Napolina Tinned Tomatoes... HOW MUCH??

[Katiekitty]

In my local Co-op today:

£1.06 a tin
£3.99 for a pack of four

WTF?

How did these get so effing expensive?

we get value tesco ones - much cheaper! The tesco value kidney beans are the best we have tried too as they are soft rather than crunchy after cooking unlike the rest we have tried

I have noticed that lately.. always buy the basics ones.. tinned tomatoes are tinned tomatoes.. no need for the expensive brands.

What I did notice though was the price of coke has shot up...

The special offer in sainsburys used to be 2 six packs for £3, went yesterday and it was 2 six packs for £5.

31p per tin in Aldi and delicious! Own brand that is, not Napolina...

I was looking at some last week in Sainsburys and I cant remember the price but they were certainly in that area.

We were having them as a "veg" so I wanted decent ones - if they're just going in somethiong like a spag bol, I'll buy the basics

The aldi ones are bloody good, as is their pasatta

I didn't buy them, I just laughed at them. (And cried a little bit too)

Couldn't get to Tescos so I am tomato-less tonight. Co-op oddly had none of their own brand in stock

NO WAY would I shell out nearly four notes for four tins.

How do these big brands survive when supermarket own is so much cheaper?

Who pays these prices?

i always just get Sainsbury's basic ones and they are OK. I am not paying a £1 for sodding tomatoes.

£14 for a jar of honey.

For £14 a poxy tiny jar I'd expect a gold plated lid and a crystal jar filled with honey from bees living on a temple island, tended by vestal virgins, serenaded by angels and transported from flower to flower on satin cushions.

I only wish I could persude fools people to fork out lots of money like that!

The beginning of that should really have read "what about £14..."

Katie I bought a 4 pack of those in Sainsbury's at the weekend. They were half price, under £2.

I always stock up when they're half price.

Sainsburys are doing buy 4 get 4 free at the moment - makes it a bit better. I do think they're a bit more tomatoey than own brand...

The price of food generally is going up. Welcome to Tory Britain!

I expect the £14 honey is the manuka one.. that is always very expensive. Very very good though.

Gah, no Sainsbos near me.

Stock up while you can!

I have tomato envy

Hardly the Tories' fault Karma.

Well, the supermarkets like to run loss leaders to keep us going back. A few cheap tins of tomatoes, so what - we spend a fortune on all the other crap they sell us, while other shops go to the wall and council services collapse in flames.

they were 50p a tin in Asda last week, they are usualy a £1 there to though.

I don't know why they are so expensive, but I think they are better than say tesco own brand, which I got the other week and were very sharp.

The Tories have increased the price of fuel. Shops have to pay for deliveries and pass the cost on to the consumer, so it is their fault. Isn't tax on petrol going up again soon?

Oh yeah, and Labour was going to ax the whole fuel tax thing.

I bought tesco brand tinned tomatoes about a year ago in the course of a cost reduction exercise. They were crap, and I went straiht back to Napolina.

It wouldn't be Manuka honey by any chance Hec? I know my local health/beauty store sells it for around £9 a small jar.

I get Napolina ones when they are half price. I bulk buy them. But then Sainsbo's seem to have them half price a lot of the time.

Also, the value of the £ against the Euro impacts our food prices.

I've noticed that the size of the 'value' products has decreased, presumably so they can keep the prices low.

Those fish stick thingies are now about a third the size they were previously. Also, some boxes of eggs only have ten in them, instead of a dozen.

And there are far fewer BOGOF offers around now.

Asda are selling them for 50p a can ...

they are much nicer than the asda own brand ones. bought a six pack of those because napolina were out of stock.
disgusting metallic aftertaste they had...
back to napolina.