Family food shops...

mintymoneysaver

Just shopped at tesco online and my bill was £73, I'm not sure of the price of exact things but I'm sure the same stuff was costing about £68 not too long ago...

hilstep2000

Butter is awful! Value butter was 58p, now 85p!
Value flour used to be 15p for a 3kg bag, now it's 45p, for those of you who can remember old money, that's six bob!!!!!! Even the paper has goen up, the Mail is now 50p a day!!! No more weekday papers for me, weekends only.
I used to fill my car from a quarter of a tank for £20 now it costs me £26.

kazzymac_2

As I shop online you get used to ordering the same things. My thing at the moment with Tescos is the price of mushrooms! I used to buy them at 62p a few months ago and now they are 79p (although they did go back to 65p 2 weeks ago ). Its funny how things jump out at you from a whole shopping list! Anyway the upshot is that I just dont buy them now.

suki1964

Time to get the cook books out and look at cheaper cuts.

What with the price of diesel and the shortages of grains, our days of cheap food and gluttony are on their way out

flower7

The other half and I went shopping on Tuesday for our monthly shop and the bill had doubled! We hadn't brought anything we don't usually get and we hadn't even bought any extras like cds, dvds etc like we sometimes do because we noticed as we were going around the shop that prices on basic items were sky high. I worked out afterwards its cheaper to buy a pre packagaged chicken in bread crumps and a bag of frozen chips than it is to buy bread, beans and eggs for baked beans on toast etc.

jakesmummy_2

Thank god I have a farmfoods on my doorstep! I've always got my eyes peeled in the reduced sections for things i can stick in the freezer as well but theres not much getting away from the costs of the basics,ie bread,milk butter etc.

Strapped

And yet the "cost of living" pay increase we are being asked to accept where I work is 2.45%! (And they are introducing parking charges, which will actually mean a pay cut, but that's another story...)

I forsee a lot of lentil and other veggie dishes making a strong showing on my family's dinner plates.

Merlot

I too have noticed the huge increases in Tesco prices.

15 tesco value eggs were £1.15 then £1.25 and now £1.55.

Value butter - that just gone daft!

A loaf of bread - over a £1.00 for a decent one.

We may be paying higher prices but Tesco's are still making huge profits at our expense...."Every little helps", I thought that meant "Every little helps" the consumer not the retailer!

My OH paid £1.27 for diesel this morning, we live in the North of England....whats all that about then, last week it was £1.18. I was gonna say it will be a diet of bread and water, but even that is too expensive now.

mintymoneysaver

Strapped wrote: »

And yet the "cost of living" pay increase we are being asked to accept where I work is 2.45%! (And they are introducing parking charges, which will actually mean a pay cut, but that's another story...)

I forsee a lot of lentil and other veggie dishes making a strong showing on my family's dinner plates.

which is exactly why the teachers went on strike yesterday... but that's a different story...

bonnie_2

I noticed value fishfingers had gone from 25p to £1.57. My shop used to come in about £50 now it is nearer £80. I could cut out treats for the kids but i'm not. I've also gone back to eating junk food half the week it is cheaper once you have had the oven on at the increased cost of fuel.
Just look for the £1 deals in iceland.
You can't eat healthy at the cost and if battery chicks are banned look at the price of that skyrocketing. Tesco organic chicken is £11.