50 kilos of olive oil per person per year: What do you need to stock in bulk?  

Hi wolfie, if you manage to produce 150 spare kilos of oil which you don't require I'll take them off your hands, but don't think it would be as good as green stuff, does it come with a certificate of virginity attached as mine does?

You should really try to overcome your aversion as its terribly good for you, but if you don't like to use it as food there are many other uses, unblocking blocked ears, opening sticking catches, and conditioning those blond locks of yours.

Darn it! Yes my dad used to use olive oil as his ears are always blocked. I use cotton wool buds, naughty I know but it's far easier, I don't like liquid in my ear, virginal or unvirginal. You are welcome to them I'll gift wrap them and put a nice pink bow on them just for you, I will forget to put 'return to sender' on them!

Well good luck cultivating them Wolfie, not too sure they'll do well in your garden, need a little thing called sun.

Cultivating? Na I leave that to good old Tescos LOL!

Hiya wolfie34,


Nay thou wilt never feel the wrath of the Olive Growers because I used to hate Olive Oil myself.
Olive Oil if you have never used except for an Earache can seem quite disgusting.
Olive Oil´s taste and smell is quite pungent.
When I was having my first Son the smell of Olive Oil would have me running to the Bathroom to be sick or feel really dizzy and lightheaded.
Now I use Olive Oil all the time lol. Just a matter of getting used to it.
Thou mayst go in peace my friend signed Olive Oil (Popeyes´s Girlfriend).

If you've Olive Oil I must be Brutus, I can't be Popeye because I destest spinach, nasty stuff eewwwww and I can't be that guy who eats those hamburgers, hate them too! Fussy b*gger ain't I LOL!

Wolfie, I planned a side dish of spinach topped with olive oil for our dinner together later, if you don't plan to eat it I won't be getting any ice cream in

Not fair! You play dirty! :0***( I'll bring my own then :0)

Hmm many people here in india doesnt like the smell of olice oil!! And they compare it to the punjent smell of mustard oil (I took a lot of time to get used to it). While I was a kid my mother used to massage oliveoil all over my body before bathing me...i had already started a affinity to that smell, but then i dint know that it is also used as a cooking oil, which is a primary use now.

Hi wolfie34,

I don´t think you´re a Brutus and me Olive Oil just a good Mylotters Friend please sign on the dotted line below.
Virgin Cold Pressed Olive Oil is the best it has everything try a little drop at a time and you might get used to it.
Signed Olive Oil. Okay just kidding about the Olive Oil lol.
Take care now.

Hi Gerty, how can you possibly survive on just four litres of olive oil a year, that is unthinkable. I am down to my last five kilos now and the new stuff won't be in the cans till probably late December so I have lined up a further stock from a friend with a surplus. Up at his place my man is down to his last ten kilos for 2 people as well and he had a staggering 2 tonnes worth to start with but obviously failed to take account of oil stealing relatives visiting.

I like really butter on toast but it's hard to get hold of out here at an affordable price, very expensive and mostly unsalted, which probably accounts for my lack of toast recently. As for your husbands cheese habit a count is indeed in order, I hope that I'm not spotted when I buy it as everyone else has 20 kilos of feta in their trolleys but I've never really developed a taste. There has been a huge improvement lately though with the advent of brie up in town, which I love.

Hi Iriene, of course you contributed to the discussion. So you stock up too when things are cheaper, I do that, as long as they have a good life on them.

Greeks are crazy for olive oil as we are surrounded by olive trees and everyone has some, and some have thousands. It is needed for daily use of course, but also bottled and sold as the main export of this region. Since a lot of the world caught on that it is the healthiest oil in the world it has been popular demand at high prices. Indeed it is highly priced right here in our shops, but everyone has their own, or a friend will have some spare, or we could buy it direct from the press but they only open at olive picking times.

