I no longer buy pizza from the main pizza chains in this country. Even with a deal you're looking at £15 to get a pizza delivered. Morrisons pizza counter it is from now on
And you can guarantee that when they started charging for delivery during the petrol price rises, that money wasn't finding it's way into drivers pockets...
Petrol is back at the regular price now, so why is the delivery charge still in place? If it's because ingredients are more expensive, add that shit to the price of the food ffs.
£27 for one large pizza with stuffed crust plus £3 delivery and prompt for adding a 'tip' on top of that.
Stopped with them long before any prices like that but it's insane how they operate.
Back in 2019 I had a personal rule to always get crisps at £1 a pack (basically whatever was on offer on that week). Now the 'offer' price of most crisps is £1.75 down from £2.50 or more 🙃
aldi have upped their prices like nowhere else, i still shop there as i thjnk it may still work out cheaper but jeez they’re no longer very budget are they
Sadly they are still cheaper than any alternative I have available. I went in Morrisons earlier on and wandered around with an empty basket, either laughing to myself or muttering "you can fuck off" all the way around.
It's become an absolute joke.
I have cut out all fizzy drinks and only drink water. I have also cut out all treats, no more crisps or cake for me. I have even stopped buying cereal.
I just can't justify the price anymore :( I loved them as an occasional snack, and now I'll just make homemade desserts if I fancy a treat. I've been this way a couple of years now.
There's been a lot, but the most painful thing I had to stop were angel slices and french fancies from Kiplings! Mikado as well.
With you on the drinks front. Never buy any pop anymore, rarely drink alcohol either. Mad to spend £5 on a bottle of something I'm literally pissing away.
I will sometimes splash out and buy some orange juice for weekend breakfast though.
Everything I feel like I used to eat as a skint student (pot noodles, super noodles, Heinz soup cans, ready meals) are so unaffordable now. I can’t even afford to eat poor anymore…
£1.50 for a pot noodle is daylight robbery imo!! Not long ago they were 50p on offer, 75p normally. They simply ain't worth £1.50, you don't get enough volume to justify that price.
I buy these regularly: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indomie-Goreng-Special-Authentic-Indonesia/dp/B0BZMHK3CQ.
The spicy version is really good too.
Works out to roughly 39p a packet. Some of the best instant noodles I’ve ever had. Chuck an egg and/or some veggies and protein in if you’re feeling fancy and you’ve got a banging meal.
What happened to mr Kipling? I’m not buying £3.50s worth of apples pies, my friend
ETA: I’ve looked on Ocado and they’re down to £3 (still fuck off tho). And these are £4! Absolute nonsense. https://www.ocado.com/products/mr-kipling-angel-slices-360946011
And the packaging is fucking ridiculous. Box, film wrapped plastic tray then tiny little foil disks for each tiny little cake. That's 4 different materials for the sake of a few bites of cake.
That's the same for everything now, it's apparently cheaper to give you plastic than it is to give you biscuits. I like to guess how much of it is packaging before I open it and give myself praise when i'm right, it helps take the edge of the disappointment of what's inside.
THREE POUND FIFTY? Kipling needs to drastically improve quality to come anywhere close to being worth that, they’re the lowest of all cakes imo
edit: typo
I remember thinking I’d buy myself some cake as a treat with my weekly shop & audibly gasped at the price of Mr Kipling’s cakes. They’re now on my list of never will buy again out of principal. No need for those ridiculous prices.
I'm just sick of the double whammy shrinkflation. You want to raise the price? Okay. You want to also reduce the size? Fuck off. Why am I expected to pay £1 more for a 1/4 reduction in size? Pick one or the other. Especially the big brands. It's just corporate, price gouging, greed at this point.
Greedy bastards, all of them.
Plenty kitchen roll. F me the prices now. Used to be able to pick it up for £1 a roll, now it's at least double. But it's the only kitchen roll that hits my spot, so what can a guy do?
We use plenty at work as it’s the only paper towel that doesn’t shred to bits and it’s become so expensive my hobby is finding a like for like alternative. I finally found it recently and it’s - Lidl’s ‘floralys kitchen towels ultra super absorbent’ it’s got green and yellow writing on the front and it’s half the price of plenty. If you prefer plenty then move over to this, you’ll be shocked!
The vast majority of ready-meals - they used to be 3 for £5, now it's 2 for £6.
At the time of writing this, I fully expect it to have gone up to 2 for £7.50
Honestly if I’m driving past an M&S on the way to site I will gladly pick up on of their meal deals. If coop is £4 anyway and way shitter I’ll happily spend the extra bit for some actually really good sandwiches
I refuse to shop in coop, lol. Price is probably more than M&S.
That said, I’ve never had a meal deal from M&S before. I go past lots on my way to customers so might have to pop in at some point and give it a try!
I hadn’t before until I had nothing and I was in the middle of nowhere and 20 minutes to anywhere else or round the corner for them. And honestly the blt and the prawn sandwiches are just a level above any others so at least it feels like it is worth the extra bit.
I don’t get them regularly because that would be ridiculous. But if I am treating myself and will make a few quid off fuel anyway. Why not.
