How much (if at all) would you expect to pay for a take away jacket potato and what are your favourite fillings?

Hubby is looking into the possabilities of striking out on his own but we need an idea of what people think is a fair price :)

Thanks.

I remember paying £3.50 for one in a pub, with Prawn Cocktail filling, it was enormous, loads of filling too.
I also like Cheese, Baked Beans, Cottage Cheese and tuna (when I'm feeling healthy) Chicken Curry and Chilli are also nice.

Good luck with your venture :)

liberty

Edited to add, Takeaway is usually cheaper than eating in a pub, but it would also depend on your area, and  of course which filling you had.

My favourite filling is tuna mayonnaise, (I had one for lunch!) but i also love cheese and beans too, (and lots of butter on both!!! UMMM!)
I've never bought one but i would imagine between £2.50 and £3.50, depending on the filling, as some are more expensive than others.
Oh, you have made me hungry now!!!! ;-)

we tend to pay around £2 (depends on where your at in the country id guess) love cheese and beans or prawn and mayo with a litte salad.

mmm hungry too lol

Andy

Tuna mayo and spring onion for me (no butter-always on diet) it cost me £1.30,sleepy little town. we eat from a sarnie bar each lunch time,so can help with allsorts of fillings and prices if you want. In our town we could do with a nice snack bar though, their hygiene is not as it should be in my opinion. mand x
          oh  and the hot pork/beef/turkey baps always sell well :D

Oh now you're talking, hot pork/beef/turkey baps.!!!!!!!!
I always have one at the South of England Show, either Beef or Pork Luurvely. It's almost a tradition with us now.

liberty

If anybody wants to grab me a menu and email it to me it would be a great help - and I can send you a sample of home made fudge as a thank you too ;)

£2.00 - £3.50.  Fav fillings are egg mayonaise (proper mayo with black pepper), coronation chicken (cold) and one I had the other day for the first time - onions, tomato and mushroom (nice one for the veggies ;))

I'd say 2.50- 3.00 is a fair price, fave fillings beans ansd salad cream (disgusting to many) garlic butter and cheese or cheese and coleslaw

Michelle :)

Cheddar, apple and celery is my favourite and £2.80 - £3.50 what I would pay, but Im mean. :)

£2.00-£3.00 i love cottage cheese with pineapple or chilli
Heidi

Mmmm cheese and beans or chilli are my faves
Also dairylea (yum)
prob pay about £2.50 ish

Tuna and sweetcorn mayonaise:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

thats the best filling.

Saying that I am not keen on baked potatoes so I have wedges insted :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

baked potatoes with ANYTHING on.lol.:) :).

Oh and the skin has to be really crisp even a little charred. :D

Chicken, sweetcorn & mayo and anything between £2.50 - £3.00, if really nice and plenty of filling will get returning customers and thats the most important thing. While I have your attention did you reply to my post about house exchange sites? I replied but it has gone missing. Could you please E-Mail me them please  marie@reillym11.fsnet.co.uk Would be very grateful

I pay £1.80 for a jacket with cheese and beans, oh god i could just eat that now! Trust You!! :(

Edinburgh sandwich bars near my work (city centre) cost between £2.30 for say cheese on its own or £3.50 if you want prawns and stuff.  You can buy a plain potato with butter/salt/pepper for just a pound and take your own filling.  My fave is chilli (about £2.80 or beans £2.30).  Folk will pay anything if they're hungry :D

CG

I'd say bout £2. with filling I usually have chilli but looking at some of the others filling I think Im going to branch out. Mind you at a dog show You would need to re-morgage your house for one. :)
Diane

lol - maybe it's a mobile unit we should look into then ;)

Wishfairy
You definitely need a mobile unit, my friends own a jacket spud van, and do lot's of shows like earl's court and places like that. Anyway their cheapest potatoe is £2.95 that's just with butter, then the prices are just bizarre £3.25 butter and beans, £3.65 butter cheese and beans etc.
Alison
P.s They make an absolute fortune well in excess of 40 thousand a year

Nikki
do you need any testers ??? :D (mmm)

I was only joking but if the premisis doesn't totally impress me when we view then I might have to reconsider!