Here though olive oil goes on everything, on top of cheese, bread, salads, vegetables, evertything is doused in the stuff and it has a special flavour especially when really fresh.

thea....how about a tutorial on Olive oils, as they are very expensive here, so if I am laying out mega bucks, I would like to do so with the confidence that it is "thea approved...and virginal"...should that be in the same sentence? LOL

Hi Shirly, your shopping certainly sounds complicated, my car is jammed just by getting a big shop in about every ten days, but that could be because the boot is too small. I bet you always get home and find you've forgotten something too.I used to shop locally but now resent the absurd prices I stock up in town over the mountain and top up with fruit and veg from willing fishermen. By the way the famous fisherman is now on my profile page, along with me, but let me stress he is there for me to sell him and not for myself. He is not my idea of a Greek hunk.
I am glad you are a convert to olive oil. It hasn't stopped weight problems here which seem to have become more rampant since the announcment of our healthy diet, as it wasn't really meant to cover a few kilos of pork per day disguised as souvlaki. The oil though is indeed a source of good health. A tutorial in what way Shirly? You can get away with olive oil for cooking but extra virgin is a must for salads, marinades etc. Greek oil is of course the best in the world as we do not mix it with olives from elsewhere, my own has two pressings and is a thick green colour. I'll put a discussion up about it when the olive picking season stars probably next month but in the meantime do ask anything you like.

Hi pergammano,

What do you reckon to our Spanish Olive Oil? Though of course all the best is exported and the rest well for us lot.
In Spain they reckon that the Olive Oil is pure Olive Oil well at least most of it.
Of course there a mixed oil varieties but on the whole most of it is genuine Olive Oil specially from the Villages surrounding Navarra.

I think Spanish olive oil would be better placed in olive oil rather than Greek life style - it would never be allowed into Greece as the purity of the Greek oil is highly respected.

Good, COLD, BRRRRR!!!! Sunday morning, thea.....Jack Frost bit the pumpkin last nite.....in just one night...we went from 12C (approx..54) to Minus 1...I can assure you the old fireplace is ripping!

I was wondering what you were doing...putting Spanish Olive Oil in the mix! That's like putting water in my oil..Yikes! But once, again, a tutorial is needed, as the B.S. and propaganda regarding Imports, makes one's head spin! And now it is PURE hype, since "acknowledged" Dr's such as Muhamet OZ are touting the Mediterranean diet....we are being bombarded with mind boggling info....about all the wonders of each Exporters superior product, as some of us do not know how to wade thru the diatribe! It takes a been there, done that person like you to recommend the superior products! Green Oil...Yellow Oil...Virgin Oil, Extra Virgin Oil....and the list goes on...EXTRA, EXTRA...what the "hey" does all this mean? Hence, I must rely on you for the head's up!

Hoping this is a super weekend, thea...it is our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, usually celebrated with harvest foods...so I did just that, went to the beach, gathered oysters for the BBQ...and Little Neck Clams for Chowder! The Crabs are still a little soft-shelled, Ocean still hasn't cooled down enough! Gathered enough for a meal, some for the freezer! And my dear son, TJ, up camping in the snow...in the Mountains!

Just thot I would let you know that Jo...IS NOT feeling well, Vertigo that kept her bedridden Friday. BIG HUGZ from Galiano!

thea....Thank you, so kindly for the golden pencil (best response)..Truly, truly do appreciate it! Kinda like getting a gold star on your report card. Thanks and HUGZ!

Shirley my dear, I never even saw the response above, apologies.
I will just add a quick clarification of the extra virgin versus non extra. It describes the purity of pressing. In other words are oil is from the first pressing and our waste from that, that is the hulks of the pressed olives, gets sold and shipped to Italy and other places where they press it again and sell it as olive oil. As you can imagine the more pressings an olive goes through the less pure the olive becomes. We don't import from anywhere, hence it rightly holds the extra virgin label.
I didn't know about Jo until 3 weeks late now, is that what you wanted to email me about? I'm still curious over that one.

Hi Zeph, that sounds pricey but actually I'm clueless as have lost the ability to think in ounces and the exchange rate is dropping daily. Sounds as if it's best reserved for a salad treat.

Hi Mr mister sweetie wit, of course you can't live without olive oil - what do you put on top of your salads, what do you cook in, what do you put on your bread? To be honest I'm surprised there's anyone still alive on the Maldives. I must say I was always used to using it back in the UK too but since being here the quantities have increased massively and it is a necessity to daily life. What on earth do you use?

Purified Palm oil.....

Pure vegetable oil....