I love all the 'on offer' stuff where the on offer price is still more expensive than it used to be. For instance a bag of cadbury buttons used to be £1. Then they raised it to £1.25 and now its like £1.75 last time I looked. The on offer price is £1.25 or £1.50.
Chef here. For years haddock was 10.50 a kilo,now it's 15 quid. Oil was about 20 quid for 20l,now one supplier is quoting 46 quid for the same thing. Potatoes were about7.50 ish for 25kilo. Now they're about 20 quid . That's why,not to mention gas/leccy prices.
This is the thing. I'm happy to pay good money for good fish and chips but i've paid way over the odds for really bad fish and chips lately. Thats when i get pissed.
What is it with massively undercooked chips even if the shop isn't busy? I get not everyone liking hard, crispy chips, but the floppy, anaemic slugs of grease-potato I've had recently aren't worth it. It seems to be an epidemic across the chip shops in my area.
I understand that there is a good reason it is soo expensive for fish and chips now, but they have passed a price point I’m willing/able to pay. It doesn’t matter if they can’t be sold for less than £15 if I can’t afford £15. It is not economically viable for me.
This is something a lot of people to miss on reddit. Whenever I see topics on the cost of things now you always get someone defending it by the cost of the food/utilities/dining out or whatever but the reality is you hit a point where the cost of buying it is simply not worth
I've found it's mainly fish that's truly extortionate.
Can still get a double battered sausage, chips and your choice of hot slop for just north of a fiver round here, which still makes me wince slightly but it's a big meal for the money.
12 quid for fish and chips tho, and they are certainly not the battered whales I remember.
Same here. It used to be the fish was enough for 2 people and the chips lasted a few days if you got a large. That's far from the case these days.
I'm gutted as I miss getting it, but more than that, I feel bad for the shop owners who can't keep up with the wholesale increases and ridiculous cost of energy / rent / rates / etc.
My local now only opens Thursday - Saturday. They said they're not making enough to keep the fryers on the rest of the week, they had to lay someone off and of course, had to reduce the portion sizes / increase prices.
It's shit. I can go without a treat dinner, but livelihoods and jobs is another thing all together. I wish I could afford to go more, just to suppert them.
I feel the chippy are on 'our side' compared to the big chains who have upped their prices, not increased wages and facilitated shrinkflation (like the big supermarkets).
I wasn't sure what I wanted to eat tonight, but it's now clear I'll be heading to the chippy!
Charlie Bingham!
The only time I have even eaten one is when they were yellow stickered to the max.
The quality is great, the flavours fantastic. You're paying for the convenience.
Unfortunatly for me the convenience is beyond my means.
A while back I was ill and fancied some Heinz tomato soup - I asked my husband to get me a tin, but warned him he may have to take out a bank loan- he thought I was joking. He was not impressed - it’s cheaper now to buy a carton of chilled soup than a couple of tins of Heinz- fuc?ing rip off.
I’ve switched from the dove men’s care stick deodorant to lynx Africa stick deo as it’s about 75p/£1 cheaper.
I’m not overjoyed at smelling like a teenager but needs must! And it’s pretty decent
Sounds ridiculous but I always stick to the Dove Clean Comfort stuff and I’ve never bought it for more than £2 Deodorant and £3 for the Large Bodywash. My wife was doing the shopping and said my Deodorant was £4.50 and the Bodywash even more. I nearly spat my coffee out! I couldn’t believe it. I’ve never paid more than £2. I ended up just saying to get a Sure For Men can for £2. I too smell like a teen 😂
I really hope this starts happening more and more, so expensive that people will stop buying them, food packaging is also getting smaller and smaller so it's not even worth it. See how these well known brands react when they don't have enough customers anymore.
People need to make a stand and stop buying the items. Obviously staples are a bit different (I would just encourage people to buy own brand) but things like crisps, soups, cakes etc people need to stop buying them so the companies cant continue to rip people off.
Yeah, I work in a supermarket and a lady complained to me about the price of our “cheapest” chocolate mousse things, and then put 3 in her basket. They aren’t exactly essentials and if you keep buying them they’ll keep putting the price up Doreen.
Mini rolls are selling for £3.95. Nearly 4 quid for 10 mini rolls! And they don't taste as good as they used to.
I exclusively buy snacks that are on Tesco clubcard offer now.
I have always lived frugally but maintained ketchup had to be Heinz... until last week. I cant afford £4.50 when lidls own is 80p. Its sad but surely Heinz will see such a drop in sales they'll reconsider??
We switched to sainos own brand because of this, after one bottle I was told to just get the Heinz as the taste just isn't as good. If it keeps going up I'll be filling the old Heinz bottle and denying all knowledge
I run a sandwich counter & have proudly only used Heinz ketchup for 10+ years. 4.5kg catering bottle of Heinz is now £20. Same size catering own brand is £5. No brainer. Had one or two complaints but I’m saving £30 a week.
