How can one tin of Heinz soup now cost £1.40!

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I have been monitoring prices and in January this cost 70 pence. Crazy prices.

My local b&m is 2 buses away, not work going

Yes it’s looking quite bleak

Here in Ireland Tesco is selling Heinz soup at €1.55 a tin - or, if you have a clubcard, 3 for €4. I don't buy it (I make my own soup) but just checked the price for comparison with UK prices. Tesco Ireland Finest oven chips are now up to €2.20 from €2 earlier this year. My weekly shop is around €20 more than it was this time last year - but I could still do it for last year's rate if I dropped the quality of some items, I suppose. Guess we're all in the same boat :(

£1.99 for Isigny POD Butter in Aldi
its beautiful (only 250g though)
and as a @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER said they do a West Country English one as well which is cheaper but also lovely

YANBU I don’t need to budget tightly but have noticed my basket just go up and up. I’ve started to do some strategic swaps:

*Molly’s mini rolls in Tesco are easily comparable with branded
*whichever is the cheaper per roll or per can for Andrex and fizzy drinks
*Frubes on offer rather than Muller corners on offer are much cheaper
*and most bizarrely Ecover toilet gel is much thicker and we use less so even when it’s not on offer the price per use is lower than toilet duck)
*whichever chocolate biscuit multipack work out cheapest per biscuit for packed lunches
*bacon is a cheap cut of meat in carbonara etc.

I bought a pack of printer paper in Sainsbury in May for £5. Last week the same pack was £7… and this week it was £7.50.

Heinz soup has been pricey for a long time, most shops have multibuys on them but still expensive. Annoyingly I find it much better than unbranded soups. Lots of things slowly creeping up, the concern is when does it stop rising week on week.

I've been checking out 'own brand' prices online at the various supermarkets 'across the board' and I'm seeing many items still quite reasonably priced, not just the 'budget' ranges either, IMO Heinz soups have been overpriced for years and all seem to taste strangely the same, I find Aldi soups and Tesco far more natural tasting and at virtually half the price they're always my first choice, I think that 'brand loyalty' needs to become a thing of the past, we're all creatures of habit but I've accepted that in order to keep my grocery bill down I'm going to have to try out alternatives and as another MN pointed out on this thread, if we started to 'boycott' some of the higher profile brands who keep putting their prices up they'll be forced to look at their prices again.

I was just saying to DH that we will have to make big changes. Our food bill has gone crazy.

DS15 can often come home to an empty house so always have a microwave meal or two in for ease. Tescos range have recently gone from 3 for £6 to 3 for £6.50 to 3 for £7.

Walkers crisps for his packed lunches have gone from £1.40 for a 6 pack to £1.65. Kellogs squares have almost doubled to £2.

My weekly shop crept from £65 to £85 until I really started to take note of brands and special offers, especially the clubcard price ones.

Why is everyone buying brands?! Use the supermarmet own brand 🤦‍♀️

Also remember businesssshave been badly affected by the increase in utilities. There is a capped £ for homes but none for businesses and my sisters shop has had their gas increased by 184%

I only get from B&M. Small range though but it's not my favourite soup.

Yes, I've a tiny office and electricity cost has trebled, and that's with shopping around.

It's ridiculous. I can just about still scrape through now by doing a few brand swaps and the cheapest versions of tomatoes etc but that is with some really careful planning.

Baxter’s soup £1.80,I nearly dropped.

A week in our house...

Because there isn’t always a good swap. Personal preference.

A 1l bottle of sunflower oil was 4€-5€ this morning and a pack, 10?, of cod fish gingers, 11€ - just notices, wasn't going to buy them.

If I had to I would but personally haven't found an own brand of soup that's as nice. A few things I don't mind like beans and stuff but whilst some buy brands just because they perceive them as better, a lot probably genuinely prefer them. I used to work in a factory that produced foods for different supermarkets but the lines were completely different and used different ingredients, whereas some assume it means they're literally identical.

We’ve entirely swapped to own brand at Tesco - meaning - either Tesco brand itself or it’s cheap own brand (Howard Nevils, Rosdene Farm, Growers Harvest, Creamfields, Woodside Farm etc etc).

some useful swaps for us in addition have been -

1. large pack of own brand breaded fish - one fillet in the air fryer produces 10 fish “fingers” when sliced up with knife once it’s done.
2. Potatoes chopped up, salted, garlicked and sprayed - in air fryer for crispy potatoes instead of oven chips
3. Use Clubcard vouchers to buy 6 months anytime click and collect pass (£14 ish total across 6 months) - do a careful large own brands online order every 10 days ….. but
4. Select a click collect slot around 4-5 pm and Go to tescos just half an hour ahead of click and collect to pick up as many yellow stickered and reduced things as poss - and simply return/refuse (and get refunded) anything already on click and collect trolleys if better price found at reductions just now.
5. Swap all takeaways for fake aways - tescos finest..
6. Only buy Fish yellow stickered and freeze asap - this way gets loads of omega 3 fish into all of us.
7. And finally - decentralise animal protein - don’t serve meat/fish as fillets or pieces and the main centrepiece and stop thinking as X number of pieces per person. Instead - we’ve increased Rissotos, biriyanis, Keema pulaos, etc.
8. practice and perfect some veggies meals - Paneer, egg, daal or bean based and simply eat plant based for 40% time

Costco have 24 tins of baked beans for £13.39 and that is delivered so will be less in store.

Heinz ketchup is so expensive now too

I just bought a bread maker. It would last me maybe 3 days on all that fresh bread

Cooking oil has gone up massively.