With Santa and his reindeer leaving presents at every house, it’s nice to reward them with a little snack.
Most people leave a mince pie, a drink and of course, carrots for Rudolph and his friends.
If you’re guilty of forgetting the furry friends, this year you have no excuse as Morrisons is giving away free carrots.
The carrots will be from the wonky veg range to show kids (and their parents) that misshapen carrots are still perfectly fine to eat.
There will be 125,000 paper bags up for grabs at the entrances of Morrisons stores on Saturday 21 December – the last weekend before the big day, so you can pick them up as you do your Christmas grocery shop.
The bags will include oversized, misshapen and scarred carrots, like the ones for sale in the wonky veg range.
Morrisons said that at Christmas carrot sales soar – from a typical 450,000 bags-a-week across all stores to over 1.6 million in the last three weeks of December – but wonky carrots still only account for between 10 to 15 % of carrots sales.
Carrot farmers have been struggling with unseasonably wet weather in October and November so there are more wonky carrots around.
Pulling carrots from wet fields has resulted in muddy or slightly scarred carrots which have fallen short of a ‘Class 1’ criteria. Some of the crop has also grown to be oversized or oddly shaped – but they’re still all perfectly fine to eat.
Alastair Ferguson, Carrot Farmer for Morrisons at Strawsons Farm said: ‘The heavy rainfall this year has made harvesting very challenging. We’ve plenty of standard carrots for Christmas dinner – but also have a lot of wonky carrots. Carrots for Rudolph is helpful because it introduces customers to wonky, finds these carrots a home, and stops them being wasted.’
Andy Todd, Carrot Buyer at Morrisons said: ‘We want to make it easy for our customers to enjoy these magical Christmas traditions. And at the same time, we want to highlight that wonky carrots are just as tasty as perfect-looking carrots – to support our farmers.’
If you want to pick up some wonky carrots for your Christmas dinner, they are also on sale at 50p for a 1kg from all Morrisons stores.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/10/morrisons-giving-away-free-wonky-carrots-leave-santas-reindeer-11602537/
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