price of bread, butter, milk and eggs

free4440273

wheat prices are skyrocketing: inflation dead ahead.

Hardup_Hester

I've halved my milk order for next week, not that we use a lot, a pint a day, hubby takes milk in tea & coffee, the lodger used soya milk. So now I'm down to 3 pints a week, I'll water it down in a 1ltr jug. Butter we'll swap to value spread as I'm almost out of butter. My search for reduced items will intensify, but it makes it hard when the basics go up in price.

LindseyandMatthew

the co-op is £1.19 for 4 pints and tesco is £2 for 8 pints

kazmeister

I just went on to mysupermarket.co.uk to compare prices always being a Mr T shopper and was surpised to see that for 2 x 4pt milk, 1/2 lb value butter and 1 loaf oatmeal bread, that Tesco were the most expensive £4.33, with Asda £3.61 and Sainsbury £3.76 (altho Asda is 14 miles away). Think I'll check out Sains in future for basics

Hapless_2

pounds_and_pensive wrote: »

I ought to be more clued-up, but what is the farmer's 'set aside' rule? Thanks.

It's where the EU pay the farmers not to grow anything so to stop surplus. To get a single farm payment, farmers have to "set aside" (not use for food purposes) 10% of their land.
Then something like this happens and the EU realise that they don't have a clue about agriculture!

MrsTinks

For flour check local cheap shops if they stock food...
Mine has Be-Ro too (will be stocking up today!) and also things I can't find elsewhere like Ebly (at 25p a box no less!!!!!)

a66y31

I use to pay 89p for 4 pinter at local freezer shop ..but its gone upto £1.09...but today went to iceland £1 for 4 pinter skimmed

ashli_2

We use Flora Light for health reasons...I noticed only yesterday that it has gone up 20p for a 500g tub. :rolleyes:

denton6

LindseyandMatthew wrote: »

the co-op is £1.19 for 4 pints and tesco is £2 for 8 pints

hi co-op here price has just gone up to £1.48 was £1.29 the other week,thats for a 4 pint one.

sexymouse

I was apalled when I saw how much milk had increased the other day when I went to Mr T. At first I thought it was because I was at the petrol station, but when I went into the store, it was the same there.

However, I make it a habit to go to the reduced section whenever I'm in, and the other day, they had loads of their local milk 2 pints reduced to 31p, so I bought 4 and have put them in the freezer (8 pints for £1.24 as opposed to 4 for £1.34), and felt quite pleased with myself. If I'd had more room in the freezer, I would have bought more, but we were storing food for a neighbour whose freezer had broken down.

Went to Lidl yesterday and managed to get Utterly Butterly 500g on BOGOF (91p, so 45p each).

Am contemplating finding out how much milk at our local farmshop is, but it is a bit out of my way, and I only go there when we need more catfood (about once every 3 months).