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Most daftly overpriced thing you've seen lately?

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MeinKraft · 01/02/2023 21:55

I've really fancied trying these Bueno eggs, finally saw them in Tesco and nearly collapsed in shock at the price. £2.75!! For a few tiny little eggs. I think not. The delights of the Bueno egg will remain a mystery to me.

What have you seen lately that's ridiculously overpriced? I know everything but maybe like the little treats you might have bought that are now so out of budget that you won't buy them even if you can afford too.

Most daftly overpriced thing you've seen lately?
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marykay1 · 02/02/2023 11:43

Beware of SHRINKFLATION: They are reducing the size/quantity of items !

coolmum123 · 02/02/2023 11:48

Wobblytrees · 02/02/2023 08:29

@seeyouinanotherlifewhenwearebothcats my husband makes own dough (think it’s a Jamie Oliver recipe) and makes a big batch and freezes in balls until needed. He makes own tomato sauce with tomatoes we grow and again, huge batches then freezes. We then just buy mozzarella and toppings - can do it fairly cheap, sweet corn, peppers (agsin, grown in garden, chopped and frozen), sausages. He did a wonderful fennel and goats cheese one once. We don’t even have a pizza stone, just a pizza tray (though he is going to build a pizza oven when weather gets better and will fire it with wood he’s chopped from trees which fell in storm). We get the kids to put their own toppings on which they love

We make our own pizzas and sauce too. Much tastier. My friend gave me a really good pizza base recipe which I now use. Prefer homemade pizzas to the takeaway ones now.

WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody · 02/02/2023 11:49

Ariela · 02/02/2023 10:31

@WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody Why do you line your tupperware boxes with kitchen paper? Surely the sausages stick to it? If I line, I use baking paper, which any fat drains onto. After use, I then twist it into a firelighter and we use it to light our wood burner. (We've found newspapers don't burn as well these days).
As for washing, I almost only use my machine when the sun shines (solar, free)anyway, but dishcloths when I have half a dozen to wash, I chuck in to soak in a bowl with detergent and Vanish equivalent, and leave to soak. Then I wash and rinse by hand, and spin in the machine, and then hang to dry and reuse.

@Ariela

No my (vegetarian) sausages do NOT stick to it, if they did I wouldn't use it would I?

paper towel absorbs any excess oil, I want to absorb the oil, not have the oil sliding around baking paper & Tupperware.

i don't have a log burner - I think you just lost all ground for telling me that using paper towel is bad for the environment.

Washing, all that water, chemicals, spinning in the machine...

yep... SO environmentally friendly.🙄🙇🏻‍♀️

bonus point for not washing your dishcloths with your smalls (unlike the PP) though.

SoftSheen · 02/02/2023 11:52

Yeo Valley Spreadable butter. £5.10 !! for 500G. Not long ago it was £2.50. I still bought it but we will be spreading our toast very thinly...

MaverickGooseGoose · 02/02/2023 11:52

£2.99 for a can of coconut milk and £3.99 for a jar of Pesto in my local Tesco Express. I know it's cheaper in the bigger ones but still.

I usually get my coconut milk in the asian supermarket and it's 90p.

pigsinoodies · 02/02/2023 11:54

Tlolljs · 02/02/2023 11:39

I used to buy a big pot of Tesco’s own honey yoghurt. £1. Went up to £1.25. Now £1.60
Inflation isn’t running at 60%
Racketeering. That’s what it is.

I can well believe that their costs to produce and distribute dairy produce have gone up 60%. The price paid to farmers for milk is 50% higher than this time last year. Electricity prices (for manufacturing and chilling) are more than double.

MorvenOfMalvern · 02/02/2023 11:55

The price of almost anything in the supermarket. I just perused the treat type items and everything seems to be twice the price I think it was/should be. We will just bake our own later!

LookItsMeAgain · 02/02/2023 11:58

Minikievs · 02/02/2023 10:28

75p fir a cucumber in Sainsburys 😱
We go through 4-5 a week

If you have the space to grow your own, do. They'll taste so much nicer.

Particularly if you go through that many in a week.

Helendegenerate · 02/02/2023 12:02

If I may, another charity shop moan. Last year I bought a really nice warm scarf in the £1 basket. Perfectly fine after a good wash and wore it a lot. Last month I had my usual sort out and charity bag donation including the scarf so thought these items can be sold and resold so that's great.

The same shop is now asking £2 for my £1 scarf.

