If things get tougher?

shoppergal

I've just spent over 2 hours reading through bits of this thread and I have to say I'm inspired. I thought we were managing well and being creative with our lack of money but I've learnt so much in the last few hours. You guys are amazing :beer: :beer:

D&DD

:mad: I really should know better than to look on Tescos site..the preserving sugar has gone up again!! Thats from 62p a packet in August to £1.17p now :mad: The value toms have gone up to 33p from 29p last week..I knew things were going to get a bit hairy but I'm still disgusted.
So much for every little bits helps...

ceridwen

Further on growing one's own food in tiny spaces - I can't do better than use as a title "growbag thingies" that a virtual friend used in a P.M. to me about summat I'd told her about.

See below - for more growbag thingies:


http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/05/lfa-2008-grow-bags-urban-allotments/


a rather good idea methinks and sparked off the thought of those "bag thingies" that are used sometimes instead of skips - ie those sorta huge bags with handles that I see on the road outside people's homes in lieu of skips and filled with sand or similar. Errr...non-technical that's me!:D but I'm sure someone will come along with the correct name for these bags soon - bet they'd do the trick as massive growbags in someone's garden personally. I've got a vague idea I might even have seen them in the Argos catalogue for just a few £s.

carriebradshaw

Cinny91 wrote: »

I have my own cupboard in our family kitchen so once I've cleared out junk other people have put in there I think I'll have enough room for about 6 bags which should last me into the new year.
I noticed silver spoons caster sugar has gone up abit. I'm sure it was around £1 at the start of the year and it's £1.22 now. Best take a trolley into asda. Don't think I could manage staggering around in high heels with a basket of sugar and flour today!

if you've got a blender then just buy granulated sugar and give it a quick whizz in there before you use it, it's cheaper than caster.;)

We are fed up of the supermarket price hikes too my OH likes to pick up the meat we used to buy there when standing next to the SA's and then he puts it back saying it's way too expensive in a loud voice :T

parsonswife8

BigMummaF wrote: »

I've literally just posted on the Grocery Challenge thread how I made a remark earlier in the week to my three. I'd been shopping for a few bits & said that their 'lodge' might have to go up with the way prices are going. Yesterday I took mum to MrS--she doesn't like MrT & the way small businesses suffer when he moves into an area. I have to say I agree with the sentiments but cannot afford to live by my principles & really cannot see that MrS--or any of them--are so different.
Anyhoo, our beloved Marmite was £2:48 in there yesterday :eek: & I've been paying £2....
How on earth can I ask my lot to cough up more when they--like the rest of us--are struggling to make ends meet I suppose they could forgo their mobile phones, but that would push up the house phone bill :eek: --been there before & really do NOT want to go back--but the two who drive rely on their cars for work. One does have a system of car-share so drives every other week & the other can turn up for a shift in one place only to be asked to cover in another :mad: OK, possibly use public transport, but it makes it extremely difficult getting home at gone 11pm of a night, especially in the Age of Crime we seem to be at the moment.

Looks like we shall have to ration the Marmite to high days & holidays then, cuz there is absolutely no substitute for Marmite

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OH and I went into Nettos yesterday. They had 250g jars of a special edition "Marmite lover's" Marmite with a heart on the label, which has a touch of champagne in it. They were £1.49.
Also, a four pack of Branston Baked beans (orange cans) for £1.19. The plastic packaging was marked with a preprinted price of £2.29.

2cats1kid

One of the gardens I can see from my bedroom window is full of those "growbag thingies", ceridwen. Pretty they ain't, but they seem full of stuff on a pretty constant basis. DH has said he's happy if I turn our whole garden into an allotment, but I'm working my way round the edges for now, just so I don't dig up more than I can actually cultivate and end up putting the lawn back!

Icemaiden

carriebradshaw wrote: »

if you've got a blender then just buy granulated sugar and give it a quick whizz in there before you use it, it's cheaper than caster.;)

We are fed up of the supermarket price hikes too my OH likes to pick up the meat we used to buy there when standing next to the SA's and then he puts it back saying it's way too expensive in a loud voice :T

I pop the sugar in a bag and use the rolling pin, saves on electric too:cool:

Ice
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kaze_2

Has anybody else noticed that the supermarkets are not as quick to restock their shelves. Have been to Mr S and Mr T's in last couple of weeks and noticed that the own brand products had not been re-stocked which left either the expensive brand or the value/ basics brand, and the value/ basics brand had gone up in price and not just by a couple of pence.

OddjobKIA

On the subject of yellow stickers at tesco....

it does help being good freinds with the yellow sticker lady...who textx me when she is on her break to say she is avbout to put whole joints of meat down to 50p...(that and living 200 yards away)

mummysaver

D&DD wrote: »

:mad: I really should know better than to look on Tescos site..the preserving sugar has gone up again!! Thats from 62p a packet in August to £1.17p now :mad: The value toms have gone up to 33p from 29p last week..I knew things were going to get a bit hairy but I'm still disgusted.
So much for every little bits helps...

d, the value chopped toms were 21p a can in our Asda yesterday evening, and the little tins of tom puree were back at 17p, marked as a roll back from 25p :rolleyes:

I always seem to be posting about toms, I'm getting obsessive! Can't remember the exact prices of the lentils, but the organic Asda ones were cheaper than the standard Tesco ones too!