Items you no longer buy due to increase in price??

tinned tuna, I really miss this, used to love tuna pasta and h/m tuna and sweetcorn pizza
hard cheese, unless on offer (still using some BOG2F that was also RTC last november and has been in the freezer since)
bread or rolls unless RTC below half price or desperate
beer, hardly ever now
wine, never
fresh fruit, unless RTC below 1/4 price
tinned soup isn't a lunch now, it has to be a main meal
value noodle pots as a snack, now use value noodle, and now only 1 packet - used to have 2
teabags have to be on offer now, usually Iceland or similar

Supermarkets are taking the p with the pricing of tuna. According to HomeBargains, Princes Tuna Chunks 4 pack has a RRP of £3.69, and they sell it for £2.99. £6.99 a 4 pack in the supermarkets, probably so they can then have it on *Special Offer* at £4. Even then it's not that cheap.

Until I started reading this I didn't realise how my habits were becoming the norm. I no longer automatically look for the brands and I now visit Aldi, Lidle & B&Ms. I don't buy tinned soups, I buy fresh bread on my way home from work and have to settle for what's left! I won't pay full price for cleaning stuff. I've stopped buying biscuits unless they are on offer or cheap. For the first time ever I hear myself asking how much? (out loud) and putting stuff back.

I work in a deprived, multicultural area where there are a few cheap shops and find myself in there with the locals. The small asda has a great whoopsie shelf often with Extra Special and healthy stuff, it puzzles me why they stock it as the locals either can't afford at full price or don't eat these products.

Meat and fish is bought at the cash & carry or when on offer and divided & frozen. Although I would never buy cheap mince, shepherds pie, bolognese, chilles etc are bulked out more with veg, beans, lentils. Leftovers are used up in soups, omelettes etc. I buy more frozen veg & berries than I used to.

While we would never do without something we wanted, (eg. I could never sit and eat a bean casserole when I really wanted meat), I get a perverse sort of pleasure when I know that what we are eating is a bargain. I never thought that I would become this thrity.

dasophster wrote: »

I've stopped buying orange juice and apple juice; even the 'value' ones are double what they were a few years ago, instead my boys drink any squash that doesn't have aspartame or anything really nasty in it; milk or water.

I avoid aspartame as well but find it really difficult to buy squash without it. I generally gets the Rocks organic or the bottlegreen or the sainsbugs TTD one. All the big brand ones seem to contain it.