Yes I do sometimes check what they're charging on my donated items and inevitably am disappointed.

theblackradiator · 02/02/2023 12:02

most things I see now I think where the fk have they got that price from. But as you mentioned the sweet Isle I couldn't believe it's £8 for a bag of m&ms in asda it's not even a large bag what surprises me more is that people buy them and actually pay these stupid prices. I thought people were struggling these days obviously not if can spend £8 on a small bag of m&ms.

gemloving · 02/02/2023 12:05

@otherwayup they were £2.75 online in sainsburys and it said it's half price. I thought that must be a mistake. Reading this now - clearly it isn't 😩

Stellaris22 · 02/02/2023 12:06

ManAboutTown · 01/02/2023 22:23

Had a bit of a chuckle about Paperchase earlier in the week - few years ago they allowed themselves to be bullied by left wing fascists like Owen Jones into withdrawing advertising from the DM (and I have no real regard for that particular rag)

As the saying goes "go woke, go broke"

Paper chase don't pay their illustrators for cards.

theblackradiator · 02/02/2023 12:07

£8 😲

Most daftly overpriced thing you've seen lately?
pigsinoodies · 02/02/2023 12:07

theblackradiator · 02/02/2023 12:02

most things I see now I think where the fk have they got that price from. But as you mentioned the sweet Isle I couldn't believe it's £8 for a bag of m&ms in asda it's not even a large bag what surprises me more is that people buy them and actually pay these stupid prices. I thought people were struggling these days obviously not if can spend £8 on a small bag of m&ms.

£8 is for the 1kg party bags. Asda shelf labelling seems to be all over the place at the moment.

Catspyjamas17 · 02/02/2023 12:09

If you have the space to grow your own, do. They'll taste so much nicer.

You'd need a cucumber smallholding to keep up with demand.

theblackradiator · 02/02/2023 12:10

The ones I saw were only 850g which I don't think is that big even 1kg is not worth £8 maybe £4 then fair enough the bags are really not that big at all.

pigsinoodies · 02/02/2023 12:12

They're cheaper per 100g than the smaller bags are though.

Mamalamadrama · 02/02/2023 12:13

Nescafe in Tesco £7 😱

Tortieee · 02/02/2023 12:14

Own brand cat food pouches. A year ago were £2.20. They've gradually increased in price at all supermarkets and are now between £3.60 and £3.90.

GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin · 02/02/2023 12:17

I do wonder how much is due to inflation and how much is just companies piss taking.

I wonder that too. Particularly the brands - how the fuck do they think they can justify those prices? Surely they just won't sell as much because people either can't or won't pay that. I'm fortunate to be able to shop around as I've got all the supermarkets within a short drive, plus lots of local ethnic supermarkets but are shops just taking the piss out of what they hope is a captive audience?

Waitrose and M&S definitely seem to have raised their prices less but I saw a ball - ONE - of mozzarella is £1.95 in Waitrose now. I had to check I was looking at the right price label! They were all reduced as well (to £1.65...) which presumably means that other people did what I did, which is to pick it up, mutter "I'm not fucking paying that" and put it back. I know their welfare standards are higher but even M&S' are £1.25.

Oh, and takeaways. I used to get a couple of dishes, sweet and sour something, a salt and pepper dish, couple of side dishes and probably pay less than £15. I wouldn't get much change out of £25 now, so I learned to make my own.

pigsinoodies · 02/02/2023 12:19

Mamalamadrama · 02/02/2023 12:13

Nescafe in Tesco £7 😱

I wait for the clubcard offers on coffee and buy a shedload.

Coxspurplepippin · 02/02/2023 12:27

Uninterestedfamily · 02/02/2023 11:28

Red meat from supermarkets.

I've just bought a box of mixed beef cuts, high quality rare breed moorland-raised, direct from the farm for £9 a kilo. Be looking at nearly twice that from a butcher/supermarket.

Would you consider sharing? Totally understand if not - they'd probably be inundated with orders and run out of stock - or put their prices up.

FfeminyddCymraeg · 02/02/2023 12:30

A pack of 8 Mr Kipling Angel slices for £3.50! Fuck that. They are tiny too!

Also, Marmite - DH has to have Asda own brand and toilet rolls are shockingly expensive now.

Most daftly overpriced thing you've seen lately?
Leftbutcameback · 02/02/2023 12:34

£46 for an FA cup ticket in the last round. Was on TV and at a difficult time and location to get to. Appreciate it’s a bit niche!

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MeinKraft · 02/02/2023 12:35

FfeminyddCymraeg · 02/02/2023 12:30

A pack of 8 Mr Kipling Angel slices for £3.50! Fuck that. They are tiny too!

Also, Marmite - DH has to have Asda own brand and toilet rolls are shockingly expensive now.

They're on offer at Tesco at the minute Smile

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