£1.25 for a Wispa!! What grocery prices have given you a shock lately?

😂 no! Fair point!

On offer at boots currently for £2.50

i guess I do a version of couponing in a way. Basically I buy everything when it’s at its lowest price and stash stuff even if I don’t need it that week or month. Anything not perishable and it goes on shelving in my spare room - toothpaste, deo, toilet rolls, cleaning products, tins of food, marmite etc etc
Amazon deals, Quidco etc
superdrug have some really good deals on currently, lots of buy one get one half price. I saved £17 on my shop there the other day with discounts

MUA lumi tint has really good reviews, I’ve just picked one up to try

If meat is cheap it's factory-farmed. Welsh lamb is as free range as it gets.

oh no! is it being discontinued??

For me it's the price of 'drugstore' make up such as loreal, elf etc. It's ridiculous, skin tints for £15, concealers for a tenner. The only brands that are actually cheaper are MUA and Collection I think

I have spent the day at the JR in Oxford (pre planned appt) - my son wanted to spend his own money in the vending machine- £1.60 for a can of Vimto. I didn’t think that was too bad - until I went to buy myself a bottle of water- 500ml - £3.20.
needless to say I didn’t buy it, had a slurp of vimto until I got back to the car to drink my water I accidentally left behind!
in other news - 4 hours of parking at the hospital cost me £3.70 which I actually thought wasn’t too bad (I was also parked right next to the entrance!).
last year it was around £6 for the same amount of time!

@FOJN this is good intel 😁 sadly there is no Home Bargains near me, in the meantime my mum brings me a stash when she comes
to visit. I do keep a beady eye on Lidl, Aldi etc too. But the £6 headline rocked me to my core!

I bought some for £3.49 in Home Bargains yesterday, 75ml tube, pronamel.

Are toothpaste tubes getting smaller too?

I think Tesco used to be reasonable but in the last couple of years they have become outrageously expensive and the quality of their own brand is poor. Waitrose is expensive but much better value by comparison. I tend to shop at Aldi too.

I use napisan in my wash and last time I bought it it was £5 end of last year. Bought it a few weeks ago for £7.

Try clearing cookies and deleting history or signing in via another account, sometimes the fuckers track what you search and nudge the price up on sites like Amazon

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff - I just looked at Ponds cold cream and it's £32.06 for a 3 pack. Still ridiculous, but less than your £45. Maybe it changes daily?? Amazon do that.

I was checking into the Radisson at Manchester Airport a few weeks ago. They had a little stand by the reception selling snacks and a pack of McVities chocolate digestives was priced at £6.99!!! It wasn't even a full sized pack, more like a 3/4 sized. Shocked doesn't even come close.

Hairspray £5.50

Did this work?

Just asking because the last time I tried to melt Dairy Milk it wouldn't melt properly, went all grainy and weird. Assume due to the changed recipe/palm oil.

Supermarket cheap own brand worked fine though. And actually tastes better for the same reason!

You are shopping in the wrong places! Hummus is £1 a tub in Lidl, wagon wheels are £1 for 6 in Poundland

Toothpaste!! I use Sensodyne, 6 bloody quid for a tube!! Granted it’s the pronamel one but still! Same one is 2 Euro in the local supermarket in my parents country.

Aldi are doing a Christmas type cheap veg for Easter from Monday at 8p bag and legs of lamb are about £6 kg.

Tomato ketchup.
I moved from Heinz to Waitrose own brand which is just as nice and costs only £1.
I am trying to avoid American brands so this was an added bonus.

Also used to be able to get fish and chips for a family of four with a tenner! My mum used to send me on a Friday evening for them sometimes when I was about 8/9 so talking early 00s. You’d be lucky to get one set of fish and chips for a tenner now, just over 20 years on.

That’s just an airport though, DH paid €5 for a bottle of water in Dublin airport the other day…

My DC look at me like I have two heads when I say it but I used to take £1 to my corner shop and get a can of coke (50p), boost chocolate bar (40p) then 10p of penny sweets! I’m a millennial so not old.

I've made granola before and loved it, I'm on a bran flakes addiction just now 😂 with blueberries and cranberries. Now that you've posted that I might make granola for next week! Love it with yoghurt. Xx

To those saying first class stamps are expensive at £1.70, they are, but they’re going up to £1.80 on the 7th of April.

Bristol airport … large bags of Skittles are £5!

@Acutissima yes you defo need netting for berries! Pigeons ate every gooseberry overnight my first year, thought they were safe as so prickly with thorns and I saw the blackbirds jumping up to reach the raspberries. I got a kind of netting tent many years ago reduced at end of season for £5 but as the raspberries spread themselves needed more so last year just bought some cheap netting from temu and used canes and pegs to attach to the canes, seemed to work.

I'd recommend raspberries as they send out runners and new canes appear like magic, started off with three for £5 from asda (they'll be in soon) and they have spread to about 20 canes which i must have got 10kg of fruit off last year. Thornless blackberry grows itself too and the birds don't seem as keen on those😂