Examples of surprising prices

London_1

Pixie_Cosmo said:

Not surprising really, but my favourite winter lunch - Heinz Lentil Soup - is now around £1 tin, rather than 8 for £5 or whatever the offers were last year. So now I'm making my own lentil and carrot soup which is a fraction of the price. 

I agree the price of soup is getting really daft. Apart from the cost ,making your own is also of benifit to the enviroment as you are not needing to trwo away tins etc.I have beenmakingmyown for years and know I can as a rull make a fairly large pot of HM soup from exhausted and past their best veg I buy the veg ,usually yellow stickered if I can or at least wonky any left over stuff past its best in the fridge or veg box gets used up this way.

A decent potful made as a rule on a Sunday morning will do me at least 4-5 servings for lunch or for a soup and sweet supper duiring the week.
A kilo of carrots will make a decent amount with carrots left over to use as side veg as well. Sometime if I see a big box of reduced mushrooms looking a bit bashed about I don't see damaged veg I see a large vat of mushroom soup which with some crutons or bread and butter make a filling lunch time meal.If I have made a lot then I can freeze some in zip lock bags for another day 
I definitely wouldn't pay a pound for a tin of soup thats for sure  

JackieO xx

maryb

butter in my local M&S today was £1.99 or £3.80 for a 500g pack.  Lidl has put the price of butter up to £2.15 for 250g. So Marks is still cheaper 

joedenise

Morrisons is cheaper - they've got their own brand at £1.89 at the moment - no idea how much longer for.  No doubt it will be going up soon to £2.15+ same as most other places.  

Slinky

Pixie_Cosmo said:

Not surprising really, but my favourite winter lunch - Heinz Lentil Soup - is now around £1 tin, rather than 8 for £5 or whatever the offers were last year. So now I'm making my own lentil and carrot soup which is a fraction of the price. 

I make lentil and bacon soup regularly. I have a small stock of tinned soup for the store cupboard for occasional days when I'm too busy to cook.  OH would buy Heinz if I let him. I've had their lentil soup and it's not a patch on my home-made!

millie

fatbelly said:

I checked today that Farm Foods are still doing 2 x 250g butter (salted/unsalted) for £3.20.


I already have a load in the freezer

I noticed last time I bought Farmfoods  butter is only 227g not the 250g that is sold elsewhere. Still cheaper than the others but not as good as it appears to be at first glance

YorksLass

Couldn't agree more about the price of tinned soup when hm is so much tastier and cheaper (even allowing for the cost of gas/elec), uses up wonky or past its best veg rather than wasting it and there are no tins to recycle.  Freezes well too.

One of the top brands (Heinz) is currently priced at £4.40 for 4 x 400g at the Co-op.  They have an "offer" of x 3 (same size tin) for £3.50 - my maths makes this dearer per tin!  Same size tin at Sainsburys is £1.10 each (normally £1.40) or £3.50 for 4.  For those prices I can make a vat of the stuff cheaper.

Pixie_Cosmo

YorksLass said:

Couldn't agree more about the price of tinned soup when hm is so much tastier and cheaper (even allowing for the cost of gas/elec), uses up wonky or past its best veg rather than wasting it and there are no tins to recycle.  Freezes well too.

One of the top brands (Heinz) is currently priced at £4.40 for 4 x 400g at the Co-op.  They have an "offer" of x 3 (same size tin) for £3.50 - my maths makes this dearer per tin!  Same size tin at Sainsburys is £1.10 each (normally £1.40) or £3.50 for 4.  For those prices I can make a vat of the stuff cheaper.

I usually had a nice variety of soups for work, the Morrizzonz own soups were nice too. I don't have much freezer space to have a variety of hm soup sadly. But yeah, can make a lot of vats of lentil'n'something for £4!! I do like a proper bowlful and it fills me up.

I like JackieO's plan of soup and a pud as an evening meal so might try that. I can't normally manage a pud as well as a meal, much as I'd like to! 

JIL

M&s do really good tinned soup and much cheaper than Heinz.
Much prefer their tomato, if ever I use a tin.

Longwalker

Ye gods, Ive enough tinned soup in this house to sink a battle ship, mother keeps buying it, convinced I eat it ( I take tinned tomato if poorly ). Years shes been buying it , I take maybe 2 cans a year? lol

Im another HM soup person. For Mr L's lunch this week, a huge pot of chicken broth, bag of soup veg - leeks, carrots, parsley and soup celery and a mugful of dried soup mix, 2 chicken thighs, couple or 3 litres of water, spoonful of stock powder,  PC for 20 mins. Thick enough to stick to the ribs Probably about £2.50 for a big bowl full for week - 50p a day

Coffeekup

I agree with the last few posts about soup. So much tastier when made at home, tweak the flavours to your taste, thick or thin and as chunky as you like.

I made tomato soup for years after watching a well known TV chef make it, I loved it recipe and how fresh and tasty it was compared with tinned.
I was round somebody's house once and they offered me tomato soup, I said yes (thinking it was home made) when they gave me it I struggled to get it past my gullet, it was not to my palate at all. The smell of the it had an perfumed aroma to it, I can still smell to this day.