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...

Few people have enough space to store more than a years worth of toilet rolls and tins. Apart from a few extreme preppers, anyone who stockpiled will have already used their stash.

The Aldi equivalent is the same ingredients in the same proportions.
I think the Morrisons one is too.
Tescos version isn't the same and tastes grim

We have Bought by many pet insurance. It's apparently one of the better ones. We've not had to claim but I know of people who have

But they buy more to keep stock levels up surely?

According to barclaycard months ago, 40% of people were buying extras. So hardly a unique thing to do.

I don't know what exactly was said re sim cards and phones. I'm with EE and a few years ago I went from a contract with a phone to SIM only, they give you add ons or loyalty.

My phone now has unlimited calls and texts and more data than I can use for £3.00 a month.

@sashh I'm feeling annoyed now 😂

I thought my £6 EE sim only deal was unbeatable 🤭

I've had sim only for years , def a better deal

I only got a phone deal this time as my last phone was dying, and over time it wasn't any dearer in total than if I'd bought the phone outright and gone SIM only. I'll go back to SIM only when this deal ends, as I tend to keep phones for about 4 years. I also then sold my old phone to Music Magpie to recoup something there.

Somebody upthread wanted a supermarket comparison site. I use Latest Deals' supermarket comparison.

Speaking of Music Magpie, you can rent phones from them quite cheaply. The contract is for 12 months.

I know it's not ideal as it means another outgoing but it might help someone who's phone has died and can't afford a new one.

Everything, since this would kill the economy (if it were possible).

For reference, that oil price would translate to around £6.70 per litre for unleaded petrol at current rates.

Toilet rolls hand sanitizer and baby milk all in high demand was being flogged online for a profit. Ebay and other selling sites had to clamp down on it. The panic buyers actually pushed the prices up.

It wasn't just toilet rolls people were panic buying it was food. There was a huge increase in food waste over lockdown. Tons of uneaten food thrown out. People were literally throwing money away. Would they do the same now if we do go back into lockdown? www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stockpiling-mum-who-splurged-250-21839254

People were frightened. I do not think the same thing would happen again.
But the average extra spent per person was very small. There were a small number of outliers.
In my City the local paper had an article about the increase in food waste and featured bins with food in by the university residences. The students had all been told they had to either stay in their rooms nearly all the time, or go home in the next day or maybe it was 2 days. Of course there was a lot of food waste, They had virtually no warning to go back to their parents.

Also massive food waste from cafes & restaurants that suddenly had to close without notice. Same with some smaller food shops who didn't initially realise they were allowed to stay open (i.e. small bakeries, pie shops, takeaways etc) as the initial guidance/messaging was very poor and ambiguous.

My son was at Uni and took photos of huge amounts of food dumped in the bins outside the campus cafes/food outlets.

A lot of the restaurants where I live stayed open but had delivery only. Some did takeaways but you had to stay outside and they brought it out. There was a few of our local restaurants that did close but cooked all the food on the premises and delivered it to hospital staff in microwave container's for them to reheat as needed. A lot of independent cafe restaurant and takeaway owners did really well over lockdown. With people working from home so much.

organic veg box, organic meat. Wgac loo roll. My kids eat a lot atm (12&14) and I’m doing extra fillers such as garlic bread with meals rather them wanting copious amounts of expensive snacks after.

Thanks to this thread, I got a new sim only deal yesterday saving £4 a month and tried aldi lurpak and like it! Which will save c.2.50 a month. Adds up to £75 a year. Thanks all!

M&S Gold milk from Jersey and Guernsey cows was £1.30 for a 1 ltr bottle, now £1.65. ☹️

My son likes a 6 pack of chocolate crepes from Sainsbury’s. They used to be £1.00-£1.20. They then shot up to £1.80 and are now £1.85 a packet.

Same here but the Tesco ones. I simply don't buy them anymore.

It's not quite the same but I now get chocolate brioche rolls from Home Bargains instead at 6 for £1. DD seems to like them just as much as the crepes.

Clementine juice, it's been my price marker throughout, used to be £1.10 two for £2, then £1.20 same deal, then same price no deal, went up to £1.30 last summer £1.50 by Christmas. It's now £1.70 for a litre. It's not something I can't afford like some of the examples here but I refuse to pay that much for a litre of juice. Just after Christmas I bought 3 huge crates of Clementines in Tesco for 60p each and ran them through my juicer, much nicer and more volume for more or less the same price.

@LoisLane66 Tesco finest gold top is £1.30 I bought some yesterday to make rice pudding

Hula hoops.
last year. £1 on offer 1.50 the rest of the time. This year £2.25 - £2.50/ £2 on offer

Pringles at £3 a tube can fuck off too. I've discovered the joys of the Aldi ones now, so even if Pringles go on offer they can swivel.

@Blindsandcurtains since I've become pregnant I've developed a phobia for Aldi products which is not good for our pockets, however, we do buy a lot of things from home bargains now that are cheaper than the major supermarkets.