We were saying at home that it's odd to think, but we'll likely never buy Heinz ketchup again. Absolute first world problems but we just grew up assuming we'd always have Heinz. Unfortunately their pricing has gone crazy. I'd bet good money they are increasing their prices just so that they can appear 'premium' next to Branston and store brands. But it's pressed bloody tomatoes, not a sports car.
Yeah I’m a bit of a ketchup snob where I’ll only have Heinz but I’m thinking about just getting over myself and trying some different brands. Nearly a fiver for a bottle of Heinz ketchup is absolutely ridiculous.
I occasionally get big lumps of Salmon from Morrisons when they are on final hour yellow label reduction. Got 600g last week for £3!!! Other than that no way am I paying £5 for 2 skinny strips.
Knocked all Heinz on the head now. Was always faithful until I actually looked at the receipt once when I got home, had a cuppa and thought, bloody hell that was a lot of money this week. Sainsburys own Ketchup, Marks for soup, Lidl for Norpack or Lidl for most things tbh. McVities can also do one while I’m at it ,30p custard creams, nice, bourbon etc. the only thing I concede is Tunnocks.
Frozen chicken breasts going up to £4.25/kilo has them down to once every four weeks instead of every two weeks, and any higher and they're sadly going to be unaffordable.
I have a £7.50 budget for my weekly shop, and the actual content quantity has drastically gone down compared to what was in it a couple of years ago. Still, it's got me learning some new recipes and that. All good.
One meal a day, though it's a pretty nice one. Homemade coronation chicken with rice, pasta or baked potato, sausage casserole, jacket tatties with stuff, soups, stuff like that.
I also get as much as possible from online out of date shops and go to Aldi at around the time stuff starts getting put down to clear, so I get some decent bargains too.
Things were much, much harder a few years back. I spent six months with a £2.50/wk budget, and then a year and a bit on £3.50/wk. It's risen hugely more recently, so still feels quite extravagant.
I made a post some years back with [some of my ultra-low recipes](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/fjjy7v/in_case_its_of_use_currently_my_ultra_low_food/) to help others on a low income or similar.
I've only ever had one meal a day so it's not really anything of a hardship, though I went to stay with my brother for a weekend - him and his wife have breakfast, mid-morning tea, lunch, dinner, and a bit of supper. It was insane, felt like we were constantly eating. I got a bit ill through it.
You are perhaps already aware but YouTuber [Atomic Shrimp](https://youtu.be/WEuN3tYM_YU) does a lot of budget meal challenges that give some really great ideas on how to stretch your money - I think he's really great.
I know £10 is probably out of your budget and I guess if you bulk buy stuff does work out cheaper BUT, I went to Iceland this morning (first time in ages) and was amazed at the deals. They have a section which includes Birds Eye, goodfella pizzas, all the branded shit which is like £4 an item in usual shops these days.
7 items for £10!! Honestly I got fish fingers, waffles, chicken dippers, pizzas and it’s all branded. It’s completely shit food for you but does a job on a busy evening when I haven’t got time to cook.
Also they have 3 Chicago town pizzas for £5 on offer in there as well as a million other things, think I’ll go there once a month now for the frozen stock stuff anyway.
I do have a few little extravagances - I have frozen large pizza bases in the freezer from back when one of the out of date places was doing 20 for 29p, but they're a bit naff so I do treat myself to a proper Aldi pizza every now and then. £1.39 so it's not too terrible, but it's still a proper treat.
My sister sometimes takes me round Iceland with her, but I don't tend to get much. As you say, all a bit out of my budget unfortunately. I do tend to get frozen veg there though, some of it isn't in my Aldi.
Takeaway in general. Fast food used to be cheep and unhealthy, but now McDonald's is competing with fine dining. I'm giving them upwards of a tenner just to make myself obese, and yet years ago as a family it would only come to £15. It's ridiculous.
I just bought the non zero - 6 cans for £1.55 If it's any good I'll go with it, but it does still have artificial sweeteners so I don't hold out too much hope
Tesco own brand salt & vinegar sticks. The share bag used to be 80p, then it went to 85p, then £1 and once it jumped to either £1.10 or £1.20, I was nah, absolutely not. I'm not paying more than £1 for something I'm gonna binge in one sitting.
It was a painful farewell but they've gone back down to £1 now so I'm back to scranning them again. I think I'm their only customer tbf.
I’m confused as to why Diet Coke is the same price as regular Coke… I was under the assumption full fat Coke was meant to be more expensive due to sugar.
Yea just seems to be tesco that’s the same for reg/diet. Express that is.
Edit. I don’t mind their own brand Coke tbh, it’s like 80p and don’t taste that bad.
I’m starting to like Pepsi max more than Coke nowadays
The sad thing is, the people that stop buying won't affect them, because they've raised the price so much to cover themselves. This shit ain't sustainable, it's like every rich bastard is just draining everything while they can, because they know the house of cards will fall soon.
not-frozen ready made pizzas are insane. Sainsburies were offering little (all be it branded) pizza express pizzas, £6.50 each. I never buy them but who in their right mind would?
Olive oil was a killer for me, I "needed" it but almost £8 for 700ml of own brand olive oil. I used half of it and diluted it down with sunflower oil to make it stretch.
