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!

Magnums are shocking!

Iceland Majestics are good too.

Salmon - far too dear.
Fresh sausages (bag of 20 frozen from Aldi now)
Gammon steaks
Moved to chicken legs as even thighs are expensive
Cream
We’re living on mince, chicken legs, sausages and pork (steaks or chops).

I have a ASD dc who has very particular food preferences , only eats Daddies tomato sauce which I get from Farmfoods, was £1 now £1.50. Will only eat Pringles and Aldi rip offs but even these are up by 40p.
They love smoked salmon which I continue to buy as it’s one of the few nutritious foods they eat but honestly break out in a cold sweat when I check the price.
also eats muller corners the pink ones, they are now sold in packs of 4 in Farmfoods for the same price as 6 used to be.
M&S yellow labels out last night , normal sized quiche for 80p , took 4, all in freezer.

Paper towel - We use microfibre clothes and tea towels now.

Butter - Swapped to Ocado's £2.55 spread and it's fine.

Diet Coke - OH and I have both vowed to give it up after our current stash runs out. Just feels like wasted money.

Loo Roll - Haven't given it up, but have downgraded to a cheaper brand and we are buying in bulk. I do notice the lesser quality but it seems like a small sacrifice.

Toilet/pipe unblocker - Hated paying £3+ for this but our pipes are constantly clogging. Picked up some soda crystals for under a quid and they've worked a treat and will last a lot longer than a single use bottle.

Cleaning supplies - I did an inventory of what's under the sink and we won't be buying any more until we use up what we have. Probably have a years worth!

Toiletries - I wrote up a list of what we use and have buying in stock when items are on offer.

Ready meals - Given up most of these except Quorn (see below).

Eggs - I either buy medium or mixed size cartons now. OH hasn't noticed.

Condiments - Stocked up on mayo, ketchup, etc at Lidl where they are literally 1/4 the price of mainstream brands.

Takeaways - We haven't had one for a few weeks now and haven't missed them as much as we thought we would

Weekly shop - We're trying the buy every 10 days instead of 7 stretch trick.

On my to-do list:

Laundry detergent - I love Surf and have struggled to find something cheaper I like.

Quorn - We still buy a lot of freezer items ('steak' pies, sausages, burgers). Haven't found anything similar for cheaper yet.

@giggly if you have a Heron foods store nearby, they sell a massive bottle of Daddies tomato sauce for 89p

And stopped bertolli too because that got silly.

Does this mean that brands like Lurpak will go bust?

Or other branded stuff that gets too expensive to buy?

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow I wouldn't be surprised. It'll hurt the farmers too. But it's energy, petrol, everything. Our nursery fees went up by 20% this year. You have to claw it back from somewhere and shopping for brand items will be the first thing to go out of the window.

For paper products ghe raw material cost is very low but production uses a lot of energy. On top of that they are bulky and so the transport cost relative to product cost is high.

Takeaways and going out for dinner have almost completely stopped. We used to go out for a meal once a week and would usually spend £40 or so. Then swapped to getting a takeaway instead and that was about £25. Now I just buy some frozen pizzas from the supermarket and some popcorn and we have a film night at home for about £5.

I know I seem to be overly focused on loo roll here 😀, but are your drains blocking because you had been using a better quality toilet roll?

I am pretty sure the fancy stuff has been around there for years, but here we get 1 ply or 2 ply. Only recently has one manufacturer brought out a fancy quilted version, and I bought some thinking wow, this seems great.

And before the pack was used up, I had an issue with my drain blocking. So I am quite convinced now that it was the fault of the posh pricy loo roll. Went back to the bog standard (see what I did there.....) 2 ply and its been fine since.

Watermelon. A quarter of one from the local greengrocer used to be 99p, then went to £1.25, then £1.50 and two weeks later was £2!

Aldis version of this is nice.

I know someone posted on another thread about 3 months ago on the price of watermelon.

l think they said one whole one was 6quid in Asda😯

The vast majority of our protein comes from reduced to clear fridges now - we have a chest freezer so when we find some thing marked down we can freeze for future use , it’s saving us a fortune at the moment

I always buy Cravendale milk as it lasts 7 days and I don't use a lot,of it. I used to pay £1.10 now £1.85. I've stopped, it's cheaper to buy ones that run out after 3 days and throw it away.

I was in Morrisons this morning and almost snorted at their 'large' chickens. Basically a small chicken but with an extra large chicken price tag.

If you're a MNetter ' a chicken can feed a family of four for a week' type then you'd be hard pressed for enough cold cuts the next day to make sandwiches.

@BerriesOnTop It was never sustainable, economically or environmentally. Not good for health either if you look at the stats. We are a veggie household and always have been so makes no odds to me.

It was never sustainable, economically or environmentally. Not good for health either if you look at the stats. We are a veggie household and always have been so makes no odds to me

Meat isn’t the only thing that’s gone up though

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow it was in response to @BerriesOnTop -snide- comment that I was 'supporting' falling living standards. Not that cost of living doesn't effect us.

Completely forgot the biggest change. Got serious about using the allotment for growing food. We now have 2 kilos of broad beans, 3 kilos of runner beans, and a kilo of plums in the freezer. Plus 6 jars of picked onions, 2 jars of gherkins, and 8 miniature jars of red cabbage. So that's us set for Christmas 👍

I have stopped buying Yorkshire tea bags. Buy decaff- they so expensive now🙄

Amazon have this for £6.30 at the minute for a 1.5L bottle or £5.67 with the subscribe & save (which you can cancel anytime!)

That’s a step too far 😱 I love Yorkshire decaf tea

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