Trying really hard to OS but the prices keep going up

sammy_kaye18

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

Unfortunately I'm not able to grow anything myself - I've got no outside space at all

sounds daft but are you in a flat - and how do your windows open? liek can you open them fully or enough to lean out of?

If so could you not place a few hanging baskets outside - you could then grow tumbling tom tomatoes adn a few salad leaves/chillies etc im sure if they had the light - i imagine you would be able to grow a fair bit in hanging baskets with a bit of ingenuity (? )

Cornishpixie_2

Sent hubby to Asda last night with shopping list. He was gone hours, anyway when he came back he said they had run out of flour:eek: . Shocking. Everyone must be baking then;)

skintscotslass

cupid_s wrote: »

I'm glad we've been allocated an allotment for this year. I cannot believe food price increases.

However I've noticed that the finest ranges don't seem to be increasing price as much. I only buy tesco finest butter with sea salt crystals. Costs £1.02 and has done for as many months as I can remember. But now the value butter is 85p! I'm sure I remember it being about 62p not long ago.

I've noticed this with a few other things - value things going up disproportionally to the standard and finest ranges. So yet again it's those on a low budget that really notice the difference.

Spot on cupid! I was in Somerfield yesterday (was passing so popped in to check out the reduced section). Value butter was 55p, increased to 85p and now 93p. Thats a big increase!

r.mac_2

i have been following the price rises in the shops recently and was relatively accepting of them but this week's shopping took the biscuit. I couldn't believe how much everything seems to have increased by...and as others have pointed out it's the basics, thus effecting packed foods and processed foods too.

It made me re-assess what I have been buying. I am already fairly os, but there are some luxuries in our shop, but this week I found myself doing martin's down-a-brand- challenge in many areas. I swapped organic eggs for own brand free-range and own brand porridge oats for value etc etc. But even the value or own brand ranges that i buy already ahve increased. For example Mr T's value butter used to be 53p this time last year, now it is 89p. That is quite a jump!

Hopefully the good thing to come out of the rises is that we will waste less and be more resourceful. My main concern though is that I feel I am lucky. we have a good income as OS is something I actually enjoy. I am worried about people who are in poverty or on a low income already - how are they going to cope????

To top it all I watched an inconvenient truth last night. Now I know that it is biast towards Al Gore (the political bits, not the science bits), but I was really really really shocked.

ceridwen

Hi

well....one step on from shocking by Al Gore is some of the stuff Sharon Astyk is writing about on her blog - I've given the link for her blog in the environmental blogs section on my latest posting on my blog (click for my home page to get to it).

Chickens coming home to roost is the phrase I have in mind (and not for the purposes of stuffing and baking them in the oven for dinner).

It is very scary what is happening now - though I am amongst those who feel we are "in with a chance" if we "fight" (metaphorically speaking) and "share the knowledge" (hence my blog so far - all of one week old so far - gives access to a huge range of information).

I am telling myself right now to be more a bit more "grateful" for the food I eat and that I think maybe a bit more leeway in the way we think about food is required (says me having just finished a pudding containing some banana from one I found lying in the road - well why not? It had a skin on - so waste not, want not).

Bargain_Rzl

unixgirl/sammykaye - Yes, I'm in a first floor flat. My windows are north-east facing. I have a living room window - this is a set of French doors which open onto nothing except a little Juliette balcony (i.e. it's just a barrier across the front of the doors to stop me falling out, it's not something I can step out onto). I also have a bedroom window which is a normal window with a sill.

It is against the terms of my lease to have anything on obvious display on the outside of the building, so the hanging baskets idea would not work (great idea though). I have been thinking, however, that if I can design something that could hang like a rack on the INSIDE of the balcony front (there is a space of several inches between it and the doors) I would probably get away with it as it wouldn't be too obvious from the outside. It should be sufficient for something, at least, but the design would take a bit of ingenuity

I have also been thinking I could grow herbs on the inside of the bedroom sill.

funkyfunkymonkey

mioliere wrote: »

MRS LITTLEMOUSE - talking about the seventies reminded me of the way things just seemed to rocket in price and, as you say, they never came back down again. I must admit, I had forgotten all about that time. It was then that I learned just how many meals you could make with mince and, also, in those days I could buy half a chicken or a cheap leg of mutton from the local butcher which would last for ages. Bacon hocks were another staple and my sister regrets that they don't sell pigs' trotters any more! In those days, there was very little in the way of convenience foods and lots of people still didn't have a fridge so we shopped every day.

They had pig's trotters at our local farmer's market this morning, it was the first time I have been to one, but I guess they would usually sell them here.

Perhaps you have a local farmer's market you could try?

FFM

shelley1977

hi,im not quite sure where to put this ive just found 1kg of utterly butterly for £1 on asda.co.uk.just wondered if i can freeze it? then i could buy extra while its cheap.

sammy_kaye18

shelley1977 wrote: »

hi,im not quite sure where to put this ive just found 1kg of utterly butterly for £1 on asda.co.uk.just wondered if i can freeze it? then i could buy extra while its cheap.

I have frozen utterly butterly before with no problem. So yeah id stock up on it if its something you will use - we use loads in our house - so i think a tirp to asda will be in order on monday!

Pipkin

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Morning all

I can't believe the price hikes going off -haven't really noticed it out here yet..in fact most basics here are very cheap (if you shop around)..everytime i speak to my mum back in the UK (every day ) i get tales of the latest price increases she has noticed.. Don't know if it has been mentioned on here yet but did anyone see the news yesterday saying that Walmart were rationing the amount of rice each person could buy? :eek: have to say that we don't use much rice..hubbies chilli and an occasional egg fried dish but thats it.

I am growing as much as i can this year -mainly in containers, troughs etc... have ended up with 85 varieties of seed -got a bit carried away (but some seeds are as little as 19c here -about 15 p):p and am probably going to run out of room for everything... but im determined to provide as much as i can -only grown my own once before -but on a much smaller scale -this time im trying all sorts -fingers crossed for some success
So far the plants i have started off indoors are doing really well..just can't wait to get them outside -so i can reclaim my windowsills -well so i can plant more
I really would say "give it a go" even if its mainly salad leaves, tomatoes etc that can be sooo expensive for the really nice ones in the supermarkets -

I live in Germany too Mrs Micawber

I noticed yesterday, on the weekly trip to Lidls, that some of the prices (butter, cream etc) had gone up.. but what they had done was put the prices up as being discounted from a much higher price than they ever were, and the now *discounted* price was slightly higher than it had been before.

Presumably when the *discount* ends these things will really shoot up.

Still cheaper than the UK though, I agree.. we move back there in the summer and I dread it from that perspective.