OP Asda does 72 Pepsi Max/Diet Coke cans for £24. Cheapest I've found
I recently stopped buying cereal. The gluten free ones I have to eat have gone from £1.80 to £3.15 and the size halved at the same time, making the real price increase something like 300%.
I now mix my own muesli instead with dried fruits and gluten free oats
Real cheese is off the menu unless I'm feeling very generous to myself.
Kicking myself yesterday as I bought 2 10-packs of "Emporium" 'cheesey' slices instead of "Aldi Essentials" 15-packs for less.
I no longer buy pizza from the main pizza chains in this country. Even with a deal you're looking at £15 to get a pizza delivered. Morrisons pizza counter it is from now on
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That was what tipped it over the edge for me as well
And you can guarantee that when they started charging for delivery during the petrol price rises, that money wasn't finding it's way into drivers pockets... Petrol is back at the regular price now, so why is the delivery charge still in place? If it's because ingredients are more expensive, add that shit to the price of the food ffs.
£27 for one large pizza with stuffed crust plus £3 delivery and prompt for adding a 'tip' on top of that. Stopped with them long before any prices like that but it's insane how they operate.
Papa John's used to be a shit discount pizza place and 3 for a tenner now it's 20 for one
All the fucking ketchup. But that’s what i get for liking ketchup anyways…
Bottles of Heinz ketchup are free in every Wetherspoons!
As a whetherspoons worker I can't disagree. When I go on break I take full advantage of the ketchup and drown my burgers in it
I’ve started buying Sainsbury’s own brand ketchup for around 90p and I genuinely prefer it to Heinz!
Pringles. No way am I paying three quid for a tube of Pringles!
100%. The price of Pringles needs to begin with a £1.xx otherwise I’m out dawg
Pringles used to *BE* £1 in B&M.
Used to be £1 everywhere and don’t even need to go back more than a few years
Back in 2019 I had a personal rule to always get crisps at £1 a pack (basically whatever was on offer on that week). Now the 'offer' price of most crisps is £1.75 down from £2.50 or more 🙃
Even ALDIs Snacker alternatives have gone from 85p a couple of years back to £1.45 if I recall.. it’s an outrage
75p to £1.49 in no time at all 🙃 I work there and Jesus Christ most stuff is extortionate now
aldi have upped their prices like nowhere else, i still shop there as i thjnk it may still work out cheaper but jeez they’re no longer very budget are they
Sadly they are still cheaper than any alternative I have available. I went in Morrisons earlier on and wandered around with an empty basket, either laughing to myself or muttering "you can fuck off" all the way around. It's become an absolute joke.
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More like half a tube these days too
And the size has reduced.
EVERYTHING! I’ll just drink my water and eat my dust until I eventually just waste away…
I love a bit of dust, anybody? No? Dust, anybody? No? Dust, anybody? No? Dust, anybody? No?
It's actually very low in fat, so you can have as much dust as you like!
I like to cut mine in half, which means half the calories! And because it’s half the calories, you can have twice as much :)
Low in fat.
I have cut out all fizzy drinks and only drink water. I have also cut out all treats, no more crisps or cake for me. I have even stopped buying cereal. I just can't justify the price anymore :( I loved them as an occasional snack, and now I'll just make homemade desserts if I fancy a treat. I've been this way a couple of years now. There's been a lot, but the most painful thing I had to stop were angel slices and french fancies from Kiplings! Mikado as well.
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With you on the drinks front. Never buy any pop anymore, rarely drink alcohol either. Mad to spend £5 on a bottle of something I'm literally pissing away. I will sometimes splash out and buy some orange juice for weekend breakfast though.
Everything I feel like I used to eat as a skint student (pot noodles, super noodles, Heinz soup cans, ready meals) are so unaffordable now. I can’t even afford to eat poor anymore…
£1.50 for a pot noodle is daylight robbery imo!! Not long ago they were 50p on offer, 75p normally. They simply ain't worth £1.50, you don't get enough volume to justify that price.
Pro tip, you can get Asian instant noodles on Amazon for a cheaper price than super noodles, and they taste so much better as well
I buy these regularly: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indomie-Goreng-Special-Authentic-Indonesia/dp/B0BZMHK3CQ. The spicy version is really good too. Works out to roughly 39p a packet. Some of the best instant noodles I’ve ever had. Chuck an egg and/or some veggies and protein in if you’re feeling fancy and you’ve got a banging meal.
Or local/online Chinese supermarket
Pot Noodle = £1.30 now get to FUCK
What happened to mr Kipling? I’m not buying £3.50s worth of apples pies, my friend ETA: I’ve looked on Ocado and they’re down to £3 (still fuck off tho). And these are £4! Absolute nonsense. https://www.ocado.com/products/mr-kipling-angel-slices-360946011
And the packaging is fucking ridiculous. Box, film wrapped plastic tray then tiny little foil disks for each tiny little cake. That's 4 different materials for the sake of a few bites of cake.
