Price increases: What food that you bought every week have you now completely stopped buying?

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I just noticed today that the 250g block of own-brand butter in Tesco has gone up again to £1.99, and this is price matched to Aldi who I assume have also put it up. Think I'll now unfortunately not be buying it at all and switching to cheap spread!

Meat and fish. I used to cook salmon or trout several times a week, now it's a couple of days a month. Meat has become an ingredient, never the main focus. Vegetable stir-fry is garnished with beef strips; not-bolognese is equal parts red pepper, mushrooms, alliums and mince; korma is made from vegetables plus a single chicken breast.

I buy lots of stickered items and put them in the freezer.
I bought a dry aged steak the other week for £2, it was originally £8.10. A Deluxe chorizo quiche for 70p. Aberdeen Angus beef burgers x4 with 75% off. Tuna steaks the same 75% off.
About a year ago I hit the jackpot with two salmon fillets for 20p. In the freezer they went.

Also noticed the increase in butter as I put shop through last night. We just left it off. Everything is going up. Lurpak is FAR too expensive now. We eat much less meat. It’s a struggle each week to keep the food shop both healthy but also reasonably priced.

That is something I did not know. So their profits are in the rise!
Also, what about the price difference between a random citizen entering the shop and one that has given them their name and address and presents a little reference number? That is quite remarkable a difference in price too!

Asda has started a line of products at cheap rates. They are bright yellow. Some things are not good at all, others are rather OK.
Anyone has tried any of it and want to share opinions?
Us so far:
Peanuts- not a fan
Orange juice, fridge one- good enough for the price
We got some tinned food too, but I have not tried it yet.

Regarding steaks..
I was in Asda last weekend having a look at the new yellow essentials range. I found some steaks for £2 each so got one each for myself and dh. Quite nice.
Went back this weekend and they had increased in price to £6! - not that flaming nice!
We only ever bought it once in a blue moon anyway but that's it now.

It's hard for us to downgrade as we were already at the point of buying own-brand foods anyway. We've cut out a lot of snacks, and I shop around for those we do have. Farmfoods is really good for random things that have increased elsewhere! We've just being less wasteful with our food e.g. one pack of bacon used to do a bacon butty lunch for me (WFH) and DH; now that is saved for a weekend and does lunch for DS too. A roast chicken that would do a meal, cold for sandwiches and a treat for the cat, now does a meal, and a family curry the next day (sorry cat).

Kitchen roll, I refuse to pay the huge increase.
I bought a bag of coal this week which I used to get for£3.99, it has gone up to £5.75. I don't make a fire often, but like to light one over the Christmas period, looks like it will be a Christmas day treat only now.

Ecover laundry at £9 a bottle. Not settled on an alternative yet but price is dictating my choices!

Not technically food shop but chip shop chips, rarely have them tbh but was horrified yesterday that a sausage supper ( 2 sausages and about 25 chips) and a curry chip ( small portion defo not massive!) together was £13! picked up a menu leaflet and a portion of chips is now £4:50, absolutely do not think this is good value at all!
would rather buy a Chinese as a take away as our local is great quality, big portions and decent price.
Our weekly takeaway is now becoming a monthly one!

No denying things are going up, but I think this thread shows how spoiled we've all become. I think in someway the curve is just correcting itself

It’s called having a high standard of living and it’s sad that people are fine with (or even supportive of!!) deteriorating lifestyles because we didn’t have these things in the 80s or whenever.

One thing I have noticed is the quality of the packaging. Same ham, same pancakes suddenly packs tearing on opening. Suppose it's a way of saving money

I haven't stopped buying anything, I just shop around more. I buy toiletries in Wilko and wait for them to come on offer in Boots and Superdrug.

I think food has been so cheap for so long in the UK we have got used to it. Many items are still very cheap and some actually went down in price in 2020 so haven't gone up as much as people think. Pity the increases are not been passed onto farmers/growers start of the chain.

