What's the most overpriced food product that you could make yourself?

EssexHebridean

Any form of stock, unless you buy the joint specifically to make it of course!

Bambywamby

Any prepacked wrap or sandwich.

hamstercheeks_2

home made soup - veggies lots of them for under a fiver makes a huge cauldron - lasts usfor days

katholicos

It amazes me how many people buy those mocha-choca-lotta-pennies drinks from starbucks etc. A jar of coffee/box of T-Bags and a pint of milk costs less than £2 for goodness sake, but that is what some people pay for one drink!

skylight

Bag of "party" ice cubes.......................

clutterydrawer

£7.....good grief...I could live for aweek off that.

Its hard to decide what i think is most overpriced as I don't even bother looking at that sort of thing....but all the mad stuff like pre chopped veg, pre grated cheese etc makes me laugh.

Oh I know! I once saw some ready prepared porridge in M+S i think....just oats and milk in a sealed microwaveable dish....this costs about 2.5p to make at home and they were charging nigh on £1

Gingernutmeg

Vanilla sugar - I think I saw a jar of this for £6/£7-ish. It costs soooo much less to make this, it's just caster sugar and a vanilla pod, and you can even reuse vanilla pods that you've used in other recipes. I can't believe that anyone would buy this!

mandragora_2

Any coffee (or tea, come to that) any where in any restaurant or cafe, especially in the UK. I was proved right when watching that 'Run a restaurant' tv elimination competition thing (can't remember the name, sorry!) where one of the competing pairs was roundly criticised for not serving coffees, as they 'offer the highest mark up in the business' - something like 700% I seem to remember

LittleMissAspie

katholicos wrote: »

It amazes me how many people buy those mocha-choca-lotta-pennies drinks from starbucks etc. A jar of coffee/box of T-Bags and a pint of milk costs less than £2 for goodness sake, but that is what some people pay for one drink!

Well instant coffee isn't comparable to proper coffee, but I basically agree. You don't even need a fancy machine for good coffee - I have a £60 grinder and a cafetiere. 75g of beans costs me £1.40 and makes about 5 mugs. I make that about 40p each. (I have a lot of milk).

My contribution would be popcorn at the cinema. They must be making a killing on it. A bag of unpopped corn is like £1 in the supermarket and makes TONS. With a cinema's buying power, I'd be pretty interested in the actual markup.

purpleivy

Flour tortillas cost up to £1.49 for either 6/8. THey cost a matter of pence to make a heap!