AIBU TO BE SHOCKED BY THIS INCREASE?!

[Kate0902900908]

So I’ve just gotten over the fuel increase, made some changes and become more aware of the energy I’m using both at home and car.

Went to Lidl today. I buy 2 tubs of cream cheese a week, Lidl Goldessa Classic Cream Cheese 200g. It’s been 65p for as long as I can remember. Today shop assistant was sorting shelves and organising labels ect. New label £1.19. I asked if that was the price of the 65p cream cheese to which she said Yh, it’s not changed yet it’s 75p now but will be £1.19.
HOW? How? Can something almost double in price? Also when I was it 75p 😵‍💫

I noticed the other cheeses all being marked up too some by 80p-£1. Add this increase to even 1/3 of a shop and it’s going to be unmanageable!
Has anyone else noticed prices on things they buy almost doubling?
What is the plan to keep costs down?
Where do we go from Lidl’s own soft cheese 😭

Lurpak spreadable is 1/4 (25%) rapeseed oil. It's not real butter.

Butter is simply butter. Lurpak is not.

@Dixiechickonhols given that Milky Way stars are now £1.60 in there when not on offer I refuse now (not for me, one of my teenage DS 😂)

Are people still this ignorant to miss the point? NOBODY chooses to buy the 80p sausages - it is done out of necessity, maybe just be grateful you aren't in that position YET

Exactly no one goes oooooh 80p sausages are so delicious and full of nice meat and are what I want to be eating

Agree with @Stevie6
@LoisLane66 winding people up on other threads, genuinally think she gets a sick kick from putting others down. Got some gall aswell with no name change.

That will explain why it’s really gone up v normal butter - hit by both dairy price increases and oil shortages.

I will again point out the 86p ones from asda have more meat than the 2.25 richmond ones. Frankly test of the ingredients is very similar too ... For the "haha" twat

Well meat and offal (pork)

I can’t stomach cheap sausages after a stint working in Wall’s sausage factory as a student but I understand needs must. I buy reduced plant ones over cheap meat.
That has made me think of factory shops - there was a shop at the factory open to public. Our local biscuit factory has a shop you can get massive bags of broken biscuits for not much. It’s often word of mouth though to find out about places.

What is your instagram please, @Dixiechickonhols ?

More meat than branded ones.
See Richmond ant 3 x price.

And some people gave a choice of 80p sausages or going hungry.

@TheCraft
Why would I hide behind a name change? I'm not ashamed of my views, we're all entitled to them whether they sit well with others or not.
Cheap sausages aren't good for you. Better to buy pasta and veg but you pays your money and takes your choice, as the saying goes.
IMV it's better to have less of something you enjoy eating rather than more of something you don't enjoy.
Having my own views is more important to me than reading everyone else's and following their narrative in case people like you jump on me. 😁

Lois.
You can have tour views and not be an absolute twat about it. It is actually humanly possible.

@Bubblebubblebah 👏🏻👏🏻😂😂

It depends on your interpretation of that word. I don't know anyone who would fit that description, certainly not me, nor do I know anyone who would use that expression so easily and carelessly as happens on here or indeed to friends and acquaintances in normal conversation. Language like that just isn't in their or my vocabulary, although we all know the words.

...and the comment below yours typifies what I said earlier about followers. All got the same hymn sheet.

@LoisLane66 are you not bored yet? Learn to read the room ffs

Totally disagree on the fruit n veg. Both Tesco's near me are the worst for fresh stuff. It's pretty rank to start with and goes off within 2-3 days max.

Every other supermarket (Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons and M&S) all do way better quality fruit n veg.

But Xenia aren't you a super duper hugely successful lawyer with toms and tons of cash who likes to tell us all about how you were back to work 5 minutes after giving birth? And how you're such an Independent Woman 😂😂😂 why would YOU of all people on MN need to think about rationing?

I think it's very shop by shop @MushyPeasPrincess I have it the other way around. Tesco's one lasts week, local aldi is 2 days. 3 at best.

I put in 2 chopped up chicken thighs, a tin of chickpeas and a few frozen cubes of spinach. This will probably be enough for 6.

6 what? Borrowers? Lilliputians? My teen would eat that himself and be saying nice snack, when's tea?

I was thinking Borrowers who love a helping of fresh air on the side.

“Those who were struggling before I can’t imagine how they must be managing now,”

I feed DC as best I can and for myself I try to eat as much out of date, free food as I can find. It’s usually bread. Bread hates me and I’ve put on over a stone despite having no money for food. How’s that for irony.

Why aren't cheap sausages good for you? What makes them so much worse than expensive sausages?

In fact I'd say putting one cheap sausage in your veg and pasta would be better than without. It adds fat and protein, making a more rounded meal that is Moore likely to keep you fuller for longer.