To ask the most insanely priced supermarket item you’ve seen lately? Bet you can’t beat this

Legs of Lamb, £35 in Asda. I love Lamb as well but wait until it goes on offer because that is prohibitively expensive.

I am genuinely curious with what happens to all of them at this price-I appreciate some people can afford this and will buy, but our area isn't particularly affluent and there are usually piles of them-but I never see them yellow stickered.

Small tins of heinz baked beans £1 20, so almost £5 for the usual pack of 4. It was Tesco. Lidls were 4 for £2. 80.

Where we live most supermarket food is cheaper than in the UK, now we’re vegetarians so I don’t know how meat compares, when my mum stayed recently a small sirloin steak was almost £15 and one small salmon fillet was £9.50, I thought that seemed quite expensive and that was at lidl.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 26/09/2024 21:03

£7.50 for a tub of Lurpak.

Laldi has Nordpak, which is apparently indistinguishable and about half the price. ... In fact, Aldi has it at £2.09 for 500g.

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-nordpak-spreadable-slightly-salted-500g/4088600041445

Danpak in Lidl, similar price.

https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/food-drink/tried-waitrose-co-op-lidl-8509966

Slightly odd one but have you ever tried to buy paint in S France? It’s so weirdly expensive unless I’m looking in the wrong places?

Those pink squashy marshmallow yummy things.

Boil in the bag seems the most apt 🤣

Before long, we will all be on bread and pull it.

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In August 2024, the Bank of England reduced the interest rate for the first time since August 2023. The Bank's main goal is to keep inflation close to 2%, and inflation has fallen sharply since its peak. However, the Bank will continue to monitor the economy and make decisions on interest rates every six weeks.

I too think it expensive. They are, however washable and reusable two or three times and should last longer, so long as you demonstrate to the rest of the family.

I have recently rediscovered Poundstretcher. 4 packs of Cadbury bars £1.40 there vs £1.75 in Morrisons. Also their cleaning products much cheaper than Morrisons. No olive oil and butter there though!

Isn't it the marshmallow twist beloved of young children 😁i also remember them being 10p when my children were younger

Where is that, I bought a jar today in Aldi, I'm pretty sure it's less than £2

Eta googled to check only £1.59

I know this was a while ago but just noticed it pop back up, I have been that butter weekly for I don't know how long and it's always in stock in my local large Tesco. I shop in person so maybe that makes a difference. Also always in stock in Aldi for the same price

What on earth is a 'sodding Flump' ? I've never heard of that. I suppose I could google.

I wouldn't even know how to cook that. Saute? Deep fry? Boil in bag?

😉😆

I wonder why I am feeling a tad gaggy all of a sudden? 🤔😳😷

Yep, and here was me at the other end of the scale being mightily peeved off and shocked that a sodding Flump was 40p in a shop the other day... they were only 10p a couple of years ago, used to get them for the Trick treaters at Halloween

At our Tesco Lurpak 200g is £1.90 currently. So £9.50/kg, which seems a lot but is a bit better. It’s cheaper in other places. Aldi is £1.79/250 and Morrisons is too.
It’s one of the things I was looking at recently as will be buying ingredients for Christmas cakes soon, which we make about 10 of for family/friends
Weirdly some things haven’t gone up at all. You can still get the cheap sultanas for 95p/500g in Tesco. On the other hand sugar was about £4/kg and I’m sure it used to be more like 3 and ground almonds/marzipan are significantly more.

I agree, the only way that my DD could get a pay rise over the last year was to leave a job she liked and take a new job. In her old workplace only the managers got even a cost of living increase. As a single parent she says she simply couldn't manage on the old salary. I'm not sure if the statistics on pay rises take job moves into account? My DIL also moved this year for the same reason.

So much at the supermarket is ridiculously expensive, we don't use much kitchen roll but like the good thick ones and these are around £2.50 each now.

a small jar of sun dried tomatoes £5.90

Blu-Tack!! Bloody that surprised me today! I don’t usually buy it so can’t really say if it’s gone up but it’s definitely more expensive that I thought!

I was also thinking about this thread earlier and I used to love Morrisons when I lived up north, there were loads. But now I’m in the east there don’t seem to be many around? The closest one to me is an hour away

Bit niche but last time I looked these were £2 - now £3.45 in Sainsbury's! Most supermarkets sell an own brand version - currently £2.65 in Morrisons. (Obviously this is only an issue for those of us without our own army of pudding chefs - if it doesn't affect you do please feel free to just throw another public-sector worker on the wood burner and scroll past.)
"Sainsbury's Free From Chocolate Cake Bars x4 | Sainsbury's" www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-deliciously-free-from-chocolate-cake-bars-120g

Yes I like Sainsbury's too but its not local for me. Take your point on environment issues but I was responding to the fruit and veg standards. Swings and roundabouts.

Olive Oil and non supermarket brand coffee has gone up considerably lately.

Co-Op is the worst supermarket by far now, especially as it has adopted that two tier pricing shit now. Poor quality, high prices - someone tell them that's the wrong way round. I hate any supermarket with two tier pricing as it is obvious they just massively inflate the price of non membership holders and it isn't really cheap at all. I shop in Aldi and Asda and it's much better without it. When I shopped at Tesco recently on holiday it was about £30 dearer and the quality was worse! I wasn't expecting that at all.