Why is kitchen roll so bloody expensive?

[Tootsweetrodders]

First world problem obviously..

But why the mother fecking feck is kitchen roll SO expensive?!

Possibly it’s just me and my — Sunday evening, but drunk, doing the shopping on my phone app in front of shit telly - self…

Asda do kitchen roll for £1.00, it's pretty decent.

There used to be round sheets that came in a pointy roll, but I can't find them now. They were really good and lasted ages.

I use them for literally everything and then just chuck them in the washing machine. I rarely get to the middle ones though, no.

Making paper is actually quite energy intensive. I suspect it was strongly affected by energy bill increases.

I buy the £1 rolls from Aldi. They are a bit flimsy but cheap.

I use Regina Blitz on subscribe and save on Amazon, i pay £12.60 for 8 rolls that I get delivered every 2 months or change if I need sooner/ later .

I bloody love Regina Blitz

Bounty which was what Plenty used to be called was soo much better, even better than Regina Blitz. I even asked the manufacturer of Plenty why it isn't as good as when it was called Bounty and they claimed it's because it changed from who owned it.

I can't fathom how this gets you through so much kitchen roll? You surely don't use a whole piece for each finger prick? And by 'priming insulin pens' do you mean getting rid of a small amount of insulin before a jab? If so, just do that over the sink (or a bin) - no need for anything absorbent.

As for the finger pricks, 1 tissue ripped into 3 or 4 strips means you have 'bandages' to use - a longer strip is easy to wrap around a finger. And tissue rips easily into straight strips, unlike kitchen roll, due to way the fibres lie.

Hopefully your DC will get a CGM at some point so you will be rid of horrible finger pricks.

On the BBC News site the other day there was a story about price comparisons between different countries.

Toilet roll was particularly expensive in the UK - I presume kitchen roll is expensive as it's a very similar product.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65833619.amp

The fact given below is probably a major factor - from an article in 2019 on a pulp industry site about the possible effects of Brexit:

"The UK is Europe’s largest importer of toilet paper ... Both the raw material pulp and the tissue paper ‘jumbo rolls’ – which resemble toilet rolls three metres long and two metres wide, and which producers convert into the final product – are almost entirely imported."

Regina blitz is the only one I will buy, tend to get a pack every time they’re on offer, usually 2 rolls for £3.50 and they come wrapped in paper rather than plastic. Although had to bite the bullet and pay £6 for them last week as they weren’t on bloody offer. Dh uses it like it’s going out of fashion, he doesn’t realise that I need to sell a kidney to splash out on them full price 😂
We use it for all kinds of stuff though, drying off steak before cooking, absorbing oil on fried foods, shining up the chrome stools after a damp cloth wiping… dd cracked me up though, said at uni she was refusing to buy it so tried to dry her salmon fillet pre cooking on… loo roll 😂 apparently this did not go well as it all broke up 🤣

Aldis jumbo kitchen roll £1.35

I dont normally buy it, but the kids have had a stomach bug this week and it's been so handy, so I'm going to keep some in stock for "special occassions" like this as i feel for my sanity its worth it but I won't use it for normal spills.

Lidl, 2 for a pound. Also reusable clothes

Just went to add some to the Tesco shop, the triple pack is on offer!
I mean it's still bloody expensive, I just might not need a second mortgage

and we use it as 'cheap' serviettes at mealtimes - if we aren't hosting guests obviously-
Does nobody else do this? 🤔

I've never bought any. Waste of good money.
I use dishcloths which then get washed weekly with the pot towels after an overnight soak in a bucket with bleach and water.
You can use a clean one to drain food, that's what I do.

I buy the Waitrose essential and mostly use it for mopping up excess oil and grease before washing frying pans and roasting tins because I don't want it going down the plughole.

Re-usable cloths would be counterproductive.

We used traditional dish cloths, in the 80's, you'd soak them with other cleaning cloths in napisan, then boil wash with soda crystals. We've been convinced that we need these things. My DD was using wipes in the house, until I pointed out that flannels were cheaper and more efficient.

@Justleaveitblankthen

Yes, we use it instead of napkins too, at most meal times!!

I buy the Tesco 4 rolls for £4.

Kitchen roll has a lot of use in our house. Peeling boiled eggs onto. Dabbing fish before shallow frying in a pan. Soaking up oil after things have been pan fried. Drying the kitchen surfaces after washing them with a cloth and hot soapy water. Emergency runny/bleeding noses. Small spills. Napkin/serviette replacements for most meals. Drying off salad/veg/fruit after washing them. Cleaning the gunk from the washing machine door and seal.

I love kitchen towel!

I suppose some of it could be replaced by washable towels, but we're a busy family of 5 plus dog, so I don't want to be adding another load. Also not sure my washing machine (or the clothes to follow) would appreciate oily cloths.

YANBU, i had to buy kitchen roll today and was shocked by how expensive it is.

We rarely use it - use cloths and wipes that we wash and reuse. But my 2yo has been vomiting for days and we had enough laundry to do with all the bedding and clothes let alone washing cloths and wipes. It's the only time we get through loads of kitchen roll and - shock horror - disposable antibac wipes.

That’s just a bunch of cloths, no?

does anyone sit there popping them together again?? Who’s got the time!

That surprised me too. I cut one sheet of paper into 16 for post-finger-prick so I don’t even use one sheet a day. If there’s too much blood I adjust the depth of the finger-pricker for the next time so a tiny piece is almost always enough.

We use Plenty, but I've found it's loads cheaper on Amazon than in the supermarkets.