Bolognese Potato Bake

Is this one worth buying?

Bolognese Potato Bake is currently listed at $4.75 at Coles, against a usual price of $9.50. That is a useful saving on a regular purchase, though not on its own a reason to make a special trip.

Buy to a plan. Produce is the single biggest source of household food waste in Australia, and a discount that ends up in the bin is not a saving. Root vegetables, apples, citrus and pumpkins keep for weeks; berries, leafy greens and stone fruit do not. If you are buying a discounted bulk quantity, decide before you leave the shop whether you are freezing it, cooking it down, or eating it this week.

Half price specials at both Coles and Woolworths normally run for one week, from Wednesday to the following Tuesday, and the same lines tend to come back on promotion every couple of months. If you miss this one it will very likely return — but the price shown here is the current one, and prices can change without notice.