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

Yes - peppers! I noticed the other week I was paying over £1 for a single pepper (weighed in supermarket on scan and go). And now I've noticed it a lot since then. I don't usually want 3 so multipacks don't save me anything!

Probably right. You can buy tiny pots of cosmetic cram from other sites like Temu. They are more like samples.

Was that Heinz? You'd be much better off buying M&S soup - about 65p a tin and doesn't contain the muck which Heinz has. Baxter's is also a better bet.

Chocolate seems so expensive now! I often buy the packs of four like four Kit Kat chunkys, four double deckers etc and they were always a pound, but the last couple of years they’re now around £1.80, almost double. And a bar of Galaxy that would sheets be a pound is about £2.25 now!
Also peppers…. they always used to be 95p for a pack of three, now about £1.90.

Eggs, soup, chocolate, all more expensive. Thinking of making my nephews Easter eggs this year.

Chocolate is expensive in New Zealand atm. Don't exactly know why, but probably going to get worse. Easter eggs are twice what they were last year. I'm thinking they actually wont sell many this year and end up having to give them away at half price.

I have started using online cards for overseas friends and family - added joy in knowing they get delivered. Friend in NZ still waiting for last year's birthday card.

Yes... It's outrageous! Sure it was about 80p last time i looked!

My DH asked if I was making my usual mini egg things (nests, cake etc decorated with mini eggs) for Easter. Defo can’t afford to do the cake!

The Co-Op sells rump steak for £3.90, so I buy from there occasionally. It is pretty good.

I always used to get the three of us a large Easter Egg each, up to a couple of years ago they were around £8.00 - £10 each, but often on an offer if I bought 2, so it would generally be £25 or less.

3 large eggs this year are £15 - £17 each.

We have three smaller ones this year.

We go own brand but for tomato soup it's got to be Heinz unfortunately (unless anyone can recommend one that tastes the same!)

@NobodysChildNow thanks for the good advice, I have got a short variety of carrots so we don't need deep pots (most of it will have to be in pots) I'm going to just stick some normal potatoes that I've ignored to the point of sprouting into the ground, and see what happens. Also taking some seeds from a pepper and hoping they grow. We've been using recycling pots as seed trays. Do you use bird netting to protect things? Looking for a cheap way of doing that before daring to venture into blackcurrants/fruit canes.

I get my soup at Lidl and is about 70p maybe? Is nice tasting too.

Not so much the prices which are shockingly high… but in my little Sainsbury’s local all the chocolate is behind security shutter things!! What a sad world that needs security for chocolate…

DH used to work in sainsburys years ago and he said they will raise the price of something for a few weeks to then put it on nectar so you think you're getting a good deal when the reality is that it should be that price to begin with. They do it with the skyr yoghurt all the time. They have it marked up at £2.50 then put it on nectar for £1.25. Asda sell it for £1.52 all the time.

Lindt excellence dark chocolate £3.75! And Sainsbury's Stamford Street chocolate now 75p - I remember their basics (same) used to be 35p. At one stage the S Street was even more expensive but there were a lot of complaints. Also toilet paper, goes up every time I buy any.

£3.25 for a 500ml bottle of Tango from a vending machine - I cancelled the transaction!

I bought a whoosh from tesco the other day which in itself is more expensive obv as tesco express prices and then extra still for convinience.

When adding the drink to my meal deal I was offered a can of coca cola in 500ml size (assume a new item as we all know usually the bottles) but it was priced as 1.50 as club card offer price of normal price 2.50!

Who the hell would pay 2.50 for 500ml or cola, even coca cola, at a price higher more than a 2 litre bottle in some places, just because it happens to be in a can?

3.75 for a 500ml Diet Coke at WH Smith at Waterloo Station. I put it back

But they are about an inch long. I'd rather have a three pack. But yes, multipacks are the way to go per 100g.

Nuts, especially pistachios!
With most of these price hikes it means that buying luxury or ethical brands is still more expensive but the difference has decreased.
It can only get worse on imported raw materials like chocolate or nuts as fuel prices go up with the current unrest.

I went into a local newsagent's this morning for a can of Monster and fainted at the price - £2.99 for one! I know they have to make a profit as they're independent, small and not part of a well-known chain, but I thought sod that, went into Spar and got a box of 4 for £5.25!

Also, something I seldom eat is chocolate bars, but I had an urge for a single Snickers bar, but not at £1.45, and they're basically only half the size of the original, so I grabbed a pack of 4 for £3.39. Those and the Monsters, being multi-packs, will last me a couple of months!

I think this is what should have been addressed rather than the sugar tax.
It shouldn’t be cheaper to buy a multipack of crisps, big bottle of fizzy drink or bars of chocolate.

If she lived in the UK under Royal mail she probably wouldn't get it for several weeks even if it was posted in the next town. happened to me but whole new thread, as you were peeps...