SPUD-YOU-LOSE ££S IF YOU DON’T BUY LOOSE
organ. All she was told was it was a woman in her 50s who died of a brain haemorrhage.
Curtese said: “It was a bittersweet feeling. I was feeling delighted and thinking it was a really happy event.
“But there was a family going FAMILIES could save more than 80p in the pound off the price of much of their Christmas dinner – by avoiding pre-prepared veg.
Shoppers are paying through the nose to get popular staples such as Brussels sprouts in bags instead of loose, a Sunday People investigation has found.
And some contain as little as 10 per cent of the nutrients found in their un-prepared counterparts.
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through tragedy right at the same time.” She said she is “extremely grateful” to the person and their family for the generosity that helped save her life.
Curtese recalled: “I woke up on Boxing Day and was so full of joy. I felt like it was a real Christmas miracle.”
She spent ten days in hospital Blythman said: “The minute you chop up anything for sale you can double the price and more.
“It makes eating vegetables enormously expensive.”
We looked at supermarket chain Tesco, the UK’s biggest grocers, but prices are similar across the country’s other supermarkets.
Their pre-peeled and packaged sprouts cost £5 a kilo. But sprouts bought loose are £1.50 a kilo – which is 70 per cent cheaper. recovering from the operation. When she came home there was a big party with all her friends and family celebrating her new lease of life.
Curtese said: “I can’t even remember the other presents I got from my pals and relatives because nothing compares to the gift of this liver.”
After spending nine months Parsnips are £ 1.29 per kilo if bought loose, while a bag cut up and mixed with honey butter for roasting is £5 per kilo.
Maris Piper potatoes cost 80p a kilo if bought uncooked, compared with £4.45 per kilo for “cooked and ready to roast”ones.
This means you could save 82 pence in the pound just by cooking your spuds from scratch.
Also, tests show that nutrients in prepared packs of fruit and recovering, Curtese returned to work in the education sector in September. She is amazed that she has lots of energy – for the first time since she was 14.
This year, she and Peter plan to spend Christmas with Curtese’s family.
She said: “I’m l ooking forward to having a normal Christmas Day this time.
“Last year was such a whirlwind. I am so grateful for the kindness of the stranger who donated their liver.” vegetables can be far lower than in fresh, unprepared produce.
This is because goodness in fruit and veg begins to decrease as soon as they are harvested.
Further cutting, peeling and washing mean levels can drop to as little as 10 per cent of what the whole product should contain.
Ms Blythman said a lot of food packaging “is not about being genuinely fresh, it’s about creating this ‘fresh-like’ quality”.