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Original poster

Seriously? £4?

38 replies

aPixie · 03/02/2011 11:54

For a small punnet of grapes? You know the half size boxes!

Usually buy fruit from co-op (no greengrocers around here) and it's usually 2 for £4 or £2.50 each. Haven't had grapes for a while and after that other thread really fancied some.

But yeah, £4. AIBU to be outraged.

(I know it's a petty thing to worry about but I just can't believe it)

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bubblewrapped · 03/02/2011 11:55

half price in sainsburys yesterday :D

emsyj · 03/02/2011 11:56

YANBU to be astonished at the price of fruit. It is really expensive. In Sainsbury's yesterday, they had little punnets of raspberries marked 'ONLY £3!'

PaperView · 03/02/2011 11:56

We can only get fruit at her moment when it's on offer or been marked down. It's all just suddenly shot up.

PaperView · 03/02/2011 11:57

her = the

VinegarTits · 03/02/2011 11:58

That is outrageous, i cant believe the way the price of food (among other things) is going up, soon i wont be able to afford to eat!

3isthemagicnumber · 03/02/2011 11:59

I just knew this was about grapes before I opened it.
Couldn't work out why the few grabbed lunch bow items were so expensive yesterday until i saw the price of the individually caressed lovingly nutured grapes

Its a fruity travesty

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aPixie · 03/02/2011 12:01

I never really understood it before when people said they couldn't afford to eat healthily.

I do now!

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purplepidjin · 03/02/2011 12:01

I'm lucky enough to have a weekly market within walking distance so get most stuff there (also "proper" butcher a reasonable walk away - ie long enough to be called exercise Grin

Strawberries were 2 boxes for £1 the other day. It was about half 2 and drizzling, the guy made me have 3 boxes for my quid cos he wanted to go home!

Rhubarb is just coming into season, but is still £2.50 for some stringy stuff in TescoShock so I bought a tin for crumble - yum Grin

KangarooCaught · 03/02/2011 12:02

We'll be like Baldrick, just eating turnips and milky latte coffee with sprinkles on top... or have they shot up in price too?

maryz · 03/02/2011 12:03

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nomoreheels · 03/02/2011 12:03

You're much better off buying what's in season as it tends to be cheaper and tastier. Raspberry season it ain't, hence the high prices (and they won't taste great either.)

I subscribe to this service, it tells you what's in season each week and is really handy.

www.eattheseasons.co.uk/

TheProvincialLady · 03/02/2011 12:05

The supermarkets must be laughing their arses off at the prices we are forced willing to pay. I use the local market as much as possible too and it is a real eye-opener. People complain that the fruit/veg doesn't last as long from the market, but it is at least half the price of supermarket stuff and it is ready to eat, rather than three weeks away from being ripe.

I bought about a ton of over ripe bananas on Monday for £1 and have just made a load of banana based yummies. If I bought them from our local supermarket I would have got THREE bananas for that price, and they wouldn't have been even yellow for another week at least.

Original poster
aPixie · 03/02/2011 12:06

nomoreheels

Been looking for something like that so that's really helpful thank-you.

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scottishmummy · 03/02/2011 12:15

thats dear.i buy off stalls and they dont charge that

figcake · 03/02/2011 12:17

Our SPAR is selling one litre cartons of Innocent smoothies for nearly £5 each

steamedtreaclesponge · 03/02/2011 12:22

Good answer nomoreheels - of course things like raspberries are expensive at the moment, they're completely out of season and will have been flown in from somewhere hot. I get a bit annoyed when people seem to expect cheap food all year round - 50 years ago you wouldn't have been able to buy any soft fruit in the winter at all. Apples and pears are both in season now, and cheap even in the supermarkets (although possibly less useful for lunchboxes!)

chocoholic · 03/02/2011 12:23

We are stuck on apples and bananas, no way can I afford anything else at the moment.

Stinkyfeet · 03/02/2011 12:26

£1.49 for a punnet of grapes in Aldi. 69p for bluberries. 99p for strawberries.

Can't get much better really! And I've never had a bad batch.

charlieandlola · 03/02/2011 12:27

They are expensive because they are out of season. Shock

zukiecat · 03/02/2011 12:28

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Original poster
aPixie · 03/02/2011 12:30

I do usually try to buy food in season but the damn other thread got me wanting grapes.

£4 for a normal sized punnet of grapes I would've been fine with but this was a half size punnet. Dread to think how much the full size one's are!

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muggglewump · 03/02/2011 12:31

Fruit and veg is so expensive. I paid just under £2 for two not very big sweet potatoes the other day.

onehotmomma · 03/02/2011 12:31

Have also the increase and they are taking the piss lol. Will have to buy fruit at the market from now on as my 2 kids can eat a punnet of grapes in one go and still want more Hmm lol

GandTiceandaslice · 03/02/2011 12:31

At the monent the only fruit I buy are apples, pears, bananas & satsumas.
Bought a load of them this morning on Sainsburys & spent £5.50.
Lots of crisps & cakes on offer in there.... Hmm

PaperView · 03/02/2011 12:40

We DO eat in season most of the time. With supermarkets though there is no distinction - our grapes are Thomson grapes from Greece (or something like that) whatever time of year!

The fruit n veg place is further away and more expensive. BUtchers = more expensive. We all still need to eat so it's a toss up - for us at least- between what is good for us and whether to get 1 small chicken from the butcher or 2 bigger ones from Sainsbo that haven't likely been injected with water.
Or whether to get fruit or bread.

At least by eating a little less we will be the thin family Wink)