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

JIL

YoungBlueEyes said:

A tip to make butter last longer.  When making sandwiches only butter one slice of bread.  I doesn't taste any different.  I usually put a wee squigde of mayo/mustard/pickle on the other slice anyway. Unless you like it an inch thick on your toast like himself does, somewhat negates the saving but still!

I can't remember where I got that from, but I've been doing it for years.  You really can't tell.

Apparently the reason we butter bread is to create a layer of protection on the bread from the filling. To stop the bread going soggy if eaten later. 

My father in law also loves a big layer of butter, he even puts it on biscuits and butters both sides of his toast.

arnoldy

TheAble said:

I don't really get the Lurpak spreadable fervour that people have. It's pleasant enough but only 64% butter. Why not just buy 100% butter (eg Tesco or Sainsburys) at the standard price of £3.50/500g? You don't really even need a spreadable version in this warm weather.

Cleaver marketing by Arla foods. They have got you to pay for 1/3 water/cheap vegetable oil!

Buy butter, a butter dish, and leave on the side of the kitchen, perfectly spreadable.

Katiehound

Went to buy a tray (12 tins) of original Chappie for my old hound from the local pet shop which was the cheapest place to buy it in June.
She said: 'Do you really want a tray? There's been a price rise'
Me: Alright tell me.
She: You don't want to know!

No indeed
In June tins were 65 pence each
Now £1.25- nearly 100% price rise.
In June I paid £6 something for 12 tins, this week £7 something for just 6 tins

Luckily it is only an add -on , not the main food. She can have one tin a week and the rest in tinned sardines!

made by Mars. seems other animal food- Whiskas & one other have zoomed in price.

JinJinBlue

Today, whilst shopping,  I thought that I'd treat myself to an Asda Meal Deal. They used to be £3.00. Then  the price increased to £3.50.  OK, I know it's cheaper to pack my own  but as I said, it was a treat. When I got to the checkout, the price was £4. 25. I queried it and was told that I'd got the cheapest item free. That's a heck of a price  jump. I know that in comparison to many things that's still relatively cheap but I didn't pay it. I gave it back and walked away. The man on the checkout was a bit put out. I was polite and smiled when I  said that even with the cheapest item free,  £4.25 is more expensive  for two  items than the last price they  charged for a meal deal. Oh well,  I've learned my lesson. Next time I'm out for the day I'll take a packed lunch like I usually  do. 

London_1

I think with the food prices rocketing there will be an awful lot of food outlets closing down as people won't be able to afford to eat out as much. Where I live in Kent there are four small cafes plus a costa within the small shopping precinct our local Iceland has pulled out because the rents were just too high and now its only on the business park about a mile away.in the past two years Ive seen three banks close so there is only Nat West and I can't see that lasting. All the shops locally seem to be struggling and it will only get worse as the year goes on I think  

JackieO x

Blackandgold_2

Not only food outlets. We went looking for a new shower door yesterday and the place we always used to go to first had closed down without us realising. 
Luckily I remembered a place on a light industrial site not too far away and that was still up and running.

maisie_cat

I'm really haven't noticed increases that have a massive effect weekly affecting the things we buy, we mostly buy veg and wholefoods, not much ultra processed. 
I'd obviously noticed dairy products , the farmgate price increase amongst other things has slowly increased our Lidl UHT skimmed from 55p to 69p but we only use 3-4 a week so 56p. Butter has increased from 1.89 to 1.95, we use 2-3 packs a week depending on cooking.
Bread flour has obviously increased and in percentage terms by a lot, we buy 16kg bags and I last bought in May22 for 18.99, now it's 22.99. Although that's a "alarming" 21% it's actually 25p per 1kg loaf and we make one every 2-3 days. So again only 75p max per week. 
Chickpeas had gone up but have now dropped back down again, we eat them nearly every day as a main protein/carb source.
Things we buy lots of, onions, potatoes, carrots etc and tinned tomatoes, beans, tuna etc haven't been too bad and our treat Lidl pizza hasn't increased at all and I expected it would

Brambling

I was having a wander around my local Tesco Express this afternoon when I went in for milk and noticed that their Yorkshire Teabags were boxes of 210 and not  240 that they are I most places. I noticed last week in Waitrose they were reduced from £6 to £5 for a box of 240 they were £5+ for 210 in T express today.  I do like Yorkshire tea and only buy when I see on a good offer 

otb666

in asda the cheese was about the same price as the gravy granules both over  3.60  That seemed a lot just for gravy.  The tin of pilchard in tomato was 1.20 which i thought was quite cheap for fish.  I try to stick to veg for my diet as veg box seems to suffice.  My hubby takes a lot of filling with bread and meat which we afford at the moment but he could do with loosing weight so might have to suggest a diet for him to cut costs if prices go higher

MSE_James

I was a bit shocked to see a box of Jordans Country Crisp cereal priced at £4.15 in Sainsbury's Local

Main store prices still seem to be below £4 but still it's pretty steep.