@Foldingchair b&m had an offer on over the bank holiday it's gone back up to the normal price! I bought a tin of paint a couple of weeks before was gutted when I went in on the bank holiday weekend and it was £3 cheaper!

I used to buy tubs of Lurpak when they were on special offer, and put them in the freezer. Now the price has gone up so much and they're never on offer. Have switched to supermarket own brand spreadable for now. I also used to buy Baxter's tomato soup for the DCs, from Home Bargains usually as much cheaper. But now HB doesn't seem to stock Baxter's any more and the supermarket prices are eyewatering so have switched to supermarket own brand (which has also gone up in price but still less than half the price of Baxter's).
Ben and Jerry's ice cream prices have gone up so much, again I used to buy when on offer but they seem to have gone up to over £5 a tub now, the supermarket own brand luxury ice cream has gone up a lot too.

Breaded fish fillets may have stayed much the same in price at my local supermarket but the portions are much smaller. Same with the breaded chicken which one of the DCs likes.

I am very fortunate to have an allotment plot so have been able to have a supply of raspberries and blackberries over the summer, the soft fruit prices have gone up a lot in shops.

Think I'm going to do that when I need unsalted butter for baking, as its so much more expensive than normal butter (where I live anyway) but I only use it occasionally for baking. Though perhaps I'll just switch to margarine anyway as its cheaper even though I'm not keen on it.

British food that's imported to where I live has gone insanely expensive, got quite a shock when I went to grab my usual 200g block of cheddar and it was 5 fucking euros. Other food has gone up as well of course but it was the cheddar that really shocked me because it was 3 euros before so it went up by a large percentage.

Stopped buying lots of meats, too expensive now, have to stick to cheaper meat and spread it further.

I paid £3.25 for a small chicken in M&S last week. This week it was £11!!

It's just DH and me.
When covid hit and I worried we might get made redundant, I analysed our spending. We were spending £500 a month in supermarkets.
I've reduced that down, and down some more. We now spend £40-60 a week in Aldi.
Even when our spend was reasonable (£350 ish a month), we used to eat quite indulgently every night. Meals might have been salmon en croute with new potatoes and veg, or Greek kofkas with Greek salad and homemade dip and flat breads. Buying all of those individual ingredients was pretty expensive.
We now eat more student food - but still healthy and nutritious. Stir frys, chilli con carne, beans amd mushrooms on toast, one-pot rice dishes, cheese and potato pie and so on.

Most fresh stuff. Frozen chicken isn't too bad, but it's inconvenient to remember to defrost it. Especially with the brain fog my medical crap gives me. We make pizza from scratch instead now. We each get a pizza and it probably works out to 50-75p a person. We've started meal prepping way more intensively too.

We've never been extravagant either, but watching prices go up while quality goes down sucks. I remember when a chicken Kiev was a nice, cheeky treat. Now it's an oily mess and I'd rather not bother.

I've started taking iron supplements too, because I've become anaemic from cutting out pretty much all red meat and fresh veg because what we do have is going to the kids. I got a bunch of supplements super cheap, so hopefully I'll stop being so lightheaded soon! Yay cost of living crisis.

No longer buy

Lurpack
Brrakfast cereal
Cans of pop
Salmon
Trout

l was both a teen and student in the 80’s. We had meat or fish every night. So did everyone l knew. Tuna was dirt cheap then. As was mince.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow what do you have for breakfast now? I haven't bought cereals in ages...but do with toast etc...

I've stopped buying lurpak and go for own brand or olive spread. Things like biscuits, cereal, tinned tomatos etc I go for own brand as well. If I found one that really wasn't up to scratch re quality I would go back to branded though. I tried some own brand washing up liquid which was rubbish but own brand dishwasher tabs have been fine.

I won't stop drinking Twinings tea though, I like their strong tea bags too much!

I’ve stopped buying myself gluten free bread. My preferred is warburtons and that’s now £2 for a tiny loaf so no more toast for me.

It was on offer in Tesco the other day for Clubcard holders.