Trying really hard to OS but the prices keep going up

Raspberry_Swirl

anguk wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned but yesterday I noticed in my local Tesco they've started giving you a stamp every time you spend £20 or more, when you've got 7 stamps you get a £10 gift card. Nice idea but I'd rather they just reduced the prices of the food!

it's something i suppose, though like you, i'd rather have the lower prices.

does anyone know if this is a national promotion? i haven't seen it advertised locally here?

wornoutmumoftwo

At the start of the month I brought white fish fillets (frozen) for 1.60 to make fish fingers, this week they are at 2.52ish:mad:

pavlovs_dog

we've gone back to aldi (cos its nearer than lidl) cos we are fed up with price hikes at the big four. when our tesco clubcard mailing arrives, we will make one shopping trip to use up our bonus points coupons, and get straight back to aldi.

i've also finally managed to get OH to realise that him chucking stuff in the trolley is costing us dear, because it throws whatever meal plan ive done out the window, so food goes to waste. this week we've stuck to the plan, which combined with shopping from the freezer/store cupboard meant that the shop was the right side of £20 for the 2 of us for longer than i care to remember!

my aim for the summer is to get into the habit of buying fruit and veg from the market in town (will be good exercise for us to carry it home!), and to keep up with the meal planning. i want us to be inn good shape, frugality wise, ready for when i start my PGCE in september.

angelavdavis

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

i've also finally managed to get OH to realise that him chucking stuff in the trolley is costing us dear, because it throws whatever meal plan ive done out the window, so food goes to waste. this week we've stuck to the plan, which combined with shopping from the freezer/store cupboard meant that the shop was the right side of £20 for the 2 of us for longer than i care to remember!

I had to stop OH from coming shopping with me!

ceridwen

anguk wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned but yesterday I noticed in my local Tesco they've started giving you a stamp every time you spend £20 or more, when you've got 7 stamps you get a £10 gift card. Nice idea but I'd rather they just reduced the prices of the food!

Quite agree! As a single person as well - and buying very little from Tesco with my way of eating...just how often am I going to spend £20 in one visit anyway?!!!

kazwookie

angelavdavis wrote: »

I had to stop OH from coming shopping with me!

I agree totally, I now go shopping at Friday lunchtimes, he is at work........:D

We are now working our way through the stuff he 'stuffed' in the trollies over the last few months, and I get a lot of 'oh I don't like this' my reply is well you put it in the trolly!!:rotfl:

galadriel

sb44 wrote: »

I have started to keep all of my receipts to check how the prices are increasing.

Tesco Easy Cook rice (small 500g bag) was 52p on the 11th April, today on their website it is 75p.

just had my Asda delivery, when I placed the order smartprice long grain rice was 44p for a kilo bag , today it was 95p - I can't believe it :eek:, Asda brand is £1.43 for a 1kg bag. Yet the brown is still 89p. This is where online shopping fails, had I been in store I would not have bought the white. I usually buy four white and two brown as my son prefers white. And they have sent me a tub of yoghurt with a sell by date of the 19th :mad:

overlykeensaver

just at thought, what with the price of oil going up again, it is likely that things are going to get even more expensive in the next few months (eeek).

If you can, it may be worth stocking up on dry/frozen goods that you always buy now, in preparation for a price rise.

I used to buy Sainsbury's white bread flour 48p/kg. This week it has gone up to 98p/kg! I wish I had bought 6 bags of the stuff last week!

skintas_2

whenis it gonna stop the prices goin up all the time, its just mad, i dont no anyone at the moment who has money. both my kids are back on packed lunches and im buying all the value and bogoffs goin

dubgirl

Hi, i have posted on this thread previously about a friend who has been struggling. She already buys value goods, but has repeatedly stated that even this is becoming difficult for her. Any suggestions on what she could do, as again yesterday she was talking to me about how some value items are getting beyond her reach!