Do you buy cheese ends from the grocery store?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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My grocery store sells cheese ends. Sometimes they are large thick pieces,other times they are packages of uneven slices. The packages are marked, weighed and dated. Usually half price. The employees in the Deli wear gloves when slicing meats and cheese and the packages aren't outdated.

I buy them for myself. The thicker slices I cube or make strips for snacking or for a recipe.

They also sell luncheon meats that way as well. I don't buy them because I'm a little afraid of freshness. Those types of meats go bad so quickly as it is. By the end of the day they are already a day past their prime.

Does your grocery store sell them and do you buy them?
 

Falcon, they put out the ends of the cheese late in the day. While I'm getting my 1/2 price cheese,people are standing in line at the deli paying full price for what I just picked up just for a few neater slices. Besides it tastes better at half price. lol
 

I always scan the market for deals on day old items, like you say Ruth half price items taste twice as good!!!

A combination package of cheese ends makes great mac and cheese!
 
I sure would if I could, but I've never seen them.
I buy my bacon in packages of 'end pieces' for about 30% less than regular bacon.
 
I used to when the local supermarket offered them, especially if they had parmesan, provelone or mozzarella. To me they were just as good as "center cut" cheese. However, a few years ago, they discontinued selling "ends". I asked at the deli and all I was told is that it was a new store policy. Well, DUH! But why?
 
debodun said:
I used to when the local supermarket offered them, especially if they had parmesan, provelone or mozzarella. To me they were just as good as "center cut" cheese. However, a few years ago, they discontinued selling "ends". I asked at the deli and all I was told is that it was a new store policy. Well, DUH! But why?
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One of the big chains in this area stopped offering deli ends and pieces at a reduced price.

Now they cube the ends and pieces to use them in an antipasto salad at a much higher price per pound.
 
They certainly know how to squeeze every cent out of you. Another thing they do around every holiday is close down the salad bar. A lot of people, myself included would want to serve a nice tossed salad as part of holiday entertaining. I would buy the basic ingredients such as lettuce,romaine.etc. then head on over to the salad bar and pick up some extra items to go with it. Broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, sometimes a little shredded carrots,red cabbage and red peppers. The price of the salad bar is pricey but not as much as having to buy a head of this,a head of that. Red peppers at Christmas time can be astronomical. They figured out people were using the salad bar in this way and closed it down.
Aunt Bea said:
One of the big chains in this area stopped offering deli ends and pieces at a reduced price.

Now they cube the ends and pieces to use them in an antipasto salad at a much higher price per pound.
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