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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Today I've had: Scrambled eggs and beans on toast. Cost 33p.
    And a spoon (1/8th) of aforementioned trifle. Cost 10p.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Mmmmm, trifle.

    On another note, just got back from Tesco and managed to spend £223 without buying any booze!!!

    Maybe there's something in this food inflation malarkey as I swear it wasn't that expensive the last time I was there..... Weird.


    I'm amazed when people don't notice the food inflation. I eat roughly the same stuff on weekdays (i.e. four days a week) that are bought. The change in price of this over the last few years has been tremendous. Matches the change in house prices in my family's area in the years preceding that!

    Of course, in some ways, the agricultural conditions aetc are useful to me. If I put eggs out at £1 a half dozen I'd probably be lynched for undercutting. Meat of course, is costing a fortune to produce. My freezer suppers probably cost about twice what a bigger store bought bird cost to produce under similar welfare conditions, because of the cost of buying feed in ''small'' amounts :( Still. I was saved tescos trips to collect it, and that's priceless!

    Hope honey keeps going up in price too :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Today I've had: Scrambled eggs and beans on toast. Cost 33p.
    And a spoon (1/8th) of aforementioned trifle. Cost 10p.

    spent more than that on consumed tea today. :( And thats with ''free'' milk.
  • silvercar
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    Today I've had: Scrambled eggs and beans on toast. Cost 33p.
    And a spoon (1/8th) of aforementioned trifle. Cost 10p.

    We went to do a work colleague of other half a favour. Meant to be retrieving a phone he had left in hotel near us. We got there to find they had posted it back to him and he hadn't told us.:mad:

    So we had a stroll round the lovely gardens and afternoon tea and scones for 2. £32!
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  • Davesnave
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    Of course, in some ways, the agricultural conditions aetc are useful to me. If I put eggs out at £1 a half dozen I'd probably be lynched for undercutting. :)

    Err...Ours are 90p :o:o

    But that's the going rate around here, 'cos ours is not such a prosperous area. :)

    And as you know, most of our feed/bedding falls off the back of lorries as they negotiate that terrible bump in the road outside....:D

    .....but we still don't make any great profit! :(
  • GDB2222
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    silvercar wrote: »
    We went to do a work colleague of other half a favour. Meant to be retrieving a phone he had left in hotel near us. We got there to find they had posted it back to him and he hadn't told us.:mad:

    So we had a stroll round the lovely gardens and afternoon tea and scones for 2. £32!


    Ooh, where's that? Lovely teas at Hartwell House, BTW, but that's a bit of a drive out into the country.
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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 25 June 2011 at 7:14PM
    silvercar wrote: »
    So we had a stroll round the lovely gardens and afternoon tea and scones for 2. £32!
    Saw you coming!

    Did it not occur to you to pick up the menu, read the prices before you read the choices, then announce loudly "I'm not bl00dy paying that. Worra rip off" before flouncing out?

    I bought a whole year's National Trust membership, through quidco, for only £5 more than that - and I got some free binoculars - and now I can stroll round as many gardens as I want, for free, for a year.... and scones are probably 8p each to make and take.

    I did this one already: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-glendurgangarden

    It's on a slope/valley, going down to a small beach.

    Didn't spend a thing while there.
  • tomterm8
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    We had Chinese. It cost a fortune. Very non-MSE. But we enjoyed it. So there.

    Edit: but we still got it for less than £32. Worra rip off!
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • silvercar
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Ooh, where's that? Lovely teas at Hartwell House, BTW, but that's a bit of a drive out into the country.

    The Grove.

    https://www.thegrove.co.uk


    Sculpture exhibition around the gardens at the moment.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMDyf4kkss&feature=youtu.be
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  • vivatifosi
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    silvercar wrote: »
    The Grove.

    You secret WAG you...
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