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...

Nothing yet, but I buy item brands anyways so I didn't really have the option to switch.

Nothing specifically but I am buying less overall ... which is probably a good thing ...definitely less alcohol .

Nothing specific but I'm cooking more thriftily in general and have shaved quite a bit off each week.

Less meat and more batch cooking now to freeze before price increases in October.

Lunchtime meal deals. Not paying £4 for a manky sandwich, crisps and can. I now buy ingredients and make my own sandwich and take crisps/drink from multipack. Probably less than half the price. Meal deal was only £3 a year ago - 33% price increase isn’t inflation, it’s profiteering!

Butter.

You’re not wrong about profiteering! The price jumps of some products percentage wise are not justifiable.

Pet insurance - never covered anything they needed
Grooming - from once a month to once every three months
Bakery items - Now do my own cakes, cookies, pies or do without
Large print books - only kind I can read with failing eyesight
Cancelled or non-renewed all newspaper and magazine subscriptions
Netflix subscription

I absolutely agree. They’re taking the piss.

Not specifics, but less shopping with Ocado online, more at Tesco/ Sainsbury and Lidl and buying own brand things more.

Using bike more to get around.

Buying 2nd hind school uniform thought not sure why I didn't do that anyway!

Holidays, more camping over the next few years.

Kettle chips. I could just about justify as a weekend treat at £1 a bag but not £2. We don’t have crisps now.

Coffees out, Pret sandwiches now take packed lunches for work. Extra treats unless on offer, switched to own brands and anything that is just ridiculously expensive like Lurpak I don't buy any more. Sometimes I have found buying stuff like coffee from Amazon is cheaper than in supermarkets.

Pet insurance!
Union membership
Anything organic.
Diet coke ...aldi own brand is fine.
Petrol, bike around now at weekends.
Gym membership, cancelled.
Yoga and zumba. Cancelled.

Bakery stuff. Make my own.
Cancelled all tickets / trips for rest of year, refunded or vouchers ...
Yeah it's tough

Here's our little contribution towards creating what might end up being the biggest recession in history:

• We've cut down our meat consumption even further.
• DH has started buying regular beers at £1 a tin, rather than hipster beers at £4 a tin.
• We barely go to the pub anymore - the lockdowns unfortunately put us out of the habit, having previously always been 'pub people'.
• We dont eat out much anymore. We used to get a takeaway or eat out once a week. When a meal out was approx £40 we didnt need to think about it. Now a meal out is £60, it rarely feels worth it. If we do eat out, its a lunch, not an evening meal, which is cheaper.
• I'm seeing my hairdresser about once every 12 weeks instead of 6.
• I've recently agreed that I will go into the office once a week instead of 3 times a week - £120 a month saved on train fare.
• We don't do day trips anymore. I know that sounds odd but, again, the lockdowns taught us that we're happy pottering around at home and in our local town and don't need to fill our time in that way. With a day trip, by the time you've paid to park, got a coffee, had an ice cream and bought lunch, you've spent £50.

To all of you cancelling pet insurance please shop around and reconsider- highly recommend Admiral and have had a 10k bill paid this year. It’s a hell of cheaper if something stupid happens.

Coffee is one of our higher expenses on the weekly shopping, as is Moma Barista Oat Milk (we use about 8/10 of those a week).

We’re trying to be a bit more sensible in the weekly shop as quite a bit was getting binned anyway, but coffee is the one nice thing I need!

Salmon from Asda. It used to be about £2.85 for 2 fillets now £3.55 and we need 3 packs for 5 adults

Not much because already buy unbranded from aldi- I have stopped near on all eating out, take snacks for the kids when heading to a park, near on never buy a lunch, and never ever buy a coffee.

I find this view illogical - the organisations make the products are capitalist companies, therefore all prices are justifiable if the market will bear it.

Rises in costs are real - some products are very fuel intensive for a start - but under our system companies are allowed to make a profit, even profits that you consider too high.

M&S do a bag of salmon for 9.99, I think it equates to about 4 1/2 portions and it’s very nice.

We've sold our second car and are choosing to work from home more to avoid long trips in the remaining car.

No more waffles or croissants at breakfast, toast will do.

More unbranded stuff like Aldi coke.

Meal planning and more "wing it with what we've already got in the fridge" type meals.

The dog's on a cheaper brand of food.

I'm bulk buying when one of our must have brands has an offer to keep the unit cost down.

No more guacamole and other expensive meal accoutrements... we're heading to a more "meat and 2 veg" style.

Increased yelling at DS to get out of the bloody shower

I'm dreading this winter, I think I'll be patrolling the thermostat.

If you cancel a service - eg yoga - be prepared for it to close.

I don’t buy as many clothes, if I need/want something I go on Vinted now. I’ve also sold loads of stuff on there. So much easier than eBay.

I’ve been a Lidl/Aldi shopper for years now so hard to buy food much cheaper.

Some bargains to save you money include the Aldi sun care range which are superb and crazily cheap= www.aldi.co.uk/lacura-suncream
Their ‘Norpak’ butter is £1.79 and almost as good as lurpak
Choc chip cookies as good as Maryland are 39p

Theres a handful of brands I love though like Fairy liquid and PG tips which I won’t swap (Lidl, Poundland)

if we fancy Indian/Thai takeaway we get it in a box from M&S to put in the oven ourselves - gorgeous food so it’s still a treat but 1/3 of the price😋

Thank you for this tip.
Do they offer an all in for life option?
Is it easy to switch?
Ours is one of those all in for life with pet plan and it's insanely expensive but I'm scared to move, downgrade or cancel. It's my highest regular debit.

Well, yeah, these kinds of non essential services are inevitably the first to fall in a recession.