Trying really hard to OS but the prices keep going up

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

melie3 wrote: »

hi all,
im sure im not the only one, but im fed up with the nearly weekly price rises in the shops. im on a v v tight budget, and notice quite a few of my ordinary buys have increased overnight by 30-40p. I regularly buy 'clover' spread. the 1kg has increased from 2.67 to 2.97 overnight. anyone know of an alternative cheaper i can use to make cakes (except stork as dont like taste). read on side of the 'own brand' spreads but doesnt say you can bake with them only shallow fry.
im just peeved that everythings going up, not by a few pence. whens it going to stop eh?
to be honest, i never took much notice a few months ago at prices, they may have increased at the same rate for all i know, i spend so much longer shopping, as i go to tesco, asda and sainsburys to get the best deals. just trying to look after my pennies as best i can.

melie[/quote

When I married in the very early seventies,the same thing happened.It's nothing new unfortunatly.I don't want to get political either,but it happened during the final throes of a labour governement then as well.Every day you would go to the shops and I mean every day and prices would have gone up.They never did come down,so I would'nt expect them to drop at any point they just become stable.I seem to remember my shopping bill for food doubled within about 6 months.

mioliere

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.

taplady

We dont live within 10 miles of one of the major supermarkets unfortunately so it always means a journey - using valuable petrol, I havent tried a Tesco home delivery as I like to be able to see what I'm buying but am seriously thinking bout it to stop DH impulse buying!:rolleyes:

We have a tesco 10 miles away, Morrisons 10 miles away and Aldi 10 miles away. Asda is about 15 miles away but is my favourite - we go there if we have been carbooting and dont make a special journey.

This month I am religiously writing everything down to see just how much we have spent and I reckon that by the end of the month it will be about £300:eek: that is for 3 adults in the week and 4 at weekends - I also buy some bits for DS1 who lodges away from home.

we use a lot of value stuff already so its going to be hard to cut down even more but I will have to !

metherer

I suspect we may get more visitors to the OS forum, as people realise they have to change the way they shop, cook, and eat.

Metherer

mummysaver

My biggest bugbear at the mo is the price of pasta, like bargainrizl and sammy kaye, how much has it gone up! Home made pasta is great, but it isn't a quick meal. Rice doesn't seem to have gone up in Tesco, well not the stuff I buy anyway. But butter/marg, cheese, wheat based products, ha! I now buy cheese that is on offer, so long as it is strong, we get through loads here, but Asda or Tesco usually have an offer so it's about £2 for 400g block, and stock up on whichever marg is on offer.

I do go to different shops, but only when I'm passing usually - I work in Mr T's so that doesn't need a special trip, Asda I do make a special trip to - they're the cheapest place for kids school socks too, and we seem to lose a lot of those! I often park in Lidl's car park when i pop into the local town, so going in there makes up for all the free parking I use, plus the veg offers are always good, and the potato salad is really nice!

Occasionally I go via Aldi or Morrisons (their ethnic section is good, chickpeas are 29p in it, much cheaper than on the bean and veg shelf. They also do a big pack of poppadoms for about £1.00)or Somerfield, but to answer the original poster I do feel like I spend a lot of time looking for the cheapest stuff, but it sort of becomes second nature just to whizz into the shop as I'm passing and quickly check out the offers.

I still wish we had a decent market nearby, but we seem to only have ones that sell olives and meat reared by virgins and tucked up every night, the one that is regular doesn't have very good veg, it seems to die before it's even got home! I miss our old Sunday market where for £5 you could get more than it was possible to carry!

Chuzzle

Hi

I thought it was just me overspending on groceries by buying stuff we didn't really need, too many "there's nothing in the house I fancy for tea" trips to the shops!! Now I feel slightly better knowing that it is something that is out of my control - not nice at all really when I re-read that bit!!

I've got tomorrow off and yesterday was pay day so I'm going to test out our Friday market and see what the prices are like. I have a smallish Tesco, HUGE Morrisons and very small Somerfield within 10 mins walk of my house and you can see each supermarket from its competitors car park!!

sb44

Well I had a shock this week when I got our Working Tax Credit giro which had gone down by nearly £5 a week so now we only get £15.02, it was £19.75 last week.My husband hasn't noticed a major increase in his pay but it certainly has made a difference at my end.So with food prices on the increase we are going to have to budget even more.:(

Cornishpixie_2

Hi, I've had to adapt the way I look at things. I have become less fussy about what I eat. I spent less time getting shopping or going into town full stop. Quite refreshing to find other things to do. Near beach, musuem and park, plenty to do in the house on rainy days. My biggest problem seems to be hubby, in theroy I have plenty food in, well the staples anyway, but he thinks we have nothing in?! so off he goes shopping again:eek: Drives me mad, I make homemade cakes for the kids turn my back he's got 3 in his mouth. :mad: He is getting a bit better. Hey! Ho!

beckstrous

This is something I have been thinking a lot about recently, too.
OH and I have just signed up to a Riverford veg box. This will come fortnightly and we will also get fruit and salad delivered once a week. We roughly tried to work out how it would compare, price wise, to Tesco, and I think it would be about the same or even cheaper if you're comparing like for like (i.e. organic with organic). We didn't really do this to save money - it was because we are getting sick of the supermarket and the quality of the produce (quite often the fruit and veg is just tasteless).
I've noticed some quite sneaky things going on in Tesco, though. We use quite a lot of spices and I have noticed that things like coriander seeds and fennel seeds are no longer available in Tesco's ordinary spice range (they used to be) but have moved to the fancy 'ingredients' range and are more expensive for the same thing. I was in a local deli at the weekend and found that they were selling spices in bigger packets (but not enormous packets, just slightly larger jars) which were cheaper than Mr T's for lots of things. I also went to a Thai supermarket the other week and got some lemongrass, later finding out that the same thing in Tesco was nearly twice the price. We also bought a shoulder of lamb from the butcher. It was £11 and we had got a rolled shoulder (slightly smaller, so not a brilliant comparison) from Sainsburys for about £7. We got a whopping 8 portions of meat and 5 portions of soup from this shoulder so it just goes to show you that maybe the supermarkets aren't always the cheapest (I wouldn't have been able to make soup from the rolled shoulder as there was obviously no bone!).
Where I work we keep getting below inflation pay rises so I do worry where all this will end up. It is effectively like getting a pay cut I guess.

Skint_Catt

I think companies should eb forced to give rate of inflation pay rises. We get *** all at our place - the only way to up your salary is to get another job, so effectively we're taking a pay cut every year as we can't keep up with the cost of things :mad: