buying sugar

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Re: buying sugar

Postby felsy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:07 pm

You can get 25kg bags of DEXTROSE (sugar) from farm/grain stores for $28 to $32 but you need to shop around because some stores will charge up to $55 for the exact same product.
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Re: buying sugar

Postby stillgotit » Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:52 pm

cheers guys just ended up buying from Coles.. checked out a wholesaler but worked out cheaper at Coles. 2Kg for 1.90 cant complain
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Andy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:54 pm

stillgotit wrote: 2Kg for 1.90 cant complain


i hate you eastern states folks %-(
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Re: buying sugar

Postby QLD.Andy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:36 pm

Make friends with your local bakery and they would probably buy in a few extra 25kg bags of white sugar for you.
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Andy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:02 pm

QLD.Andy wrote:Make friends with your local bakery and they would probably buy in a few extra 25kg bags of white sugar for you.


all the ones around me are franchises, and they cant order extra :(
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Kimbo » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:07 pm

Andy wrote:
QLD.Andy wrote:Make friends with your local bakery and they would probably buy in a few extra 25kg bags of white sugar for you.


all the ones around me are franchises, and they cant order extra :(

I tried that too, and the Saf Effrican owner promptly told me to "Git der fok owt!"
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Andy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:43 pm

Kimbo wrote:
Andy wrote:
QLD.Andy wrote:Make friends with your local bakery and they would probably buy in a few extra 25kg bags of white sugar for you.


all the ones around me are franchises, and they cant order extra :(

I tried that too, and the Saf Effrican owner promptly told me to "Git der fok owt!"


I spoke to a 50 year old lady haha. "ohh no deary we cant to that. they monitor our usage. what do you need all that sugar for anyway? that's a lot of sugar you know."
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Re: buying sugar

Postby MacStill » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:52 pm

When I get asked I just look over the counter at their fat arse and say " I'm just trying to get a figure like yours" and wink at them :laughing-rolling:
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buying sugar

Postby BackyardBrewer » Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:14 pm

This can't be done quickly. But from now on every time you go to the shop? 3 x 2kgs of sugar.

Your son goes? Get me some sugar. Your daughter goes? Get me some sugar. The wife says "Do we need anything from the shops?"

...you answer "SUGAR".

Vary up your shops and stick to home brand and you can build up a stockpile very quickly.

If my wife stops in for 2 litres of milk she also grabs 3 x 2kg bags of sugar.

If I get just a loaf of bread I also grab 6kgs of sugar. Every time.

When it's on special you can go nuts, no one ever questions a big bulk buy on a cheap price.
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Re: buying sugar

Postby stillgotit » Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:53 pm

Andy wrote:
stillgotit wrote: 2Kg for 1.90 cant complain


i hate you eastern states folks %-(


haha I'm W.A born if that counts for anything :D and coming back in December
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Zak Griffin » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:24 pm

I just buy 6 or 8kg whenever I go shopping... Woollies was out of white sugar today, so I bought raw sugar on special. Should go nicely in the next generation of my cornflakes :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Bushy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:30 pm

Careful with the raw sugar ZG. Mollasses in that stuff and sweetens yr spirit.
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Zak Griffin » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:36 pm

I was gunna go 50/50, white and raw... Just trying to see how different ingredients effect the flavour :D

Or should I save the raw stuff for rum?
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Bushy » Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:36 pm

That's up to you mate. First stuff i ran thru the plater was raw sugar bwko. It was very nice but very sweet. Personally feel our corn sugarheads are sweet enough.
So in summary :teasing-blah: :teasing-blah:
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Cane Toad » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:21 am

I get my sugar by the ute load :D :D :D
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Re: buying sugar

Postby dogbreath vodka » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:59 pm

In Woolies this afternoon buying sugar.. 22kg of it.

Ol dear in front of me looks at the sugar and you could see she just wanted to say something.
So she leans over toward me and says "Need a lot of sweetening does she?"
:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

"Just bakin a cake" says I.


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Re: buying sugar

Postby djfrestyla » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:59 pm

I had the young chick at the woolies checkout ask me what i was using 20Kg of sugar for..................i told her that i was trying to make a clone of her, but id have to get a lot more sugar to come close to being that sweet :D , she smiled and went as red as a beetroot 8-} .
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Re: buying sugar

Postby Andy » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:09 pm

djfrestyla wrote:I had the young chick at the woolies checkout ask me what i was using 20Kg of sugar for..................i told her that i was trying to make a clone of her, but id have to get a lot more sugar to come close to being that sweet :D , she smiled and went as red as a beetroot 8-} .


i wonder if she thinks u bought the 20kgs of sugar just to use that line
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Re: buying sugar

Postby SBB » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:23 pm

I really don't think its anyone's business how much sugar I choose to buy in a super market..........let the f#@&*s look.
Have you ever noticed when the cartons of coke and other soft drinks are on special, people wheeling whole trolly loads out.........around here they do anyway .....they are small shop owners and people running charity events buying up big cause they cant buy it that cheap wholesale. Do they get asked why they want so much???.........cause its cheap and Im stocking up could be the answer.
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Re: buying sugar

Postby tipsy » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:41 pm


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