I can feel a lot more research coming :rolleyes:

Lel - hubby was considering local delivery but I don't think they'd travel that well, lol!

Plenty of options for vegetarians and those on diets, unfortunately when it comes to grabbing a snack you have two choices - veggie or diet, cant do both :rolleyes:  veggie chilli is a good one plus low fat cheese and beans etc.... I would pay anything up to £4.50 depending on size and amount of filling - but then I do live in the south so im used to paying through the nose :D :D

Claire :)

Ooooh baked tater......

Well, i get mine from Jacko the spud guy on my local market (real name Billy....if you ask him 'Jacko wotcha got on today, meaning fillings, he will tell you the colour and style of his underpants!)........

He does, veggie chilli, meat chilli, (to which the secret is dark chocolate), chicken curry, veg curry, beans, cheese, plain with butter,tuna  and a 'special' which is wotever he invented the night before.

He also does 'requests' and has a request board, is always trying new fillings out on us.
I think the secret to it is though, HUGE potatoes, as the filling is the more expensive part.

Jacko charges £2,50 for my favourite Chilli with cheese and butter.

I wouldnt pay much more than that for a baked potato.

Em

I love Tuna mayo with onion...
*MmmmMMMMmmmmMMMM*
I usually pay around 2.50 altho they are only 1.95 in a local pub....

Donna and charliex

***to which the secret is dark chocolate***

Actually IN the chilli

I made a pot of chilli today so I might just throw a bit of choccy into the leftovers to see what it's like.

Try anything once :)

Whatever you do, offer takeaway champ too :D !

lol - we'd already thought of champ... bit surprised to hear it on forum tho - most people just say 'you what???' lol!

yep, dark chocolate, best quality u can get,

if you try it with galaxy, dont hold me responsible for the results!

oh, one of my own tips, if you get a chilli that is too hot for you, try lobbing in half a tub of low fat cream cheese, makes it all creamy n yummy and takes the spice out of it.

Em

mmmm I love jacket spuds, just had one for my tea in fact,  I love anything on a jacket spud just as long as its got coleslaw on it, but the coleslaw has to be homemade :D I hate the stuff that comes ready made.  Maybe he could do a mixture of homemade coleslaw, cheese, chilli beans and a copious amount of mayo I would buy one everyday :D :D :D  - oh yeah and real butter and not spread, I would pay about £3.50- 4 for one of those.

One unusual filling that I've had from a baked spud place in the City is spinach, mushroom & mayonnaise - I KNOW it wounds awful - but you have got to try it - wilted spinach, chopped raw mushrooms, bound together with mayonnaise & LOADS of black pepper - it really is scrummy - trust me!!!

Margot

Oh that does sound a little... yuk.  Other have thinks it might be good though so we'll give it a go one night and let you know :)

I have a potato van round the corner from work and my favourite is a posh-hash which is a potato with butter, cheese, raw onion, corned beef and baked beans.  I think I pay about £2.75 for this and it is gorgeous.  The only problem is that by the time you have eaten the topping you are too full for the potato :)

We have a potato takeaway shop near us which has been on the go for well over 25 years, I could get a menu if you`re interested to see what sort of stuff they do? I know they do slimmers fillings. Its not often I go in, but pass it nearly every day.

Hilary.

A menu would be really helpful :D There's nothing quite like it over here and it's been a few years since I was in a good 'spud house'.

I get hungry every time I read through this thread :rolleyes: :P

Hhhhmmm I'm starving now,  I always have peppered steak and mushrooms with lots of butter and that costs £2.50, I feel like going into town and getting one.

Nickie.

Ill grab a menu from the baked spud restaurant/cafe place thats just sprung up in town next time im there......lol, if the fudge offer still stands! hee hee, no ill get one anyways, is a good excuse to go in there!

Em

:D There's always home made fudge in my house - we sell it as wedding favours and brides to be ALWAYS request a free sample :P

Cajun tuna, £2.50