The Rising Cost of Food

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mardatha wrote: »

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Then you start seeing children with rickets and malnutrition and impetigo. Been there and never thought we'd be going back again !!

Mardatha, in those days we didn`t have x boxes, mobile phones internet and a tv in every room. These days people don`t cut back on those things first, many (not all I stress) cut back on food first as the easy option. It then becomes thier choice as to whether their family suffers from malnutrition and the like

Confuzzled

lifebeginsat... wrote: »

Hiya, really good point, we have an Aldi, I think I have just got used to having it delivered, but tbh a taxi home would cost only a little more than the delivery charge , and from what you say there will be huge savings, :jI think I'm going to give this a go next week. I used to go weekly but stopped when I was working long hours.

(do they still do their ready brek.) used to love that and was only a £1.

because of my knees i can no longer walk to the shops so i have to take a taxi (the buses here, aside from being infrequent and unreliable, go nowhere near where i need to go!) so what i've done is to use online shopping for stocking up on things i KNOW i can get cheaper from asda and do that maybe once every 6-8 weeks and then use the taxi just every 10-14 days. you have to adjust your shopping style and i had to get used to allowing myself to believe that my daughter won't be ill if she eats some dried fruit or canned/frozen fruit if we run out of fresh but it's made a big impact on my life and finances, for the better.

i spend less money on delivery costs now even using the taxi,less impulse shopping, i really think about what i order or buy, i take an actual list whilst standing in the kitchen checking what's in my cupboards and fridge/freezer rather than a mental checklist etc etc it DOES take some adjustment and your time between may be different than mine because it's just my daughter and myself here, however if you're shopping less and less often that can only be a savings no matter what the time gap is

GreyQueen

I remember reading years ago that people will make a lot of other economies before they ecomomise on food, as changing the type and quantities of your food is a very noticable and makes you feel poor.

I certainly find myself looking at increasing price hikes and there is this internal voice, saying "How much?!" It's like I'm suddenly decades older than my actual age. My Mum always had the attitude to silly price hikes on regularly-bought items is that you should aim to leave them on the shelves until the prices come back down again as "You'll only encourage them." She's playing her Sainsbugs at their own game and either stocking up on certain items or leaving them alone.

I manage quite nicely as I have a lot of practice and, being a single houeholder, only have myself to please and the time to fossick around for bargains. Also, I don't mind eating versions of the same big pot thingy until it's gone.

I'm pleased that I socked in a lot of soda crystals and a few other non-perishable bits when they were cheaper, missed a trick with a few other items (kicking myself over those) and just think that the days of sleep-walking around the supermarket, shopping on whim without thinking how it'll all fit together are on their way into the great dustbin of history.

I suppose it's a return to the art of housewifery (whether you are a lady or a gent) and getting back to basics with some OS skills.

ubamother

GreyQueen wrote: »

My Mum always had the attitude to silly price hikes on regularly-bought items is that you should aim to leave them on the shelves until the prices come back down again as "You'll only encourage them."

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That really made me laugh - treating supermarkets as naughty children - brilliant.

VfM4meplse

mardatha wrote: »

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Then you start seeing children with rickets and malnutrition and impetigo. Been there and never thought we'd be going back again !!

Impetigo is unrelated to nutritional staus, you could argue that it is a hygiene isssue but kids do naturallly like to explore new things, crawl over each other etc so transmission can be rife amongst little 'uns. Luckily it looks far worse than it actually is, and is easily treated.

mardatha

When I was at primary everybody had it, now you never see it. I suppose good nutrition has a part in it somewhere

mrswive

DH raises his eyebrows and laughs at me when I go round Mr T's saying, "OMG, I can't believe how much that's gone up!" The eyebrows are certainly getting a lot of exercise atm I can tell you!
The latest - I bought a pack of creamed coconut sachets last week and paid 65p, the very next day they were 99p and yesterday £1.09:eek:, that's over 69%!!!!
And what's happened to the price of value stuff? Now a lot of us have gone down a few levels and are buying value stuff, the prices of those items have increased hugely, as several posters have mentioned before.:mad::mad:

the_cat

Gigervamp wrote: »

The reserve price is £300 a year, so they'll be getting a yearly income from them.

Crikey, you could buy a lot of vegetables in the shops for that!!!!

Surely at that price, plus seeds, compost, fertiliser etc etc it would be just as cheap to buy the veg. I realise that there are many other reasons to enjoy growing your own, but pricing it like this makes it an expense and a hobby rather than a way of keeping your costs down, doesn't it?

anguk

Gigervamp wrote: »

Well, it says:


So I don't think that property developers will get a look in.

Interesting though that these are *luxury* allotments and bigger than normal allotments.

It sounds like a money making scheme by the council. Why give a lot of people space to grow their own when you can sell the same amount of space to fewer people for loads more money?

It seems quite unfair to me. I would think that the people who are in most need of an allotment are those who have little money and they are the very people who would struggle to get in a bidding war on Ebay.

I notice that 50% are allocated to people on a priority waiting list but what about other people who may have waited years on the list? They may lose out to someone who hasn't been on the list but has more money to bid.

Why not just make them normal sized allotments and give them fairly to people on the waiting list like most councils do? Like you I suspect it's a money making exercise.

bargainhunterss

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

The Aldi and lidl seeds seemed to be about the same price as last year,plus netto are also cheap-don't think I paid more than 50p for any seeds-look out soon as shops start selling off seeds that you can save for next year
ali x

I managed to get 4 packs of seeds for £1 in the works at the weekend. Admittedly mostly flowers etc, but there were a few herbs in there as well.

ps. i was in the derby westfield store so im not sure about other ones as i know their stock can vary.