What everyday goods do you now consider a treat?

RuthnJasper

pompeyfaith wrote: »

£3 blimey where do you live, sounds like you need to move large chips where I am are £1.20 and a large cod £3.30.

Perhaps I ought not to reply to this, as I support Southampton (actually, one tends to tolerate rather than support them these days... !)

Large portion of fish & chips is about £7 to £8 here... you do get a lot of chips though...

quintwins

take away for me aswell

we do buy grapes and strawberrys but only when they are on offer

for us it has to be branded crisps, now we only get value or on amazing offer

CH27

Fizzy pop
Branded crisps
Ben & Jerry ice cream.

claire21

For all the fish n chip lovers, have you tried Hugh F W mackerel - I remember watching the tv show, quote:

Hugh’s recipe is so simple it isn’t really a recipe, more of a method – dust an un-skinned, pin boned mackerel fillet in seasoned flour, dip it thoroughly in beaten egg and then deep fry for just a couple of minutes until the fillet turns golden and floats to the top of the oil

Butterfly_Brain

Daz soap-powder - I wait for it to go on offer then I buy as much as I can afford to mix in with the basics one that I use now.
I used to treat myself to a bit of chocolate at the weekend and maybe a bottle of bacardi every couple of months but I can't afford either thanks to the vat rise.
We all wear clothes and shoes till they wear out before buying anything new
Takeaways are no longer affordable so we have home cooked
I don't bake as much as I used to because of the extortionate cost of gas and electricity, and the heating is on as little as possible.
We can't afford the dentist, prescriptions or opticians too often either - I have gone without prescriptions before now.
Meat, fruit and veg has really shot up in price so we try and eat veggie style a couple of days each week

hex2

Butter!

It has shot up in price. Lurpak spreadable is on offer at £2.50 a 500g tub!

Baking with stork, and mostly not bothering for anything else.

ellies_angel

I have to say I do my shopping online at tesco and pay for it to be delivered, but I only shop once a month and I only tend to buy things when they are on special for example, toilet rolls, coffee etc. I buy tesco value oven chips and cook them in the actifry.........very good. value fabric softner, daisy washing up liquid. value kidney beans (need to be cooked a wee bit longer) value tinned tomatoes. Value mince.£2 for a huge pack which is perfect in chilli, spag bog etc, value frozen chicken breasts or the other kind if they are on special offer. Value pasta etc. My other half now uses tesco own saving foam. Value bran flakes, value shortbread and value choc digestives. However it has to be Kenco coffee (hence only bought on special offer when I stock up) Dove soap, skin breaks out with any other. I think on an average monthly shop of £125 I will save at least £25-£30 with the 3 for 2, half price offers etc.
My guilty pleasure would be those fancy chocolate biscuits which are rectangle with thick chocolate on one side and like a richtea on the other.
All I need to stock up with during the week is milk and bread.

FrugalWorker

Lots....But very little I've give up
1. Fresh coffee - I have one cup, most mornings. Filtered - make only 1 cup. I look forward to it, have it before my shower. This is my everyday treat and I view it as a treat everyday. Every other cup is instant. before not a treat.
2. Herbal tea or tea made in a tea pot. The tea pot makes it a treat - an experience.
3. Using/watering herbs from balcony - used to buy them.
4.Homemade yogurt + stewed fruit. I've only being doing this for a month or so, but still love it.
5. Homemade bread (I don't this one often yet) - but made butter today from cheap cream to go on Brown bread in oven. Used to buy it.
6. Making soup from chicken stock (homemade off course) - used to use stock cubes and certainly nothing special about them
7. Sharing a beer with Mr. Frugal (he does go on for more)- it's really about taking time out together. Wasn't really a treat, a treat was going out.
8. Wrapping a homemade present. - Just finished a dress and bag for my niece. Scarf for my Mum for birthday. This is/was always a treat. But a bit more special when you've been working on it for weeks.
Lots more - taking pleasure in the little things in life - went for a walk yesterday out around a local resevoir - calves/foals in fields beside me, saw a cormorant, people fishing, butterfly's, got drenched in rain - it was great. Felt alive.

rosalie-lavender

[QUOTE=My guilty pleasure would be those fancy chocolate biscuits which are rectangle with thick chocolate on one side and like a richtea on the other.
All I need to stock up with during the week is milk and bread.[/QUOTE]

I saw some of those sort of biscuits in the offer section of the Tesco site today. They go on buy one get one free from tomorrow. They were called Bahlsen milk choco leibniz. £1.50 a packet but buy one get one free so two packs for that. They are as you describe thick chocolate on top of what looks like rich tea type biscuit.

scuzz

Near enough everything is a treat for me now. Dinner can easily be a bowl of cereal as meat, fruit and veg is so expensive