12 pence, they last a long time (years in my experience), and when they wear out the supermarket will exchange