To ask the most insanely priced supermarket item you’ve seen lately? Bet you can’t beat this

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Co-op, bin bags £5.90

i know co op is notoriously a piss take but seriously?

another was Tesco, cooking oil, £9

That's worth knowing, so thank you! I can tolerate own brands of most soups, but have never found a tomato soup that tastes as good as Heinz.

Does anyone know of an own-brand dupe of Baxter's Carrot and Butter Bean soup? It was £2.75 a can last time I really fancied some, so it stayed on the shelf.

Not being a parent, I had no idea how expensive baby stuff was until a few years ago, when I did some budgeting work with a client who'd just had her first baby and couldn't breastfeed. The amount she was spending on nappies and formula was just breathtaking.

Every now and again, I grab a pack of nappies and/or tin of formula and take them to the local food bank.

We go through olive oil at a rate of notts (is that the phrase? And the spelling of notts?!) but we buy direct from a place in Tuscany and get it delivered once a month, 5 litres (we share some with mil) so I’m used to it being more expensive but we use it loads and it’s a really good quality oil with a fair price for those involved in harvesting and providing the olives for the oil.
But i just saw in an airport a crappy tin of olive oil - 1litre - for 32 euros 😂 and that’s with a ‘discount’ too!

I always think butter costs a lot but the price has come down a little again.

My dad used to use that phrase a lot when I was a kid. We never understood it but it made us laugh.

Leg of lamb is offer in our local Morrisons now for £10 per Kg so I’ve bought some to freeze for family roast meals. £10 seems cheap at the moment but it really isn’t that cheap, just cheaper than the last price - £22ish per joint. The problem is that we simply get used to the ridiculous new price.

How do you line a tall 30 litre bin with newspaper? Do you have to stick it on somehow?

Thank you for this, might pop down to Morrisons :)

Hope they have some left! Ours was in one of the special offer baskets near the butchers’ counters.

Seven pounds for lurpak butter

Seven pounds for lurpak butter

What kind of Lurpak and what size?

Sainsbury's web site shows:

• £2.15 for 200 g Lurpak butter (£1.70 with Nectar)
• £4.00 for 400 g Lurpak spreadable
• £7.25 for 750 g Lurpak spreadable

My grumble about butter is how branded butter all switched from 250 g packs to 200 g packs, while unbranded remains in 250 g packs. This makes it difficult to compare prices unless you have good eyesight to read the microscopic price per 100 g or kg text. I usually have to kneel down and take my glasses off to read it. I completely fail to understand why Trading Standards allow supermarkets to display different unit pricing (per 100 g or per kg) for different brands of the same product, apart from the obvious explanation that Trading Standards no longer do anything because they have no staff.

Just fill the frigging bin with paper and throw your trash on the floor. No plastic waste!

@LakieLady not seen a dupe but it's £2 in Asda and Tesco at the min

I bought 2 loaves braces bread and 2 x 4 pint bottles of milk today, local corner shop ( no supermarkets for about 16 miles ) barely pennies change from ten pounds :-( We're soooo screwed. Our electricity ( smart meter pay as you go, no choice was here when started rental) has more than doubled despite us using as little as possible. Rent, council tax water all went up by quite a significant amount and food has pretty much quadrupled, even in the distant supermarket. Income went up by mere pennies per week in comparison. Already only eat once per day, any more rises we're going to have to have one or two fasting days at this rate.
It feels like the less you use or eat the more it keeps costing, and I strongly believe we are all being conned by the ones at the top of the food chain.