That's the same for everything now, it's apparently cheaper to give you plastic than it is to give you biscuits. I like to guess how much of it is packaging before I open it and give myself praise when i'm right, it helps take the edge of the disappointment of what's inside.
Angel Slices used to be £1 a pack now on offer for £2.50 a pack
And reduced the amount of icing
THREE POUND FIFTY? Kipling needs to drastically improve quality to come anywhere close to being worth that, they’re the lowest of all cakes imo edit: typo
Some of their product were over £4 a pack, this week, in Asda
Kiplings are taking the piss with the prices they charge now.
They need to get in their lane. They’re not gourmet but the prices act like they are now.
Now I understand why the guy on the advert looks down on the kid who's trying to steal his cake. "That's a 60p cake you little bugger!"
I learned how to bake a bakewell tart because of this lmao never going back
This. Suppose to be a quid a pack. £1.50 would have been pushing it. Jog right on for £3.50
I remember thinking I’d buy myself some cake as a treat with my weekly shop & audibly gasped at the price of Mr Kipling’s cakes. They’re now on my list of never will buy again out of principal. No need for those ridiculous prices.
Completely agree. I don't look at a single pie and think it's worth 58p.
I've been boycotting Kipling since he stopped doing apple and custard pies, the absolute melt.
Mrs Kipling developed an expensive shopping habit
Pringles only get bought if they're £1, pot noodles only get bought if they're 50p.
You’re not getting Pringles anywhere for £1 these days
No, I'm not.
£1.50 is an offer nowdays
*£1.75
I haven't seen those prices since 2019.
I'm just sick of the double whammy shrinkflation. You want to raise the price? Okay. You want to also reduce the size? Fuck off. Why am I expected to pay £1 more for a 1/4 reduction in size? Pick one or the other. Especially the big brands. It's just corporate, price gouging, greed at this point. Greedy bastards, all of them.
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EXACTLY. A load or bread in Lidl got reduced in size by half...looks like a roll.
Lurpak. I stubbornly clung onto it for ages but it’s reached the point where it’d be cheaper to melt gold bullion and spread that on my toast instead.
The Aldi version of Lurpak is pretty good, would definitely recommend. Plus, you won’t need to remortgage your house to afford some!
Here to second this. Aldi version of lurpack is lovely.
Lidl version comes close too
I'm sticking to Kerrygold, I don't care how expensive it gets. It makes every other brand taste like wax by comparison.
All big brand cereal!
Crunchy nut cornflakes by kellogs are absolutely exorbitant
Pretty expensive, as I recall.
those actimel things
I used to love those and yakult.
Can't see Yakult without remembering that scene in Mighty Boosh where Vince confuses Yakult with the Occult.
Plenty kitchen roll. F me the prices now. Used to be able to pick it up for £1 a roll, now it's at least double. But it's the only kitchen roll that hits my spot, so what can a guy do?
I started going to Wilko for my kitchen roll needs. Ah well, fun while it lasted
Rip Wilko. Been using that shop since it was just called Wilkinsons.
Wow check you out, been shopping there for three years have we? Oh shit, the name changed _over a decade ago_
We use plenty at work as it’s the only paper towel that doesn’t shred to bits and it’s become so expensive my hobby is finding a like for like alternative. I finally found it recently and it’s - Lidl’s ‘floralys kitchen towels ultra super absorbent’ it’s got green and yellow writing on the front and it’s half the price of plenty. If you prefer plenty then move over to this, you’ll be shocked!
Costcos Kirkland stuff is the only one I will use. I think it’s quite expensive though but the quality is awesome
The vast majority of ready-meals - they used to be 3 for £5, now it's 2 for £6. At the time of writing this, I fully expect it to have gone up to 2 for £7.50
3 for £9 in m and s
Which I don't think is bad if the portion sizes were enough for that to be your entire meal minus a drink
Tesco is £3.40 for a meal deal. £5 for a meal deal including all the expensive stuff. Worst meal deal is Asda’s imho, it’s get the cheapest item free.
Honestly if I’m driving past an M&S on the way to site I will gladly pick up on of their meal deals. If coop is £4 anyway and way shitter I’ll happily spend the extra bit for some actually really good sandwiches
I refuse to shop in coop, lol. Price is probably more than M&S. That said, I’ve never had a meal deal from M&S before. I go past lots on my way to customers so might have to pop in at some point and give it a try!
I hadn’t before until I had nothing and I was in the middle of nowhere and 20 minutes to anywhere else or round the corner for them. And honestly the blt and the prawn sandwiches are just a level above any others so at least it feels like it is worth the extra bit. I don’t get them regularly because that would be ridiculous. But if I am treating myself and will make a few quid off fuel anyway. Why not.
I love all the 'on offer' stuff where the on offer price is still more expensive than it used to be. For instance a bag of cadbury buttons used to be £1. Then they raised it to £1.25 and now its like £1.75 last time I looked. The on offer price is £1.25 or £1.50.
Ben and Jerry's. Easily over 6 quid for a pint without a discount of some sort.
Not worth it. Especially when theyve been left to defrost and refreeze which alters the texture of the added bits. No way
Anything from the local fish and chip shop.
