Heinz Farley's Baby Milk Discontinued!

flashnazia

I know alot of mums are going to move onto Hipp as it's now the cheapest but they are also planning an increase but not as blatantly rip off as Farley's.

Emailed Hipp about any future plans for prices. This is the reply.

Thank you for your e.mail enquiry.

Whilst we try to keep our prices as competitive as possible, inevitably there are increases that have to be met for the steep increase in the organic raw ingredients that we use - which are generally more expensive than non-organic ingredients.

There will therefore be an increase in the RRP of our formula milks in the near future. We anticipate that this will be around the £1.00 mark, which will take the retail price to around £6 - which I am sure you will appreciate is considerably lower than competitors.

However, due to current legislation, we have no influence over the retailers selling prices and are therefore unable to predict the increases that they will make.

We hope this answers your query and thank you for taking the trouble to contact us.

Kind regards

Jan Lambell
Customer Services Manager
HiPP UK Limited

money_saving_diva

I have been following this thread with interest, although I use SMA gold - but i feel so sorry for all you mums that use Falreys cos I would hate it if I had to change my lo's formula! I noticed this week that SMA gold tins had gone up in price (along with everything else in my trolley ) so I think we will start to see price rises across all formula brands now :mad:

(and I just wanted to add can all the inconsiderate people on this thread please stop posting about 'breast is best' - that is not what this thread about! Before I had my lo I thought the use of formula was terrible and I was determined to breast feed. unfortunalty due to medical reasons I had to stop feeding my lo myself and I have felt guilty ever since and yes I know breast is best but my lo is happy and healthy - thank you. rant over)

Moopy

funky-footprints wrote: »

your son is old enough to be on cows milk, which is a lot cheaper?

I know, but he won't drink cow's milk. He's happy to have it on his breakfast. I actually stopped buying Farley's when he got to 12 months and decided to switch to cow's milk but the amount he drank was minimal. I'm going to try again soon and see if he notices!

sarahg1969

Hell_Dans_Un_Handcart wrote: »

It's not a simple case of switching to another brand.

It is. There's no reason (unless you already know of a problem, or a specific medical condition) that you can't swap and change till you find one that suits.

But the manufacturers won't say that, will they?

amandada

I'm way past the stage of breast/bottle feeding now, but when I was weaning my son off the breast at 10 months, I was able to buy Aptamil from the baby clinic for a good £2-£3 cheaper than in the supermarket.
Is this still available? (it was about 5 years ago for me)

starbump

I don't want to sound too... I don't know... but aren't we actually lucky to live in a century when infant formula milk is widely available? Not so many years ago, historically speaking, your so-called "choice" would be to hire a wet-nurse or watch your baby starve. The price increase might be steep but is probably in line with the huge increases to all dairy products (most infant formula is made from cow milk) and other staples in recent months. (On another note, I believe two free-ish sources of milk are breast milk banks for very young babies and prescription soya milk based infant formula for babies with allergies. Would that help anyone?)

sarahg1969

starbump wrote: »

I don't want to sound too... I don't know... but aren't we actually lucky to live in a century when infant formula milk is widely available? Not so many years ago, historically speaking, your so-called "choice" would be to hire a wet-nurse or watch your baby starve. The price increase might be steep but is probably in line with the huge increases to all dairy products (most infant formula is made from cow milk) and other staples in recent months. (On another note, I believe two free-ish sources of milk are breast milk banks for very young babies and prescription soya milk based infant formula for babies with allergies. Would that help anyone?)

And isn't it surprising that there are now so many mothers who are unable to breastfeed, especially considering Scandinavian bf rates are so high? Maybe I was lucky with my four (who I bf for almost 5 years in total - not each!), but it seems to me that a huge deal is made of breastfeeding. It is made to seem such a daunting task by the media and HCPs that it's no wonder that many mums think they need help/counselling, etc, etc, and can't just get on with it.

Of course I appreciate that people used wet nurses and babies starved in the past (or they were fed on Carnation!), and that some mums possible DO need some help, but I can't help wondering why there's such a frenzy about it, instead of mums just DOING it.

If mums do choose ff, however, then I guess the cost goes up just like it does for everything else.

kynky_kyta_23

hey just been reading about the farleys, well when my son was born i attempted to start him on farleys and stocked up, but weeks later had too change too cow and gate as his tummy did not like it.

so i have a few tins in my pantry of the 1st milk. thik i should put them on ebay buy it now for £3 each! if anyone wants them, plus could collect from manchester.

but i think its a joke, lie you lot said the hipp one is not too bad, but it means swapping milks and thats just not fair! babies get attatched too there brand, just like we all love our fav brand of teabags and others just 'don't taste right!'

anyways just thought i would voice my thoughts. every month i recieve 12 ilk tokens then i buy bulk load of milk, i have twins and it ends up i pay £37!! imagine if i had no tokens! wow i would be bankrupt!
the poud shop should sell it!! lol

kynky_kyta_23

starbump wrote: »

I don't want to sound too... I don't know... but aren't we actually lucky to live in a century when infant formula milk is widely available? Not so many years ago, historically speaking, your so-called "choice" would be to hire a wet-nurse or watch your baby starve. The price increase might be steep but is probably in line with the huge increases to all dairy products (most infant formula is made from cow milk) and other staples in recent months. (On another note, I believe two free-ish sources of milk are breast milk banks for very young babies and prescription soya milk based infant formula for babies with allergies. Would that help anyone?)

well i agree too a extent, but remember people who have no choice, myself included. i had a double mastectomy when i was only 20, and it was so awful i wuld love too eed my boys naturally but cannot
i am not sat moaning about it though, so if i want too moan about the price of baby milk then why shouldn't i, or anyone else.

we are lucky blah blah blah, we have food homes water etc.
but not everyone makes the choice too FF and even if they do, its their choice, no one elses.

poodledoodledoo

sarahg1969 wrote: »

And isn't it surprising that there are now so many mothers who are unable to breastfeed, especially considering Scandinavian bf rates are so high? Maybe I was lucky with my four (who I bf for almost 5 years in total - not each!), but it seems to me that a huge deal is made of breastfeeding. It is made to seem such a daunting task by the media and HCPs that it's no wonder that many mums think they need help/counselling, etc, etc, and can't just get on with it.

Of course I appreciate that people used wet nurses and babies starved in the past (or they were fed on Carnation!), and that some mums possible DO need some help, but I can't help wondering why there's such a frenzy about it, instead of mums just DOING it.

If mums do choose ff, however, then I guess the cost goes up just like it does for everything else.

I breastfed my youngest (who is now nearly 4 months old) for 8 weeks. I found it almost impossible to do with a husband who works full time and 3 other children to look after. It would be lovely if I had 4/5 hours a day to sit and feed my little one but I just don't. I've switched my baby onto formula milk now and believe me, this is a much happier house

I found establishing breastfeeding very difficult because nobody tells you that for the first week of your infants life you may not produce any milk and your hungry child might cry for hours on end. Nor do they tell you the time commitment involved in breastfeeding.

I have no guilt whatsoever about bottle feeding my baby and neither should anyone else have. Breast may be best but bottle is fine too