Fresh tuna,dried tuna,smoked tuna, chili,hot chili,super hot chili

I soooooooooo love chilli, they don't use it here, can you imagine They think a red pepper is a chilli out here and no one eats spicey food so stop taunting me. Now I want chilli and garlic prawns cooked in lashings of olive oil.

Hello thea I guess this place is going down....if that is the case I just wanted to say good bye....so good to have word or two....

Sweetiepie it's only for the weekend, is it noble of you to leave a sinking ship, don't go, don't go, admin will sort it tomorrow.

Good morning to you Aunty. I'm still giggling over the comment sat at the top of my home page that you left on my fisherman, how perceptive you are, fancy himself he does indeed and thinks of himself as a real ladies man. Do you think I've any chance of selling him on here?

You're the second person now to mention canola oil but I don't actually know what it is. Back in my youth the supermarkets were amply stocked with lard for cooking, which I believe is some form of solidified pork fat.
Can't your son do some shopping for you whilst they get their own in. I onwo how difficult it is to get the shopping in as I'm suposed to never lift anything and yet bulk buy in town. Carrying it all up to the house has been my sons job for at least 4 years now.

U could probably find a buyer for him but i bet they would bring him back, lol. canola oil is just a cooking oil to use when u are frying something such as meat or whatever. Olive oil is very expensive here. U would use the canola like u do your olive oil i would think. They say olive oil is alot better for u. I don't fry very many things. U have a great day & watch out for that fisherman.

Hi jb, preumabley the bullets are for the rabbit killing sprees

I stock up on pasta too for my son but not too keen myself, the coffee is an essentail, imagine waking up without any coffee on hand. How can you only get through 3 litres a year? I have no idea where it all goes, it doesn't go in ice cream and I don't make pizza, nor do I drink it, but do know some Greeks who do. And I never used to go through anything like that amount when I had to pay for it, nor have a dropped a bottle for years. I got a shock when I realised I wouldn't have enough left by any stretch to get me through to the next crop and was quite frankly shocked when I saw the price for a 5 litre tin. Locally our favourite fisherman kept more away than for his own house needs so will be handing some over this week.

Hi pikey, I thought a litre and a kilo were about the same. Are you serious though, you get through all that oil and you aren't Greek or living here, it must cost you a fortune. Now please, please assure me you are buying Kalamata extra virgin olive oil as it's the best in the world and wouldn't like to think of you consuming such a large amount of inferior stuff.
I've just realised that apart from the cooking with it I actually use our full amount for myself as my son refuses to have it on top of things as yet.

I got the equation off the net so it may not be reliable. But even at 1:1 that's still 52 kilos a year. We use a bottle a week and I have got it all wrong. We use 500ml per week. So halve it all. But nevertheless that's a fair amount. I am afraid that we use italian not Greek though. I don't know that I have ever had Greek olive oil - although when I was in Cyprus I must have had local oil. We use olive oil in all our cooking and on salads etc. I like it instead of butter sometimes too.

I buy it at Lidl and it costs about £1.40. Butter's not much less than that!

We have lidl too, sort of last stop off spot on the way home for coffee, loo rolls and staples like flour. They only sell unsalted butter and only smoked bacon. I have never priced their olive oil. All I know is I pop in for a bag of flour and it costs me 30 euros.

30 Euros for a bag of flour! That's £27!!! Must be a big bag. A lb of plain is about 40p in Tesco for their own label stuff. Good quality rises to somewhere about a £1 lb.

I meant I come out clutching a full bag of stuff I never went in for in the first place. Glad we have it though I must say, saves on the bills when their clothes washing liquid is less than a fiver and the cheapest anywhere else is 12. Nasty veg these days though but they do have nice neat sun canopies over the car parking spaces which is a first of anyone else.

Hello Sandra, all the guests gone now. That was not the answer I was expecting from you, rather more along the lines of stockpiling the vodka. I presume you have local oil there but don't need to pick them. I'm not intending to pick mine as they'll only need pruning at the same time and I don't think I'd get along too well with a chain saw up a triangular ladder.

Now when you see my response can you do something for me. Come back in here and tell me what icon avatar you see on the top right hand side, don't touch anything, just look and report please. If you see what I hope to see then all has been resolved.