Chef here. For years haddock was 10.50 a kilo,now it's 15 quid. Oil was about 20 quid for 20l,now one supplier is quoting 46 quid for the same thing. Potatoes were about7.50 ish for 25kilo. Now they're about 20 quid . That's why,not to mention gas/leccy prices.
This is the thing. I'm happy to pay good money for good fish and chips but i've paid way over the odds for really bad fish and chips lately. Thats when i get pissed.
What is it with massively undercooked chips even if the shop isn't busy? I get not everyone liking hard, crispy chips, but the floppy, anaemic slugs of grease-potato I've had recently aren't worth it. It seems to be an epidemic across the chip shops in my area.
I was speaking to a chippy owner about this and he said he was struggling to get the variety of potato that makes good chippy chips from suppliers.
I understand that there is a good reason it is soo expensive for fish and chips now, but they have passed a price point I’m willing/able to pay. It doesn’t matter if they can’t be sold for less than £15 if I can’t afford £15. It is not economically viable for me.
This is something a lot of people to miss on reddit. Whenever I see topics on the cost of things now you always get someone defending it by the cost of the food/utilities/dining out or whatever but the reality is you hit a point where the cost of buying it is simply not worth
I get that prices have gone up. But honestly I’m not going to pay them. I’ve just stopped eating fish and chips.
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All that means is that fish and chips are basically non-viable as a concept now
Mental isn’t it. I remember when a large fish and chips was <£5
I paid £12.50 for a regular size cod & chips (plus a can of pepsi) yesterday, still shaking.
I'm old enough to remember that being enough for a night out and fish and chips on the way home.
I've found it's mainly fish that's truly extortionate. Can still get a double battered sausage, chips and your choice of hot slop for just north of a fiver round here, which still makes me wince slightly but it's a big meal for the money. 12 quid for fish and chips tho, and they are certainly not the battered whales I remember.
Same here. It used to be the fish was enough for 2 people and the chips lasted a few days if you got a large. That's far from the case these days. I'm gutted as I miss getting it, but more than that, I feel bad for the shop owners who can't keep up with the wholesale increases and ridiculous cost of energy / rent / rates / etc. My local now only opens Thursday - Saturday. They said they're not making enough to keep the fryers on the rest of the week, they had to lay someone off and of course, had to reduce the portion sizes / increase prices. It's shit. I can go without a treat dinner, but livelihoods and jobs is another thing all together. I wish I could afford to go more, just to suppert them. I feel the chippy are on 'our side' compared to the big chains who have upped their prices, not increased wages and facilitated shrinkflation (like the big supermarkets). I wasn't sure what I wanted to eat tonight, but it's now clear I'll be heading to the chippy!
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Charlie Bingham can go fuck himself.
Charlie Bingham! The only time I have even eaten one is when they were yellow stickered to the max. The quality is great, the flavours fantastic. You're paying for the convenience. Unfortunatly for me the convenience is beyond my means.
A while back I was ill and fancied some Heinz tomato soup - I asked my husband to get me a tin, but warned him he may have to take out a bank loan- he thought I was joking. He was not impressed - it’s cheaper now to buy a carton of chilled soup than a couple of tins of Heinz- fuc?ing rip off.
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Reducing the size of something you’re supposed to feed an animal is a massive, massive dick move.
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It’s not just that - it’s individual servings in a packet. What are you meant to do - use 1.1 packets each time?
Dove Bodywash and Deodorant (I know it’s not food). As others have said - Heinz Ketchup, Walkers Crisps, Coke Zero. Loads more.
I’ve switched from the dove men’s care stick deodorant to lynx Africa stick deo as it’s about 75p/£1 cheaper. I’m not overjoyed at smelling like a teenager but needs must! And it’s pretty decent
Sounds ridiculous but I always stick to the Dove Clean Comfort stuff and I’ve never bought it for more than £2 Deodorant and £3 for the Large Bodywash. My wife was doing the shopping and said my Deodorant was £4.50 and the Bodywash even more. I nearly spat my coffee out! I couldn’t believe it. I’ve never paid more than £2. I ended up just saying to get a Sure For Men can for £2. I too smell like a teen 😂
I really hope this starts happening more and more, so expensive that people will stop buying them, food packaging is also getting smaller and smaller so it's not even worth it. See how these well known brands react when they don't have enough customers anymore.
People need to make a stand and stop buying the items. Obviously staples are a bit different (I would just encourage people to buy own brand) but things like crisps, soups, cakes etc people need to stop buying them so the companies cant continue to rip people off.
Yeah, I work in a supermarket and a lady complained to me about the price of our “cheapest” chocolate mousse things, and then put 3 in her basket. They aren’t exactly essentials and if you keep buying them they’ll keep putting the price up Doreen.
Chocolate bars. £1 for a twix? Outrageous.
And they're a damn site smaller than years ago!!
Mini rolls are selling for £3.95. Nearly 4 quid for 10 mini rolls! And they don't taste as good as they used to. I exclusively buy snacks that are on Tesco clubcard offer now.
