Items you no longer buy due to increase in price??

MrsShawToBe

Lynsey wrote: »

Try a carton of Aldi Quixo, I use this now and under 80p - sometimes on offer. I prefer it.

Lynsey

I second this... way nicer than bisto

Penny-Pincher!!

We rarely buy corned beef now but do buy in Poundland if they have it in. All branded cleaning items are also generally bought in poundland. OJ is bought only when on special as we don't like the concentrated stuff, but when on offer we buy and freeze. Don't buy instant coffee now and just buy beans for OH's machine and he's limited to a max of 4 cups daily. He's cut sugar too but thats bought in Poundland too. Only buy Yorkshire tea bags and buy only on offer, the same with Earl Grey.

Our fridge definitely looks bare towards the end of the week, but at least its all being utilised and used up.

We also eat more frozen vegetables (corn/peas/cabbage/broad beans) as so much cheaper than fresh and only buy in season or reduced fresh veg. Fruit is usually apples (value as long as crunchy) and bananas and we buy frozen berries (value) at £1.40 for 500g for porridge as one bag will do about 10 servings.

Butter is only bought on offer or value at the most. Branded biscuits are now basic digestives, rich tea and custard creams.

Beans are generally Aldi or Heinz if on good offer.

Salad cream and ketchup are Ocado essential at under £1 for a large upside down bottle and taste just as nice as Heinz.

Marmite has now been replaced with Vegemite from Poundland and we scrape it into a marmite jar. Sad I know!

Also been buying the value part bake baguettes for 38p for 2 long ones which make a nice change to bread with soup or a roll/ploughmans etc.

DD's BF loves spagbol, so have bought the cheap fresh mince at half the price and as long as you drain the fat, it tastes fine. All basic pasta. Basic herbs etc.

A._Badger

It's starting to look as if the corned beef packers have shot themselves in the hoof, doesn't it?

Add me to the list of refuseniks, too. Stupid price!

dawn1

corned beef and tinned salmon for me too

Living_proof

Flora - unless it is on a very special offer. I don't think I buy anything if I feel it is too expensive, or if it has gone up in price. No longer buy wine, hardly ever buy meat, no cake or biscuits. No cleaning products except bleach, have not bought a deodorant since I discovered the natural stone ones over a year ago (same one is still going strong!). No newspapers or magazines. Everything is carefully considered, either highly reduced or a loss-leader. I don't think there is anything branded I buy now, except perhaps Nicky toilet paper or a toothpaste, maybe. My shopping list is written during the course of the week and although I am guilty of the odd impulse buy, it will only be something like fruit or veg. which is a good price. I love grapes but will only buy when they are around £1. The same with pineapple. Everything has its optimum price, beyond which I will not pay. If only I could be the same with fuel!

dasophster

I've stopped buying orange juice and apple juice; even the 'value' ones are double what they were a few years ago, instead my boys drink any squash that doesn't have aspartame or anything really nasty in it; milk or water. I have also stopped buying tuna and salmon in a tin unless there is a really decent offer on. Bread, I tend to buy only in the actual store when yellow stickered except for twice recently as I had two codes for £30 off £90 at ocado. Meat I haven't bought any since early February, its just too pricey! :eek:

Pont

Corned beef, tinned salmon and tuna, I never did so don't miss. However, I did buy the breakfast cereal which is advertised by the lovely lady wearing red in various guises (in the hope that someday I would look a little like her!). But am not willing £2.80 a box in the dim and distant hope that one day my dream would be a reality!

As for 'mince' and such - I watched a programme once that showed what went into our 'value' minced beef - put me off for life! I therefore still spring for a joint of top/silverside (on offer of course) and mince up the offcuts for spag bol/cottage pie/chilli etc.

It's all a bit like wartime rationing albeit the rationing is because of increased costs that we can ill afford. The net result is that ultimately we will become healthier (evidence shows that wartime diets were the alltime healthiest) and chosier about what we buy. In my household we never now throw food in the bin anymore. It is all used now (soups, omelettes, stews etc) - a year or so ago it would have been binned without any question.

To add, I don't buy premium loo roll anymore - I had to suffer the tracing paper kind when I was a kid so my DDs can suffer 2 ply rather than the 3 ply quilted variety!

markwilkinson

Specifically for me/us we don't buy corned beef anymore, it's a silly price now for what it is, even though I do miss it! Tinned tuna in the form of tuna and pasta used to be a cheap meal, now consider it a bit of a treat! Only buy it when it's on offer in packs of 4 or something.

Generally, only buy anything except the very basics ( tins of tomatoes etc) if it's on offer, but then we do buy in bulk if that's the case and the expiry date is acceptable. I would say 95% of our meat is bought with a yellow sticker on it. Always keep an eye out for those yellow stickers, recently bought one of those fajita kits cheap, just because the box was slightly damaged, but not punctured.

Started trying a lot more of the basics ranges. We always bought basics/value etc tins of toms, kidney beans etc but now we are trying others too. Sainsbury Basics Rosay wine is very good for the money, but that has increased in price quite a bit too. Basics peanut butter is good, that went up in price but it's now dropped to 62p so is cheaper than lidl again.

Keep your eyes open for the bargains and buy in bulk when you can.

theoldcynic

Fish, I now buy pollock instead of cod and a lot of mackerel. I used to buy smoked mackerel with pepper on, and now get basics and flavour it myself.

The cheapest Tuna I can find is in A7di at under a pound. I am sure I got some tinned salmon from there the other week for under a pound and the only reason I did was because i thought it was unusually cheap.

The way I shop has totally changed. I now ignore the brand (unless I know from experience it is really unpalatable), and buy according to the cheapest price per kilo/pound including bogofs etc. I do find this quite a good way to be as it keeps our diet varied and interesting and accommodates our differing tastes/preferences. I also shop in a variety of shops for different things according to price. I find I now shop with a calculations going through my mind rather than with my rumbling tummy!

My freezer is usually more full with reduced stock, and I have become more adventurous in flavouring my own food and experimenting with cooking.

Coopdivi

I used to have oily fish once a week. Then the prices went up 40%.

Mackerel at my local market is now £4.34 per lb. That's more expensive than cod or plaice.

My favourite meat is oxtail but it's now £3 a lb. I know that doesn't sound much but two thirds of it is bone.

I very rarely buy cans of beer now. Anything decent is well over £5 for four tins. I now find it's cheaper to get drunk on wine.