What have you stopped buying due to a price increase?

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?? Don't buy as many eggs as we normally did or chicken...

canned soup, essentials biscuits

Things like this puzzle me.

It's cheaper if you are saving money to make your own.

It puzzles you? Come on Sherlock, you can riddle this one out. Why would any one buy biscuits and canned soup when they could spend their free time in the kitchen making these things? It'll come to you.

@JinglingHellsBells Yep. Which "news"paper d'you reckon is behind it, the Heil or the Excess?!

You do have to wonder what they teach them on these pricey journalism courses these days....

@theoldhasgone This is a thread where posters are saying how to save money and how they have changed their shopping habits.

I don't see anything wrong in suggesting someone grates cheese or buys a block rather than buying processed (and expensive) sliced cheese.

I'm sure that poster can come back and stand up for herself rather than you wading in to judge someone else!

Sorry, wrong end of stick here. 😬

My car has gone, so all those costs are saved. The downside being, of course, that I have no transport at all. It was the last thing I could cut back on - I have no TV, don't go out, drink or smoke, all luxuries had already been axed.

Well personally I'm happy for journalists to write about this thread if it wakes people up to how many people are struggling, how even people on 'good' incomes are scaling back to absolute necessities

Well, they prefer to spend their free time telling posters on a forum how they only have time(according to you!) to buy biscuits and soup😂

I didn't know that you were in charge of the thread. Moaning at OP for not posting enough, moaning at another poster for posting... sorry we aren't all creating your ideal thread

Doubt it with fuel costs.
30p for a pack of biscuits, by the time you’ve bought the ingredients, cooked them in the oven and used hot water to wash up.

Tried to pm without success. 🙁

Im buying less meat, less take aways, not eating out 😕

Buying more 2nd hand clothes than new.

Possibly not considering the price of the raw ingredients plus cooking costs etc

We don't all have time to cook everything from scratch either

@JinglingHellsBells

Im sure threads are started, ( by those associated with MN?) - just for the advertising revenue. Topical subjects, no return from the OP.

Baby name threads are often similar…

@skybluee

What exactly DO you spend money on ??

I agree you can’t make any cuts to your spending if you’re not actually spending anything

Son a year ingredient prices gave gone up loads, plus the transport costs!

Is this going to be a catch 22 situation 😔 Where the less we buy because we simply cannot afford it or justify its price hike, the more it will go up to make up for less sales on it?

@JinglingHellsBells

i buy sliced cheese cos I’m lazy and can’t be arsed to hack into a block of cheese. I’d rather be doing other stuff. Ditto making my own soup or biscuits.

I go to gym everyday and will prioritise that over making everything from scratch. I would not have time for daily gym If I did that

Heinze raviloli 1.63 a tin. The other brands just don't taste the same.

Well done/said @carefullycourageous We have our own happy hens, so no change with eggs.
Just cancelled Netflix
stopped buying organic (which really pains me)
We don’t eat meat or drink alcohol, so can’t save money there
I’m toying with cancelling my Labour Party Member membership. I have the retired rate though, so it’s only £2.50 per month

Doubt it with fuel costs.
30p for a pack of biscuits, by the time you’ve bought the ingredients, cooked them in the oven and used hot water to wash up.

Exactly this.
And soup may be cheap if you can make large batches and have an excess of veg. But I don’t have the freezer space for 6 tubs of carrot and coriander and nor do I want to eat it everyday. A tin the cupboard lasts years and I can get different flavours that don’t rely on me having to buy a volume of veg or having beans/ cream/spices/stock in.

I've stopped travelling into work (was hybrid). I save £15 per day by not doing that.

It's crap because I live alone and would prefer to be in with collegues, but it seems like a waste when I can do my job just as well from home.

I've seen a couple of people mention Aldi coffee. Is this instant coffee or cafetiere type coffee? I'm looking to get away from my cafetiere habit but don't really like instant coffee. Also it has to be decaff as per my username 😂 yes I'm fussy! If anyone has any pics.or links of what to look for in Aldi that would be great thanks

Cut back on anything processed or of low nutritional value. Only buying food worth the money so mostly basics, lots of fruit and veg, eggs are still relatively cheap and of high nutritional value so not cutting those! Making contacts to exchange labour for local food, surplus from farm, allotments, eating in season and whatever we can get.

(also I secretly think soup is a bit rubbish and I also have to have thick crusty bread and butter and cheese with it to make it more appealing, all of which are now hideously expensive)