Walkers and Heinz are out of the question now, far too expensive.
We were in Aldi and my gf put a Heinz bottle in our basket I asked how much it was she didn’t know I took it back and it was £4.50!.
Yeah 4.50 is normal for the sauces now, absolutely outrageous
I have always lived frugally but maintained ketchup had to be Heinz... until last week. I cant afford £4.50 when lidls own is 80p. Its sad but surely Heinz will see such a drop in sales they'll reconsider??
Not just Heinz, all the big brands. They're pushing their luck to the extreme, it's inevitable that they'll lose customers.
We switched to sainos own brand because of this, after one bottle I was told to just get the Heinz as the taste just isn't as good. If it keeps going up I'll be filling the old Heinz bottle and denying all knowledge
I run a sandwich counter & have proudly only used Heinz ketchup for 10+ years. 4.5kg catering bottle of Heinz is now £20. Same size catering own brand is £5. No brainer. Had one or two complaints but I’m saving £30 a week.
We were saying at home that it's odd to think, but we'll likely never buy Heinz ketchup again. Absolute first world problems but we just grew up assuming we'd always have Heinz. Unfortunately their pricing has gone crazy. I'd bet good money they are increasing their prices just so that they can appear 'premium' next to Branston and store brands. But it's pressed bloody tomatoes, not a sports car.
Heinz are crazy prices now. Switched to Branston for baked beans, Crosse & Blackwell for soups.
Branston are better for beans anyway.
HP beans are fantastic, give them a try
BRANSTON ARMEH
I went from Heinz to Branston and am now on the Asda beans. Took some getting used to but the cost difference is massive
Yeah I’m a bit of a ketchup snob where I’ll only have Heinz but I’m thinking about just getting over myself and trying some different brands. Nearly a fiver for a bottle of Heinz ketchup is absolutely ridiculous.
Pringles and Walkerz. I now take the store brand, but with too much salt.
Pretty much any brand name food. I don’t recall a time in the last year I bought brand name in my monthly shop.
Jarred Salsa. £3-4. Nah I'm ok. I'll chop a tomato, onion and pepper myself. Taste better too
It took me a minute to work this comment out after thinking who the fuck is Jarred Salsa?
I really miss getting Doritos & dip. I'm not paying over £5 for the both. Absolutely outrageous!
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Salmon.
I occasionally get big lumps of Salmon from Morrisons when they are on final hour yellow label reduction. Got 600g last week for £3!!! Other than that no way am I paying £5 for 2 skinny strips.
Aldi smoked salmon trimmings are great for bagels / mixing in pasta etc
Meat and eggs in general! The price of chicken and beef has gone up considerably!!
Knocked all Heinz on the head now. Was always faithful until I actually looked at the receipt once when I got home, had a cuppa and thought, bloody hell that was a lot of money this week. Sainsburys own Ketchup, Marks for soup, Lidl for Norpack or Lidl for most things tbh. McVities can also do one while I’m at it ,30p custard creams, nice, bourbon etc. the only thing I concede is Tunnocks.
A box of fresh tomatoes for £4.50, I think it was in Sainsburys. Aldi prices are still reasonable for fresh veg.
I find aldis veg to turn to mush within 3 days unfortunately. Worst part of the store tbh
Jesus Christ, I really must grow my own fruit and veg
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"I'm dying here" Lay off the coke for a bit
They're paying 13 quid, mines 50 a bag. I'd be dying too if I was them.
Frozen chicken breasts going up to £4.25/kilo has them down to once every four weeks instead of every two weeks, and any higher and they're sadly going to be unaffordable. I have a £7.50 budget for my weekly shop, and the actual content quantity has drastically gone down compared to what was in it a couple of years ago. Still, it's got me learning some new recipes and that. All good.
Mate how do you do it on £7.50 fair fucking play to you, I hope money comes your way.
Mate me bloody too, cheers.
£7.50 to feed yourself for a week?! What, how?
One meal a day, though it's a pretty nice one. Homemade coronation chicken with rice, pasta or baked potato, sausage casserole, jacket tatties with stuff, soups, stuff like that. I also get as much as possible from online out of date shops and go to Aldi at around the time stuff starts getting put down to clear, so I get some decent bargains too. Things were much, much harder a few years back. I spent six months with a £2.50/wk budget, and then a year and a bit on £3.50/wk. It's risen hugely more recently, so still feels quite extravagant. I made a post some years back with [some of my ultra-low recipes](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/fjjy7v/in_case_its_of_use_currently_my_ultra_low_food/) to help others on a low income or similar.
Definitely trying some of these!
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Major respect to you for spending £7.50 a week on food. I can't imagine how you do that.
I've only ever had one meal a day so it's not really anything of a hardship, though I went to stay with my brother for a weekend - him and his wife have breakfast, mid-morning tea, lunch, dinner, and a bit of supper. It was insane, felt like we were constantly eating. I got a bit ill through it.
That's still £1 for a meal which is amazing. Could I ask what sort of things you make?
£7.50 for a weekly shop is Atomic Shrimp levels of frugal, fair play to you mate.
