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...

Eating more vegetarian food. Cans of pulses seem to be fairly stable on price and even if they go up it's cheaper than meat.

Not drinking. I don't think the cost of wine itself has gone up, but by not buying it I cut £££ off my weekly shop which offsets the crazy price of some other stuff

Already fairly careful but have stopped veg boxes and cut down on meat.

very rarely buy a takeaway coffee now

Cancelled Amazon prime, kindle & coffee subscription.
eating mainly vegetarian.
stopped random internet shopping/clothes/cosmetics except on a need-to basis.
extending time between hair appointments.
Alot more planned to do over the winter that includes not using my heating 🙁
I think the winter will be the crunch point for me financially so I’m sort of prepping now.

Cleaner. Price went up to £18 ph and I only earn £10 ph (working very part time) so it was a no brainer. With the tax, national insurance and petrol taken into account, doing 1 hour of cleaning 'nets' our household the same as doing 2.5 hours in my paid job.

Doing the majority of our driving in the cheaper to run car (requiring careful timing and scheduling as to who will use it when).

Eating out a bit less since restaurant prices have gone up; it doesn't seem 'worth' it to pay £50 for a modest Saturday pub lunch for four, so we don't bother.

Chicken breasts and salmon

WFH as much as possible to avoid fuel and parking costs

Vinted for any clothes I need

Stopped yoga class and spotify subscription

Continuing on the salmon theme, and I know this won’t be possible for everyone, it’s usually cheaper to buy in bulk - eg a whole salmon.

If you have a local fishmonger, or even better - a fish stall on a market (Bury market and the one in Manchester Arndale have them) - they’ll sell whole fish. Bury marks them priced per fish, so no cringing when they put them on the scale. I usually get them around £15-£20 per fish. I used to work in a fishmongers as a student so I do it all myself but they would be v happy to fillet or steak it for you. I do fillets (usually 10 -12 pieces per fish depending on the size), individually wrap in foil and freeze asap.

Cherry tomatoes

I now walk anywhere that takes under 40 minutes.

There are 2 routes i have home- the more pretty route and the direct route which has some tricky elements. There is 2oo metres difference- now always take the direct route. 400 metres savings a day on petrol addess up!

We use my small car for almost all journeys - costs at the moment £42 to fill up, the bigger one is £102.00 last time.

Also - a house! We have put househunting on hold- but that is the covid bubble increase really.

Eating out as well- and when we do go out we don't buy a glass of wine each saving £20-ish right there.

I am also yellow sticker shopping more often.

Chocolate, crisps, clothes.
We don’t turn the lights on at all.

Buy tea daily no big shop. More cheap bits rather than branded. Buy clothes off vinted. Bike instead of car. Don't put heating on . Mainly meals made of veg.

Nearly jumped for joy this week when our babies (twins) could go onto the stage 2 formula which means that it can often be found on offer (circa 10% off) doesn't sound like much but we spend around £48 a week on baby formula at the moment so it all helps.

I've started using the shower more than baths.

We don't buy food out at days out/shows/events now, I make up a picnic before we go and actually we've found it much more enjoyable!

Cut back on oh beer/cider

Just trying to get stuff when it's on offer when can rather than not at all.

lamb we don’t buy any more

Eating out. The prices have gone up so much and I prefer cooking at home.

Rather than buying cheese (for example) in tesco, I’ve been walking to Aldi to get theirs.
I switched to doing an online tesco shop months ago to avoid the temptation in the shop and have only been ordering what we need so have been wasting less.

For people cancelling pet insurance it might be worth shopping around to avoid the 10k+ vet bills, and buying through TopCashback so you get a percentage back (this is good for most online shopping too!)

Stopped using the oven. Everything on the hob, quick stir fries or microwave. I boil 10 eggs every Sunday for lunches for the week.
Sainsbury's Nectar prices - reduced prices, freeze where possible and stock up on e.g. cat food.
The cheapest coffee out is Pret - 80p for filter coffee if you take your own cup. I don't drink so coffee is my social life, and I don't begrudge 80p a couple of times a week.

We've not cut back too much at home but definitely cut back on going out. We used to go out for a quick mid week dinner or a couple of drinks very often, but it's just so expensive now.

I also don't really make frivolous journeys anymore, like yesterday it would have been great to go to the Trafford Centre to get something, but it's 20 miles so I stuck with our local town.

12 Tesco eggs are £1.95, is that really unaffordable? I'd say that's still good value for a staple food.

Less meat. I mainly buy whole chickens when I do buy meat and joint them, it is cheaper than buying breasts, thighs etc. I only buy free range and now only if it is yellow stickered as the full price is mad- nearly £20 in some instances.

M&S eggs are 15 for £2.

Eating out
Hairdresser
Clothes
Make up/beauty products
Butter!

Also I went through my standing orders and DDs. I had a couple that I did away with, and cancelled a subscriotion (my last remaining!) for a magazine from abroad. That all up saved about £120.00. The last time I pruned my magazine purchasing I saved £12.00 per month so in total I have now saved over £200.00 a year.

We’re trying to stretch the time between Tesco deliveries so every 10 days instead of 7, and having a couple of days using up what’s in the freezer/cupboard.

I’ve been on a minimalism/decluttering journey for a couple of years so keeping non-food spending low already; I’m considering selling things on eBay where previously I would donate them to the charity shop.

I’d rather prioritise services like the cleaner and hairdresser over stuff, as you’re directly keeping someone in work, and people like that always feel the effect of others tightening their belts first. I go to a lovely Pilates class once a week, it’s £10 and the instructor has done so much to help me get stronger after pregnancy. I’d sooner cut out takeaway coffee all week than give up her class!

They will be horribly produced with lots of cruelty. I am not able to eat things where the animals have been so badly treated, so would rather reduce how many I eat rather than pay for cruelty.

Everyone has their own standards on this, but eggs are an area where many consumers are unwilling to reduce welfare category.

We wasted very little food before but we waste absolutely nothing now. Even if we have two spoons of mashed potato I'll say to DH put that in a small dish and reheat it tomorrow, whereas we might have thrown it away before.

Costa Coffee is a thing of the past. No way am I paying £3.50!

There are some foods that seem to come up on special offer at Tesco eg yoghurts, bread, cheese. Now, if they aren't on special offer I don't buy them until the next time they're reduced.