Cost of food 😱

[shellyleppard]

Just been to our local fete at the park. Lady selling loaded cookies.....£14 for 4 !!!! AIBU to think this is very expensive?? There was someone selling churros 4 for £6, pick and mix £2.49 . These seem more reasonable prices or am I just getting tight fisted with money in my old age 🤣🤣

A freddo pack now has 4 in (down from 5 last month and 6 18months ago) and it's £1.25

4 multipack of cadbury anything (whisper, caramel, dairy milk, twirl)is at least £2 now usually £3 I'm not surprised artisan cakes cost that when even the cheap ingredients are expensive

Most loaded cookies I’ve seen are £4-5. So £3.50 is lower than average. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Im a decent homebaker and in all honesty can rarely justify paying to buy this sort of thing. The equipment required is stuff I (and most people) have at home already, i can save on energy by baking at the same time as our evening meal, and i don't need to pay myself a wage for my time. This means I can make something with the best quality ingredients etc for far less.

It's not really food that you have to have, it's a treat type food which is often expensive

I bought 2 brownies at our local deli yesterday...£9.
They were sublime

I guess they're just for people who can't be bothered to make them themselves.

It’s a fete!

To be fair op, this is not the cost of food. This is people trying to fundraise and get what they can for the cause.
Get yourself down to Lidl or make them yourself.

I'd imagine loaded cookies are more fiddly to make than brownies, where you just melt the chocolate, butter and sugar together, stir in flour, eggs and nuts/choc chips etc and pour into a tin and bake so very quick and easy to make and not expensive using value chocolate bars, which are perfectly decent quality.

I bought 2 loaded cookies at Millies (Haven park) yesterday, 2 for £6. A local lady has a business selling simular products (which are delicious) at our local weekly market and sells them for a simular price. That price is pretty much the norm now for these products unless you buy from the supermarket. It does seem expensive but it's not something you buy every day. It's a treat. I'd much rather give a local lady the money, than a big corporation like Millies.

It does feel expensive initially, but these loaded cookies use a lot of expensive ingredients. if its someone's business you also pay a bit of the other business costs.

I know the first time i made a cake for the school fair voluntarily, then saw how much they sold it for, it would have been more cost effective to just donate money as my ingredient cost was high for the cake I made.

Well I have never heard of a loaded cookie before! (Need to try one now defo) These sort of outdoor events are normally marked up though, My friend says that they are no different from SB TTD or Tesco finest.You are paying for the experience of eating them in a nice place,someones home baking and some money for the fete

A proper old fashioned church fete is usually cheaper . I avoid artisan or farmers’ markets as they are sooo pricey. I’m a reasonable cook so I’m not paying £10 for a pot of jam that costs pence to make! We call those events the ‘I saw you coming’ market in homage to that Harry Enfield sketch.
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So presumably you don’t think the baker should make any kind of profit if you think £3.50 is a ridiculous price?

But the baker will still have the same overheads and costs. I think a lot of people on here have absolutely no idea how expensive it is to run your own business and make a profit.

But it’s not my responsibility to pay their bills. I have mine to pay.

Of course it's not your responsibility, but that doesn't mean they're charging too much either.