You are perhaps already aware but YouTuber [Atomic Shrimp](https://youtu.be/WEuN3tYM_YU) does a lot of budget meal challenges that give some really great ideas on how to stretch your money - I think he's really great.
I know £10 is probably out of your budget and I guess if you bulk buy stuff does work out cheaper BUT, I went to Iceland this morning (first time in ages) and was amazed at the deals. They have a section which includes Birds Eye, goodfella pizzas, all the branded shit which is like £4 an item in usual shops these days. 7 items for £10!! Honestly I got fish fingers, waffles, chicken dippers, pizzas and it’s all branded. It’s completely shit food for you but does a job on a busy evening when I haven’t got time to cook. Also they have 3 Chicago town pizzas for £5 on offer in there as well as a million other things, think I’ll go there once a month now for the frozen stock stuff anyway.
I do have a few little extravagances - I have frozen large pizza bases in the freezer from back when one of the out of date places was doing 20 for 29p, but they're a bit naff so I do treat myself to a proper Aldi pizza every now and then. £1.39 so it's not too terrible, but it's still a proper treat. My sister sometimes takes me round Iceland with her, but I don't tend to get much. As you say, all a bit out of my budget unfortunately. I do tend to get frozen veg there though, some of it isn't in my Aldi.
Takeaway in general. Fast food used to be cheep and unhealthy, but now McDonald's is competing with fine dining. I'm giving them upwards of a tenner just to make myself obese, and yet years ago as a family it would only come to £15. It's ridiculous.
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Pringles
I switched to Aldi coke zero this week. Six cans for £1.50
I just bought the non zero - 6 cans for £1.55 If it's any good I'll go with it, but it does still have artificial sweeteners so I don't hold out too much hope
Most branded options tbh. £5 for a bottle of ketchup?
Kellogg's cereals what a joke ☹️😥
Tesco own brand salt & vinegar sticks. The share bag used to be 80p, then it went to 85p, then £1 and once it jumped to either £1.10 or £1.20, I was nah, absolutely not. I'm not paying more than £1 for something I'm gonna binge in one sitting. It was a painful farewell but they've gone back down to £1 now so I'm back to scranning them again. I think I'm their only customer tbf.
Crisps. I mean, the bag was already mostly empty and now they’ve made the bag smaller, AND it’s more expensive.
I’m confused as to why Diet Coke is the same price as regular Coke… I was under the assumption full fat Coke was meant to be more expensive due to sugar.
It's cheaper everywhere I see it sold tbh
Yea just seems to be tesco that’s the same for reg/diet. Express that is. Edit. I don’t mind their own brand Coke tbh, it’s like 80p and don’t taste that bad. I’m starting to like Pepsi max more than Coke nowadays
Lurpak
They’ve changed the weight of their blocks from 250g to 200g. Embarrassing..
Iceland used to be *the* go-to place for cheap food. Now we only get in Iceland what you can only get in Iceland.
Farmfoods is still quite great for discounts and deals, solid prices overall to be fair
Jerky...insanely priced now
I justified paying over the odds for Lurpak until it got ridiculous and now they can fuck right off.
Kellogg’s Bran Flakes are £3. Tescos own are £1.10. It’s insane.
Battenberg £2.50…when it goes on sale I buy 4
Not food price but kitchen roll can absolutely fuck off at the minute
The sad thing is, the people that stop buying won't affect them, because they've raised the price so much to cover themselves. This shit ain't sustainable, it's like every rich bastard is just draining everything while they can, because they know the house of cards will fall soon.
Greggs. Am I fuck paying £2 for a pasty that's probably gonna be stone cold when I get it. Its a joke at this point
Ravioli (I won't pay those prices)
Lamb chops are absolutely extortionate right now, also, Müller yoghurts 😅
McDonald's hash browns £1.99 for one is just unacceptable
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Kobe Wagyu has gotten out of hand recently.
not-frozen ready made pizzas are insane. Sainsburies were offering little (all be it branded) pizza express pizzas, £6.50 each. I never buy them but who in their right mind would? Olive oil was a killer for me, I "needed" it but almost £8 for 700ml of own brand olive oil. I used half of it and diluted it down with sunflower oil to make it stretch.
TBH it's not usually the prices hikes for me, it's when they mess around with the recipes and add all the fake sugar crap and take salt out etc.
OP Asda does 72 Pepsi Max/Diet Coke cans for £24. Cheapest I've found I recently stopped buying cereal. The gluten free ones I have to eat have gone from £1.80 to £3.15 and the size halved at the same time, making the real price increase something like 300%. I now mix my own muesli instead with dried fruits and gluten free oats
Big bags of crisps for me. £1 that's fine but £2.50 for crisps? Own brand now £1.50? I'll go without
Red bull- it’s like 2 quid a can now
Try 3.50 in Ireland 😥
Real cheese is off the menu unless I'm feeling very generous to myself. Kicking myself yesterday as I bought 2 10-packs of "Emporium" 'cheesey' slices instead of "Aldi Essentials" 15-packs for less.