Grocery Price Increases - What's the Biggest Hike You've Seen?

EssexHebridean

I buy the standard 75p/kg oats for routine use in baking etc (trying to recall the price history on those - pretty stable for a good while I think?) but prefer the more expensive organic ones in the paper bag (Al’s own - NOT the Fl@havans one’s beloved of Instagram influencers!) for porridge as they give a creamier porridge with more texture than the smaller oats. I think I paid £1.79 for the last bag of those I bought - which gives me a “per bowl” cost of 7p a serving. (If using the cheapy ones it would be 3p) Realistically if they went up past the 10p/serving level I’d probably switch back to the basic ones cheerfully enough. 

London_1

Paspatur said:

London_1 said:

cheerfulcat said:

https://youtu.be/WHDTP8P9SFI £1 a day.

This is the link to the £5.00 for 5 days 

JackieO xx

JackieO I would rather stick to some of your recipes than his
20 cheap sausages and way too many carbs on the same plate
Who eats rice and yellow split peas at the same meal?
Or baked potato and yellowsplit peas
Or long grain rice with fruit for breakfast?
He was left with vegetables but ate dumplings twice one day and sausage rolls twice made with cheap sausages
Yuk I would rather eek out fish, eggs, cheese and veg and his portion size would have fed me 3 or 4 times

I agree some of the things he ate would not be for me. I prefer porridge the way my late Mum made it , soaked overnight,
 1 cup of porridge to two cups of water, lid on and left on the cooker ready to cook in the morning. A good sprinkle of salt and maybe a little water if needed to 'loosen' it a bit then stand and stir and cook until ready to serve.Into a dish with a wee bit more salt sprinkled over it, then a spalsh of milk around the edges .Very yummy and extremely filling . I only ever use salt on porridge and never use it in cooking at all.

I have never tried split peas with a jacket spud maybe a bit too stodgy for me. The sausages I don't think I could eat as I have few luxuries in life ,but sausages and good ones ,along with decent ground coffee are my two 'treats'  
I buy Gloustershire old spot ones from my local Dobbies deli counter Locally produced from a farm less than five miles away and 97% pork and very filling. One or two at the most is akin to a full meal for me, they taste as sausges used to years ago  

My other treat is good ground coffee, and as my DD often goes out to see my grandson in the USA she will bring me back some. Jamaican blue is delicious, he lives in Manhattan, and like me is a coffee lover and has a coffee shop near to where he lives that sell the most delicious coffee . Living out in the depths of Kent, not too many decent coffee shops locally to me, so my supply usually comes to me from New York.  

Surfing YouTube for different recipes is interesting though.

 I have found a super lady called Chetna whom I have used a good few of her recipes from. She has one on there which is so simple to make and easy to follow .Her cauliflower, chickpea and potato curry is really lovely.

 I am a meat eater ( not a great deal, owing to prices at the moment ) but her recipe is for vegans and is really lovely. Not expensive ingrediants either .I have a full cupboard of spices and odds and ends, and most of it I can usually find in my cupboards .

The one thing I love about curries and chillis is you can make a really tasty meal without missing the meat at all. 

JackieO xx

PS were you one of the folk I passed on my Misers's Online cook book to ? Mind you its going back a few years now  

Paspatur

No I don't think that was me
Agree with decent sausages, I love my butchers pork sausages and have yet to find better
Tried an award winning butcher in Orkney, Jimmy's Farm and various other places but none have been as good as my butcher
Not cheap but I only eat 2 a week on Sunday
The other thing I will not compromise on is real block butter, the alternatives make me ill
And fish from a fish merchant never a supermarket
Other than that I am happy shopping in Aldi and Lidl

weenancyinAmerica

JackieO - have you considered updating your Miser's Online cook book? 

OrkneyStar

Paspatur said:

No I don't think that was me
Agree with decent sausages, I love my butchers pork sausages and have yet to find better
Tried an award winning butcher in Orkney, Jimmy's Farm and various other places but none have been as good as my butcher
Not cheap but I only eat 2 a week on Sunday
The other thing I will not compromise on is real block butter, the alternatives make me ill
And fish from a fish merchant never a supermarket
Other than that I am happy shopping in Aldi and Lidl

What Orkney ones did you try?
(I live in Orkney and have tried a few different ones).

annieb64

Are they the Brogdale sausages Jackie O? I got a tray of them today and a huge piece of pork for half price. Took ages to cut up but now have three joints and ten pork slices in the freezer. 

Every time I go to the supermarket something seems to have gone up.There was an interesting article I  the Telegraph online about more people starting to use lard and dripping again . My grandparents had a pig farm and about twice a year would have a pig killed which they shared with us. I can remember my grandma rendering down the bits of fat for dripping.

Paspatur

OrkneyStar said:

What Orkney ones did you try?
(I live in Orkney and have tried a few different ones).

The one in Stromness, my accommodation was there with no transport so never tried any in Kirkwall or anywhere else
I commuted to Orkney for 18 months, sometimes went home at weekends sometimes didn't
I got transport to work from work mates but food was the Coop or the butcher in Stromness or the local grocer?
Can't remember the name
The Coop closed and then reopened across the road during that time if I remember correctly

OrkneyStar

Paspatur said:

OrkneyStar said:

What Orkney ones did you try?
(I live in Orkney and have tried a few different ones).

The one in Stromness, my accommodation was there with no transport so never tried any in Kirkwall or anywhere else
I commuted to Orkney for 18 months, sometimes went home at weekends sometimes didn't
I got transport to work from work mates but food was the Coop or the butcher in Stromness or the local grocer?
Can't remember the name
The Coop closed and then reopened across the road during that time if I remember correctly

Ah right, I know the one, I get my sausages in Kirkwall.

candygirl

Auntycaz said:

In the Co op  lurpak spreadable 500gms now £5.20 was on offer for £3.25 last week.

It's £6 in Morrison's now 😳

mandy47

Lurpak spreadable 500g was £3.75 on Tuesday. Today£5.00   

SM own brand dog food gone up by £1

Another 10p on my choice of bread. Was 45p, not so gradual increase to 70p in a matter of a few weeks.